Ruhland station

Ruhland S
Junction station
Main building and station forecourt
Location	Ruhland, Brandenburg Germany
Coordinates	51°27′11″N 13°51′58″E / 51.453056°N 13.866111°E / 51.453056; 13.866111Coordinates: 51°27′11″N 13°51′58″E / 51.453056°N 13.866111°E / 51.453056; 13.866111
Line(s)	Großenhain–Cottbus Węgliniec–Roßlau BASF siding (formerly ZFE-Ruhland–Finsterwalde line)
Platforms	4
Other information
Station code	5422
DS100 code	BRU
Category	5
History
Opened	20 April 1870
Services
Preceding station   DB Regio   Following station Hosena toward Hoyerswerda RE 15 Ortrand toward Dresden Hbf Senftenberg toward Cottbus RE 18 Ortrand toward Dresden Hbf Preceding station   S-Bahn Mitteldeutschland   Following station Hosena toward Hoyerswerda S 4 Lauchhammer toward Wurzen

Ruhland station is located in the town of Ruhland in northwestern Upper Lusatia in the south of the German state of Brandenburg on the Großenhain–Cottbus railway and the Węgliniec–Roßlau railway. The station is a heritage-listed building.

The Cottbus-Großenhain Railway Company (Cottbus-Großenhainer Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft) was founded at the end of the 19th century by the railway financier Karl Eduard Zachariae von Lingenthal. Ruhland station began operations with the opening of the Großenhain–Cottbus railway on 20 April 1870. It became the administrative seat of the Upper Lusatian Railway Company (Oberlausitzer Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft), when it was established on 11 October 1871. The Upper Lusatian Railway opened the Kohlfurt (now Węgliniec)–Horka–Ruhland railway line on 1 June 1874. Ruhland became an important hub in the Prussian railway network. On 1 September 1883 the company and Ruhland station were taken over by the Prussian state. It operated direct trains to Magdeburg, Breslau (now Wrocław) in Lower Silesia, Dresden, Prague and Cottbus. Today, the station, which was once a hub of services between the Province of Lower Silesia, the Duchy of Anhalt and the Kingdom of Saxony, is only a stop for regional traffic.