postgres Opened in 1859, Cologne Hauptbahnhof lies right next to the cathedral, has 11 tracks and, with around 350,000 travellers daily, is one of Germany's busiest stations. /en/places/de-koeln-hbf/history.html place_de_koeln_hbf place de-koeln-hbf

Opened in 1859, Cologne Hauptbahnhof lies right next to the cathedral, has 11 tracks and, with around 350,000 travellers daily, is one of Germany's busiest stations.

published category-transit tag-rail wikipedia https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%B6ln_Hauptbahnhof abgerufen 2026-10-28 2026-10-28T00:00:00+08:00 2026-10-28T00:00:00+08:00 user:admin 3 ## Overview The station was opened in 1859 as the "Centralbahnhof" together with the Dombrücke; today's station building opened in 1957 after wartime destruction. It is a through station in the immediate vicinity of Cologne Cathedral and belongs to Preisklasse 1. Around 350,000 travellers and visitors use the station daily, with about 1,200 train movements. ## Services - Long-distance rail: [[concept_ice_10|ICE 10]], [[concept_ice_42|ICE 42]], [[concept_ice_43|ICE 43]]; plus further ICE lines and ICE International/Thalys to Amsterdam, Brussels and Paris, IC/EC connections and ÖBB Nightjet - S-Bahn: Connected to the S-Bahn Rhein-Sieg network via tracks 10 and 11 - Regional rail: RE 1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 22 as well as several RB lines ## Station layout The station has 11 tracks (9 for long-distance and regional traffic and 2 S-Bahn tracks) at covered platforms. Two underground stops of the Cologne Stadtbahn — Dom/Hauptbahnhof and Breslauer Platz/Hauptbahnhof — serve the station from below. /places/de-koeln-hbf.html en zh en railway_station 50.9425 6.9581 Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland 1859 year 1859 en zh en place_kind Place kind railway_station admin_area Admin area Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland coordinates Coordinates 50.94250, 6.95810 established Established 1859 1 50 0 0