Weimar station

Weimar
Through station
General information
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; 178 years ago (1846-12-19)
Electrified	22 September 1967; 57 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
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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

See also

• Rail transport in Germany
• Railway stations in Germany

Notes

1. "Stationspreisliste 2025" [Station price list 2025] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 28 November 2024. Retrieved 5 December 2024.
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