Mühlhausen (Thür) station is a passenger station in the Unstrut-Hainich district and the only station in Mühlhausen in the German state of

Thuringia Thuringia (; german: Thüringen ), officially the Free State of Thuringia ( ), is a state of central Germany, covering , the sixth smallest of the sixteen German states. It has a population of about 2.1 million. Erfurt is the capital and lar ...

. It is located east of the centre of Mühlhausen in the valley of the

Unstrut The Unstrut () is a river in Germany and a left tributary of the Saale. The Unstrut originates in northern Thuringia near Dingelstädt (west of Kefferhausen in the Eichsfeld area) and its catchment area is the whole of the Thuringian Basin. ...

History

Mühlhausen was connected to a railway the first time in 1870 with the opening of the Gotha–Leinefelde line of the

Thuringian Railway Company The Thuringian Railway Company (german: Thüringische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft) was a company that existed from 1844 to 1886 for the construction of railways in the Thuringian states. History The ''Thuringian Railway Company'' was founded in 1844 a ...

(german: Thüringische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft). A junction station was added to the existing through station in 1897 for the opening of the light railway to Ebeleben by the Mühlhausen-Ebeleben Railway Company (''Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft Mühlhausen-Ebeleben'', MEE). The Mühlhausen Tramway opened its first line from the station forecourt in 1898. The station was rebuilt with the opening of the line to Treffurt in 1911 and the MEE station was integrated with the former Thuringian Railway Company station, by then part of the

Prussian state railways The term Prussian state railways (German: ''Preußische Staatseisenbahnen'') encompasses those railway organisations that were owned or managed by the State of Prussia. The words "state railways" are not capitalized because Prussia did not have a ...

. In 1969 the tramway was shut down and in the same year freight transport also ended on the last remaining remnant of the line to Treffurt, which was partly closed after the

Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposi ...

due to the establishment of the Inner German border Treffurt. Freight services to Ebeleben were closed in 1994 and passenger services ended on 31 May 1997 so that Mühlhausen’s period as a junction station came to an end after 100 years. Since 2000, the station has had no major freight traffic and many of the former freight tracks have been removed.

Operations

In the 2016 timetable Mühlhausen (Thür) station was served by the following lines: * RE 1: Göttingen – Leinefelde – Mühlhausen – Gotha – Erfurt – Gera – Glauchau (Sachs) (every 120 minutes) * RE 2: Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe – Leinefelde – Mühlhausen – Erfurt (every 120 minutes) * RB 52: Leinefelde – Mühlhausen – Bad Langensalza – Erfurt (every 120 minutes)

External links

{{DEFAULTSORT:Muhlhausen (Thur) Station Railway stations in Thuringia Mühlhausen Buildings and structures in Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis Railway stations in Germany opened in 1870