Mühlhausen (Thür) station
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Mühlhausen station is a well served passenger station in the Unstrut-Hainich district and the only station in Mühlhausen
in the German state of Thuringia
. It is located east of the centre of Mühlhausen in the valley of the Unstrut
.
. A junction station was added to the existing through station in 1897 for the opening of the light railway to Ebeleben by the Mühlhausen-Ebeleben Railway Company (Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft Mühlhausen-Ebeleben, MEE). The Mühlhausen Tramway opened its first line from the station forecourt in 1898. The station was rebuilt with the opening of the line to Treffurt in 1911 and the MEE station was integrated with the former Thuringian Railway Company station, by then part of the Prussian state railways
.
In 1969 the tramway was shut down and in the same year freight transport also ended on the last remaining remnant of the line to Treffurt, which was partly closed after the Second World War due to the establishment of the Inner German border Treffurt. Freight services to Ebeleben were closed in 1994 and passenger services ended on 31 May 1997 so that Mühlhausen’s period as a junction station came to an end after 100 years.
Since 2000, the station has had no major freight traffic and many of the former freight tracks have been demolished.
56 trains run daily (Mon–Fri), 45 run on weekend days. 27 trains run to Leinefelde each days. Thus Leinefelde station is main direct destination. There are an average of 26 direct services to Erfurt each day, 15 to Gotha, 8 each to Göttingen, Gera, Jena, 6 to Chemnitz and Zwickau and 6 to Kassel as well.
Mühlhausen
Mühlhausen is a city in the federal state of Thuringia, Germany. It is the capital of the Unstrut-Hainich district, and lies along the river Unstrut. Mühlhausen had c. 37,000 inhabitants in 2006.-History:...
in the German state of Thuringia
Thuringia
The Free State of Thuringia is a state of Germany, located in the central part of the country.It has an area of and 2.29 million inhabitants, making it the sixth smallest by area and the fifth smallest by population of Germany's sixteen states....
. It is located east of the centre of Mühlhausen in the valley of the Unstrut
Unstrut
The Unstrut is a river in Germany and a left tributary of the Saale. It originates in northern Thuringia near Dingelstädt and its catchment area is the whole of the Thuringian Basin...
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History
Mühlhausen was connected to a railway the first time in 1870 with the opening of the Gotha–Leinefelde line of the Thuringian Railway CompanyThuringian Railway Company
The Thuringian Railway Company was a company that existed from 1844 to 1886 for the construction of railways in the Thuringian states.-History :...
. A junction station was added to the existing through station in 1897 for the opening of the light railway to Ebeleben by the Mühlhausen-Ebeleben Railway Company (Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft Mühlhausen-Ebeleben, MEE). The Mühlhausen Tramway opened its first line from the station forecourt in 1898. The station was rebuilt with the opening of the line to Treffurt in 1911 and the MEE station was integrated with the former Thuringian Railway Company station, by then part of the Prussian state railways
Prussian state railways
The term Prussian state railways encompasses those railway organisations that were owned or managed by the State of Prussia...
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In 1969 the tramway was shut down and in the same year freight transport also ended on the last remaining remnant of the line to Treffurt, which was partly closed after the Second World War due to the establishment of the Inner German border Treffurt. Freight services to Ebeleben were closed in 1994 and passenger services ended on 31 May 1997 so that Mühlhausen’s period as a junction station came to an end after 100 years.
Since 2000, the station has had no major freight traffic and many of the former freight tracks have been demolished.
Operations
In the timetable of 2011, the following routes operate through the station:- Regional-Express (RE) 1: Göttingen–LeinefeldeLeinefelde-Worbis“”Leinefelde-Worbis is a town in the district of Eichsfeld, in northwestern Thuringia, Germany. The town was formed on March 16, 2004, from the former independent towns Leinefelde and Worbis along with the municipalities of Breitenbach and Wintzingerode...
–Mühlhausen–GothaGotha stationGotha station is the main station of Gotha in the German state of Thuringia. It is served by InterCity trains and every two hours by Intercity-Express trains on the Thuringian Railway...
–ErfurtErfurt Hauptbahnhofis the central railway station of Erfurt in Germany. It is an important junctions of the German railways and is served by numerous local and long-distance rail services. Immediately north of the station, is Erfurt's city center. It had approximately 12.5 million passengers in 2006, that is an...
–JenaJena West stationJena West station is to the west of the centre of the city of Jena in the German state of Thuringia at the 22.59 km mark of the Weimar–Gera railway between Weimar, Jena-Göschwitz station and Gera Hauptbahnhof. This line is also called the Holzland Railway and it is part of the Mid-German Connection...
–GeraGera Hauptbahnhofis the main station of the Thuringian town of Gera. Gera is one of the largest cities in Germany with no long-distance rail connections and no electrified lines. The station is a significant regional transport hub...
–GößnitzGößnitzGößnitz is a town in the Altenburger Land district, in Thuringia, Germany. It is situated on the river Pleiße, 12 km south of Altenburg, and 20 km northwest of Zwickau....
–ChemnitzChemnitz Hauptbahnhofis the Hauptbahnhof of Chemnitz in Germany.-Station building :The station has a combination of terminating and through platforms. Platform tracks 1 to 9 terminate and tracks 10 to14 continue to the west of Chemnitz towards Zwickau, Nuremberg and Göttingen. Tracks 11 to 14 are reached by a passenger...
/ZwickauZwickau Hauptbahnhofis the main railway station of Zwickau in the German state of Saxony.-History :On 18 September 1845 Zwickau was connected by a branch line to the Leipzig–Reichenbach railway line...
(every 120 minutes) - EB 1: Erfurt–Kühnhausen–Bad LangensalzaBad LangensalzaBad Langensalza is a city in the County of Unstrut-Hainich, Thuringia, Germany, with a population of c. 18,500 .-History:...
–Mühlhausen–Leinefelde–EichenbergNeu-Eichenberg-Location:Neu-Eichenberg lies near the three-state common point shared by Hesse, Thuringia and Lower Saxony between Kassel and Göttingen .-Neighbouring communities:...
–KasselKassel HauptbahnhofKassel Hauptbahnhof is a "DB" railway station in the city of Kassel, in the German state of Hesse. Situated in the central borough of Mitte, it is the city's second important railway station after the opening of Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe in 1991; and so it is the only Hauptbahnhof that is not the main...
(every 120 minutes) - EB 1: Erfurt–Kühnhausen–Bad Langensalza–Mühlhausen–Leinefelde (additional trains in peak hours, Mon–Fri)
56 trains run daily (Mon–Fri), 45 run on weekend days. 27 trains run to Leinefelde each days. Thus Leinefelde station is main direct destination. There are an average of 26 direct services to Erfurt each day, 15 to Gotha, 8 each to Göttingen, Gera, Jena, 6 to Chemnitz and Zwickau and 6 to Kassel as well.