ICE 41 (Ruhr area – Munich)
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ICE line 41 runs hourly from Essen via Cologne, Frankfurt am Main, Würzburg and Nuremberg to Munich.

## Overview

ICE line 41 connects the Ruhr area hourly with Bavaria. It runs from Essen via Duisburg, Düsseldorf and Cologne, then via the Cologne–Rhine/Main high-speed line to Frankfurt am Main and via Würzburg and Nuremberg to Munich; individual trains begin or end in Dortmund. Trains of the ICE 3 series and the ICE 3 Velaro D (Class 406) are used. In Frankfurt the line calls only at the airport long-distance station and the main station.

## Operator

The operator is [DB Fernverkehr (DB Long-Distance Transport)](https://knowledge.ivjn.us/en/organizations/db-fernverkehr.html).


## History

Line 41 originally ran from Essen via Frankfurt South station to Nuremberg. With the commissioning of the Nuremberg–Ingolstadt high-speed line (2006) it was extended to Munich via the new-build high-speed line. Between Hanau and Frankfurt it operates on the densest ICE interval in Germany.
## Major stations

The line serves, among others, the following stations:

- Essen Hbf
- Duisburg Hbf
- Düsseldorf Hbf
- Köln Hbf
- Siegburg/Bonn
- Frankfurt (M) Flughafen Fernbahnhof
- Frankfurt (Main) Hbf
- Aschaffenburg Hbf
- Würzburg Hbf
- Nürnberg Hbf
- Ingolstadt Hbf
- München Hbf

## Further information

line_frequency: hourly

Updated: 2026-10-28

Tags:
- 铁路 https://knowledge.ivjn.us/en/tags/rail.html

Mentioned in:
- Düsseldorf Airport station https://knowledge.ivjn.us/en/places/de-duesseldorf-flughafen.html
- Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof https://knowledge.ivjn.us/en/places/de-duesseldorf-hbf.html
- Frankfurt Airport long-distance station https://knowledge.ivjn.us/en/places/de-frankfurt-flughafen-fernbahnhof.html
- Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof https://knowledge.ivjn.us/en/places/de-frankfurt-hbf.html
- Cologne/Bonn Airport station https://knowledge.ivjn.us/en/places/de-koeln-bonn-flughafen.html
- Munich Hauptbahnhof https://knowledge.ivjn.us/en/places/de-muenchen-hbf.html
- Nuremberg Hauptbahnhof https://knowledge.ivjn.us/en/places/de-nuernberg-hbf.html

Sources:
- ICE-Verkehr — Wikipedia https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICE-Verkehr Linientabelle; abgerufen 2026-10-28
- List of Intercity-Express lines — Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intercity-Express_lines Abschnitt Line 41; abgerufen 2026-10-28