Augsburg Hauptbahnhof

Augsburg Hauptbahnhof is the main railway station in the Bavarian city of Augsburg, situated in southern Germany. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 2 station[1] and has 12 platform tracks.

Augsburg Hauptbahnhof
Deutsche Bahn
Junction station
The front of the station building
General information
LocationViktoriastr. 1, Augsburg, Bavaria
Germany
Coordinates48°21′56″N 10°53′11″E
Owned byDeutsche Bahn
Operated by
Line(s)
Platforms12
Construction
Architect
Architectural styleNeoclassical
Other information
Station code220[1]
DS100 codeMA[2]
IBNR8000013
Category2[1]
Fare zoneAVV: 10[3]
Website
History
Opened1 July 1846 (1846-07-01)
Electrified15 May 1931 (1931-05-15)
Passengers
2006< 50,000 daily[4]
Services
Preceding station DB Fernverkehr Following station
Günzburg ICE 11 Munich Pasing
Donauwörth ICE 18 Munich Pasing
towards München Hbf
Nürnberg Hbf
only ICE 1200, 1208
Buchloe
only ICE 1209
München Hbf
only ICE 1201
towards Landeck-Zams
Würzburg Hbf ICE 25 Munich Pasing
towards München Hbf
Donauwörth München Hbf
Terminus
Donauwörth ICE 28 Munich Pasing
towards München Hbf
Nürnberg Hbf ICE 29
Donauwörth München Hbf
Terminus
Ulm Hbf ICE 42 Munich Pasing
towards München Hbf
Günzburg
towards Essen Hbf
Ulm Hbf ICE 60 München Hbf
towards München Hbf
Ulm Hbf
towards Paris Est
ICE/TGV 83
Günzburg
towards München Hbf
ICE/RJX 90 Munich Pasing
towards Budapest
Donauwörth
towards Hamburg Hbf
IC 31 Munich Pasing
One-way operation
Günzburg IC/EC 32
Günzburg IC 62 München Hbf
towards Salzburg Hbf
Preceding station DB Regio Bayern Following station
Terminus RE 7 Buchloe
Augsburg-Oberhausen
towards Augsburg Hbf
RE 16 Terminus
Donauwörth
towards Oberstdorf
RE 17 Augsburg Morellstraße
towards Oberstdorf
Terminus RE 71 Augsburg Morellstraße
towards Augsburg Hbf
RE 73 Buchloe
towards Bad Wörishofen
RE 79 Bobingen
Preceding station Following station
Augsburg-Oberhausen
towards Ulm Hbf
RE 9 Augsburg Haunstetterstraße
towards München Hbf
Augsburg-Oberhausen RE 80
Augsburg-Oberhausen
towards Aalen Hbf
RE 89
Augsburg-Oberhausen RB 86
Augsburg-Oberhausen
towards Donauwörth
RB 87
Preceding station Following station
Terminus RB 13 Augsburg Haunstetterstraße
Augsburg-Oberhausen
Terminus
RB 67 Augsburg Haunstetterstraße
towards Schongau
Terminus RB 69 Augsburg Morellstraße
RB 77 Augsburg Morellstraße
towards Füssen
Preceding station Augsburg tram Following station
Rosenaustraße
towards Stadtbergen
Königsplatz
towards Haunstetten West P+R
Terminus Königsplatz
towards Oberhausen Nord P+R
Königsplatz
towards Friedberg West P+R
Preceding station Croatian Railways Following station
Ulm Hbf EuroNight
München Hbf
towards Zagreb
Location
Augsburg is located in Bavaria
Augsburg
Augsburg
Location in Bavaria
Augsburg is located in Germany
Augsburg
Augsburg
Location in Germany
Augsburg is located in Europe
Augsburg
Augsburg
Location in Europe

The station has one of the oldest still existing station halls in Germany, which was built from 1843 to 1846 after plans by architect Eduard Rüber. It was reconstructed in 1869 according to Friedrich Bürklein's plans. The station today serves as the central railway hub for the Augsburg metropolitan area and Bavarian Swabia. It is currently being modernised and an underground tram station is being built under it.

Structure

Station sign

The first Augsburg station was opened in 1840 by the Munich-Augsburg Railway Company (München-Augsburger Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft) near the Rotes Tor (Red Gate). Its historic hall served in 1880 as a military riding school and since 1920 it has been part of the main workshop of the traffic branch of Stadtwerke Augsburg (Augsburg's municipal utility).[5] After the nationalisation of the line in 1846, the current station was built. Augsburg Hauptbahnhof is a through station with four central platforms (which each have two faces and are not accessible for the disabled), nine through tracks and six bay platform tracks (only three of which are in use). Platform 1 is located next to the station building and has one side.

Station building

The station building has three parts. The central block has a station hall with electronic displays, ticket machines, an information booth and waiting facilities. In one wing is the customer centre of Deutsche Bahn, including a ticket office. In the other wing there is a dining and shopping area and the station library.

The station from the south

The last major renovation and modernisation of the building was in 1983/84. In recent years, the food court in particular has been upgraded (completed in 2007) and a new digital display board has been installed in the main hall. Recently, the south wing was renovated, including the waiting area for travellers, and the hospitality facilities have continued to grow. Due to the construction of a new tramway station beyond the railway, the station building main wing is closed since 2017. It is filled up with supporting struts to avoid a collapse during the drill through of the tunnels.

The station from the north - in front: Augsburg-Oberhausen suburban railway station

Station environment

Directly in front of the building there was a large forecourt with a fountain, a parking lot, including a taxi rank, and a bus station for local buses. Since 2014 the square is used by the construction crew of the tramway tunnels. The fountain is put in storage until redesign of the square. The square is flanked on both sides by shopping centres: on the one hand there is the Helio-Quarter, which shall be opened in 2019, on the other, the Bohus-Center and the InterCityHotel.

West of the passenger station is the freight yard and the former marshalling yard, which is now hardly used. To the south was the former "internal loading area". Also in the southern part of the station building is the original central signalling centre inaugurated in May 1972.

Operations

Long-distance services

Augsburg station forms the end of one of the busiest long-distance lines in Germany, the Munich–Augsburg high speed line. Work on upgrading the line as a four-track high-speed line was completed in December 2011. Besides Intercity, EuroCity and CityNightLine services, Intercity-Express (ICE) trains run from Munich towards Stuttgart and Nuremberg.

With the opening of the Nuremberg–Ingolstadt–Munich high-speed line in June 2006 and its full integration into the German ICE network at the timetable change in December 2006, some of the ICE services—30 of 120 long-distance services then stopping in Augsburg[6]—were transferred from Augsburg to Ingolstadt.

In 2006, about 10,000 passengers per day were recorded on long-distance services in Augsburg. With 90 long-distance services stopping each day, it is the third most important station in Bavaria in terms of long-distance services.[6]

The following long-distance services stop in Augsburg:

Line Route Interval
ICE 11 Hamburg-AltonaBerlinLeipzigErfurtFuldaFrankfurt HbfMannheimStuttgartUlmAugsburgMunich Every 2 hours
WiesbadenMainzMannheimStuttgartAugsburg – Munich A few services
ICE 18 Hamburg-Altona – Berlin Halle Bamberg – Erfurt Nuremberg Augsburg – Munich A few services
ICE 25 Hamburg-AltonaHannoverFuldaWürzburgAugsburgMünchen 120 min
ICE 25 Hamburg-AltonaHamburg Hbf Hannover – Göttingen – Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe – Fulda – WürzburgAugsburg – Munich A few services
(Oldenburg –) Bremen
ICE 28 (NürnbergTreuchtlingenDonauwörth –) AugsburgPasing – Munich A few services
ICE 29 Berlin-GesundbrunnenHalle (Saale)ErfurtCoburgNürnbergDonauwörthAugsburg – Munich Individual services
ICE 42 (Hamburg-Altona – Hamburg Hbf – Bremen – Münster –) DortmundEssenDuisburgDüsseldorfCologneFrankfurt Airport – Mannheim – Stuttgart – Ulm – Augsburg – Munich Every 2 hours
ICE 60 Karlsruhe – Stuttgart – Ulm – Augsburg – Munich Every 2 hours
ICE/TGV 83

TGV

Munich – Augsburg – Ulm – Stuttgart – KarlsruheStrasbourgParis Est One train pair
ICE/RJX 90

RJX

Budapest-KeletiViennaSalzburg – Munich – Augsburg – Ulm – Stuttgart – Mannheim – Frankfurt Flughafen – Frankfurt (– Wiesbaden) One train pair
IC 26 Hamburg-Altona – Hamburg Hbf – Hannover – Göttingen – Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe – Fulda – Würzburg – Augsburg Munich One train pair
Munich EastBerchtesgaden One train pair
Oberstdorf
EC 32 Dortmund / Münster – Essen – Duisburg – Düsseldorf – Köln – BonnKoblenzMainz – Mannheim – Heidelberg – Stuttgart – Ulm – Augsburg – Munich – Salzburg – Klagenfurt One train pair
IC 62

EC/IC/RJ 62

Frankfurt Hbf – Heidelberg – Stuttgart – Ulm – Augsburg – Munich – Salzburg (– Klagenfurt / Graz) 4 train pairs
Saarbrücken – Mannheim –

In the summer of 1939 timetable, 87 scheduled long-distance services each day stopped in the station.[7]

From 17 June 2021 until the timetable change in December 2021, the Flixtrain FLX 35N train pair from Munich to Leipzig and back also served Augsburg.[8][9]

Regional services

Regional-Express or Regionalbahn services operate from Augsburg to Bad Wörishofen, Donauwörth, Füssen, Hergatz, Ingolstadt, Landsberg, Lindau, Munich, Nuremberg, Oberstdorf, Schongau, Treuchtlingen, Ulm and Weilheim. Especially on the line to Munich there are regularly crowded trains, so double-decker trains, which could carry nearly 1,000 passengers, were used until the timetable change on 13 December 2009. Since then class 440 (Alstom Coradia Continental) EMUs of the so-called Fugger-Express operate S-Bahn-density regional services between Augsburg and Munich. Numerous technical glitches on the new rolling stock delayed the start of the original services for a whole year.

Line Route Frequency
RE 7

RE 17

(Nuremberg) – AugsburgBuchloeKaufbeurenKempten (Allgäu) – Immenstadt (split)
Lindau-Reutin (RE 7) /
Oberstdorf (RE 17)
every 2 hours,

Nuremberg–Augsburg twice a day

RE 9 (MunichMering –) AugsburgUlm Ulm–Augsburg hourly
Augsburg–Munich every 2 hours
RE 16 Augsburg – Donauwörth – Treuchtlingen – Nuremberg every 2 hours
RE 71

RE 73

Augsburg – Buchloe – Türkheim (Bay) (split)
MindelheimMemmingen (RE 73) /
– Bad Wörishofen (RE 71)
every 2 hours
RE 79 Augsburg – Bobingen – Schwabmünchen – Buchloe – Kaufbeuren – Kempten (Allgäu) hourly (one train only to Buchloe)
RE 80

RE 89

Munich – Mering – Augsburg – Donauwörth (split)
Aalen (RE 89) /
TreuchtlingenWürzburg (RE 80)
every 2 hours
RB 13 Augsburg – Friedberg (b Augsburg) Mon–Fri every 15 minutes, Sat+Sun hourly
(...) – Aichach Mon–Fri half-hourly, Sat+Sun hourly
(...) – Schrobenhausen – Ingolstadt hourly
RB 67 Augsburg-OberhausenAugsburg – Mering – GeltendorfWeilheimSchongau hourly
(Augsburg-Oberhausen –) Augsburg – Mering (– Geltendorf) hourly in the peak
RB 69 Augsburg – Bobingen – Kaufering – (some trains:Landsberg (Lech)) hourly, half-hourly in the peak
RB 77 Augsburg – Bobingen Mon–Fri half-hourly, Sat+Sun hourly
(...) – Schwabmünchen – Buchloe – Kaufbeuren – Biessenhofen – Marktoberdorf – Füssen hourly, extra trains in the peak
RB 86 Augsburg – Gessertshausen (– Dinkelscherben) Mon–Fri hourly
RB 87 Augsburg – Meitingen (– Donauwörth) Mon–Fri hourly
Munich – Mering – AugsburgDonauwörth (- Nördlingen – Aalen) hourly (Mon–Fri individual trains, Sat+Sun every two hours to Nördlingen/Aalen)

Buses and trams

Augsburg station serves as one of the central hubs of Augsburg, so many lines of the Augsburger Verkehrsverbunde (Augsburg Transport Association) start and end here. These can be accessed in two places. The Hauptbahnhof stop is in the nearby Halderstraße and is served by the following tram and bus lines:

  • Tram 3: towards Stadtbergen, Pfersee or Königsplatz, University and Haunstetten Inninger Strasse
  • Tram 4: towards Königsplatz, Oberhausen and Augsburg Nord
  • Tram 6: towards Königsplatz, Hochzoll and Friedberg West
  • Bus route 22 and 23: towards Firnhaberau
  • Bus route 32: towards Klinikum BKH or Königsplatz and Zoo/ Botanical Garden
  • Bus route 43: towards Diakonissenhaus or Anna-Hintermayr-Stift
  • Night bus route 91: towards Steppach, Bergen, Leitershofen, Königsplatz and Oberhausen
  • Night bus route 93: towards Lechhausen, Hammerschmiede and Firnhaberau or Königsplatz and Hochzoll/Süd

All these lines except line 43, which is operated by the Storz company, are operated by the Augsburger Verkehrsgesellschaft (Augsburg Transport Company).

On the station forecourt there is a bus station with several bus platforms. A total of 22 regional bus lines, operating in all directions, start or end here.

Augsburg Hauptbahnhof

Notes

  1. "Stationspreisliste 2023" [Station price list 2023] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 28 November 2022. Retrieved 14 December 2022.
  2. Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
  3. "Tarifzonenplan Verbundraum" (PDF). Augsburger Verkehrs- und Tarifverbund. January 2020. Retrieved 2 March 2020.
  4. "Brochure: Personenbahnhöfe in Bayern" (PDF) (in German). Deutsche Bahn. Archived from the original (PDF; 7.4 MB) on 22 October 2013. Retrieved 12 July 2017.
  5. Wolfgang Bublies, Edgar Mathe (1993). Augsburger Localbahn (in German). Augsburg-Haunstetten. p. 131.
  6. "Augsburg: weniger ICE ab Dezember 2006". Eisenbahn-Revue International (in German) (4): 158. 2006. ISSN 1421-2811.
  7. Ralph Seidel (2005). "Der Einfluss veränderter Rahmenbedingungen auf Netzgestalt und Frequenzen im Schienenpersonenfernverkehr Deutschlands". Dissertation of the University Leipzig (in German). Leipzig: 27.
  8. "FlixTrain startet größte Expansion seit Bestehen" (in German). Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  9. "Fahrplanauskunft für unsere Zugverbindungen" (in German). FlixMobility. Retrieved 17 January 2022.

References

  • Ernst Erhart (2000). Eisenbahnknoten Augsburg – Drehscheibe des Eisenbahnverkehrs (in German). Munich: GeraMond Verlag. ISBN 3-9327-8523-1.
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