Mühlhausen (Thür) station

Mühlhausen (Thür) station
Through station
Entrance building (street side)
Location	Mühlhausen, Thuringia Germany
Coordinates
Line(s)	former Ebeleben–Mühlhausen (25.60 km) Gotha–Leinefelde (39.9 km) former Mühlhausen–Treffurt (0.0 km)
Platforms	3
Other information
Station code	4207
DS100 code	UMH
Category	4
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	1870
Traffic
Passengers	ca. 1500

Mühlhausen (Thür) station is a well served passenger station in the Unstrut-Hainich district and the only station in Mühlhausen in the German state of Thuringia. It is located east of the centre of Mühlhausen in the valley of the Unstrut.

History

Mühlhausen was connected to a railway the first time in 1870 with the opening of the Gotha–Leinefelde line of the Thuringian Railway Company (German: Thüringische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft). A junction station was added to the existing through station in 1897 for the opening of the light railway to Ebeleben by the Mühlhausen-Ebeleben Railway Company (Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft Mühlhausen-Ebeleben, MEE). The Mühlhausen Tramway opened its first line from the station forecourt in 1898. The station was rebuilt with the opening of the line to Treffurt in 1911 and the MEE station was integrated with the former Thuringian Railway Company station, by then part of the Prussian state railways.

In 1969 the tramway was shut down and in the same year freight transport also ended on the last remaining remnant of the line to Treffurt, which was partly closed after the Second World War due to the establishment of the Inner German border Treffurt. Freight services to Ebeleben were closed in 1994 and passenger services ended on 31 May 1997 so that Mühlhausen’s period as a junction station came to an end after 100 years.

Since 2000, the station has had no major freight traffic and many of the former freight tracks have been demolished.

Operations

In the timetable of 2011, the following routes operate through the station:

• Regional-Express (RE) 1: Göttingen–Leinefelde–Mühlhausen–Gotha–Erfurt–Jena–Gera–Gößnitz–Chemnitz/Zwickau (every 120 minutes)
• EB 1: Erfurt–Kühnhausen–Bad Langensalza–Mühlhausen–Leinefelde–Eichenberg–Kassel (every 120 minutes)
• EB 1: Erfurt–Kühnhausen–Bad Langensalza–Mühlhausen–Leinefelde (additional trains in peak hours, Mon–Fri)

56 trains run daily (Mon–Fri), 45 run on weekend days. 27 trains run to Leinefelde each days. Thus Leinefelde station is main direct destination. There are an average of 26 direct services to Erfurt each day, 15 to Gotha, 8 each to Göttingen, Gera, Jena, 6 to Chemnitz and Zwickau and 6 to Kassel as well.

Preceding station		Deutsche Bahn		Following station
Leinefelde toward Göttingen		RE 1		Bad Langensalza toward Glauchau