Central station
Hauptbahnhof ( abbreviated in Germany and Austria Hbf, Switzerland HB) is in many cities of the German-speaking world the name for the main passenger station in a city where these more than one passenger station has. A central station may also include a freight or shunting yard with include or, as in the case Gevelsberg only be a breakpoint.
In several non- German-speaking countries, such as Italy, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic, for words of similar import are used, while in other countries - is not common, a particular station as the central or most important - such as France, Spain or Romania to call. In the 19th century, was familiar to the main train station of a big city, the term Central Station in Germany, also sometimes spelled Central Station.
- 9.1 England
- 9.2 Scotland
- 9.3 Wales
- 9.4 Northern Ireland
- 21.1 Brazil
- 21.2 Chile
- 21.3 Canada
- 21.4 Cuba
- 21.5 Uruguay
- 21.6 USA
- 22.1 India
- 22.2 Israel
- 22.3 Hong Kong
Germany
The German railway stations designated 122 as the main railway station.
Superlatives
- Hamburg Hauptbahnhof is, according to Deutsche Bahn with 450,000 daily passengers and visitors to the busiest passenger station in Germany.
- The largest of the number of tracks ago Hauptbahnhof in Germany is Munich Hauptbahnhof with 32 above-ground tracks.
- The largest area of Hauptbahnhof is Germany's Leipzig main station with an area of 85,000 square meters.
- The smallest town in Germany with a central station is located in Berchtesgaden Bavaria. The respective smallest towns with central station in the other provinces are Freudenstadt (Baden- Württemberg), Eberswalde (Brandenburg), Bremerhaven (Bremen), Hanau (Hesse), Neustrelitz (Mecklenburg- Vorpommern), Emden ( Lower Saxony), Gevelsberg (North Rhine -Westphalia ), Boppard ( Rhineland -Palatinate ), Saarlouis (Saarland), chub (Saxony ), Thale (Sachsen- Anhalt), Lübeck (Schleswig -Holstein) and Sonneberg ( Thuringia).
- Main station in Remscheid and Gevelsberg Central Station are each operated by a single S -Bahn line.
- The "youngest " Hauptbahnhof is since 13 December 2010, the Stralsund.
- The largest German city without official Hauptbahnhof is Hamm. Due to the three additional breakpoints in the urban area of the Hamm railway station is ( Westphalia ) is called the "Hauptbahnhof" in the vernacular. In this respect, is the largest city that is neither officially nor unofficially has a main railway station, Göttingen. The Göttingen railway station is namely the only one in the city.
Special
- The only German city with two main stations is Mönchengladbach Mönchengladbach Hbf with train stations and Reydt Hbf, because the German Federal Railroad wanted to spend money on the renaming on the merger of previously independent cities of Moenchengladbach and Reydt in 1975.
- Wuppertal was for 62 years a large city with several major train stations, but no central station. After the unification of Elberfeld and Barmen and five smaller cities in 1929 and the renaming of the new city in Wuppertal one year later you could not agree on a long time of stations as the main railway station. Finally, the Elberfeld railway station was declared a main station on 31 May 1992.
- Berlin - although an important railway node - had nearly 150 years no central station, but many terminal stations and remote stations on the rail. After the Second World War was in the eastern part of the city of Berlin Ostbahnhof and former Silesian Station the main railway station. The German Reichsbahn in the GDR called him from 1987 the main railway station, which was again renamed Ostbahnhof 1998. The German railway decided to call the new building on the site of the former Lehrter station since its opening in 2006 as Berlin Hauptbahnhof. A previously conducted by Deutsche Bahn survey, however, had shown that a majority of respondents Lehrter station for maintaining the traditional name.
- By 1993, the old main station of Potsdam was southwest of the city in the Pirschheide, at the junction of the outer ring and the ring rail. After the Berlin Wall this strongly declined in importance. 1999, the station was renamed City in Potsdam Hauptbahnhof.
- In several cities stations carry outside the town center, the main station name: Bingen (Rhein ) Hauptbahnhof is located in the district Bingerbrück of Bingen am Rhein.
- Wittlich Wittlich district in the Central Station is Wengerohr.
- In Herne is the main railway station in Herne-Wanne, which is part of Herne since the annexation of 1975. The train station of bath set at this time but long ago a railway junction and is therefore retained the status of the Central Railway Station and its name pan - Eickelmann Central Station.
- The former main railway station of Solingen was closed in 2006 and declared a new central train station (since ever more important ) Bahnhof in Solingen -Ohligs. However, this is a few kilometers away from the actual city center.
- In Kassel, Kassel Hauptbahnhof learned from the construction of the mainline station Wilhelm height an enormous loss of meaning, so that it will now be renamed Kulturbahnhof in Kassel and the Wilhelmshoher station to the new central train station Kassel is to be made.
Baden-Wurttemberg
Bavaria
Berlin
Brandenburg
Bremen
Hamburg
Hesse
Mecklenburg -Western Pomerania
Lower Saxony
North Rhine -Westphalia
Rhineland -Palatinate
Saarland
Saxony
Saxony-Anhalt
Schleswig-Holstein
Thuringia
Suffix center / city center
To emphasize the spatial proximity to a center and to avoid confusion with the central station (if any) carry some stations the suffix " middle " or " center ". These are:
- Baden-Wurttemberg Bretten city center, Deißlingen center, Donaueschingen center / settlement, Huefingen center, Immendingen center, Nagold city center, Schiltach center, Spaichingen center, Stuttgart city center, Wurmlingen center
- Eggenfelden center, Rödental center, Schweinfurt - middle, middle Wilhermsdorf
- Schönefeld center, Schwedt ( Oder) middle
- Güterbahnhobf Bremen-Mitte
- Dietzenbach Mitte, United Umstadt center
- Bad Doberan city center, Kühlungsborn Center, Schwerin Mitte
- Borkum town Langenhagen Mitte
- Hattingen (Ruhr) center, Solingen center, Leverkusen Mitte, Dusseldorf - Eller Mitte, Dusseldorf -Rath Mitte
- Germersheim center / Rhein, Hauenstein Center, Koblenz city center, Konz center, Ludwigshafen (Rhein ) Mitte
- Friedrich valley center, Merzig (Saar) city center, Saarbrücken -Burbach Center
- Dresden center
- Norderstedt Mitte
- Schalkau center, Weida center
Austria
In Austria there is in the following twelve cities a central station: Graz, Innsbruck, Klagenfurt, Leoben, Linz, Salzburg, St. Pölten, Villach, Wels, Vienna, Wiener Neustadt and Wörgl.
Wörgl Hbf is the youngest fully in operation Austrian Central Station, it exists ( under the name Central Station) since 10 December 2006 (Vienna main station is so far only partially in operation; see below). Between 1944 and 1946 also the Gmunden station was called Central Station.
The Vienna Central Station is not yet completed, although he was teilinbetriebgenommen the timetable change 2012/13 on December 9, 2012; The next expansion step, two years later, the full commissioning another year later, in December 2015 carried out. In addition to Vienna main station in Vienna there are several other major railway stations. The most important are the Westbahnhof, Vienna Meidling, the Vienna Prater Star Station and the Franz Josef station. In addition there are several other railway stations, which mainly have local significance (eg Wien Mitte, Wien Heiligenstadt, Vienna Hütteldorf or Floridsdorf station). The Vienna South Railway Station has been closed to new timetable 2009/2010 13 December 2009 and subsequently demolished. In its place, just currently the new Vienna Central Station is built, which is used at the moment only for regional transport, in particular the Eastern Railroad; Fast trains run through. He is ten platform tracks, two through tracks for freight trains and two platform tracks for high-speed railway traffic, but spatially separated from the other platforms and are further away, get in the final. While the West Railway Station, which are Franz Josef and the (former) South Station terminal stations were, respectively, are the stations Meidling, Prater Stern and the new central station through stations.
In 1944, the mistletoe Bach station on the Eastern Railway Laa to distinguish from the local train station (then South Station ) called Central Station.
Switzerland
In Switzerland, only the train station in Zurich of the Swiss Federal Railways is officially called Central Station. Moreover, the Federal Office of Transport indicated in its services documentation ( Didok ) in urban traffic stop at stations Bern, Rorschach, Solothurn and Winterthur main station.
Belgium
Bulgaria
Denmark
The main stations in Denmark have the "H "
Past:
Finland
France
Great Britain
England
Scotland
Wales
Northern Ireland
Italy
Centrale
This suffix means " Hauptbahnhof"
Centro
This suffix means " center "
Città
This suffix means " city "
Croatia
Netherlands
There are also railway stations with the suffix " Centrum ", which reflects the spatial proximity to a center:
Norway
Poland
The following stations were referred to in Poland as " glown -a,- e,- y" ( = Hauptbahnhof). It is the respective number of years specified on which the station is called Central Station. Some have the addition " Osobow - y,- a" ( = person). Source is the ' Atlas Linii Kolejowych Polski 2010
Main Stations for persons
Main Stations for goods
There are the following main freight stations / there were
Russia
Sweden
Serbia
Slovakia
Czechia
Belarus
America
Brazil
Chile
Canada
Cuba
Uruguay
USA
In the United States there is no direct equivalent to a central station. However, in many cities laid the railway companies together their stations and set up a union station or union terminal.