Weimar
Deutsche Bahn
Through station
General information
LocationSchopenhauerstr. 2, Weimar, Thuringia
Germany
Coordinates50°59′30″N 11°19′37″E / 50.99167°N 11.32694°E / 50.99167; 11.32694
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; 177 years ago (1846-12-19)
Electrified22 September 1967; 56 years ago (1967-09-22)
Services
Preceding station DB Fernverkehr Following station
Erfurt Hbf
One-way operation
 ICE 11 Naumburg (Saale) Hbf
towards Berlin Hbf
Erfurt Hbf
towards Düsseldorf Hbf or Köln Hbf
 IC 51 Jena West
towards Gera Hbf
Preceding station Abellio Rail Mitteldeutschland Following station
Erfurt Hbf
Terminus
 RE 16 Apolda
towards Halle (Saale) Hbf
RE 17 Apolda
towards Leipzig Hbf
Hopfgarten (Weimar)
towards Eisenach
 RB 20 Oßmannstedt
towards Leipzig Hbf
Preceding station DB Regio Südost Following station
Erfurt Hbf
towards Göttingen
 RE 1 Jena West
towards Glauchau (Sachs)
Erfurt Hbf
Terminus
 RE 3 Jena West
towards Altenburg or Greiz
Preceding station Erfurter Bahn Following station
Vieselbach
towards Erfurt Hbf
 RB 21 Oberweimar
towards Gera Hbf
Terminus RB 26 Weimar West
towards Kranichfeld
Location
Weimar is located in Thuringia
Weimar
Weimar
Location within Thuringia
Weimar is located in Germany
Weimar
Weimar
Location within Germany
Weimar is located in Europe
Weimar
Weimar
Location within Europe

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.

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]

Rail services

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

Line Route Frequency (min) Operator
IC 51 Düsseldorf/Köln – Dortmund – Kassel – Eisenach – Erfurt – Weimar – Jena West – Jena-Göschwitz – Gera 2 train pairs DB Fernverkehr
(also runs as RE 51 between Erfurt and Gera)
Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe – Bebra – Eisenach – Erfurt – Weimar – Jena West – Jena-Göschwitz – Gera 1 train pair
Leipzig – Weimar – Erfurt – Gotha – Eisenach – Fulda – Hanau – Frankfurt (Main) – Karlsruhe Some trains,

relief trains (Fri, Sun)

DB Fernverkehr
(also runs as RE 51 between Erfurt and Weimar)
Köln/Düsseldorf – Essen – Bochum – Dortmund – Kassel – Bebra – Eisenach – Erfurt – Weimar – Leipzig
RE 1 Göttingen – Leinefelde – Gotha – Erfurt – Weimar – Jena-Göschwitz – Gera – Gößnitz – Glauchau 120 DB Regio Südost
RE 3 Erfurt – Weimar – Jena-Göschwitz – Gera – Altenburg 120
Greiz – Elsterberg
Erfurt – Weimar – Jena West – Jena-Göschwitz 120
RE 16 Erfurt – Weimar – Apolda – Großheringen – Bad Kösen – Naumburg (Saale) – Halle (Saale) 120 (alternierend) Abellio Rail Mitteldeutschland
RE 17 Erfurt – Weimar – Apolda – Bad Sulza – Bad Kösen – Naumburg (Saale)
RB 20 Eisenach – Gotha – Erfurt – Weimar – Apolda – Naumburg (Saale) – Weißenfels – Großkorbetha – Leipzig 060
RB 21 Erfurt – Weimar – Oberweimar – Jena-Göschwitz – Stadtroda – Hermsdorf-Klosterlausnitz – Gera 060 (Mon–Fri)
120 (Sat/Sun) 		Erfurter Bahn
RB 26 Weimar – Weimar Berkaer – Holzdorf – Bad Berka – Kranichfeld 060

Notes

  1. ^ a b "Stationspreisliste 2024" [Station price list 2024] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 24 April 2023. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
  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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