Gotha station is the main station of Gotha in the German state of Thuringia. It is served by InterCity trains and every two hours by Intercity-Express trains on the Thuringian Railway. Services on the Gotha–Leinefelde line to the north also serve the station. Passenger services on the Ohra Valley Railway (Ohratalbahn) to the south ended in December 2011.

Gotha
Deutsche Bahn
Through station
Entrance building in 2020
General information
LocationBahnhofstr. 13, Gotha, Thuringia
Germany
Coordinates50°56′21″N 10°42′50″E / 50.93917°N 10.71389°E / 50.93917; 10.71389
Owned byDeutsche Bahn
Operated byDB InfraGO
Line(s)
Platforms5
Construction
Architectural styleNeoclassical
Other information
Station code2209[1]
DS100 codeUGO[2]
IBNR8010136
Category3[1]
Fare zoneVMT
Websitewww.bahnhof.de
History
Opened1847
Passengers
ca. 4000
Services
Preceding station DB Fernverkehr Following station
Eisenach
One-way operation
ICE 11 Erfurt Hbf
towards Leipzig Hbf
ICE 15 Erfurt Hbf
ICE 18 Erfurt Hbf
Eisenach
towards Dresden Hbf
ICE 50 Erfurt Hbf
Eisenach IC 51 Erfurt Hbf
towards Gera Hbf
Preceding station Following station
Erfurt Hbf
towards Berlin Hbf
FLX 10 Eisenach
Preceding station DB Regio Südost Following station
Bad Langensalza
towards Göttingen
RE 1 Neudietendorf
Gotha Ost RB 53 Terminus
Preceding station Abellio Rail Mitteldeutschland Following station
Fröttstädt
towards Eisenach
RB 20 Seebergen
towards Leipzig Hbf
Location
Gotha is located in Thuringia
Gotha
Gotha
Location within Thuringia
Gotha is located in Germany
Gotha
Gotha
Location within Germany
Gotha is located in Europe
Gotha
Gotha
Location within Europe

History

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Gotha station was built in 1847, when the local section of the Thuringian line was completed between Halle and Bebra. Gotha was at this time the provincial capital of Saxe-Gotha and already had 15,000 inhabitants. Accordingly, the station was built in a neoclassical style. In 1870 the second line was built from Gotha, running via Mühlhausen to Leinefelde (continuing to Göttingen). The third and last line connecting to Gotha station was the Ohra Valley Railway opened in 1876 to Ohrdruf and to the line to Würzburg at Gräfenroda in 1892.

In 1894 the Gotha tramway was opened. The station was the junction of several tram lines. In 1929, the Thuringian Forest Railway (Thüringerwaldbahn), an overland interurban tramway was opened from Gotha station, running across the city tramlines and continuing to Bad Tabarz via Waltershausen and Friedrichroda. In the Second World War the central section and west wing of the station were destroyed in air strikes; the east wing and the entrance area survived. Some of it still has not been repaired.

In 2007, the station forecourt was completely restructured and the stop on the Thuringian Forest Railway was relocated.

Services

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The following services stopped at Gotha station in 2022.

Line Route Interval (mins) Operator
ICE 11 MunichStuttgartMannheimFrankfurtGothaErfurtLeipzig One train DB Fernverkehr
ICE 50 (Saarbrücken –) WiesbadenFrankfurtFuldaEisenachGothaErfurtLeipzigDresden 120
IC 51 Frankfurt am Main – Hanau – Schlüchtern – Fulda – Hünfeld – Bad Hersfeld – Eisenach – GothaErfurt 1 train pair
Düsseldorf/CologneKassel – Eisenach – Gotha – Erfurt – WeimarJena WestJena-GöschwitzGera 2 train pairs
Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe – Bebra – Eisenach – Gotha – Erfurt – Weimar – Jena – Gera 1 train pair
Leipzig – Weimar – Erfurt – Gotha – Eisenach – Fulda – Hanau – Frankfurt am Main Some trains,

relief trains (Fri, Sun)

Cologne/Düsseldorf – EssenBochumDortmund – Kassel – Bebra – Gotha – Erfurt – Weimar – Leipzig
FLX 10 Berlin Hbf – Berlin Südkreuz – Halle (Saale) – Erfurt – Gotha – Eisenach – Fulda – Frankfurt South – Darmstadt – Weinheim – Heidelberg – Stuttgart 1–2 train pairs daily
RE 1 GöttingenLeinefeldeGothaErfurt – Jena-Göschwitz – GeraGößnitzGlauchau (Sachs) 120 DB Regio Südost
RB 20 EisenachGotha – Erfurt – WeimarApoldaNaumburg (Saale)Weißenfels – Leipzig Hbf 60 Abellio Rail Mitteldeutschland
RB 53 Gotha – Gotha Ost – BuflebenBallstädtEckardtslebenBad Langensalza 120 DB Regio Südost

The Thuringian Forest Railway (interurban tramway to Waltershausen) runs from the forecourt.

References

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  1. ^ a b "Stationspreisliste 2024" [Station price list 2024] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 24 April 2023. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
  2. ^ Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.