Wetzlar station
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Wetzlar station
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Wetzlar station and forecourt
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| Location | Willy-Brandt-Platz 1, Wetzlar, Hesse Germany |
| Coordinates | 50°33′54″N 08°30′13″E / 50.56500°N 8.50361°ECoordinates: 50°33′54″N 08°30′13″E / 50.56500°N 8.50361°E |
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| Platforms | 5 |
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| Architectural style | Modern |
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| Station code | 6730 |
| DS100 code | FWR |
| IBNR | 8000383 |
| Category | 4 |
| Website | www.bahnhof.de |
Wetzlar station is a through railway station in the city of Wetzlar in the German state of Hesse. The station, which serves Deutsche Bahn's Dill and Lahn Valley lines, constitutes (together with the adjacent bus station) Wetzlar's most important public transport node.
The first Wetzlar station, built in 1862 in the district of Niedergirmes, was an "island station" (German: Inselbahnhof), with the main station building built between the tracks. This building still stands. The current station was originally completed in January 1917 in the Art Nouveau style, but it was demolished in 1981 and rebuilt in the Modern style.
The following services currently call at Wetzlar:
Wetzlar station has five platform tracks, served by Regionalbahn, Regional-Express, and EuroCity trains.
Trains operate through the following the platforms:
East of the passenger station in the district of Garbenheim is Wetzlar freight yard, which has been the most important facility of its kind in central Hesse since December 2006.
In the 1980s and before, there were many daily express services from Wetzlar Station to remote destinations such as Oberstdorf. In the early 1990s there were regular fast train connections at two-hour intervals to Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof and Münster Hauptbahnhof. From 1993, these services were replaced by Interregio line 22, Frankfurt–Münster. Once a day there was a direct Interregio connection from Wetzlar to Norddeich Mole (Norderney). The inter-regional trains on the Dill line were, however, gradually thinned out from 2001. More recently, in December 2002, the Norderney service was abolished.
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