Dortmund Hauptbahnhof

Dortmund Hauptbahnhof is the main railway station in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The station's origins lie in a joint station of the Köln-Mindener Eisenbahn and Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn which was built north of the city centre in 1847. That station was replaced by a new station, erected in 1910 at the current site. It featured raised embankments to allow a better flow of traffic. At the time of its opening, it was one of the largest stations in Germany. It was, however, destroyed in an Allied air raid on 6 October 1944.

Dortmund Central Station
Junction station
Location	Königswall 15, Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia Germany
Coordinates	51°31′3″N 7°27′32″E
Owned by	Deutsche Bahn
Operated by	DB Station&Service
Line(s)	Duisburg–Dortmund Dortmund–Hamm Elberfeld–Dortmund Dortmund–Oberhausen/Duisburg Dortmund–Soest Dortmund–Enschede Dortmund–Iserlohn S-Bahn S 1S 2S 5
Platforms	16
Train operators	DB Fernverkehr DB Regio NRW Abellio eurobahn NordWestBahn Flixtrain Thalys
Connections	S 1 S 2 S 5
Other information
Station code	1289[1]
DS100 code	EDO[2]
IBNR	8000080
Category	1[1] IATA: DTZ[3]
Fare zone	VRR: 370[4]
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	1847[5]
Key dates
1910	rebuilt
1944	destroyed
1952	rebuilt
Passengers
130,000 daily[6]
Services Preceding station   Thalys   Following station Essen Hbf toward Paris-Nord Thalys Terminus DB Fernverkehr Bochum towards Düsseldorf or Cologne ICE 10 via Düsseldorf/Wuppertal - Hamm (Westf) - Hannover Hamm (Westf) towards Berlin-Gesundbrunnen Hagen towards Frankfurt ICE 31 train route splits here and rejoins in Köln Hbf Münster towards Hamburg-Altona Bochum towards Frankfurt Bochum towards Munich ICE 41 Terminus ICE 42 Münster towards Munich Hagen towards Basel SBB ICE 43 Hamm (Westf) towards Hannover Bochum towards Vienna ICE 91 train route splits here and rejoins in Köln Hbf Terminus Hagen towards Vienna Bochum towards Offenburg IC/EC 30 Münster towards Hamburg-Altona Hagen towards Frankfurt IC/EC 31 Bochum towards Stuttgart IC/EC 32 Hamm towards Berlin Hagen towards Cologne IC 55 Hamm towards Cologne FlixTrain Essen towards Aachen FLX 30 via Hannover - Berlin Bielefeld towards Leipzig Abellio Rail NRW Dortmund-Mengede toward Duisburg Hbf RB 32 Rhein-Emscher-Bahn Terminus DB Regio NRW Bochum Hbf toward Aachen Hbf RE 1 NRW-Express Dortmund-Scharnhorst toward Hamm Hbf Witten Hbf toward Aachen Hbf RE 4 Wupper-Express Terminus Bochum Hbf toward Cologne/Bonn Airport RE 6 Rhein-Weser-Express Kamen toward Minden Hbf Bochum Hbf toward Düsseldorf Hbf RE 11 Rhein-Hellweg-Express Kamen-Methler toward Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe Terminus RE 57 Dortmund-Sauerland-Express Dortmund-Hörde toward Winterberg and Brilon Stadt Dortmund-Kirchderne toward Enschede RB 51 Westmünsterland-Bahn Terminus Terminus RB 52 Volmetalbahn Dortmund Signal-Iduna-Park toward Lüdenscheid RB 53 Ardey-Bahn Dortmund Signal-Iduna-Park toward Iserlohn eurobahn Dortmund-Mengede toward Düsseldorf Hbf RE 3 Rhein-Emscher-Express Dortmund-Scharnhorst toward Hamm Hbf Dortmund-Kirchderne toward Münster Hbf RB 50 Der Lüner Terminus Terminus RB 59 Hellweg-Bahn Dortmund Signal-Iduna-Park toward Soest NordWestBahn Dortmund-Huckarde Nord toward Dorsten RB 43 Emschertal-Bahn Terminus Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn Dortmund-Dorstfeld toward Solingen Hbf S 1 Terminus Dortmund-Dorstfeld toward Essen or Recklinghausen S 2 Dortmund-Barop toward Hagen Hbf S 5
Location
Dortmund Central Station Location in North Rhine-Westphalia Dortmund Central Station Location in Germany Dortmund Central Station Location in Europe

The main station hall was rebuilt in the year 1952 in a contemporary style. Its stained glass windows feature then-common professions of Dortmund.

The station has 190,000 passengers passing through each day.[7]

History

The original Dortmund station was built north of the city centre by the Cologne-Minden Railway Company (Cöln-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, CME) as part of its trunk line and opened on 15 May 1847.[5] Two years later the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company (Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, BME) opened its station as a purely terminating station south of the existing station at the end of its main line to Elberfeld (now Wuppertal),[8] its line to Soest (from 1855)[9] and its Ruhr route to Duisburg and Oberhausen (from 1860).[10] The original station building on an island, with access from the castle gate, was replaced in 1910 by a spacious new building at the current location. The tracks were raised to end the obstacle to road traffic through restricted level crossings. This second Dortmund station was inaugurated on 12 December 1910 and was one of the largest in the German Empire when it opened. The station then received the name "Dortmund Hbf" on 1 October 1912. It was destroyed during the Second World War.[5]

The entrance building of Dortmund Hauptbahnhof was replaced in 1952 by a functionalist building. It is regarded as architecturally insignificant, but it has significant stained glass windows on the theme of the former industrial specialisations of Dortmund. Five large stained glass windows document the Dortmund economy. In the middle one the city is shown, flanked to the left and right by a steelworker, a blast furnace worker, a brewer and a bridge builder. During the reconstruction of the station they were removed and the put on exhibition at the Hattingen Henrichshütte (a former steel works, which is partly used as a museum of industry). They were replaced with exact copies.[11]

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  The original station in 1870
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  The new station of 1910
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  The station during the occupation of the Ruhr in September 1924

Reconstruction and rehabilitation

Dortmund Hauptbahnhof

Dortmund Hauptbahnhof from the RWE Tower

Thalys, Dortmund-Paris-North

The reconstruction of the Dortmund Hauptbahnhof has been under discussion since 1997. The original plan for a residential area in the form of an "oversized UFO" (80,000 square metres of usable space) was rejected. On 7 October 1998 a memorandum of understanding had been signed between Deutsche Bahn, the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and Westdeutsche Immobilien Bank. The Deutsche Mark (DM) 850 million project was to be completed by 2002.[12]

After the plans for the so-called "Dortmund UFO" were dropped, a new investor was found in 2001 in the form of the Portuguese investment group Sonae Imobiliaria. The DM 1.2 billion project was to be completed by 2006 and new designs were commissioned from architectural firms in the first quarter of 2001.[13] The new proposed development was called "3do" (3 Dortmund). €75 million of federal and €55 million of state funds were pledged. It was planned to have 36,000 square metres of retail and 26,500 square metres of entertainment space. On 3 February 2006, the Essen branch of the Federal Railway Authority (Eisenbahn-Bundesamt) approved the plans for "3do". On 28 February 2007, Deutsche Bahn announced that the investor was unwilling to commit to the project.

Through plans for the reconstruction of the station have twice failed, Dortmund Hauptbahnhof suffers significantly from neglect. Only the terminating platforms (tracks 2–5) and the platform of S-Bahn lines S1 and S2 (tracks 6 and 7) have a lift.

The reconstruction and rehabilitation of the Dortmund Hauptbahnhof began in summer 2009. In a first phase, the station building and related operational areas were gutted. During construction the ticket office and a restaurant of a fast-food chain were placed in containers outside the station. The federal police station and the Bahnhofsmission (a German charity focussed on railway stations) were also placed in containers on the north side. On 17 June 2011, the first phase was formally completed. Of the total cost of €23 million, the federal government contributed €13.3 million, the state €1.4 million and the Deutsche Bahn €8.3 million.[14]

In a second phase, which is scheduled to be completed until 2024, the station tunnels and the entrances to the platforms will be renewed.[15] Dortmund is one of the few big-city stations in Germany where access to the platforms has not yet made accessible for the disabled. In the course of these alterations the eastern access to the tunnel linking the station's buildings and platforms will also be rebuilt. At the same time it is also intended that there will be improvements to facilitate the introduction of the Rhine-Ruhr Express (a planned upgrade to North Rhine-Westphalia's Regional-Express network).[16]

Services

Long distance

Dortmund Hauptbahnhof is served by Thalys, Flixtrain, Deutsche Bahn Intercity-Express and Intercity services.

Line	Route	Frequency	Operator
ICE 10	Berlin – Hannover – Bielefeld – Hamm – Dortmund – Essen – Duisburg – Düsseldorf (– Cologne or – Köln Messe/Deutz – Cologne/Bonn Airport one train from Cologne to Bonn – Koblenz)	Hourly	DB Fernverkehr
ICE 30	Hamburg-Altona – Bremen – Osnabrück – Münster – Dortmund – Essen – Duisburg – Düsseldorf – Cologne	1 train	DB Fernverkehr
ICE 31	Hamburg-Altona – Hamburg – Bremen – Osnabrück – Münster – Dortmund – Hagen – Wuppertal – Solingen – Cologne – Bonn – Koblenz – Mainz – Frankfurt Airport – Frankfurt (– Hanau – Würzburg – Nuremberg – Ingolstadt – Munich)	3 train pairs	DB Fernverkehr
ICE 41	Dortmund – Essen – Duisburg – Düsseldorf – Köln Messe/Deutz – Frankfurt Airport – Frankfurt – Aschaffenburg – Würzburg – Nuremberg – Munich	Individual services	DB Fernverkehr
ICE 41	Munich – Nuremberg – Würzburg – Fulda –Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe – Paderborn – Hamm –Dortmund – Essen – Duisburg – Düsseldorf (– Cologne / Köln Messe/Deutz – Wiesbaden – Frankfurt)	1 train pair	DB Fernverkehr
ICE 42	(Hamburg - Münster –) Dortmund – Essen – Duisburg – Düsseldorf – Cologne – Siegburg/Bonn – Frankfurt Airport – Mannheim – Stuttgart – Ulm – Augsburg – München-Pasing – Munich	Every 2 hours	DB Fernverkehr
ICE 43	Hannover – Bielefeld – Hamm – Dortmund – Hagen – Wuppertal – Cologne – Siegburg/Bonn – Frankfurt Airport – Mannheim – Karlsruhe – Offenburg – Freiburg – Basel	Individual services	DB Fernverkehr
ICE 47	Dortmund – Essen – Duisburg – Düsseldorf – Köln Messe/Deutz – (Cologne/Bonn Airport –) Frankfurt Airport – Mannheim – Stuttgart	Individual services	DB Fernverkehr
THA 80	Dortmund – Essen – Duisburg – (Düsseldorf Airport –) Düsseldorf – Cologne – Aachen – Liège-Guillemins – Brussels – Paris	Individual services	Thalys
ICE 91	Dortmund – Bochum – Essen – Duisburg – Düsseldorf – Cologne – Bonn – Koblenz – Mainz – Frankfurt Airport – Frankfurt – Hanau – Würzburg – Nuremberg – Regensburg – Plattling – Passau – Wels – Linz – St. Pölten – Wien Meidling – Wien – Vienna Airport	Individual services	DB Fernverkehr
IC 30	(Binz – ) Stralsund – Rostock – or Westerland – Hamburg – Bremen – Osnabrück – Münster – Dortmund – Essen – Duisburg – Düsseldorf – Cologne – Bonn – Koblenz – Mainz – Mannheim – Heidelberg – Stuttgart	Every 2 hours	DB Fernverkehr
EC	Hamburg-Altona – Hamburg – Bremen – Osnabrück – Münster – Dortmund – Cologne – Mannheim – Karlsruhe – Basel – Zürich / Interlaken Ost	4 train pairs	DB Fernverkehr/SBB
IC 31	(Kiel – ) Hamburg – Bremen – Osnabrück – Münster – Dortmund – Hagen – Wuppertal – Solingen – Cologne – Bonn – Koblenz – Mainz – Frankfurt Airport – Frankfurt (– Würzburg – Nuremberg – Regensburg – Passau)	Every 2 hours	DB Fernverkehr
IC 32	(Berlin Südkreuz – Wolfsburg – Hannover – Bielefeld – Hamm –) Dortmund – Essen – Duisburg – Düsseldorf – Cologne – Bonn – Koblenz – Mainz – Mannheim – Heidelberg – Stuttgart – Ulm (– Lindau – Bludenz – Innsbruck)	Every 4 hours	DB Fernverkehr
IC 50 MDV	Gera – Jena – Weimar – Erfurt – Eisenach – Kassel – Dortmund – Essen – Duisburg – Düsseldorf (– Cologne)	2 train pairs	DB Fernverkehr
IC 55	Dresden – Leipzig – Halle – Magdeburg – Braunschweig – Hannover – Bielefeld – Hamm – Dortmund – (Essen – Duisburg – Düsseldorf – bzw. Hagen – Wuppertal – Solingen – ) Cologne (– Bonn – Koblenz – Mainz – Mannheim – Heidelberg – Stuttgart – Ulm  – Kempten – Oberstdorf)	Every 2 hours	DB Fernverkehr
FLX 30	Leipzig – Lutherstadt Wittenberg – Berlin Südkreuz – Berlin Hbf – Berlin-Spandau – Hannover – Bielefeld – Dortmund – Essen – Duisburg – Düsseldorf – Cologne – Aachen	1-2 train pairs daily	Flixtrain

Regional services

In local passenger service, Dortmund is served by several regional and S-Bahn lines (as of 2020):[17]

Line	Route	Frequency
RE 1 NRW-Express	Aachen – Eschweiler – Düren – Horrem – Cologne – Düsseldorf – Düsseldorf Airport – Duisburg – Mülheim – Essen – Bochum – Dortmund – Hamm	60 min
RE 3 Rhein-Emscher-Express	Düsseldorf – Duisburg – Oberhausen – Wanne-Eickel – Gelsenkirchen – Herne – Dortmund – Hamm	60 min
RE 4 Wupper-Express	Aachen – Mönchengladbach – Düsseldorf – Wuppertal – Hagen – Dortmund	60 mins
RE 6 Rhein-Weser-Express	Minden – Herford – Bielefeld – Hamm – Dortmund – Essen – Mülheim – Duisburg – Düsseldorf Airport – Düsseldorf – Neuss – Cologne – Cologne/Bonn Airport	60 min
RE 11 Rhein-Hellweg-Express	Düsseldorf – Düsseldorf Airport – Duisburg – Mülheim – Essen – Dortmund – Hamm – Paderborn (– Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe)	60 min
RB 32 Rhein-Emscher-Bahn	Duisburg – Essen-Altenessen – Gelsenkirchen – Wanne-Eickel – Castrop-Rauxel – Dortmund	60 min
RB 43 Emschertal-Bahn	Dorsten – Wanne-Eickel – Herne – Dortmund	60 min
RB 50 Der Lüner	Dorsten – Münster – Lünen – Dortmund	60 min
RB 51 Westmünsterlandbahn	Dortmund – Lünen – Dülmen – Coesfeld – Gronau – Enschede	60 min
RB 52 Volmetal-Bahn	Lüdenscheid – Lüdenscheid-Brügge – Schalksmühle – Hagen – Dortmund	60 min
RB 53 Ardey-Bahn	Dortmund – Schwerte (Ruhr) – Iserlohn	30–60 min
RB 59 Hellweg-Bahn	Dortmund – Holzwickede – Unna – Soest	30 min
S 1	Dortmund (1) – Bochum – Essen (2) – Mülheim – Duisburg – Düsseldorf Airport – Düsseldorf (3) – Hilden  – Solingen (4)	15 min (1–2), 30 min (2–3), 20 min (3–4)
S 2	Dortmund – Castrop-Rauxel – Herne (– Wanne-Eickel – Gelsenkirchen – Essen) / (– Recklinghausen)	30 min
S 5	Dortmund – Witten (– Wetter – Hagen)	30 mins

Light rail

Underground platforms of Dortmund Stadtbahn

Light rail services are operated by the Dortmund Stadtbahn.

∗ U45 becomes at the station Westfalenhallen the line U46 and continues to Brunnenstraße. On match days of the Borussia Dortmund soccer club the line ends instead of the regular terminus Westfalenhallen at the Westfalenstadion station, which is only open on these occasions. In this case it does not continue as U46.

References

1. "Stationspreisliste 2021" [Station price list 2021] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 16 November 2020. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
2. Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
3. Airport information for Dortmund Hauptbahnhof at Transport Search website.
4. "Linie U41". Dortmunder Stadtwerke AG. 1 July 2019. Retrieved 31 October 2019.
5. "Dortmund-Dorstfeld Hbf operations". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 29 April 2016.
6. Reisen, Service und Shopping für täglich 125.000 Reisende und Besucher Archived July 22, 2011, at the Wayback Machine. Information auf bahnhof.de, accessed 13 December 2008
7. "Dortmund Hbf train schedules". Trainline International. Retrieved 23 March 2020.
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9. Joost, André. "Dortmund–Soest line". NRW Rail Archive (in German). Retrieved 13 May 2020.
10. Joost, André. "Bochum–Dortmund line". NRW Rail Archive (in German). Retrieved 13 May 2020.
11. "Alte Bahnhofsfenster wieder neu" (in German). Der Westen. 17 December 2009. Retrieved 20 August 2011.
12. "Neuer Hauptbahnhof für Dortmund". Eisenbahn-Revue International (in German) (11/1998): 451. ISSN 1421-2811.
13. "Aktuelles in Kürze". Eisenbahn-Revue International (in German) (3/2001): 106. ISSN 1421-2811.
14. "Wiedereröffnung Empfangsgebäude Dortmund Hauptbahnhof" (Press release) (in German). DB Mobility Logistics AG. 17 June 2011. Retrieved 20 August 2011.
15. "Tunnel durch Dortmunder Hauptbahnhof am Wochenende gesperrt - das ist der Grund". ruhr24.de (in German). 23 February 2019. Retrieved 23 February 2020.
16. "Kaum Neues vom RRX" (in German). Der Westen. November 2009. Retrieved 20 August 2011.
17. Joost, André. "Dortmund Hauptbahnhof". NRW rail archive (in German). Retrieved 13 May 2020.

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