Donauwörth station
Donauwörth station is a railway station in southern Germany. It is located south-west of the city of Donauwörth in Bavaria. The station is at the intersection of the Nuremberg–Augsburg line and the Danube Valley Railway from Ulm to Regensburg. The Ries Railway also runs from Donauwörth to Aalen.
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| Location | Bahnhofstr. 34, Donauwörth, Bavaria Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 48°42′52″N 10°46′18″E | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Deutsche Bahn | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Operated by | DB Station&Service | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Platforms | 7 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Station code | 1265[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| DS100 code | MDT[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| IBNR | 8000078 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Category | 4[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Website | www.bahnhof.de | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 15 November 1877 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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History
The first train ran to Donauwörth in 1847. The station was located at that time in an area now occupied by a street called Promenade, one kilometre closer to the city centre than the present station. In 1861, a railway siding was built from this station to serve steam shipping on the Danube in the area of the modern Zirgesheimer Straße. The station was located directly next to a former 125 metre long railway tunnel. The tunnel is now usable by pedestrians and cyclists. During the Second World War, it was used for the manufacture of war munitions.[4][5]
The railway from Neuoffingen to Regensburg was opened in 1877. This crossed the existing line to Augsburg in Donauwörth. Therefore, the present Donauwörth station was built, from 1874 to 1877, in the southwest of the city and it was opened on 15 November 1877. In the Second World War Donauwörth station was destroyed in air attacks on 11 and 19 April 1945. It was reconstructed from 1948 to 1953.[6] In 2001, the station forecourt was redesigned as a bus station.
Operations
Long distance
The Donauwörth station is served several times daily by Intercity-Express and InterCity services on the line from Munich via Nuremberg and Berlin to Hamburg. Furthermore, there are numerous services to Munich. On Sundays there is an InterCity service to Flensburg via Donauwörth.
| Line | Route | Frequency | ||
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| ICE 18 | Kiel – | Hamburg – Berlin – Halle – Erfurt – Nuremberg – Donauwörth – Augsburg – Munich | Individual services | |
| Hamburg-Altona – | ||||
| ICE 25 | Oldenburg – Bremen – | Hamburg – Hannover – Göttingen – Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe – Würzburg – Donauwörth – Augsburg – Munich | Individual services | |
| Lübeck – | ||||
| Hamburg-Altona – | ||||
| ICE 28 | Berlin – Leipzig – Erfurt – Nuremberg – Donauwörth – Augsburg – Munich | Individual services | ||
| IC 26 | Flensburg – | Hamburg – Hannover – Göttingen – Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe – Würzburg – Donauwörth – Augsburg – | Munich | Individual services |
| Munich – Rosenheim – Kufstein – Wörgl – Kitzbühel – Hochfilzen – Saalfelden – Zell am See – Schwarzach-St. Veit | One train pair per week | |||
| Hamburg-Altona – | ||||
| München Ost – Berchtesgaden | One train pair | |||
| Oberstdorf | ||||
Regional services
In Donauwörth, Regionalbahn services intersect on the Ries Railway to Aalen, the Danube Valley Railway from Ulm to Regensburg and the line from Augsburg to Nuremberg. Since the commissioning of the high-speed line from Munich to Nuremberg via Ingolstadt some Intercity-Express services have been discontinued and replaced by Regional-Express services, creating a direct connection to Nuremberg. In the opposite direction the Allgäu-Franken-Express creates a through service to Lindau and Oberstdorf. The long-planned Fugger-Express was introduced on the Munich–Augsburg–Donauwörth–Aalen route at the timetable change on 13 December 2009. This means that almost all regional services to Augsburg continue to Munich.[7]
| Line | Route |
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| RE | Munich – Augsburg – Donauwörth – Treuchtlingen |
| RE/RB | Munich – Augsburg – Donauwörth |
| RE | Augsburg – Donauwörth – Treuchtlingen – Nuremberg |
| RE | Mosbach-Neckarelz – Heidelberg – Stuttgart – Göppingen – Ulm – Neu-Ulm – Donauwörth |
| RB | Ulm – Neu-Ulm – Günzburg – Donauwörth – Ingolstadt |
| RB | Aalen – Nördlingen – Donauwörth |
Facilities
The station has a ticket office, Service Store, book store and waiting room. Next to the station there is a car park for rail passengers and bike racks.
Project
The city of Donauwörth seeks to modernise and improve the accessibility of the station by the installation of lifts on all platforms. This is estimated to cost €3.2 to 3.7 million and sources of finance are not yet clear. Another project that has long been pursued, however, is the extension of the railway underpass to the south side of the station on Industriestraße. This would improve access to the Eurocopter plant.[8]
Notes
- "Stationspreisliste 2020" [Station price list 2020] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 4 November 2019. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
- Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
- "Tarifzonenplan Verbundraum" (PDF). Augsburger Verkehrs- und Tarifverbund. January 2020. Retrieved 2 March 2020.
- "Geschichte der Stadt Donauwörth" (in German). Stadt Donauwörth. Archived from the original on 29 September 2010. Retrieved 19 April 2011.
- "Donauwörther Tunnel". Tunnelportale (in German). Lothar Brill. Retrieved 19 April 2011.
- "Geschichte des Bahnhof Donauwörth" (in German). Bahn-in-Nordschwaben.de. Retrieved 19 April 2011.
- Angela Effenberger (15 December 2009). "Auf der Schiene läuft's nach Plan" (in German). Augsburger Allgemeine. Archived from the original on 3 August 2012. Retrieved 19 April 2011.
- "Aufzüge im Bahnhof kosten mindestens 3,2 Millionen Euro" (in German). Augsburger Allgemeine. 10 December 2008. Retrieved 19 April 2011.
External links
- "Track plan" (PDF, 307 kB) (in German). Deutsche Bahn. Retrieved 19 April 2011.
- "Fact sheet". Stationsdatenbank (in German). Retrieved 19 April 2011.