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Dortmund Hauptbahnhof
Junction station
Location	Königswall 15, Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia Germany
Coordinates	51°31′3″N 7°27′32″E / 51.51750°N 7.45889°E / 51.51750; 7.45889Coordinates: 51°31′3″N 7°27′32″E / 51.51750°N 7.45889°E / 51.51750; 7.45889
Owned by	DB Netz
Operated by	DB Station&Service
Line(s)	Duisburg–Dortmund Dortmund–Hamm Elberfeld–Dortmund Dortmund–Oberhausen/Duisburg Dortmund–Soest Dortmund–Enschede Dortmund–Iserlohn S-Bahn S 1S 2S 5
Platforms	16
Train operators	DB Fernverkehr DB Regio NRW eurobahn NordWestBahn
Connections	S 1 S 2 S 5
Other information
Station code	1289[1]
DS100 code	EDO[2]
IBNR	8000080
Category	1[1]
Fare zone	Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	1847[3]
Key dates
1910	rebuilt
1944	destroyed
1952	rebuilt
Traffic
Passengers	130,000 daily[4]
Services
Preceding station   Thalys   Following station Essen Hbf toward Paris-Nord Thalys Terminus Preceding station   DB Fernverkehr   Following station Bochum Hbf towards Düsseldorf Hbf or Cologne/Bonn Airport ICE 10 Hamm (Westf) towards Berlin-Gesundbrunnen Hagen Hbf towards Munich Hbf ICE 31 train route splits here and rejoins in Köln Hbf Münster Hbf towards Kiel Hbf Bochum Hbf towards Munich Hbf Bochum Hbf towards Munich Hbf ICE 41 Terminus ICE 42 Münster Hbf towards Hamburg-Altona Hagen Hbf towards Basel SBB ICE 43 Hamm (Westf) towards Hannover Hbf Bochum Hbf towards Wien Hbf ICE 91 train route splits here and rejoins in Köln Hbf Terminus Hagen Hbf towards Wien Hbf Bochum Hbf towards Cologne Hbf IC 26 Köln-Hamburg Hamm Hbf towards Hamburg-Altona Bochum Hbf towards Chur IC/EC 30 Münster Hbf towards Ostseebad Binz or Seebad Heringshof Hagen Hbf towards Passau Hbf IC/EC 31 Münster Hbf towards Hamburg-Altona/Kiel Hbf/Puttgarden Bochum Hbf towards Innsbruck Hbf IC/EC 32 Hamm Hbf towards Berlin Südkreuz Bochum Hbf towards Cologne Hbf IC 51 Hamm Hbf towards Ostseebad Binz Hagen Hbf towards Cologne Hbf IC 55 Hamm Hbf towards Dresden Hbf Preceding station   DB Regio NRW   Following station Bochum Hbf toward Aachen Hbf RE 1 NRW-Express Dortmund-Scharnhorst toward Hamm Hbf Witten Hbf toward Aachen Hbf RE 4 Wupper-Express Terminus Bochum Hbf toward Cologne/Bonn Airport RE 6 Rhein-Weser-Express Kamen toward Minden Hbf Bochum Hbf toward Düsseldorf Hbf RE 11 Rhein-Hellweg-Express Kamen-Methler toward Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe Terminus RE 57 Dortmund-Sauerland-Express Dortmund-Hörde toward Winterberg and Brilon Stadt Dortmund-Kirchderne toward Enschede RB 51 Westmünsterland-Bahn Terminus Terminus RB 52 Volmetalbahn Dortmund Signal-Iduna-Park toward Lüdenscheid Terminus RB 53 Ardey-Bahn Dortmund Signal-Iduna-Park toward Iserlohn Preceding station   eurobahn   Following station Dortmund-Mengede toward Düsseldorf Hbf RE 3 Rhein-Emscher-Express Dortmund-Scharnhorst toward Hamm Hbf Dortmund-Kirchderne toward Münster Hbf RB 50 Der Lüner Terminus Terminus RB 59 Hellweg-Bahn Dortmund Signal-Iduna-Park toward Soest Preceding station   NordWestBahn   Following station Dortmund-Huckarde Nord toward Dorsten RB 43 Emschertal-Bahn Terminus Preceding station   Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn   Following station Dortmund-Dorstfeld toward Solingen Hbf S 1 Terminus Dortmund-Dorstfeld toward Duisburg Hbf, Essen Hbf or Recklinghausen Hbf S 2 Dortmund-Barop toward Hagen Hbf S 5
Location
Dortmund Hauptbahnhof Location within North Rhine-Westphalia

Dortmund Hauptbahnhof is the main railway station in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The station's origins lie in a joint station of the Köln-Mindener Eisenbahn and Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn which was built north of the city centre in 1847. That station was replaced by a new station, erected in 1910 at the current site. It featured raised embankments to allow a better flow of traffic. At the time of its opening, it was one of the largest stations in Germany. It was, however, destroyed in an Allied air raid on 6 October 1944.

The main station hall was rebuilt in the year 1952 in a contemporary style. Its stained glass windows feature then-common professions of Dortmund.

The station has over 600 departing trains on a typical weekday.^[5]

History

The original Dortmund station was built north of the city centre by the Cologne-Minden Railway Company (Cöln-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, CME) as part of its trunk line and opened on 15 May 1847. Two years later the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company (Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, BME) opened its station as a purely terminating station south of the existing station at the end of its main line to Elberfeld (now Wuppertal), its line to Soest (from 1855) and its Ruhr route to Duisburg and Oberhausen (from 1860).^{[citation needed]}

The original station building, which was built on an island between the tracks with its access from Burgtor, was replaced in 1910 by a new large building at its current location. The new station was opened on 12 December 1910. The tracks had been raised to remove the obstruction of road traffic at level crossings. This second Hauptbahnhof in Dortmund was one of the largest of the former German Empire when it opened. On 6 October 1944, it was destroyed in an Allied bombing raid.^{[citation needed]}

The entrance building of Dortmund Hauptbahnhof was replaced in 1952 by a functionalist building. It is regarded as architecturally insignificant, but it has significant stained glass windows on the theme of the former industrial specialisations of Dortmund. Five large stained glass windows document the Dortmund economy. In the middle one the city is shown, flanked to the left and right by a steelworker, a blast furnace worker, a brewer and a bridge builder. During the reconstruction of the station they were removed and the put on exhibition at the Hattingen Henrichshütte (a former steel works, which is partly used as a museum of industry). They were replaced with exact copies.^[6]

Dortmund Hauptbahnhof originally housed a movie theatre. The Live Station discothèque was established in this former cinema in 1986. In April 2009, the nightclub was closed in the course of preparations for the reconstruction.^{[citation needed]}

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  The original station in 1870
  

  
  

  
  


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  The new station of 1910
  

  
  

  
  


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  The station during the occupation of the Ruhr in September 1924
  

  
  

  
  

Reconstruction and rehabilitation

Dortmund Hauptbahnhof

Dortmund Hauptbahnhof from the RWE Tower

Thalys, Dortmund-Paris-North

The reconstruction of the Dortmund Hauptbahnhof has been under discussion since 1997. The original plan for a residential area in the form of an "oversized UFO" (80,000 square metres of usable space) was rejected. On 7 October 1998 a memorandum of understanding had been signed between Deutsche Bahn, the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and Westdeutsche Immobilien Bank. The Deutsche Mark (DM) 850 million project was to be completed by 2002.^[7]

After the plans for the so-called "Dortmund UFO" were dropped, a new investor was found in 2001 in the form of the Portuguese investment group Sonae Imobiliaria. The DM 1.2 billion project was to be completed by 2006 and new designs were commissioned from architectural firms in the first quarter of 2001.^[8] The new proposed development was called "3do" (3 Dortmund). € 75 million of federal and € 55 million of state funds were pledged. It was planned to have 36,000 square metres of retail and 26,500 square metres of entertainment space. On 3 February 2006, the Essen branch of the Federal Railway Authority (Eisenbahn-Bundesamt) approved the plans for "3do". On 28 February 2007, Deutsche Bahn announced that the investor was unwilling to commit to the project.^{[citation needed]}

Through plans for the reconstruction of the station have twice failed, Dortmund Hauptbahnhof suffers significantly from neglect. Only the terminating platforms (tracks 2–5) and the platform of S-Bahn lines S1 and S2 (tracks 6 and 7) have a lift.^{[citation needed]}

The reconstruction and rehabilitation of the Dortmund Hauptbahnhof began in summer 2009. In a first phase, the station building and related operational areas were gutted. During construction the ticket office and a restaurant of a fast-food chain were placed in containers outside the station. The federal police station and the Bahnhofsmission (a German charity focussed on railway stations) were also placed in containers on the north side. On 17 June 2011, the first phase was formally completed. Of the total cost of € 23 million, the federal government contributed € 13.3 million, the state € 1.4 million and the Deutsche Bahn € 8.3 million.^[9]

In a second phase, which begins in 2014 and will not be completed until 2017,^[10] the station tunnels and the entrances to the platforms will be renewed. Dortmund is one of the few big-city stations in Germany where access to the platforms has not yet made accessible for the disabled. In the course of these alterations the eastern access to the tunnel linking the station’s buildings and platforms will also be rebuilt. At the same time it is also intended that there will be improvements to facilitate the introduction of the Rhine-Ruhr Express (a planned upgrade to North Rhine-Westphalia’s Regional-Express network).^[11] This will require a comprehensive restructuring of the track layout in Dortmund Hauptbahnhof.

Services

Dortmund Hauptbahnhof is served by Thalys, Deutsche Bahn Intercity-Express and Intercity services.

Light rail

Underground platforms of Dortmund Stadtbahn

Light rail services are operated by the Dortmund Stadtbahn.

∗ U45 becomes at the station Westfalenhallen the line U46 and continues to Brunnenstraße. On match days of the Borussia Dortmund soccer club the line ends instead of the regular terminus Westfalenhallen at the Westfalenstadion station, which is only open on these occasions. In this case it does not continue as U46.^{[citation needed]}

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