Dresden Hauptbahnhof

Dresden Hauptbahnhof
Junction station
Aerial view of Dresden Hauptbahnhof (2006)
General information
Location	Wiener Platz 4, Seevorstadt, Dresden, Saxony Germany
Coordinates	51°02′25″N 13°43′54″E / 51.04028°N 13.73167°E / 51.04028; 13.73167
Owned by	DB InfraGO
Line(s)	Děčín–Dresden-Neustadt railway Pirna–Coswig railway Dresden–Werdau railway
Platforms	16
Construction
Architect	Giese & Weidner Arwed Rossbach (1892–1898) Norman Foster (2000–2006)
Architectural style	Historicism and modernism
Other information
Station code	1343
DS100 code	DH[1]
IBNR	8010085
Category	1[2]
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	23 April 1898
Passengers
60,000 (daily)
Services Preceding station DB Fernverkehr Following station Dresden-Neustadt towards Ostseebad Binz ICE 14 Terminus Dresden-Neustadt towards Rostock Hbf IC 17 Freiberg (Sachs) towards Chemnitz Hbf Dresden-Neustadt towards Berlin Hbf or Kiel Hbf EC 27 every 2 hours Bad Schandau towards Praha Terminus EC 27 1 train pair Bad Schandau towards Budapest-Keleti Dresden-Neustadt towards Wiesbaden Hbf ICE 50 Terminus Dresden-Neustadt towards Stuttgart Hbf IC 55 Preceding station European Sleeper Following station Dresden-Neustadt towards Brussels-South Brussels - Prague Bad Schandau towards Praha hl.n. Preceding station DB Regio Nordost Following station Terminus RE 15 Dresden Mitte towards Hoyerswerda RE 18 Dresden Mitte towards Cottbus Hbf RB 31 Dresden-Friedrichstadt towards Elsterwerda-Biehla Preceding station DB Regio Südost Following station Terminus RE 19 Dresden-Strehlen towards Kurort Altenberg (Erzgebirge) RE 20 Dresden-Strehlen towards Litoměřice město Dresden Mitte towards Leipzig Hbf RE 50 Terminus Preceding station Mitteldeutsche Regiobahn Following station Tharandt towards Hof Hbf RE 3 Terminus Dresden-Plauen towards Zwickau Hbf RB 30 Preceding station Trilex Following station Dresden Mitte towards Zgorzelec RE 1 Terminus Dresden Mitte towards Liberec RE 2 Dresden Mitte towards Görlitz RB 60 Dresden Mitte towards Zittau RB 61 Preceding station Dresden S-Bahn Following station Dresden Freiberger Straße towards Meißen Triebischtal S 1 Dresden-Strehlen towards Schöna Dresden Freiberger Straße towards Dresden Flughafen S 2 Dresden-Strehlen towards Pirna Dresden-Plauen towards Freiberg (Sachs) S 3 Terminus Dresden Mitte towards Kamenz (Sachs) S 8 Preceding station KD Following station Görlitz towards Wrocław Główny D10 Terminus
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Dresden Hauptbahnhof ("main station", abbreviated Dresden Hbf) is the largest passenger station in the Saxon capital of Dresden. In 1898, it replaced the Böhmischen Bahnhof ("Bohemian station") of the former Saxon-Bohemian State Railway (Sächsisch-Böhmische Staatseisenbahn), and was designed with its formal layout as the central station of the city. The combination of a station building on an island between the tracks and a terminal station on two different levels is unique. The building is notable for its train-sheds, which are roofed with Teflon-coated glass fibre membranes. This translucent roof design, installed during the comprehensive restoration of the station at the beginning of the 21st century, allows more daylight to reach the concourses than was previously possible.

The station is connected by the Dresden railway node to the tracks of the Děčín–Dresden-Neustadt railway and the Dresden–Werdau railway (Saxon-Franconian trunk line), allowing traffic to run to the southeast towards Prague, Vienna and on to south-eastern Europe or to the southwest towards Chemnitz and Nuremberg. The connection of the routes to the north (Berlin), northwest (Leipzig) and east (Görlitz) does not take place at the station, but north of Dresden-Neustadt station (at least for passenger trains).