Bremen Hauptbahnhof

Bremen Hauptbahnhof
Bf
Front of station hall
Location	Bremen, Free Hanseatic City of Bremen Germany
Coordinates	53°05′03″N 8°48′42″E / 53.08417°N 8.81167°E / 53.08417; 8.81167Coordinates: 53°05′03″N 8°48′42″E / 53.08417°N 8.81167°E / 53.08417; 8.81167
Line(s)	Wanne-Eickel–Hamburg line Bremen–Hanover line Oldenburg–Bremen line Bremen–Bremerhaven line Bremen-Vegesack–Bremen line
Platforms	9
Other information
Station code	855
DS100 code	HB
Category	2
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	1847
Electrified	1964
Key dates
1870	Rollbahn opened
1886	Current hall built

Bremen Hauptbahnhof (German for Bremen main station) is a railway station in the city of Bremen in northwestern Germany. It is the most important rail station for both the city and state of Bremen; InterCityExpress, Intercity, EuroCity, CityNightLine and DB NachtZug services call at the station, which is situated to the Northeast of the city centre. The train services are operated by Deutsche Bahn, NordWestBahn, Metronom and Erixx.

Bremen's first train station was opened in 1847 on the site of today's station, on the line to Hanover. Later, lines leading to Vegesack (Bremen-Vegesack–Bremen line), Bremerhaven (then Wesermünde, Bremen–Bremerhaven line), Oldenburg and Uelzen (Uelzen–Langwedel railway) were connected to the station. In 1870, the Köln-Mindener Eisenbahn, opening its Wanne-Eickel–Hamburg line (Rollbahn), built another station some hundred metres north of the old station, since the old station could not cope with the additional Rollbahn traffic. Eventually, it was decided that a single station would be better, and so today's station was built from 1886 to 1891 after plans by Hubert Stier, with sculptures by Diedrich Samuel Kropp and Carl Dopmeyer. In 1907, additional tracks were added. Whilst the station hall has been remodeled several times due to war damage and modernisation, its basic outline still resembles the original 1880s building.