Gotha station

Gotha station
Through station

Entrance building in 2007
Location Gotha (town), Thuringia
Germany
Coordinates 50°56′21″N 10°42′50″E / 50.93917°N 10.71389°E / 50.93917; 10.71389Coordinates: 50°56′21″N 10°42′50″E / 50.93917°N 10.71389°E / 50.93917; 10.71389
Line(s)
Platforms 5
Construction
Architectural style Neoclassical
Other information
Station code n/a
DS100 codeUGO
Category3
Website www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened 1847
Traffic
Passengers ca. 4000

Gotha station is the main station of Gotha in the German state of Thuringia. It is served by InterCity trains and every two hours by Intercity-Express trains on the Thuringian Railway. Services on the Ohra Valley Railway (German: Ohratalbahn) to the south and the Gotha–Leinefelde line to the north also serve the station.

History

Gotha station was built in 1847, when the local section of the Thuringian line was completed between Halle and Bebra. Gotha was at this time the provincial capital of Saxe-Gotha and already had 15,000 inhabitants. Accordingly, the station was built in a neoclassical style. In 1870 the second line was built from Gotha, running via Mühlhausen to Leinefelde (continuing to Göttingen). The third and last line connecting to Gotha station was the Ohra Valley Railway opened in 1876 to Ohrdruf and to the line to Würzburg at Gräfenroda in 1892.

In 1894 the Gotha tramway was opened. The station was the junction of several tram lines. In 1929, the Thuringian Forest Railway (Thüringerwaldbahn), an overland interurban tramway was opened from Gotha station, running across the city tramlines and continuing to Tabarz via Waltershausen and Friedrichroda. In the Second World War the central section and west wing of the station were destroyed in air strikes; the east wing and the entrance area survived. Some of it still has not been repaired.

In 2007, the station forecourt was completely restructured and the stop on the Thuringian Forest Railway was relocated.

Services

The following services stopped at Gotha station in 2010:

Preceding station   Deutsche Bahn   Following station
ICE 50
towards Dresden Hbf
ICE 50
towards Dresden Hbf
IC 50
Bad Langensalza
toward Göttingen
RE 1
toward Glauchau
toward Eisenach
RB 20
Seebergen
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