The Eisenach railway station, unofficially too Eisenach main station, is one of the most important train stations in Thuringian Forest and is currently in station category 3. It is centrally located as a hub in Eisenach with currently around 5000 travelers per day.
background
After about a year of construction, the Eisenach station was ceremoniously opened on June 24, 1847 as the provisional terminus of the railway line Gotha-Eisenach opened. A good two years later, the line was also closed Hesse inaugurated, and Eisenach station developed into a railway junction in 1858 at the latest when the Werra Railway was completed Thuringia. Between 1859 and 1861, as well as in 1885, the facility was expanded several times due to the expansion of the local railway lines and went to the Prussian State Railways, from August 1, 1897, the Eisenach tram stopped on the station forecourt. In 1904 the station building was rebuilt for the increasing number of travelers.
mobility
From Eisenach train station, you can also quickly walk to the Eisenacher Downtown. The tram from Eisenach was shut down in 1975, instead buses now run from the station forecourt, see also the section on buses.
Directions
Approach & parking motor vehicles
- Public parking - The parking situation at Eisenach train station is difficult, the next larger public parking lot is the City-Parkhaus on the corner of Uferstrasse and Sommerstrasse. The car park is open daily from 5 a.m. to 10 p.m., from there it is a 650 m walk to Eisenach train station.
- DB parking spaces on the other hand are on the station forecourt. More information about the 63 parking spaces at BahnPark.
taxi
There is a taxi stand opposite the station building on Bahnhofstrasse at the city bus stops.
links
Of the 6 railway tracks, 4 are currently served by Deutsche Bahn long-distance traffic. The SüdThüringenBahn usually runs from tracks 1 and 2, tracks 3-5 are shared by Deutsche Bahn trains (DB Regio) and from platform 6 the runs cantus transport company direction Bebra. There are also some through or sidings, some of which lead to the large freight yard east of the Eisenach train station.
buses
The city and regional buses depart from two separate stops. The city bus routes from the 
Central station at the station forecourt (Bahnhofstrasse), General plan, the regional bus routes from the Bus station in Müllerstrasse, General plan. Only the city bus lines that run at the train station are listed below, information on the regional bus lines at Verkehrsgesellschaft Wartburgkreis mbH.
- line 1 - Central station <> Eisenach Nord
- Line 2 - Central station <> Stedtfelder Straße
- Line 2 / 5a - Hauptbahnhof <> Stedtfelder Straße <> Karlskuppe <> Eisenach Nord <> Hauptbahnhof
- Line 2 / 5b - Hauptbahnhof <> Eisenach Nord <> Karlskuppe <> Stedtfelder Straße <> Hauptbahnhof
- Line 3 - Main station <> Mariental
- Line 4 - Central station <> Hofferbertaue
- Line 5 - Central station <> Thälmannstrasse <> Karlskuppe
- Line 6 - Main station <> Rothenhof
- Line 6a - Rothenhof <> Central Station <> Stedtfeld
- Line 7 - Central station <> Wartenberg
- Line 8 - Central station <> Siebenborn
- Line 9 - Central station <> Industriegebiet West <> Opel
- Line 10 - Central station <> Mariental <> Wartburgallee <> Wartburg
- Line 11 - Central station <> Hohe Sonne <> Wilhelmsthaler See
- Line 12 - Central station <> Petersberg <> Ziegelfeld <> Bosch <> Hötzelsroda
- Line 12a - Central station <> Stockhausen <> Hötzelsroda
- Line 12b - Central station <> Markt <> Stregda <> Hötzelsroda
- Line 13 - downtown line over Wartburg
- Line 15 - Hauptbahnhof <> Stedtfelder Straße / Marktkauf <> Hauptbahnhof
Local transport
Local trains of the SüdThüringenBahn (STB), the cantus transport company and the DB Regio.
- R 6 - Eisenach <> Bebra (KBS 605)
- RB 20 - Eisenach <> Gotha <> Erfurt <> Weimar <> Apolda <> Naumburg (Saale) <> Halle (Saale) / Leipzig (KBS 605)
- Toboggan flash - Eisenach <> Oberhof <> Arnstadt (only Saturday, Sunday from Jan 1st to February 16th 2014) (KBS 570.5)
- STB 41 - Eisenach <> Wernshausen <> Meiningen (KBS 575)
Long-distance transport
In addition to a daily express train to Prague via Dresden, the following lines operate from Eisenach station:
- IC 50: Dusseldorf <> eat <> Dortmund <> Paderborn <> kassel <> Eisenach, or. Frankfurt (Main) <> Fulda <> Bad Hersfeld <> Eisenach, then further direction Gotha <> Erfurt <> Weimar <> Naumburg (Saale), either over Halle (Saale) to Berlin or Leipzig to Dresden
- ICE 28: Eisenach <> Gotha <> Erfurt <> Weimar <> Leipzig <> Berlin
- ICE 50: Wiesbaden <> Mainz <> Frankfurt (Main) <> Fulda <> Eisenach <> Erfurt <> Leipzig <> Dresden
service
DB information
The DB Information (ex. ServicePoint) is located in the station hall and is open from 6:00 a.m. to 10:30 p.m.
DB travel center
Opening times: Monday 6:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m., Tuesday - Friday 8:15 a.m. - 5:30 p.m., Saturday 9:15 a.m. - 2:45 p.m., Sunday 11:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Toilets in the train station
The toilets are in the reception building.
Web links
- Eisenach station on the pages of the German train.
see also
Project development page on the topic of train stations: Wikivoyage: Proposal for train station items
