Dessau Hauptbahnhof

Location
	Dessau Hauptbahnhof Location within Saxony-Anhalt Dessau Hauptbahnhof Location within Germany Dessau Hauptbahnhof Location within Europe

Dessau Hauptbahnhof
Dessau Hauptbahnhof
Through station
	Entrance hall of station (2022)
General information
Location	Fritz-Hesse-Str. 47, Dessau-Roßlau, Saxony-Anhalt; Germany
Coordinates	51°50′24″N 12°14′6″E / 51.84000°N 12.23500°E
Owned by	Deutsche Bahn
Operated by	DB Station&Service
Line(s)	Dessau–Leipzig; Biederitz–Dessau; Dessau–Wörlitz; Dessau–Köthen;
Platforms	6 + 1 side platform (DWE)
Train operators	Abellio Rail Mitteldeutschland; DB Regio Nordost; DB Regio Südost; Dessau-Wörlitzer Eisenbahn; S-Bahn Mitteldeutschland
Construction
Architectural style	Bauhaus
Other information
Station code	1173
DS100 code	LD
IBNR	8010077
Category	3
Fare zone	MDV: 270 (rail only)
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	1 September 1840; 183 years ago
Electrified	1911-1914; 1922-1946; 9 June 1958; 66 years ago
Services
Location
Location
	Dessau Hauptbahnhof Location within Saxony-Anhalt Dessau Hauptbahnhof Location within Germany Dessau Hauptbahnhof Location within Europe

Dessau Hauptbahnhof is the main passenger station in the city of Dessau-Roßlau in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt.

Location

The station is located to the south of the Elbe and to the west of central Dessau. It is a through station, orientated from the north-east to the south-west. Located on its south-eastern frontage is a stop for Dessau trams and buses operated by Dessauer Verkehrsgesellschaft, the city's public transport operator.

History

Dessau had an important role in rail transport from the early days of railways in Germany because of the crossing over the Elbe to its north. The first railway was opened on 1 September 1840 by the Berlin-Anhalt Railway Company. As early as 1911 the line to Bitterfeld was electrified experimentally. Because of the location of several industrial enterprises in the region, such as the Junkers aircraft factory, the railway was very important for rail freight.

In World War II, the station building was destroyed in an air raid on 7 March 1945 and was rebuilt up to 1952.

While the station was formerly a stop for InterRegio and Intercity trains, it is now almost exclusively served by regional transport as Dessau is not located on the busy Berlin–Halle and Magdeburg–Halle–Leipzig lines.

Between 2008 and 2011 a comprehensive renovation was carried out in the Roßlau/Dessau railway transport hub, including a major renovation of the track and overhead line equipment. The track plan of the station has been simplified, so that a speed of 160 km/h is now possible. On 5 December 2010, an electronic interlocking was brought into operation in Dessau.^[6]

On 13 December 2015, Dessau became a station on the network of the S-Bahn Mitteldeutschland, which connects it with Leipzig.

1951
2009
2010, rebuild of the station
2010, after rebuild

Connections

The station is used only by regional traffic. There have been no regular long-distance services since the opening of Berlin Hauptbahnhof in 2006. The Dessau-Wörlitz Railway is now a tourist railway and only operates during the summer season. The following services served the station in 2019, including IC services temporarily diverted from the Magdeburg–Halle line.

Line	Route	Interval	Operator
ICE 56	Oldenburg – Bremen – Hannover – Magdeburg – Dessau – Leipzig – Dresden	Some trains	DB Fernverkehr
IC 51	Berlin Ostbahnhof – Berlin – Potsdam – Dessau – Halle (Saale) – Leipzig – Weimar – Erfurt – Frankfurt	Some trains
IC 55	Dresden – Leipzig – Bitterfeld – Dessau – Magdeburg – Braunschweig – Hannover – Bielefeld – Dortmund – Cologne	Some trains
IC 56	Leipzig – Halle – Bitterfeld – Dessau – Magdeburg – Braunschweig – Hannover – Bremen – Oldenburg – Emden	Some trains
RE 3	Berlin – Ludwigsfelde – Lutherstadt Wittenberg – Dessau – Bitterfeld – Halle (Saale)	Some trains	DB Regio Nordost
RE 7	Dessau – Bad Belzig – Michendorf – Berlin – Rangsdorf – Wünsdorf-Waldstadt – Lübbenau – Senftenberg	060 (Mon–Fri) 120 (Sat–Sun)	DB Regio Nordost
RE 13	Magdeburg – Zerbst – Dessau – Bitterfeld – Delitzsch – Leipzig	060	DB Regio Südost
RE 14	Magdeburg – Zerbst – Dessau – Lutherstadt Wittenberg – Falkenberg (Elster)	Some trains	DB Regio Südost
RB 50	Dessau – Köthen – Bernburg – Güsten – Aschersleben	060 (Dessau–Güsten) 120 (Güsten–Aschersleben)	Abellio
RB 51	Dessau – Roßlau – Coswig – Lutherstadt Wittenberg	060	DB Regio Südost
S 2	Dessau – Bitterfeld – Delitzsch – Leipzig – Leipzig-Connewitz – Leipzig-Stötteritz	120
S 8	Dessau – Wolfen – Bitterfeld – Landsberg – Halle	120
DVE	Dessau – Oranienbaum – Wörlitz	090 (operates March–October)	DVE

In public transport the station is served by two tram and six bus routes. In addition all night bus routes start here.

Notes

^ ^a ^b "Stationspreisliste 2024" [Station price list 2024] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 24 April 2023. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
^ Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
^ "Tarifzonenplan" (PDF). Mitteldeutscher Verkehrsverbund. 1 August 2021. Retrieved 22 August 2021.
^ Since 1915 catenaries were dismantled to recover copper for war production.
^ From 1946 catenaries and overhead line masts were dismantled as Soviet war reparations.
^ DB ProjektBau GmbH (2010). Infrastrukturprojekte 2010. Bauen bei der Deutschen Bahn (in German). Hamburg: Eurailpress. pp. 68–81. ISBN 978-3-7771-0414-0.

References

Bley, Peter (1990). 150 Jahre Berlin-Anhaltische Eisenbahn (150 years of the Berlin-Anhalt railway) (in German). Düsseldorf: alba. ISBN 3-87094-340-8.