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| Location | Bahnhofsplatz 1,Hildesheim,Lower Saxony Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 52°9′38″N9°57′14″E / 52.16056°N 9.95389°E /52.16056; 9.95389 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Elevation | 87 m (285 ft) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Deutsche Bahn | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Platforms | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Station code | 2765[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| DS100 code | HHI[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| IBNR | 8000169 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Category | 2[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Website | www.bahnhof.de | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1846 (first station) 1884 (second station) 1961 (current station building) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Hildesheim Hauptbahnhof (German forHildesheim Central Station) is the mainrailway station for the city ofHildesheim inLower Saxony,Germany. The station opened in 1961 and is located on theLehrte–Nordstemmen,Hildesheim–Brunswick andHildesheim–Goslar railway. The train services are operated byDB Fernverkehr,Erixx,Metronom andNordWestBahn.
The first Hildesheim station was opened by theRoyal Hanoverian State Railways as the terminus of theLehrte–Nordstemmen line—the southern arm of itsCross railway—on 12 July 1846 to the north of the present Kaiserstraße, near the current Bahnhofsallee. After the opening of theHanoverian Southern Railway the Cross railway was extended on 15 September 1853 to Nordstemmen Station on the Southern Railway. The reception building of the first Hildesheim railway station was a half-timbered building with a slate roof.[5]
TheHanover-Altenbeken Railway Company (German:Hannover-Altenbekener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, HAE) was planning to build a rail line from Löhne to Vienenburg, through Hildesheim. Since it became insolvent before the completion of the line,Magdeburg-Halberstädt Railway Company (German:Magdeburg-Halberstädter Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, MHE) took over the construction of the line as well as the management of the HAE. It opened the line from Hildesheim to Vienenburg on 19 May 1875 and on 1 May 1883 theBrunswick Railway (German:Braunschweigischen Eisenbahn) opened a branch to Goslar, now part of theHildesheim–Goslar line.
For the additional traffic the HAE built a second track from Nordstemmen to Hildesheim, but at first it had to build a temporary station, the currentHildesheim Ost station, because it was not allowed to use the existing station. Only after the nationalisation of the HAE and its parent the MHE did trains begin to stop at the main railway station on 20 May 1880.
Even without the additional traffic the original station was already too small, and so, after long negotiations with the city it was agreed to build a new station further north. On 4 May 1884,[5] the new station was opened to a design by Hubert Stier in aneo-renaissance style. The old station building was taken apart and rebuilt asDissen-Bad Rothenfelde station, which still stands. In 1888, the single-trackline to Brunswick was opened for long-distance trains running east toMagdeburg andBerlin.
Although the station building was only slightly damaged in the bombing of Hildesheim on 22 March 1945, it was demolished in 1959. In 1961 the station received a new station building in the functional style of the time. The buildings on its island platform were then removed.
The Nordstemmen–Lehrte line was electrified on 29 May 1965 and the line to Brunswick has been worked by electric trains since 30 May 1976. TheHanover–Würzburg high-speed line was connected to Hildesheim by theHildesheim loop in 1991. Since December 2008, Hildesheim Hauptbahnhof is located on the network of theHanover S-Bahn. S-Bahn trains leave every hour forHannover Hauptbahnhof via both Barnten and Sarstedt (S4) and Lehrte (S3). In preparation the platforms of tracks 4/5 and 6/7 were completely renovated in 2008.
The lobby of the Train station was renovated from 2013 to 2016. The original completion was mid 2015, but the renovation caused many problems and was moved to mid 2016.
The station is served by the following services:
| Line | Route | Frequency |
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| ICE 12 | Berlin Ostbahnhof –Hildesheim – Göttingen – Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe – Frankfurt (Main) – Mannheim –Freiburg –Basel (–Interlaken) | Every two hours |
| ICE 13 | Berlin Ostbahnhof –Braunschweig –Hildesheim –Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe –Frankfurt Süd –Frankfurt Airport | Every two hours |
| Line | Route | Interval (min) | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|
| RE 10 | Hannover –Hildesheim –Salzgitter-Ringelheim –Goslar –Bad Harzburg | 60 | erixx |
| RE 50 | Hildesheim –Braunschweig –Wolfsburg | 60 | metronom |
| RB 77 | Hildesheim –Hamelin –Löhne –Herford | 60 | Regionalverkehre Start Deutschland |
| RB 79 | Hildesheim – Bad Salzdetfurth – Bodenburg | 60 | Regionalverkehre Start Deutschland |
Since December 2008, Hildesheim Hauptbahnhof has been connected to theHannover S-Bahn. Hourly S-Bahn trains run toHannover Hauptbahnhof both via Barnten and Sarstedt (S4) and via Lehrte (S3). The platforms of tracks 4/5 and 6/7 were completely rebuilt in 2008 in preparation.
| Line | Route | Interval (min) |
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| S 3 | Hildesheim –Sehnde –Lehrte – Hannover | 60 |
| S 4 | Hildesheim –Sarstedt –Hannover Messe/Laatzen – Hannover –Langenhagen –Bennemühlen | 60 |
