Gera Hauptbahnhof
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Location | Bahnhofsplatz 3-9, Gera, Thuringia Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 50°52′59″N 12°04′38″E / 50.88306°N 12.07722°E | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Owned by | Deutsche Bahn | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Operated by | DB Station&Service | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Platforms | 6 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Station code | 2073 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
DS100 code | UG[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
IBNR | 8010125 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Category | 3[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fare zone | VMT: 40[3] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Website | www.bahnhof.de | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Opened | 19 March 1859 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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ca. 10,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Gera Central Station
History
The railway was extended in 1859 from
In 1881 the reception building was built by the architects of Hude & Hennicke. During the reconstruction of 1958/63 several ornaments were removed from the facade.
The heyday of the station was between the two world wars, after the glass concourse was completed in 1911. At that time some of the Berlin–Leipzig–Munich traffic ran via Gera and the lines to Saalfeld, Erfurt and Leipzig were double track.
After the Second World War, the second track was removed as war reparations to the Soviet Union. Gera lost its importance as a junction because of the division of German. The major north-south traffic from Berlin to Bavaria no longer stopped at the station.
After
In the 1990s there were long-distance trains through Gera, but north–south traffic shifted to the electrified, double track and upgraded
2005–2007 reconstruction
From 2005 to 2007 the station was extensively renovated and formally re-dedicated in April 2007, shortly before the opening of the 2007 Federal Garden Show. The Gera tramway was reconnected to the station and the Garden Show site at the same time.
Operations
The following lines of
Line | Route | Frequency |
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IC 51 | Gera – ) | 6 h |
RE 1 | Göttingen – Erfurt – Jena-Göschwitz – Gera – Gößnitz – Glauchau (Sachs) | 120 min |
RE 3 | Erfurt – Weimar – Gera – Ronneburg (Thür) – Altenburg / Greiz | 120 min |
RE 12 | Leipzig – Zeitz – Gera – Weida – Pößneck ob Bf – Saalfeld (Saale) – Blankenstein (Saale) | 120 min |
RB 4 | Gera – Wünschendorf – Berga (Elster) – Greiz – Plauen (Vogtland) Mitte – Weischlitz | 120 min |
RB 13 | Gera – Weida – Zeulenroda unt Bf – Mehltheuer – Hof | 120 min |
RB 21 | Gera – Hermsdorf-Klosterlausnitz – Jena-Göschwitz – Weimar – Erfurt | 120 min | 60 min
RB 22 | Leipzig – Zeitz – Gera – Weida – Pößneck ob Bf – Saalfeld (Saale) | 120 min |
Tracks
The station has several tracks, but only six of them have a platform. Trains currently operate (as of 2010) as follows:
- Track 1: Trains to Greiz / Plauen / Weischlitz and Cheb
- Track 2: Trains to Erfurt / Leinefelde / Göttingen and Mehltheuer / Hof / Regensburg
- Track 3: Trains to Leipzig / Weimar / Greiz and Altenburg
- Track 4: Trains to Erfurt / Saalfeld
- Platform 5: Trains to Leipzig / Weimar / Saalfeld
- Track 6: trains to Leipzig / Katzhütte / Saalfeld / Chemnitz, and Zwickau
Hauptbahnhof / Theatre bus and tram stop
The Gera bus station is in front of the station. It is the beginning and end of the regional transport bus routes of the Gera/Land Regional Transport Company (Regionalverkehr Gera/Land GmbH, RVG); the Passenger and Tourist Traffic Company (Personen- und Reiseverkehrs GmbH, PRG); the bus operator, Piehler; the THÜSAC Passenger Transport Company; and the Saale-Orla Rudolstadt Bus Transport Company (Omnibusverkehr Saale-Orla Rudolstadt GmbH, OVS). Since November 2006, the newly opened
References
- ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
- ^ "Stationspreisliste 2024" [Station price list 2024] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 24 April 2023. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
- ^ "Das Verbundgebiet des VMT" (PDF). Verkehrsverbund Mittelthüringen. 1 August 2021. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
- ^ ThüringenCard on the website of Thuringia Tourism. Retrieved 28 Feb 2014.
Literature
- Frister, Thomas (1999). Verkehrsknoten Gera (in German). Freiburg: EK-Verlag. ISBN 3-88255-268-9.
External links
- "Gera Hbf track plan" (PDF; 165.7 KB) (in German). Deutsche Bahn. Retrieved 18 February 2011.
- "Photographs of the reconstruction of Gera rail junction" (in German). baustellen-doku.info. Archived from the original on 23 January 2011. Retrieved 18 February 2011.