Weimar station
- Thuringian railway
- Weimar -Gera
- Ilmtalbahn
- Weimar-Rastenberg/Großrudestedt
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The Weimar train station is the main station in the city of Weimar in Thuringia and is located about one kilometer north of the Weimar city center at the end of Carl -August- Allee on the Thuringian Railway. He belongs to the train station category 2 and carries the official nickname of culture station, which is noted on all boards in the station.
History
The station was built in 1846 as the endpoint of one of Halle (Saale) coming railroad. 1847 this route was continued westward to Erfurt that was it consistently to Bebra passable soon. In 1876 there was another route that led to Gera Jena. In 1887 a third route via Bad Berka after crane field and Blank grove was opened. In the same year followed as the fourth CONTINUED at the station distance 1000 mm narrow gauge railway Weimar-Rastenberg/Großrudestedt the Weimar Rastenberger Railway Company. This was dismantled in 1946, only a portion of the connecting train to Buchenwald was continued.
At the time of the Weimar Republic was the city capital of Thuringia. Therefore, at that time a new, prestigious reception building was built in the neoclassical style. A special role is played by the station and the time of National Socialism than him and an incipient here connecting line running down the prisoner transports to the concentration camp Buchenwald.
Then was the electrification of the railway line from Naumburg to Erfurt GDR times.
The Weimar train station stood with a number of 116 regular arrivals and departures of long-distance trains in the summer timetable 1989 in fifth place in the network of the Deutsche Reichsbahn.
2005, the station of the Pro-Rail Alliance was elected the year a city train station less than 100,000 inhabitants.
As part of a roadmap construction- two hourly ICE trains to keep in Weimar in 2014 and 2015 again. With the commissioning of the new line Erfurt-Leipzig/Halle ( German Unity Transport Project No. 8) to Weimar lose its status as a long-haul system maintenance.
Operating characteristics
Of between 22 and 5 clock clock ( weekdays ) or 6 clock ( weekend) is the concourse closed and reach the platforms via a lateral side entrance ( " East Tunnel "). Until the introduction of new ticket machines in November 2009, thus there was no opportunity to purchase tickets for travelers at night.
Transport links
Weimar is served by an intercity express line and individual Intercity trains to the long-distance network of Deutsche Bahn. The two regional express lines RE 1 and RE 3 condense between Erfurt and Gera together for a hour.