Gotha station
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The Gotha Station is the main train station of the Thuringian town of Gotha. He is maintenance of ICs, as well as two hours of ICEs on the Thuringian Railway. More fitting lines are the Ohratalbahn to the south and the railway line Gotha - leash field to the north.
History
The Gotha station was built in 1847, when the railway line from hall was built in the Hessian Bebra. Gotha was at this time the state capital of Saxony- Gotha and already had about 15,000 inhabitants. According representative and the classical station building was executed. In 1870, the second railway line was built by Gotha, she leads over Mulhouse to Leinefelde ( there to Göttingen). The third and last part of the Gotha station was the Ohratalbahn, built in 1876 to to Ohrdruf and 1892 up to the railway line to Würzburg to Gräfenroda.
In 1894 Gotha received a tram. The station was the junction of several lines. 1929 was built by Gotha station through the city center to the towns Tabarz, Walter Hausen and Friedrichsroda with the Thüringerwaldbahn an overland tram. During the Second World War, the west wing and central part of the Gotha station was destroyed in air raids, while the east wing and entrance area survived. This state is maintained until today, with few repairs.
2007, the station forecourt has been completely redesigned and relocated the stop of the Thuringian Forest Railway.
Passenger
Long-distance traffic
The Gotha station is system halt in the German long-distance passenger traffic.
In the current timetable year 2013/2014 Gotha is approached from the ICE of 50.2 every two hours. This line runs from Frankfurt am Main Gotha on to Erfurt, Leipzig and Dresden. In addition to keeping the day Rand individual trains from 50.1, which further leads coming from Wiesbaden to Leipzig.
Main stations and railway junction which daily regularly directly from Gotha are reachable in the current timetable year 2013/2014:
- Dresden Hauptbahnhof
- Bahnhof Dresden -Neustadt
- Train to Eisenach
- Erfurt Hauptbahnhof
- Frankfurt Airport long-distance station
- Station Frankfurt ( Main) Süd
- Bahnhof Fulda
- Leipzig Hauptbahnhof
- Naumburg ( Saale ) Hauptbahnhof
- Riesa station
- Station Weimar
Regional Transport
In regional transport of Thuringia Gotha is a hub.
In the current timetable year 2013/2014 the regional train line 20 leads Eisenach - Halle ( Saale) by Gotha, which connects with neighboring nodes Eisenach and Erfurt wrong once per hour in both directions and Gotha. In addition, Gotha is served by the long-running regional express line 1 every two hours, which binds Coming Gotha of Göttingen to the cities Leinefelde, Mulhouse and Bad Langensalza. In east direction reversed this line, the changing direction in Gotha, continue on Erfurt, Weimar, Jena and Gera to Göschwitz Goessnitz. There it is divided and provides direct road access from Gotha to Zwickau and Glauchau. In addition, there is a regional train line 53 from Gotha to Bad Langensalza, which forms an approximate hourly service between these two intermediate centers together with the Regional Express 1. By 2013, this line was driven by the Erfurt train, since December 2013 by DB Regio southeast. Between Eisenach and Gotha and Erfurt and Gotha operate Monday to Friday, several times a day even commuter trains of the line 22A, so that the Gotha has in the rush hour half hour to the two great neighboring cities.
Regional tramway
Outside the station, the Thuringian Forest Railway, an interurban tram which runs from Gotha in the direction of Walter Hausen and Tabarz begins. It is one of the few road cars in Germany, which has been preserved.