Dortmund Hauptbahnhof

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
Line(s)	Duisburg–Dortmund Dortmund–Hamm Elberfeld–Dortmund Dortmund–Oberhausen/Duisburg Dortmund–Soest Dortmund–Enschede Dortmund–Iserlohn S-Bahn S 1 S 2 S 5
Platforms	16
Other information
Station code	1289
DS100 code	EDO
IBNR	8000080
Category	1
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	1847
Key dates
1910	rebuilt
1944	destroyed
1952	rebuilt
Traffic

Passengers	130,000 daily

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.

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).

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.

...
Wikipedia