Emden Hauptbahnhof is the main station in

Emden Emden () is an independent city and seaport in Lower Saxony in the northwest of Germany, on the river Ems. It is the main city of the region of East Frisia and, in 2011, had a total population of 51,528. History The exact founding date of E ...

in the German state of

Lower Saxony Lower Saxony (german: Niedersachsen ; nds, Neddersassen; stq, Läichsaksen) is a German state (') in northwestern Germany. It is the second-largest state by land area, with , and fourth-largest in population (8 million in 2021) among the 16 ...

. It is the terminus of the

Emsland Railway The Emsland line (German: is a railway from Rheine via Salzbergen, Lingen, Meppen, Lathen, Papenburg and Leer to Emden, continuing to Norden and Norddeich-Mole in East Frisia in the German state of Lower Saxony. The line is named after the Ems r ...

, connecting Emden with

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and the

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and the starting point of the East Frisian coastal railway from Emden to

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and Norddeich, both of which are electrified. It is also connected to the city’s second busiest station of Emden Außenhafen (outer harbour) by a line that has been electrified since 2006.

History

Emden Hauptbahnhof was opened in 1971 and is a grey concrete building, as was in vogue then. Because of Emden’s water-logged foundations, the platforms are not reached by a pedestrian tunnel, but via a flyover. Until 1971, the main station in Emden was about two kilometres further east, now better known as Emden Süd (south) station. The station which is now the location of the Hauptbahnhof was called West Emden from 1935, before that it was called Larrelter Straße. Beside it was the Emden station of metre gauge line of the

Emden-Pewsum-Greetsiel Light Railway The Emden-Pewsum-Greetsiel light railway (german: Kreisbahn Emden-Pewsum-Greetsiel) was originally a private railway operated by the district of Emden in East Frisia in North Germany. In 1932 the district was absorbed into the district of Norden. ...

. The last buildings and tracks of Emden Süd station have now been demolished and replaced by a new residential district.

Train services

Every day,

InterCity InterCity (commonly abbreviated ''IC'' on timetables and tickets) is the classification applied to certain long-distance passenger train services in Europe. Such trains (in contrast to regional, local, or commuter trains) generally call at m ...

trains run in the direction of

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(via

, the

and

Cologne Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western States of Germany, state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the List of cities in Germany by population, fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 m ...

) and to

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and

Leipzig Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as wel ...

(via

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and

Hanover Hanover (; german: Hannover ; nds, Hannober) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Lower Saxony. Its 535,932 (2021) inhabitants make it the 13th-largest city in Germany as well as the fourth-largest city in Northern Germany ...

). Regional services run to Münster and via

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and Bremen to Hanover. Some of those trains that terminate in Emden, run to Emden Außenhafen and are timed to connect with the ferries to

Borkum Borkum ( nds, Borkum, Börkum) is an island and a municipality in the Leer District in Lower Saxony, northwestern Germany. It is situated east of Rottumeroog and west of Juist. Geography Borkum is bordered to the west by the Westerems strait ...

. The others terminate at the Hauptbahnhof. The station is served by the following service(s):Timetables for Emden Hbf station
*Intercity services (IC/EC ) ''Norddeich - Emden - Münster - Düsseldorf - Köln - Bonn - Koblenz - Mainz - Mannheim - Stuttgart'' *Intercity services (IC ) ''Norddeich - Emden - Münster - Düsseldorf - Köln - Bonn - Koblenz - Mainz - Mannheim - Karlsruhe - Konstanz'' *Intercity services (IC ) ''Norddeich - Emden - Bremen - Hanover - Braunschweig - Magdeburg - Leipzig'' *Regional services ''Norddeich - Emden - Leer - Oldenburg - Bremen - Nienburg - Hanover'' *Regional services ''Emden - Leer - Lingen (Ems) - Rheine - Münster''

References

{{reflist, 30em Railway stations in Lower Saxony Buildings and structures in Emden Railway stations in Germany opened in 1971