Essen Hauptbahnhof

Essen Hauptbahnhof
Deutsche Bahn Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn Essen Stadtbahn
Separation station
2014
General information
LocationAm Hauptbahnhof 1
45127 Essen
Stadtkern, Essen, NRW
Germany
Coordinates51°27′06″N 7°00′52″E / 51.451783°N 7.014331°E / 51.451783; 7.014331
Owned byDB Netz
Operated byDB Station&Service
Line(s)
Platforms13
Construction
AccessibleYes
Architect1902: Fritz Klingholz
1959: Kurt Rasenack, Bernd Figge
Architectural style1902: Gothic Revival
1959: New Objectivity
Other information
Station code1690[1]
DS100 codeEE[2]
IBNR8000098
Category1[1]
Fare zoneVRR: 350[3]
Websitewww.bahnhof.de
History
Opened1862[4]
rebuilt 1902 and 1959
Passengers
170,000
Services
Preceding station Eurostar Following station
Duisburg Hbf
towards Paris-Nord
Eurostar
Dortmund Hbf
Terminus
Preceding station DB Fernverkehr Following station
Duisburg Hbf ICE 10 Bochum Hbf
Mülheim (Ruhr) Hbf
towards Aachen Hbf
ICE 14
Recklinghausen Hbf
Mülheim (Ruhr) Hbf
towards Oberstdorf
IC 32 Bochum Hbf
towards Dortmund Hbf
Duisburg Hbf
towards München Hbf
ICE 41
ICE 42 Bochum Hbf
Duisburg Hbf
towards Basel SBB
ICE 43 Bochum Hbf
Duisburg Hbf ICE 47 Gelsenkirchen Hbf
towards Münster Hbf
Duisburg Hbf IC 51 Bochum Hbf
towards Gera Hbf
Düsseldorf Hbf
towards Wien Hbf
ICE 91 Bochum Hbf
towards Dortmund Hbf
Preceding station Following station
Duisburg Hbf
towards Köln Hbf
FLX 20 Gelsenkirchen Hbf
towards Hamburg Hbf
Duisburg Hbf
towards Aachen Hbf
FLX 30 Dortmund Hbf
towards Leipzig Hbf
Preceding station National Express Germany Following station
Mülheim (Ruhr) Hbf
towards Aachen Hbf
RE 1 (NRW-Express) Wattenscheid
Mülheim (Ruhr) Hbf RE 6 (Rhein-Weser-Express) Wattenscheid
towards Minden
Mülheim (Ruhr) Hbf RE 11 (Rhein-Hellweg-Express) Wattenscheid
Preceding station DB Regio NRW Following station
Mülheim (Ruhr) Hbf RE 2 Gelsenkirchen Hbf
Mülheim (Ruhr) Hbf RE 42 Gelsenkirchen Hbf
towards Münster Hbf
Essen West
towards Wesel
RE 49 Essen-Steele
Mülheim (Ruhr) Hbf
towards Aachen Hbf
RB 33 Essen-Steele
Terminus
Terminus RB 40 Essen-Kray Süd
towards Hagen Hbf
Preceding station NordWestBahn Following station
Essen West RE 14 Terminus
Preceding station VIAS Following station
Terminus RE 16 Wattenscheid
towards Iserlohn
Preceding station Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn Following station
Essen West
towards Solingen Hbf
S1 Essen-Steele
towards Dortmund Hbf
Terminus S2 Essen-Kray Nord
towards Dortmund Hbf
Essen West S3 Essen-Steele
Essen Süd
towards Köln-Nippes
S6 Terminus
Essen West S9 Essen-Steele
towards Hagen Hbf
Preceding station Rhine-Ruhr Stadtbahn Following station
Philharmonie U11 Hirschlandplatz
Bismarckplatz U17 Hirschlandplatz
towards Karlsplatz
Bismarckplatz U18 Hirschlandplatz
Map
Location
Essen Hauptbahnhof is located in North Rhine-Westphalia
Essen Hauptbahnhof
Essen Hauptbahnhof
Location within North Rhine-Westphalia

Essen Hauptbahnhof (German for "Essen main station") is a railway station in the city of Essen in western Germany. It is situated south of the old town centre, next to the A 40 motorway. It was opened in 1862 by the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn. However, the station was not the first in Essen: as the station called Essen (today Essen-Altenessen) on the Köln-Mindener Eisenbahn was opened in 1847.

The station suffered extensive damage in World War II and was almost completely rebuilt in the 1950s and 1960s. During the following years, the Essen Stadtbahn and the A 40 were other construction projects affecting the station. Today it is an important hub for local, regional and long-distance services, with all major InterCityExpress and InterCity trains calling at the station as well as RegionalExpress and Rhein-Ruhr S-Bahn services.

Trains of all kinds call at the station, from long distance to local services. It used to be one of the Metropolitan stops on the Hamburg to Cologne line before the service was discontinued in 2002. There are night services by EuroNight trains to cities such as Moscow and Brussels, and DB NachtZug trains to Zurich and Vienna, among others.

Some 400 trains pass through the station each day, making Essen Hauptbahnhof the third busiest railway station in the Ruhr Area after Dortmund Hauptbahnhof and Duisburg Hauptbahnhof.

  1. ^ a b "Stationspreisliste 2024" [Station price list 2024] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 24 April 2023. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
  2. ^ Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2017 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2017. ISBN 978-3-89494-146-8.
  3. ^ "Wabenplan Essen" (PDF). Ruhrbahn. November 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 October 2019. Retrieved 30 October 2019.
  4. ^ Joost, André. "Essen Hauptbahnhof operations". NRW Rail Archive (in German). Retrieved 28 April 2020.