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# ICE 41 (Ruhr area – Munich)

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)](/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

更新时间：2026-10-28

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## 来源

- 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