Bremen Hauptbahnhof

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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
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
Construction
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Station code	855
DS100 code	HB
Category	2
Fare zone	Verkehrsverbund Bremen/Niedersachsen: 100
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	12 December 1847;176 years ago
Electrified	14 December 1964;59 years ago
Previous names	1847-1873 Bremen; 1873-1889 Bremen Staatsbahnhof; 1889-1897 Bremen Centralbahnhof
Key dates
1870	Rollbahn opened
1886-89	Current hall built
Services
Location
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Last updated October 24, 2024

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	Frequency (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
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

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.

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References

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

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[categories-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)

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