Weimar station

Weimar station is the main station in the city of Weimar in the German state of Thuringia, located on the Thuringian Railway. It is an Intercity-Express stop on the line between Frankfurt am Main and Dresden. Weimar station is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 3 station. It is officially designated as a KulturBahnhof ("culture station”), as the station’s panels are noted. It is about one kilometre north of central Weimar at the end of the street of Carl-August-Allee.

Weimar
Through station
LocationSchopenhauerstr. 2, Weimar, Thuringia
Germany
Coordinates50°59′30″N 11°19′37″E
Owned byDeutsche Bahn
Operated byDB Station&Service
Line(s)
Platforms5
Other information
Station code6617[1]
DS100 codeUWM[2]
IBNR8010366
Category3[1]
Websitewww.bahnhof.de
History
Opened19 December 1846 (1846-12-19)
Electrified22 September 1967 (1967-09-22)
Services
Preceding station   DB Fernverkehr   Following station
towards Wiesbaden
ICE 50
towards Dresden
towards Wiesbaden
ICE 50
towards Dresden
towards Weimar
IC 50
towards Düsseldorf
Preceding station   Abellio Rail Mitteldeutschland   Following station
Terminus
RE 16
via Naumburg (Saale) - Weimar
Terminus
RE 17
via Weimar - Bad Sulza
Hopfgarten (Weimar)
toward Eisenach
RB 20
via Gotha - Erfurt - Weimar - Naumburg (Saale)
Oßmannstedt
toward Leipzig Hbf
Preceding station   DB Regio Südost   Following station
toward Göttingen
RE 1
via Mühlhausen - Erfurt - Jena - Gera
toward Erfurt Hbf
RE 3
via Jena - Gera
toward Altenburg
Preceding station   Erfurter Bahn   Following station
Vieselbach
toward Erfurt Hbf
EB 21
Elster Saale Bahn
Oberweimar
toward Gera Hbf
Weimar West
toward Kranichfeld
EB 26
Elster Saale Bahn
Ilmtalbahn
Terminus
Location
Weimar
Location within Thuringia
Weimar
Location within Germany
Weimar
Location within Europe
Reception building

History

The station was built in 1846 as a terminus of the Thuringian Railway from Halle. In 1847 the line was continued west to Erfurt, and to Bebra in 1849. In 1876 this was followed by a second line to Jena and Gera. In 1887, a third line opened to Bad Berka, Kranichfeld and Blankenhain (the Ilm Valley Railway). In the same year, a fourth line was connected to the station, the metre gauge Weimar-Rastenberg Railway line to Großrudestedt in Sömmerda. It was closed in 1946.

During the period of the Weimar Republic, Weimar was the state capital of Thuringia. Therefore, a new, prestigious reception building was built at that time in the neo-classical style. Under Nazism the station played a special role as the beginning a line for the transport of prisoners to Buchenwald concentration camp.

During the existence of East Germany the line from Naumburg to Erfurt was electrified. Weimar station had 116 regular arrivals and departures of long-distance trains in the summer timetable of 1989, making it the fifth place station in the network of the East German railways.[3]

Train services

The station has five platforms. The following services call at the station:

The station is served by the following service(s):

Service Train Type Route Material Frequency
RE DB Regional Express Neudietendorf - Erfurt Hbf - Weimar - Jena West - Gera Hbf - Altenburg Every 2 hours
RB20 DB Eisenach - Gotha - Neudietendorf - Erfurt Hbf - Weimar - Apolda - Naumburg (Saale) Hbf - Großkorbetha - Leuna Werke Süd - Leuna Werke Nord - Halle (Saale) Hbf Class 143 1x per hour

Notes

  1. "Stationspreisliste 2021" [Station price list 2021] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 16 November 2020. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
  2. Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
  3. Ralph Seidel: Der Einfluss veränderter Raumbedingungen auf Netzgestalt und Frequenz im Schienenpersonenfernverkehr Deutschlands, Dissertation of the University of Leipzig, 2005, p. 48
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