Essen Hauptbahnhof

Location
	Essen Hauptbahnhof Location within North Rhine-Westphalia

Essen Hauptbahnhof
Essen Hauptbahnhof
Separation station
	2014
General information
Location	Am Hauptbahnhof 1; 45127 Essen; Stadtkern, Essen, NRW; Germany
Coordinates	51°27′06″N 7°00′52″E / 51.451783°N 7.014331°E
Owned by	DB Netz
Operated by	DB Station&Service
Line(s)	Witten/Dortmund–Oberhausen/Duisburg (KBS 415, 425, 427, 450.1, 450.3 and 450.9); Essen–Gelsenkirchen (KBS 425 and 450.2); Essen–Essen-Werden (KBS 450.6); Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn lines S1, S2, S3, S6 and S9 (KBS 450.1, 450.2, 450.3, 450.6 and 450.9);
Platforms	13
Construction
Architect	1902: Fritz Klingholz; 1959: Kurt Rasenack, Bernd Figge
Architectural style	1902: Gothic Revival; 1959: New Objectivity
Other information
Station code	1690
DS100 code	EE
IBNR	8000098
Category	1
Fare zone	VRR: 350
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	1862; rebuilt 1902 and 1959
Passengers
	170,000
Services
	Recklinghausen Hbf towards Berlin Ostbahnhof
Location
Location
	Essen Hauptbahnhof Location within North Rhine-Westphalia

Essen Hauptbahnhof (German for "Essen main station") is a railway station in the city of Essen in western Germany. It is situated south of the old town centre, next to the A 40 motorway. It was opened in 1862 by the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn. However, the station was not the first in Essen: as the station called Essen (today Essen-Altenessen) on the Köln-Mindener Eisenbahn was opened in 1847.

The station suffered extensive damage in World War II and was almost completely rebuilt in the 1950s and 1960s. During the following years, the Essen Stadtbahn and the A 40 were other construction projects affecting the station. Today it is an important hub for local, regional and long-distance services, with all major InterCityExpress and InterCity trains calling at the station as well as RegionalExpress and Rhein-Ruhr S-Bahn services.

Trains of all kinds call at the station, from long distance to local services. It used to be one of the Metropolitan stops on the Hamburg to Cologne line before the service was discontinued in 2002. There are night services by EuroNight trains to cities such as Moscow and Brussels, and DB NachtZug trains to Zurich and Vienna, among others.

Some 400 trains pass through the station each day, making Essen Hauptbahnhof the third busiest railway station in the Ruhr Area after Dortmund Hauptbahnhof and Duisburg Hauptbahnhof.

^ ^a ^b "Stationspreisliste 2024" [Station price list 2024] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 24 April 2023. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
^ Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2017 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2017. ISBN 978-3-89494-146-8.
^ "Wabenplan Essen" (PDF). Ruhrbahn. November 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 October 2019. Retrieved 30 October 2019.
^ Joost, André. "Essen Hauptbahnhof operations". NRW Rail Archive (in German). Retrieved 28 April 2020.

[categories-1] "Stationspreisliste 2024" [Station price list 2024] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 24 April 2023. Retrieved 29 November 2023.

[Eisenbahnatlas-2] Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2017 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2017. ISBN 978-3-89494-146-8.

[3] "Wabenplan Essen" (PDF). Ruhrbahn. November 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 October 2019. Retrieved 30 October 2019.

[4] Joost, André. "Essen Hauptbahnhof operations". NRW Rail Archive (in German). Retrieved 28 April 2020.

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