Plauen (Vogtland) Oberer Bahnhof

Plauen (Vogtland) Upper station Plauen (Vogtland) Oberer Bahnhof
Through station
Trains of Vogtlandbahn in 2007 before electrification of Leipzig–Hof railway
Location	Rathenauplatz 2, 08525 Plauen Plauen,  Saxony Germany
Coordinates	50°30′19″N 12°07′48″E / 50.50528°N 12.13000°ECoordinates: 50°30′19″N 12°07′48″E / 50.50528°N 12.13000°E
Line(s)	Leipzig–Hof railway Plauen–Cheb railway
Platforms	3
Tracks	6
Construction
Architectural style	Functionalism
Other information
Station code	n/a
DS100 code	DP
Category	3
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	1848
Traffic
Passengers	1,400 per day[1]

Plauen (Vogtland) Oberer Bahnhof (Upper station) is the main station of Plauen in the German state of Saxony on the Leipzig–Hof line. It is the main hub of rail traffic in Vogtland. This station is maintained and operated by DB Station&Service.

History

Plauen station was opened in 1848. For three years from that time it was a terminus with a stagecoach connection to Plauen city and to Reichenbach station. In 1851 the continuous Leipzig–Reichenbach–Plauen–Hof line was completed. In 1874, the Oelsnitz–Cheb line was extended to Plauen. The following year the station was renamed as Plauen (Vogtland) Oberer Bahnhof, following the opening of the Elster Valley Railway with its own station, Plauen (Vogtland) Unterer Bahnhof (lower station).

In the Second World War, the historic station building was completely destroyed by bombing. In late 2006, the station’s mechanical interlocking was closed and the train dispatcher was removed, when the station track was integrated into the Leipzig electronic interlocking.

With the closure of Plauen lower station in December 2010, the city is planning to rename Plauen upper station as Plauen Hauptbahnhof.

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  Station building in 1975
• 
  Entrance hall in 1975

Operations

The station has six platforms and a goods yard, as well as a loading facility for timber.

The upper station seen from Bärensteinturm

Connections

Railway services

With Regional-Express services, there are daily direct connections to several major cities. Vogtlandbahn directly connects Plauen with almost all stations of the Vogtland district and other cities in Bavaria, Thuringia and Bohemian Vogtland. From June 2005 Vogtlandbahn operated the Vogtland-Express, the only direct service to Berlin, although as a rail service are now been suspended. Due to its function as a transport hub, the station is operated by Deutsche Bahn, which classifies it as a category 3 station.

The following lines stop in Plauen (Vogtland) Oberer Bahnhof:^[2]

Preceding station		Mitteldeutsche Regiobahn		Following station
Hof Hbf Terminus		RE 3		Reichenbach (Vogtl) ob Bf toward Dresden Hbf
Preceding station		Vogtlandbahn		Following station
Jößnitz toward Zwickau Zentrum		VB 2		Syrau toward Hof Hbf
Jößnitz toward Zwickau Zentrum		VB 2		Plauen West toward Cheb
Syrau toward Mehltheuer		VB 5		Jößnitz toward Kraslice

Local transport

The station is connected by buses and lines 1, 5 and 6 of Plauen tramways, which pass in front of the station. In addition, there is a taxi stand in front of the main station entrance.

Plauen tramways stop in front of the station building

Notes

1. "Bahnhof Plauen (Vogtl.) ob Bf." (in German). Deutsche Bahn. Retrieved 5 December 2010.
2. Timetables for Plauen (Vogtl) Oberer Bahnhof (German)

References

• Rettig, Wilfried (2001). Die Eisenbahnen im Vogtland - volume 1: Entwicklung, Hauptstrecken, Fahrzeuge, Bahnbetriebswerke und Hochbauten (in German). Freiburg: EK-Verlag. ISBN 3-88255-686-2.

External links

• Media related to Plauen (Vogtland) Oberer Bahnhof at Wikimedia Commons
• "Plauen (Vogtland) Oberer Bahnhof" (in German). Retrieved 5 December 2010.