Wiesbaden Central Station

Wiesbaden Hauptbahnhof
Wiesbaden Hauptbahnhof (2009)
Operations
Category	2
Daily entry/exit	11 million
DS100 code	FW
Station code	6744
Construction and location
Opened	1906
Location	Wiesbaden
State	Hesse
Country	Germany
Home page	www.bahnhof.de
50°4′15″N 8°14′38″E
Route information
Taunus Railway (S1, S8, S9) Connecting line to HSL East Rhine Railway (KBS 466) Ländches Railway (KBS 627) Rhine-Main Railway (KBS 651) Aar Valley Railway (closed)
List of railway stations in Hesse

Wiesbaden Central Station (German: Wiesbaden Hauptbahnhof) is a railway station for the city of Wiesbaden, the state capital of the German state of Hesse. It is a terminal station at the southern edge of the city center and is served by over 500 long-distance and regional trains and used by more than 30,000 travelers each day.

History

Aerial view of the railway station

The current station replaced three stations in the city centre, which were all three next to each other near the fairground (Rhein-Main-Hallen) and Wiesbaden Museum. These were:

• The Taunusbahnhof, built in 1840 for the Taunus Railway (Wiesbaden - Castel - Frankfurt-Höchst - Frankfurt (Taunusbahnhof).

• The Rheinbahnhof, built in 1857 for the Right Rhine line (Wiesbaden - Biebrich - Rüdesheim - Niederlahnstein).

• The Ludwigsbahnhof, built in 1879 for the Ländches Railway (Wiesbaden - Niedernhausen).

The new station building became necessary to handle the growing number of passenger visiting the spa city at that time. In order to preserve to the staircase to the spa building, it was designed as a terminal station. It was built from 1904 to 1906 according to the plans of Fritz Klingholz in a flamboyant neo-baroque style that corresponded to an international style of architecture adopted for spa towns. It was also intended to welcome Kaiser Wilhelm II on his visit to the spa every May and a platform was established for him and other aristocrats. The first train ran into the new station on 15 November 1906 around 2:23 a.m.

In 2003 and 2004 the station was comprehensively reconditioned and modernized at a cost of 25 million euro.

Services

It is served by:

• ICE services daily to Dresden, Cologne, Hamburg and München.
• IC daily to Stuttgart via Mainz, Mannheim, Heidelberg and Vaihingen an der Enz.
• EC/EN to Prague
• Railjet to Budapest via Frankfurt, Munich and Vienna

Preceding station		Deutsche Bahn		Following station
Terminus		ICE 20		Mainz Hbf toward Kiel Hbf
Limburg Süd toward Köln Hbf		ICE 45		Mainz Hbf toward Stuttgart Hbf
Terminus		ICE 50		Mainz Hbf toward Magdeburg Hbf or Dresden Hbf

Regional trains

The station is served by the following DB Regionalbahn services:

• RB 10 (West Rhine Railway): Frankfurt Hbf - Frankfurt-Höchst - WI-Mainz-Kastel - Wiesbaden Hbf - WI-Biebrich - WI-Schierstein - Rüdesheim am Rhein - Koblenz
• RB 20/21 (Ländches Railway/Main-Lahn Railway): Wiesbaden Hbf - WI-Erbenheim - WI-Igstadt - WI-Auringen/Medenbach - Niedernhausen - Bad Camberg - Limburg an der Lahn
• RB 75/63 (Rhine-Main Railway): Wiesbaden Hbf - Mainz Hbf - Mainz Römisches Theater - Groß-Gerau - Darmstadt Hbf - Dieburg - Aschaffenburg Hbf

Preceding station		Deutsche Bahn		Following station
Eltville toward Koblenz Hbf		RE 10		Kastel toward Frankfurt Hbf
Wiesbaden-Biebrich toward Koblenz Hbf		RB 10 RheingauLinie		Terminus
Terminus		RB 75		Mainz Hbf toward Aschaffenburg Hbf
Preceding station		Vectus		Following station
Wiesbaden-Erbenheim toward Niedernhausen		RB 21 Ländchesbahn		Terminus

S-Bahn

The station is the end of three lines of the Rhine-Main S-Bahn:

• S1: Wiesbaden Hbf - WI-Ost - WI-Mainz-Kastel - Hattersheim - Frankfurt-Höchst - Frankfurt Hbf - Rödermark-Ober-Roden
• S8: Wiesbaden Hbf - WI-Ost - Mainz Nord - Mainz Hbf - Mainz Römisches Theater - Mainz-Bischofsheim - Rüsselsheim - Frankfurt Airport - Frankfurt Hbf - Offenbach am Main Ost - Hanau
• S9: Wiesbaden Hbf - WI-Ost - WI-Mainz-Kastel - Mainz-Bischofsheim - Rüsselsheim - Frankfurt Airport - Frankfurt Hbf - Offenbach am Main Ost - Hanau

Preceding station		Rhine-Main S-Bahn		Following station
Terminus		S1		Wiesbaden Ost toward Rödermark-Ober Roden
		S8		Wiesbaden Ost toward Hanau Hbf
		S9