Döbeln Hauptbahnhof is the largest station in

Döbeln Döbeln (; , ) is a town in Saxony, Germany, part of the Mittelsachsen district. It sits on the banks of the Freiberger Mulde, Freiberger Mulde river. Location and geography Döbeln is situated in the Central Saxon Hills, Central Saxon Hill co ...

in the German state of

Saxony Saxony, officially the Free State of Saxony, is a landlocked state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, and Bavaria, as well as the countries of Poland and the Czech Republic. Its capital is Dresden, and ...

. Now an unstaffed halt, it was built as a

Keilbahnhof ''Keilbahnhof'' (plural: ''Keilbahnhöfe''), literally "wedge railway station", is the German name for a railway station () in which the station is located between branching railway tracks.Ernst, Dr.-Ing. Richard (1989). ''Wörterbuch der Industr ...

("wedge-shaped station"). The station is listed by the rail authorities with the abbreviation of DDE. The diesel-worked Borsdorf–Coswig and electrified Riesa–Chemnitz lines cross in Döbeln Hbf. From 1884 to 1964 Döbeln Hbf was also the terminus of the 750 mm gauge railway from Oschatz.

History

Although Döbeln had already been connected to the Riesa-Chemnitz route since 1847 with the nearby Großbauchlitz station, this station was opened with the opening of the Döbeln–Leisnig section of the Borsdorf–Coswig railway 2 June 1868 as ''Station Döbeln'', which "interimistically" had only a "passenger entrance shed". On 25 October 1868, the ''Döbeln Ost'' (east) station came into operation on the route to Meißen, and Döbeln station received the designation of ''Hauptbahnhof'' (main or central station). Two years later, on 1 January 1870, the wedge-shaped station was completed under the direction of the departmental engineer Bassenge with the present entrance building, which resembles the then station building of Zwickau station. The simple, functional building contained rooms for a post office, police and railway staff with baggage handling and three waiting rooms for first, second and third class. From 1 November 1884, the Oschatz–Mügeln–Döbeln narrow gauge railway also connected Döbeln station with the

Wilsdruff Wilsdruff () is a town in the Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge, in Saxony, Germany, with 14,444 inhabitants (2020). It is situated 14 km west of Dresden centre. Kesselsdorf is one of its subdivisions. Near Wilsdruff there is a facility for ...

network (''Wilsdruffer Netz'') by means of a branch from Gärtitz. The station received platform canopies in 1886. Between 1892 and 1926 the Döbeln horse tramway (''Döbelner Straßenbahn'') connected the station and central Döbeln. Major changes to the station track layout resulted from extensions for locomotive and goods sheds in 1896. During the reconstruction in 1925 to plans by Mirus, the ground plan was only slightly modified. Passenger traffic on the narrow-gauge-line stopped on 15 December 1964.

Long distance and regional transport

Döbeln Hauptbahnhof is currently served by the following services:Timetables for Döbeln Hauptbahnhof

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Hauptbahnhof Central stations or central railway stations emerged in the second half of the nineteenth century as railway stations that had initially been built on the edge of city centres were enveloped by urban expansion and became an integral part of the ...

Buildings and structures in Mittelsachsen Railway stations in Germany opened in 1847 Railway stations in Germany opened in 1868