knowledge Overview
The Hauptbahnhof was completed on 4 December 1915 as a joint station of the Prussian and the Royal Saxon State Railways. With a built-over area of 83,640 m² it is the largest terminus station in Europe by area; the station hall is 298 m wide. Around 120,000 travellers and visitors use this Preisklasse 1 station daily.
Services
- Long-distance rail: ICE 11, ICE 28, ICE 50; plus IC lines (among others IC 55 to Cologne) and FlixTrain
- S-Bahn: Hub of the S-Bahn Mitteldeutschland — via the underground City Tunnel since 15 December 2013, served by lines S1–S6 and S5X
- Regional rail: RE and RB lines among others to Chemnitz, Cottbus, Magdeburg and Dresden
Station layout
The terminus has 23 tracks: 20 platform tracks in the great hall, two tracks in the underground City Tunnel and one museum station track. Since the conversion of the 1990s, the two halves of the hall each house a shopping centre (Promenaden Hauptbahnhof).