Bremen Hauptbahnhof

Bremen Hauptbahnhof
Bf
Front of station hall
General information
Location	Bremen, Free Hanseatic City of Bremen Germany
Coordinates	53°05′03″N8°48′42″E / 53.08417°N 8.81167°E / 53.08417; 8.81167
Owned by	Deutsche Bahn
Operated by	DB Netz DB Station&Service
Line(s)	Wanne-Eickel–Hamburg line Bremen–Hanover line Oldenburg–Bremen line Bremen–Bremerhaven line Bremen-Vegesack–Bremen line
Platforms	9
Other information
Station code	855
DS100 code	HB
Category	2 [1]
Fare zone	Verkehrsverbund Bremen/Niedersachsen: 100 [2]
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	12 December 1847;176 years ago (1847-12-12)
Electrified	14 December 1964;59 years ago (1964-12-14)
Previous names	1847-1873 Bremen 1873-1889 Bremen Staatsbahnhof 1889-1897 Bremen Centralbahnhof
Key dates
1870	Rollbahn opened
1886-89	Current hall built
Services
Preceding station DB Fernverkehr Following station Delmenhorst towards Oldenburg Hbf ICE 10 Verden (Aller) towards Berlin Ostbahnhof Hamburg-Harburg towards Hamburg Hbf ICE 14 Diepholz One-way operation Oldenburg Hbf Terminus ICE 22 Hannover Hbf One-way operation Terminus ICE 25 Hannover Hbf towards München Hbf Hamburg-Harburg towards Hamburg-Altona ICE 42 Osnabrück Hbf towards München Hbf ICE 43 Osnabrück Hbf towards Basel SBB EC 43 Osnabrück Hbf towards Zürich HB or Interlaken Ost Delmenhorst towards Norddeich Mole IC 56 Verden (Aller) towards Dresden Hbf or Cottbus Hbf Preceding station DB Regio Nord Following station Delmenhorst towards Norddeich Mole RE 1 Achim towards Hannover Hbf Osterholz-Scharmbeck towards Bremerhaven-Lehe RE 8 RE 9 Kirchweyhe towards Osnabrück Hbf Preceding station Metronom Following station Terminus RE 4 Rotenburg towards Hamburg Hbf RB 41 Bremen-Oberneuland towards Hamburg Hbf Preceding station NordWestBahn Following station Bremen Neustadt towards Osnabrück Hbf RB 58 Terminus Preceding station Regionalverkehre Start Deutschland Following station Terminus RB 37 Achim towards Uelzen Preceding station Bremen S-Bahn Following station Bremen-Walle towards Bremen-Farge RS1 Bremen-Sebaldsbrück towards Verden (Aller) Bremen-Burg towards Bremerhaven-Lehe RS2 Bremen-Hemelingen towards Twistringen Bremen Neustadt towards Bad Zwischenahn RS3 Terminus Delmenhorst towards Bad Zwischenahn RS30 Delmenhorst towards Nordenham RS4 Preceding station EVB Following station Bremen-Burg towards Stade Moor Express Terminus
Location
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Bremen Hauptbahnhof (German for Bremen main station) is a railway station in the city of Bremen in northwestern Germany. It is the most important rail station for both the city and state of Bremen; InterCityExpress, Intercity, EuroCity, CityNightLine and DB NachtZug services call at the station, which is situated to the Northeast of the city centre. The train services are operated by Deutsche Bahn, NordWestBahn, Metronom and Erixx.

History

Bremen's first train station was opened in 1847 on the site of today's station, on the line to Hanover. Later, lines leading to Vegesack (Bremen-Vegesack–Bremen line), Bremerhaven (then Wesermünde, Bremen–Bremerhaven line), Oldenburg and Uelzen (Uelzen–Langwedel railway) were connected to the station. In 1870, the Köln-Mindener Eisenbahn, opening its Wanne-Eickel–Hamburg line (Rollbahn), built another station some hundred metres north of the old station, since the old station could not cope with the additional Rollbahn traffic. Eventually, it was decided that a single station would be better, and so today's station was built from 1886 to 1891 after plans by Hubert Stier, with sculptures by Diedrich Samuel Kropp and Carl Dopmeyer. In 1907, additional tracks were added. Whilst the station hall has been remodeled several times due to war damage and modernisation, its basic outline still resembles the original 1880s building.

The station hall was thoroughly renovated in the late 1990s and early 2000s, merging the two formerly separated passenger tunnels into a single concourse. Since 1973, it is protected by the monument protection act. ^[3] The station's platforms, however, were only partially renovated, but are expected to be refurbished from 2008 on for €12.6 million. ^[4]

While the station enjoyed a great reputation throughout much of its history, when Consumer Choice Center ranked Europe's top 50 railway stations in 2022, Bremen Hauptbahnhof ranked last. ^[5]

Rail services

The following services currently call at the station: ^[6]

Long distance

Line	Route	Frquency (min)	Operator
ICE 10	Berlin Ostbahnhof – Wolfsburg – Hannover – Bremen – Oldenburg	1 train pair	DB Fernverkehr
ICE 22	Frankfurt (Main) – Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe – Göttingen – Hannover – Bremen – Oldenburg	1 train pair
ICE 25	(Oldenburg –) Bremen – Hannover – Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe – Würzburg  – Nürnberg  – Ingolstadt – Munich	120
ICE 42	Hamburg-Altona – Bremen – Osnabrück – Münster (Westf) – Dortmund – Essen  – Duisburg  – Düsseldorf  – Cologne – Frankfurt Airport – Mannheim  – Stuttgart  – Ulm  – Augsburg  – Munich	1 train pair
ICE 43	Hamburg-Altona – Hamburg – Bremen – Osnabrück – Münster – Dortmund – Bochum – Essen – Duisburg – Düsseldorf – Cologne – Frankfurt Airport – Mannheim – Karlsruhe – Freiburg – Basel	120
IC 35	Bremerhaven-Lehe – Bremerhaven – Osterholz-Scharmbeck – Bremen – Osnabrück – Münster – Recklinghausen – Oberhausen – Düsseldorf – Cologne	1 train pair
EC 43	Hamburg-Altona – Hamburg – Bremen – Osnabrück – Münster – Dortmund – Bochum – Essen – Duisburg – Düsseldorf – Cologne  – Bonn – Koblenz – Mainz – Mannheim – Karlsruhe – Baden-Baden – Freiburg – Basel – Zürich / Interlaken Ost	2 train pairs
IC 56	Norddeich Mole – Emden – Leer – Oldenburg – Bremen – Hannover – Braunschweig – Magdeburg – Halle – Leipzig	120
FLX 20	Hamburg – Hamburg-Harburg  – Bremen – Osnabrück – Münster (Westf) – Gelsenkirchen  – Essen – Duisburg – Düsseldorf – Köln	2–3 train pairs	Flixmobility

Regional services

• RE 1 Norddeich - Emden - Oldenburg - Bremen - Nienburg - Hanover
• RE 4 Bremen - Rotenburg - Buchholz - Hamburg
• RE 8 Bremerhaven-Lehe - Bremen - Nienburg - Hanover
• RE 9 Bremerhaven-Lehe - Bremen - Osnabrück
• RB 37 Der HeidesprinterBremen - Soltau - Uelzen
• RB 41 Bremen - Rotenburg - Tostedt - Buchholz - Hamburg
• RB 58 Osnabrück - Bramsche - Vechta - Delmenhorst - Bremen

S-Bahn services

• RS1 Bremen-Farge - Bremen-Vegesack - Bremen - Verden
• RS2 Bremerhaven-Lehe - Osterholz-Scharmbeck - Bremen - Twistringen
• RS3 Bad Zwischenahn - Oldenburg - Delmenhorst - Bremen
• RS30 Bremen - Delmenhorst - Hude - Oldenburg - Oldenburg-Wechloy - Bad Zwischenahn
• RS4 Nordenham - Hude - Delmenhorst - Bremen

Operational usage

The station sees 100 long-distance and 410 regional trains per day. About 100,000 passengers per day use the station. The station features nine platform tracks, of which seven are in the station hall. In the hall, two tracks serve as through tracks for freight traffic. The station is electrified since 1964 and has been thoroughly modernised during the late 1990s. Both the passenger and mail subways, which used to be separate, were joined together and the station's subway now features a rich selection of shops and food halls, akin to a shopping mall. The platforms have been partly modernised as well (most notably platforms 5 and 6, which carry most of the southbound long distance traffic), and lifts have been put in.
Trains usually depart from:

• Track 1 - Osnabrück (Wanne-Eickel–Hamburg line)
• Track 2 - Oldenburg (Oldenburg–Bremen line), Nordenham (Hude–Blexen line)
• Track 5 - Verden, Hanover (Bremen–Hanover line)
• Track 6 - Bremerhaven (Bremen–Bremerhaven line)
• Track 7 - Osnabrück (Intercity), Diepholz (Wanne-Eickel–Hamburg line)
• Track 8 - Hamburg (Wanne-Eickel–Hamburg line), Uelzen (Uelzen–Langwedel line)
• Track 9 - Hamburg (Metronom, Wanne-Eickel–Hamburg line)
• Track 10 - Rotenburg (Wanne-Eickel–Hamburg line)

The station is connected to the Bremen tramway network operated by BSAG by a large, six-track tram station in front of the main hall.

Decorations

Bremen main station in fog

Mural inside the station hall

The sculptures on the façade, among other railway-related symbolisms, depict the coats of arms of the cities of Bremen and Hamburg, the original destinations of the line.

There is a large mural inside the station's main hall, dating back to the 1950s and showing scenes from the city port. It went into oblivion when it was drywalled off and station announcement boards were put over it in the 1970s, but has been carefully renovated at the station's most recent interior overhaul and is now viewable to the public again.

See also

• List of railway stations in Bremen

References

1. "Stationspreisliste 2024" [Station price list 2024](PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 24 April 2023. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
2. "Tarifplan" (PDF). Verkehrsverbund Bremen/Niedersachsen. 1 January 2021. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 January 2021. Retrieved 24 January 2021.
3. "Database of Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Bremen #0100".(in German)
4. "Frisches Geld für drei Bahnhöfe". Verlagsgruppe Kreiszeitung. Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 18 December 2006.
5. "Worst train stations in Europe".
6. Timetables for Bremen Hbf station (in German)

External links

• Official Website
• See the Ticket Hall in a 360 degrees interactive panorama (Flash) Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine