Gotha station

Platforms5ConstructionArchitectural styleNeoclassicalOther informationStation code2209^[1]DS100 codeUGO^[2]IBNR8010136Category3^[1]Fare zoneVMTWebsitewww.bahnhof.deHistoryOpened1847Passengersca. 4000 Services

Preceding station	DB Fernverkehr			Following station
Eisenach One-way operation		ICE 11		Erfurt Hbf towards Leipzig Hbf
		ICE 15		Erfurt Hbf towards Ostseebad Binz
		ICE 18		Erfurt Hbf towards Hamburg-Altona
Eisenach towards Dresden Hbf		ICE 50		Erfurt Hbf towards Wiesbaden Hbf
Eisenach towards Frankfurt (Main) Hbf		IC 51		Erfurt Hbf towards Gera Hbf
Preceding station				Following station
Erfurt Hbf towards Berlin Hbf		FLX 10		Eisenach towards Stuttgart Hbf
Preceding station	DB Regio Südost			Following station
Bad Langensalza towards Göttingen		RE 1		Neudietendorf towards Glauchau (Sachs)
Gotha Ost towards Bad Langensalza		RB 53		Terminus
Preceding station	Abellio Rail Mitteldeutschland			Following station
Fröttstädt towards Eisenach		RB 20		Seebergen towards Leipzig Hbf

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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.

History

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

The following services stopped at Gotha station in 2022.

Line	Route	Interval (mins)	Operator
ICE 11	Munich – Stuttgart – Mannheim – Frankfurt – Gotha – Erfurt – Leipzig	One train	DB Fernverkehr
ICE 50	(Saarbrücken –) Wiesbaden – Frankfurt – Fulda – Eisenach – Gotha – Erfurt – Leipzig – Dresden	120
IC 51	Frankfurt am Main – Hanau – Schlüchtern – Fulda – Hünfeld – Bad Hersfeld – Eisenach – Gotha – Erfurt	1 train pair
	Düsseldorf/Cologne – Kassel – Eisenach – Gotha – Erfurt – Weimar – Jena West – Jena-Göschwitz – Gera	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 – Essen – Bochum – Dortmund – 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	Göttingen – Leinefelde – Gotha – Erfurt – Jena-Göschwitz – Gera – Gößnitz – Glauchau (Sachs)	120	DB Regio Südost
RB 20	Eisenach – Gotha – Erfurt – Weimar – Apolda – Naumburg (Saale) – Weißenfels – Leipzig Hbf	60	Abellio Rail Mitteldeutschland
RB 53	Gotha – Gotha Ost – Bufleben – Ballstädt – Eckardtsleben – Bad Langensalza	120	DB Regio Südost

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

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