Dresden Hauptbahnhof

Dresden Hbf
Dresden Hbf
	Aerial view of Dresden Hauptbahnhof (2006)
General information
Location	Wiener Platz 4, Seevorstadt, Dresden, Saxony; Germany
Coordinates	51°02′25″N 13°43′54″E / 51.04028°N 13.73167°E
Owned by	DB InfraGO
Line(s)	Děčín–Dresden-Neustadt railway; Pirna–Coswig railway; Dresden–Werdau railway;
Platforms	16
Construction
Accessible	Yes
Architect	Giese & Weidner; Arwed Rossbach (1892–1898); Norman Foster (2000–2006);
Architectural style	Historicism and modernism
Other information
Station code	1343
DS100 code	DH
IBNR	8010085
Category	1
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	23 April 1898
Passengers
	60,000 (daily)
Services
	Dresden-Neustadt towards Warnemünde
Location
Location

Dresden Hauptbahnhof ("main station", abbreviated Dresden Hbf) is the largest passenger station in the Saxon capital of Dresden. In 1898, it replaced the Böhmischen Bahnhof ("Bohemian station") of the former Saxon-Bohemian State Railway (Sächsisch-Böhmische Staatseisenbahn), and was designed with its formal layout as the central station of the city. The combination of a station building on an island between the tracks and a terminal station on two different levels is unique. The building is notable for its train-sheds, which are roofed with Teflon-coated glass fibre membranes. This translucent roof design, installed during the comprehensive restoration of the station at the beginning of the 21st century, allows more daylight to reach the concourses than was previously possible.

The station is connected by the Dresden railway node to the tracks of the Děčín–Dresden-Neustadt railway and the Dresden–Werdau railway (Saxon-Franconian trunk line), allowing traffic to run to the southeast towards Prague, Vienna and on to south-eastern Europe or to the southwest towards Chemnitz and Nuremberg. The connection of the routes to the north (Berlin), northwest (Leipzig) and east (Görlitz) does not take place at the station, but north of Dresden-Neustadt station (at least for passenger trains).