# Gotha station

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**Gotha station** is the main station of [Gotha](/source/Gotha_(town)) in the [German state](/source/German_state) of [Thuringia](/source/Thuringia). It is served by [InterCity](/source/Intercity_(Deutsche_Bahn)) trains and every two hours by [Intercity-Express](/source/Intercity-Express) trains on the [Thuringian Railway](/source/Thuringian_Railway). Services on the [Gotha–Leinefelde line](/source/Gotha%E2%80%93Leinefelde_railway) to the north also serve the station. Passenger services on the Ohra Valley Railway (*Ohratalbahn*) to the south ended in December 2011.

## History

Gotha station was built [in 1847](/source/1847_in_Germany), when the local section of the Thuringian line was completed between [Halle](/source/Halle,_Saxony-Anhalt) and [Bebra](/source/Bebra). Gotha was at this time the provincial capital of [Saxe-Gotha](/source/Saxe-Gotha) and had 15,000 inhabitants. The station was built in a [neoclassical](/source/Neoclassical_architecture) style. In 1870 the second line was built, the [Gotha–Leinefelde railway](/source/Gotha%E2%80%93Leinefelde_railway) (Gotha via [Mühlhausen](/source/M%C3%BChlhausen) to [Leinefelde](/source/Leinefelde-Worbis), continuing to [Göttingen](/source/G%C3%B6ttingen)). The third and last line connecting to Gotha station was the Ohra Valley Railway opened in 1876 to [Ohrdruf](/source/Ohrdruf,_Thuringia) and to the line to Würzburg at [Gräfenroda](/source/Gr%C3%A4fenroda) in 1892 ([de](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahnstrecke_Gotha%E2%80%93Gr%C3%A4fenroda)).

In [1894](/source/1894_in_Germany) the [Gotha tramway](/source/Trams_in_Gotha) was opened. The station was the junction of several tram lines. In 1929, the Thuringian Forest Railway (*Thüringerwaldbahn*), an overland [interurban](/source/Interurban) tramway was opened from Gotha station, running across the city tramlines and continuing to [Bad Tabarz](/source/Bad_Tabarz) via [Waltershausen](/source/Waltershausen) and [Friedrichroda](/source/Friedrichroda). On 6 February 1945, three months before [VE day](/source/VE_day), a [USAAF](/source/USAAF) air strike hit the Reichsbahn premises, the passenger station, the Reichsbahn repair workshop (80% destroyed) and the adjacent city centre area.

In 2007, the station forecourt was completely restructured and the stop on the Thuringian Forest Railway was relocated.

## Services

The following services stopped at Gotha station in 2022.

Line Route Interval (mins) Operator Eisenach → Gotha → Erfurt → Halle → Berlin → Eberswalde → Stralsund → Binz One train DB Fernverkehr (Saarbrücken –) Wiesbaden – Frankfurt – Fulda – Eisenach – Gotha – Erfurt – Leipzig – Dresden 120 Frankfurt am Main – Hanau – Schlüchtern – Fulda – Hünfeld – Bad Hersfeld – Eisenach – Gotha – Erfurt 1 train pair Düsseldorf/Cologne – Kassel – Eisenach – Gotha – Erfurt – – – – Gera 2 train pairs Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe – – Eisenach – Gotha – Erfurt – – Jena – Gera 1 train pair Leipzig – Weimar – Erfurt – Gotha – Eisenach – Fulda – Hanau – Frankfurt am Main Some trains, relief trains (Fri, Sun) Cologne/Düsseldorf – Essen – Bochum – Dortmund – Kassel – Bebra – Gotha – Erfurt – Weimar – Leipzig Berlin Hbf – Berlin Südkreuz – Halle (Saale) – Erfurt – Gotha – Eisenach – Fulda – Frankfurt South – Darmstadt – Weinheim – Heidelberg – Stuttgart 1–2 train pairs daily style="text-align:center;" Göttingen – Leinefelde – Gotha – Erfurt – Jena-Göschwitz – Gera – Gößnitz – Glauchau (Sachs) 120 DB Regio Südost Eisenach – Gotha – Erfurt – Weimar – Apolda – Naumburg (Saale) – Weißenfels – Leipzig Hbf 60 Abellio Rail Mitteldeutschland Gotha – Gotha Ost – Bufleben – Ballstädt – Eckardtsleben – Bad Langensalza 120 DB Regio Südost

The Thuringian Forest Railway ([interurban](/source/Interurban) tramway to [Waltershausen](/source/Waltershausen)) runs from the forecourt.

## See also

- [Rail transport in Germany](/source/Rail_transport_in_Germany)
- [Railway stations in Germany](/source/Railway_stations_in_Germany)

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