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
Location	Schopenhauerstr. 2, Weimar, Thuringia Germany
Coordinates	50°59′30″N 11°19′37″E
Owned by	Deutsche Bahn
Operated by	DB Station&Service
Line(s)	Thuringian Railway Weimar–Gera railway Ilm Valley Railway
Platforms	5
Other information
Station code	6617[1]
DS100 code	UWM[2]
IBNR	8010366
Category	3[1]
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	19 December 1846 (1846-12-19)
Electrified	22 September 1967 (1967-09-22)
Services
Preceding station   DB Fernverkehr   Following station Erfurt towards Wiesbaden ICE 50 Naumburg (Saale) towards Dresden Erfurt towards Wiesbaden ICE 50 Leipzig towards Dresden Erfurt towards Weimar IC 50 Naumburg (Saale) towards Düsseldorf Preceding station   Abellio Rail Mitteldeutschland   Following station Erfurt Hbf Terminus RE 16 via Naumburg (Saale) - Weimar Apolda toward Halle (Saale) Hbf Erfurt Hbf Terminus RE 17 via Weimar - Bad Sulza Apolda toward Naumburg (Saale) Hbf Hopfgarten (Weimar) toward Eisenach RB 20 via Gotha - Erfurt - Weimar - Naumburg (Saale) Oßmannstedt toward Leipzig Hbf Preceding station   DB Regio Südost   Following station Erfurt Hbf toward Göttingen RE 1 via Mühlhausen - Erfurt - Jena - Gera Jena West toward Glauchau (Sachs) Erfurt Hbf toward Erfurt Hbf RE 3 via Jena - Gera Jena West 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 Show map of Thuringia Weimar Location within Germany Show map of Germany Weimar Location within Europe Show map of 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:

• Regional-Express (RE) 1: Göttingen–Erfurt–Weimar–Jena–Gera–Zwickau/Chemnitz (Weimar–Gera railway, two hourly, alternating with RE 3)
• RE 3: Erfurt–Weimar–Jena–Gera (two hourly alternating with RE 1)
• Regionalbahn (RB) 20: Eisenach–Erfurt–Halle–Weimar (Thuringian Railway, hourly)
• RB 21: Weimar–Jena–Gera (two hourly)
• RB 54: Weimar–Kranichfeld (Ilm Valley Railway, hourly)

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 2020" [Station price list 2020] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 4 November 2019. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
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