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Bremen Hauptbahnhof

Coordinates: 53°05′03″N 8°48′42″E / 53.08417°N 8.81167°E / 53.08417; 8.81167
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Bremen Hauptbahnhof
Deutsche Bahn
Bf
Front of station hall
General information
LocationBremen, Free Hanseatic City of Bremen
Germany
Coordinates53°05′03″N 8°48′42″E / 53.08417°N 8.81167°E / 53.08417; 8.81167
Line(s)
Platforms9
Other information
Station code855
DS100 codeHB
Category2[1]
Websitewww.bahnhof.de
History
Opened1847
Key dates
1870Rollbahn opened
1886Current hall built
1964Station electrified

Bremen Hauptbahnhof (German for Bremen main station) is a railway station in the city of Bremen in northwestern Germany. It is the most important rail station for both the city and state of Bremen; InterCityExpress, Intercity, EuroCity, CityNightLine and DB NachtZug services call at the station, which is situated to the Northeast of the city centre. The train services are operated by Deutsche Bahn, NordWestBahn, Metronom and Erixx.

History

Bremen's first train station was opened in 1847 on the site of today's station, on the line to Hanover. Later, lines leading to Vegesack (Bremen-Vegesack–Bremen line), Bremerhaven (then Wesermünde, Bremen–Bremerhaven line), Oldenburg and Uelzen (Uelzen–Langwedel railway) were connected to the station. In 1870, the Köln-Mindener Eisenbahn, opening its Wanne-Eickel–Hamburg line (Rollbahn), built another station some hundred metres north of the old station, since the old station could not cope with the additional Rollbahn traffic. Eventually, it was decided that a single station would be better, and so today's station was built from 1886 to 1891 after plans by Hubert Stier, with sculptures by Diedrich Samuel Kropp and Carl Dopmeyer. In 1907, additional tracks were added. Whilst the station hall has been remodeled several times due to war damage and modernisation, its basic outline still resembles the original 1880s building.

The station hall was thoroughly renovated in the late 1990s and early 2000s, merging the two formerly separated passenger tunnels into a single concourse. Since 1973, it is protected by the monument protection act.[2] The station's platforms, however, were only partially renovated, but are expected to be refurbished from 2008 on for € 12.6 million.[3]

Train services

The following services currently call at the station:[4]

  • Intercity Express services (ICE 10) Oldenburg - Bremen - Hanover - Berlin
  • Intercity Express services (ICE 25) Bremen - Hanover - Kassel - Würzburg - München
  • Intercity Express services (ICE 42) Hamburg - Bremen - Münster - Dortmund - Wuppertal - Köln - Frankfurt - Stuttgart - Ulm - München
  • Intercity Express services (ICE 50) Oldenburg - Bremen - Hanover - Braunschweig - Magdeburg - Leipzig - Dresden
  • EuroCity services (EC 7) Hamburg - Bremen - Münster - Dortmund - Düsseldorf - Köln - Bonn - Karlsruhe - Freiburg - Basel - Zürich - Chur
  • Intercity services (IC 30) Hamburg - Bremen - Münster - Essen - Düsseldorf - Köln - Bonn - Stuttgart
  • Intercity services (IC 31) Hamburg - Bremen - Münster - Dortmund - Wuppertal - Köln - Bonn - Frankfurt
  • Intercity services (IC 56) Norddeich - Emden - Oldenburg - Bremen - Hanover - Braunschweig - Magdeburg - Leipzig - Dresden
  • Regional services RE 1 Norddeich - Emden - Oldenburg - Bremen - Nienburg - Hanover
  • Regional services RE 4 Bremen - Rotenburg - Buchholz - Hamburg
  • Regional services RE 8 Bremerhaven-Lehe - Bremen - Nienburg - Hanover
  • Regional services RE 9 Bremerhaven-Lehe - Bremen - Osnabrück
  • Local services RB 6 Osnabrück - Bramsche - Vechta - Delmenhorst - Bremen
  • Local services RB 37 Der Heidesprinter Bremen - Soltau - Uelzen
  • Local services RB 41 Bremen - Rotenburg - Tostedt - Buchholz - Hamburg
  • Bremen S-Bahn services RS 1 Bremen-Farge - Bremen-Vegesack - Bremen - Verden
  • Bremen S-Bahn services RS 2 Bremerhaven-Lehe - Osterholz-Scharmbeck - Bremen - Twistringen
  • Bremen S-Bahn services RS 3 Bad Zwischenahn - Oldenburg - Delmenhorst - Bremen
  • Bremen S-Bahn services RS 4 Nordenham - Hude - Delmenhorst - Bremen
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Operational usage

The station sees 100 long-distance and 410 regional trains per day. About 100,000 passengers per day use the station. The station features nine platform tracks, of which seven are in the station hall. In the hall, two tracks serve as through tracks for freight traffic. The station is electrified since 1964 and has been thoroughly modernised during the late 1990s. Both the passenger and mail subways, which used to be separate, were joined together and the station's subway now features a rich selection of shops and food halls, akin to a shopping mall. The platforms have been partly modernised as well (most notably platforms 5 and 6, which carry most of the southbound long distance traffic), and lifts have been put in.
Trains usually depart from:

The station is connected to the Bremen tramway network operated by BSAG by a large, six-track tram station in front of the main hall.

Decorations

Mural inside the station hall

The sculptures on the façade, among other railway-related symbolisms, depict the coats of arms of the cities of Bremen and Hamburg, the original destinations of the line.

There is a large mural inside the station's main hall, dating back to the 1950s and showing scenes from the city port. It went into oblivion when it was drywalled off and station announcement boards were put over it in the 1970s, but has been carefully renovated at the station's most recent interior overhaul and is now viewable to the public again.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Stationspreisliste 2024" [Station price list 2024] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 24 April 2023. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
  2. ^ "Database of Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Bremen #0100". Template:De icon
  3. ^ "Frisches Geld für drei Bahnhöfe". Verlagsgruppe Kreiszeitung. Retrieved 2006-12-18.
  4. ^ Timetables for Bremen Hbf station Template:De icon
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