Dessau Hauptbahnhof

Dessau Hauptbahnhof
Through station
Entrance hall of station (2010)
Location	Dessau-Roßlau, Saxony-Anhalt Germany
Coordinates	51°50′24″N 12°14′6″E / 51.84000°N 12.23500°ECoordinates: 51°50′24″N 12°14′6″E / 51.84000°N 12.23500°E
Line(s)	Dessau–Leipzig Biederitz–Dessau Dessau–Wörlitz Dessau–Köthen
Platforms	6 + 1 side platform (DWE)
Construction
Architectural style	Bauhaus
Other information
Station code	1173
DS100 code	LD
Category	4[1]
History
Opened	1 September 1840

Dessau Hauptbahnhof is the main passenger station in the city of Dessau-Roßlau in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt.

Location

The station is located to the south of the Elbe and to the west of central Dessau. It is a through station, orientated from the north-east to the south-west. Located on its south-eastern frontage is a stop for Dessau trams and buses operated by Dessauer Verkehrsgesellschaft, the city’s public transport operator.

History

1945 (above), 1959 (below)

Dessau had an important role in rail transport from the early days of railways in Germany because of the crossing over the Elbe to its north. The first railway was opened on 1 September 1840 by the Berlin-Anhalt Railway Company. As early as 1911 the line to Bitterfeld was electrified experimentally. Because of the location of several industrial enterprises in the region, such as the Junkers aircraft factory, the railway was very important for rail freight.

In World War II, the station building was destroyed in an air raid on 7 March 1945 and was rebuilt up to 1952.

While the station was formerly a stop for InterRegio and Intercity trains, it is now almost exclusively served by regional transport as Dessau is not located on the busy Berlin–Halle and Magdeburg–Halle–Leipzig lines.

Between 2008 and 2011 a comprehensive renovation was carried out in the Roßlau/Dessau railway transport hub, including a major renovation of the track and overhead line equipment. The track plan of the station has been simplified, so that a speed of 160 km/h is now possible. On 5 December 2010, an electronic interlocking was brought into operation in Dessau.^[2]

As part of the development of the S-Bahn Mitteldeutschland network, it is planned to introduce a service between Dessau and Halle in 2015.

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  1951

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  2009

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  2010, rehabilitation of the station

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  2010, after rehabilitation

Connections

The station is used only by regional traffic. There have been no long-distance services since the opening of Berlin Hauptbahnhof in 2006. The Dessau-Wörlitz Railway is now a tourist railway and only operates during the summer season.

In public transport the station is served by three tram and six bus routes. In addition all night bus routes start here.

Line	Route	Frequency	Operator
IC	Oldenburg – Bremen – Hannover – Magdeburg – Dessau – Bitterfeld – Leipzig	One train pair	DB Fernverkehr
RE 7	Dessau Hbf – Belzig – Berlin Hbf – Berlin-Schönefeld Flughafen – Wünsdorf-Waldstadt	Hourly (Mon-Fri) Every two hours (Sat-Sun)	DB Regio Nordost
RE 13	Magdeburg Hbf – Dessau Hbf – Leipzig Hbf	Every two hours	DB Regio Südost
RE 15	Magdeburg Hbf – Dessau Hbf – Lutherstadt Wittenberg	Once a day	DB Regio Südost
RB 42	Dessau Hbf – Zerbst – Magdeburg Hbf	Every two hours	DB Regio Südost
RB 50	Dessau Hbf – Köthen – Bernburg – Güsten – Aschersleben	Hourly	DB Regio Südost
RB 51	Dessau Hbf – Lutherstadt Wittenberg – Falkenberg (Elster)	Hourly Dessau-Lutherstadt Wittenberg Every two hours Lutherstadt Wittenberg-Falkenberg (Elster)	DB Regio Südost
RB 54	Dessau Hbf – Bitterfeld – Leipzig Hbf	Every two hours	DB Regio Südost
RB 86	Dessau Hbf – Bitterfeld – Halle (Saale) Hbf	Every two hours	DB Regio Südost
DVE	Dessau Hbf – Oranienbaum – Wörlitz (operates March-October)	Every two hours	Dessauer Verkehrs- und Eisenbahngesellschaf

Notes

1. "Stationspreisliste 2016" [Station price list 2016] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 1 December 2015. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
2. DB ProjektBau GmbH (2010). Infrastrukturprojekte 2010. Bauen bei der Deutschen Bahn (in German). Hamburg: Eurailpress. pp. 68–81. ISBN 978-3-7771-0414-0.

References

• Bley, Peter (1990). 150 Jahre Berlin-Anhaltische Eisenbahn (150 years of the Berlin-Anhalt railway) (in German). Düsseldorf: alba. ISBN 3-87094-340-8.