Augsburg Hauptbahnhof

Railway station in Germany

Augsburg Hbf

The front of the station building

General information
Location| Viktoriastr. 1, Augsburg, Bavaria
Germany
Coordinates| 48°21′56″N 10°53′11″E﻿ / ﻿48.36556°N 10.88639°E﻿ / 48.36556; 10.88639
Owned by| Deutsche Bahn
Operated by|

* DB InfraGO

Line(s)|

* Augsburg–Lindau (KBS 971)
* Augsburg–Munich (KBS 980)
* Augsburg–Ulm (KBS 980)
* Augsburg–Nuremberg (KBS 910)
* Ingolstadt–Augsburg (KBS 983)

Platforms| 12
Construction
Accessible| Yes
Architect|

* Eduard Rüber
* Friedrich Bürklein (1869 reconstruction)

Architectural style| Neoclassical
Other information
Station code| 220[1]
DS100 code| MA[2]
IBNR| 8000013
Category| 2[1]
Fare zone| : 10[3]
Website|

* www.bahnhof.de
* stationsdatenbank.de

History
Opened| 1 July 1846; 179 years ago (1846-07-01)
Electrified| 15 May 1931; 94 years ago (1931-05-15)
Passengers
2006| < 50,000 daily[4]

Services

| Preceding station  |  DB Fernverkehr | Following station

|
|

Günzburg

towards Stuttgart Hbf

|  | ICE 2

Sprinter

|  | Munich Pasing

One-way operation

Günzburg

towards Warnemünde

|  | ICE 11 |  | Munich Pasing

towards Innsbruck Hbf

Donauwörth

towards Kiel Hbf or Leipzig Hbf

|  | ICE 18 |  | Munich-Pasing

towards München Hbf

Donauwörth

towards Nürnberg Hbf

|  | IC 18 |
Donauwörth

towards Hamburg-Altona

|  | ICE 24 |  | Munich-Pasing

towards München Hbf or Schwarzach-St.Veit

| IC 24

Königssee

|  | Munich-Pasing

towards Berchtesgaden Hbf

| IC 24

Nebelhorn

|  | Buchloe

towards Oberstdorf

Donauwörth

towards Berlin-Gesundbrunnen

|  | ICE 29

Sprinter

|  | München Hbf

Terminus

Ulm Hbf

towards Hamburg-Altona, Kiel Hbf or Dortmund Hbf

|  | ICE 42 |  | Munich Pasing

towards München Hbf

Ulm Hbf

towards Karlsruhe Hbf

|  | ICE 60 |  | München Hbf

towards München Hbf

Günzburg

towards Frankfurt (Main) Hbf

|  | ICE 62 |  | München Hbf

towards Klagenfurt Hbf

| IC 62 |  | München Hbf

towards Salzburg Hbf

Günzburg

towards Frankfurt (Main) Hbf or Saarbrücken Hbf

|  | EC 62 |  | München Hbf

towards Klagenfurt Hbf or Graz Hbf

Ulm Hbf

towards Amsterdam Centraal

|  | ICE 78 |  | München-Pasing

towards München Hbf

Ulm Hbf

towards Paris Est

|  | ICE/TGV 83 |  | München Hbf

towards München Hbf

Ulm Hbf

towards Stuttgart Hbf

|  | IC 87 |  | München-Pasing

towards Wien Hbf

Günzburg

towards Frankfurt (Main) Hbf

|  | ICE 89 |  | München Hbf

towards St. Anton am Arlberg

Günzburg

towards München Hbf

|  | ICE/RJX 90 |  | Munich Pasing

towards Budapest Keleti

Preceding station  |  ÖBB | Following station
Nürnberg Hbf

towards Amsterdam Centraal or Hamburg-Altona

|  | Nightjet |  | München Hbf

towards Innsbruck Hbf

Preceding station  |  DB Regio Bayern | Following station
Donauwörth

towards Nürnberg Hbf

|  | RE 7 |  | Buchloe

towards Lindau-Reutin

Augsburg-Oberhausen

towards Nürnberg Hbf

|  | RE 16 |  | Terminus
Donauwörth

towards Nürnberg Hbf

|  | RE 17 |  | Buchloe

towards Oberstdorf

Terminus |  | RE 71 |  | Augsburg Morellstraße

towards Memmingen

Buchloe

towards Memmingen

| RE 73 |  | Augsburg Morellstraße

towards Bad Wörishofen

Buchloe

towards Bad Wörishofen

| RE 79 |  | Bobingen

towards Kempten (Allgäu) Hbf

Preceding station  |  | Following station
Augsburg-Oberhausen

towards Ulm Hbf

|  | RE 9 |  | Augsburg Haunstetterstraße

towards München Hbf

Augsburg-Oberhausen

towards Würzburg Hbf

|  | RE 80 |
Augsburg-Oberhausen

towards Donauwörth

|  | RE 87

Limited service

|  | Terminus
Augsburg-Oberhausen

towards Aalen Hbf

|  | RE 89 |  | Augsburg Haunstetterstraße

towards München Hbf

Augsburg-Oberhausen

towards Ansbach

|  | RB 80

Limited service

|  | Terminus
Augsburg-Oberhausen

towards Dinkelscherben

|  | RB 86 |  | Augsburg Haunstetterstraße

towards München Hbf

Augsburg-Oberhausen

towards Donauwörth

|  | RB 87 |
Augsburg-Oberhausen

towards Aalen Hbf

|  | RB 89 |
Preceding station  |  | Following station
Terminus |  | RB 13 |  | Augsburg Haunstetterstraße

towards Ingolstadt Hbf

Augsburg-Oberhausen

Terminus

|  | RB 67 |  | Augsburg Haunstetterstraße

towards Schongau

Terminus |  | RB 69 |  | Augsburg Morellstraße

towards Landsberg (Lech)

| RB 77 |  | Augsburg Morellstraße

towards Füssen

Augsburg-Oberhausen

towards Gessertshausen

|  | RB 83 |  | Terminus
Preceding station  | Augsburg tram | Following station
Terminus |  | 3 |  | Königsplatz (Augsburg)

towards Königsbrunn Zentrum or WWK-Arena

| 4 |  | Königsplatz (Augsburg)

towards Oberhausen Nord P+R

Rosenaustraße

towards Stadtbergen

|  | 6 |  | Königsplatz (Augsburg)

towards Friedberg West P+R

Preceding station  | Croatian Railways | Following station
Ulm Hbf

towards Stuttgart Hbf

|  | EuroNight

|  | München Hbf

towards Zagreb

Location

Augsburg Hauptbahnhof is the main railway station in the Bavarian city of Augsburg, situated in southern Germany. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 2 station[1] and has 12 platform tracks.

The station has one of the oldest still existing station halls in Germany, which was built from 1843 to 1846 after plans by architect Eduard Rüber. It was reconstructed in 1869 according to Friedrich Bürklein's plans. The station today serves as the central railway hub for the Augsburg metropolitan area and Bavarian Swabia. It is currently being modernised and an underground tram station is being built under it.

## Structure

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Station sign

The first Augsburg station was opened in 1840 by the Munich-Augsburg Railway Company (München-Augsburger Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft) near the Rotes Tor (Red Gate). Its historic hall served in 1880 as a military riding school and since 1920 it has been part of the main workshop of the traffic branch of Stadtwerke Augsburg (Augsburg's municipal utility).[5] After the nationalisation of the line in 1846, the current station was built. Augsburg Hauptbahnhof is a through station with four central platforms (which each have two faces and are not accessible for the disabled), nine through tracks and six bay platform tracks (only three of which are in use). Platform 1 is located next to the station building and has one side.

### Station building

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The station building has three parts. The central block has a station hall with electronic displays, ticket machines, an information booth and waiting facilities. In one wing is the customer centre of Deutsche Bahn, including a ticket office. In the other wing there is a dining and shopping area and the station library.

The station from the south

The last major renovation and modernisation of the building was in 1983/84. In recent years, the food court in particular has been upgraded (completed in 2007) and a new digital display board has been installed in the main hall. Recently, the south wing was renovated, including the waiting area for travellers, and the hospitality facilities have continued to grow. Due to the construction of a new tramway station beyond the railway, the station building main wing is closed since 2017. It is filled up with supporting struts to avoid a collapse during the drill through of the tunnels.

The station from the north - in front: Augsburg-Oberhausen suburban railway station

### Station environment

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Directly in front of the building there was a large forecourt with a fountain, a parking lot, including a taxi rank, and a bus station for local buses. Since 2014 the square is used by the construction crew of the tramway tunnels. The fountain is put in storage until redesign of the square. The square is flanked on both sides by shopping centres: on the one hand there is the Helio-Quarter, which shall be opened in 2019, on the other, the Bohus-Center and the InterCityHotel.

West of the passenger station is the freight yard and the former marshalling yard, which is now hardly used. To the south was the former "internal loading area". Also in the southern part of the station building is the original central signalling centre inaugurated in May 1972.

## Operations

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### Long-distance services

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Augsburg station forms the end of one of the busiest long-distance lines in Germany, the Munich–Augsburg high speed line. Work on upgrading the line as a four-track high-speed line was completed in December 2011. Besides Intercity, EuroCity and CityNightLine services, Intercity-Express (ICE) trains run from Munich towards Stuttgart and Nuremberg.

With the opening of the Nuremberg–Ingolstadt–Munich high-speed line in June 2006 and its full integration into the German ICE network at the timetable change in December 2006, some of the ICE services—30 of 120 long-distance services then stopping in Augsburg[6]—were transferred from Augsburg to Ingolstadt.

In 2006, about 10,000 passengers per day were recorded on long-distance services in Augsburg. With 90 long-distance services stopping each day, it is the third most important station in Bavaria in terms of long-distance services.[6]

The following long-distance services stop in Augsburg:

Line  | Route  | Interval

|
|

ICE 11 | Hamburg-Altona – Hamburg – Berlin – Leipzig – Erfurt – Fulda – Frankfurt Hbf – Mannheim – Stuttgart – Ulm – Augsburg – Munich | Every 2 hours
Wiesbaden – Mainz – Mannheim – Stuttgart – Augsburg – Munich  | Some trains
ICE 18 | Hamburg-Altona – Hamburg – Berlin – Halle – Bamberg – Erfurt – Nuremberg – Augsburg – Munich
ICE 24 | Hamburg-Altona – Hamburg – Hannover – Göttingen – Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe – Würzburg – Donauwörth – Augsburg – Munich (– Rosenheim – Wörgl – Schwarzach-St. Veit)
IC 24 | Hamburg-Altona – Hamburg – Hannover – Göttingen – Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe – Würzburg – Donauwörth – Augsburg – München Ost – Berchtesgaden | 1 train pair
ICE 29 | Berlin-Gesundbrunnen – Halle (Saale) – Erfurt – Coburg – Nuremberg – Donauwörth – Augsburg – Munich  | 2 train pairs
ICE 42 | Hamburg-Altona – | Hamburg – Bremen – Münster – Dortmund – (Hagen – Wuppertal) or (– Essen – Düsseldorf) – Cologne – Frankfurt Airport – Mannheim – Stuttgart – Ulm – Augsburg – Munich  | Every 2 hours
Kiel – Neumünster –
ICE 60 | Karlsruhe – Stuttgart – Ulm – Augsburg – Munich
ICE 62 / IC 62 | Frankfurt – Heidelberg – Stuttgart – Ulm – Augsburg – Munich – Salzburg – Villach – Klagenfurt | 3 train pairs
EC/RJ 62 | Frankfurt – Heidelberg –  | Stuttgart – Ulm – Augsburg – Munich – Salzburg (– Graz)  | 1 train pair
Saarbrücken – Mannheim – | 1 train pair
ICE/TGV 83 | Munich – Augsburg – Ulm – Stuttgart – Karlsruhe – Strasbourg – Paris Est | 1 train pair
IC 87 | Stuttgart – Augsburg – München – Rosenheim – Salzburg – Linz – St. Pölten – Wien
ICE/RJX 90 | Budapest-Keleti – Vienna – Salzburg – Munich – Augsburg – Ulm – Stuttgart – Mannheim – Frankfurt Flughafen – Frankfurt (– Wiesbaden)

In the summer of 1939 timetable, 87 scheduled long-distance services each day stopped in the station.[7]

From 17 June 2021 until the timetable change in December 2021, the Flixtrain FLX 35N train pair from Munich to Leipzig and back also served Augsburg.[8][9]

### Regional services

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Regional-Express or Regionalbahn services operate from Augsburg to Bad Wörishofen, Donauwörth, Füssen, Hergatz, Ingolstadt, Landsberg, Lindau, Munich, Nuremberg, Oberstdorf, Schongau, Treuchtlingen, Ulm and Weilheim. Especially on the line to Munich there are regularly crowded trains, so double-decker trains, which could carry nearly 1,000 passengers, were used until the timetable change on 13 December 2009. Since then class 440 (Alstom Coradia Continental) EMUs of the so-called Fugger-Express operate S-Bahn-density regional services between Augsburg and Munich. Numerous technical glitches on the new rolling stock delayed the start of the original services for a whole year.

Line  | Route  | Frequency

|
|

RE 7

RE 17

| (Nuremberg) – Augsburg – Buchloe – Kaufbeuren – Kempten (Allgäu) – Immenstadt (split) –
– Lindau-Reutin (RE 7) /
– Oberstdorf (RE 17)  | every 2 hours,

Nuremberg–Augsburg twice a day

RE 9 | (Munich – Mering –) Augsburg – Ulm | Ulm–Augsburg hourly
Augsburg–Munich every 2 hours
RE 16 | Augsburg – Donauwörth – Treuchtlingen – Nuremberg  | every 2 hours
RE 71

RE 73

| Augsburg – Buchloe – Türkheim (Bay) (split) –
– Mindelheim – Memmingen (RE 73) /
– Bad Wörishofen (RE 71)  | every 2 hours
RE 79 | Augsburg – Bobingen – Schwabmünchen – Buchloe – Kaufbeuren – Kempten (Allgäu)  | hourly (one train only to Buchloe)
RE 80

RE 89

| Munich – Mering – Augsburg – Donauwörth (split) –
– Aalen (RE 89) /
– Treuchtlingen – Würzburg (RE 80)  | every 2 hours
RE 87 | Augsburg – Meitingen – Donauwörth  | One train Sa+Su towards Donauwörth
RB 13 | Augsburg – Friedberg (b Augsburg)  | Mon–Fri every 15 minutes, Sat+Sun hourly
(...) – Aichach  | Mon–Fri half-hourly, Sat+Sun hourly
(...) – Schrobenhausen – Ingolstadt | hourly
RB 67 | Augsburg-Oberhausen – Augsburg – Mering – Geltendorf – Weilheim (– Schongau)  | hourly
(Augsburg-Oberhausen –) Augsburg – Mering (– Geltendorf)  | hourly in the peak
RB 69 | Augsburg – Bobingen – Kaufering – (some trains: – Landsberg (Lech))  | hourly, half-hourly in the peak
RB 77 | Augsburg – Bobingen  | Mon–Fri half-hourly, Sat+Sun hourly
(...) – Schwabmünchen – Buchloe – Kaufbeuren – Biessenhofen – Marktoberdorf – Füssen | hourly, extra trains in the peak
RB 80 | Augsburg – Donauwörth – Treuchtlingen – Ansbach  | One train towards Ansbach Mo-Fr
RB 83 | Augsburg – Neusäß – Gessertshausen  | 30 mins to hourly in the peak
RB 86 | Augsburg – Gessertshausen (– Dinkelscherben)  | Mon–Fri hourly
RB 87 | Augsburg – Meitingen (– Donauwörth)  | Mon–Fri hourly
Munich – Mering – Augsburg – Donauwörth (- Nördlingen – Aalen)  | hourly (Mon–Fri individual trains, Sat+Sun every two hours to Nördlingen/Aalen)
RB 89 | (München –) Augsburg – Donauwörth – Harburg – Nördlingen – Bopfingen – Westhausen – Aalen | Some trains

### Buses and trams

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Augsburg station serves as one of the central hubs of Augsburg, so many lines of the Augsburger Verkehrsverbunde (Augsburg Transport Association) start and end here. These can be accessed in two places. The Hauptbahnhof stop is in the nearby Halderstraße and is served by the following tram and bus lines:

#### Trams

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Line  | Route  | Frequency

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| Hauptbahnhof – Königsplatz – Universität – Inninger Straße P+R – Königsbrunn Zentrum  | 5 min
| Hauptbahnhof – Königsplatz – Wertachbrücke – Oberhausen Nord P+R  | 7 min
| Stadtbergen – Hauptbahnhof – Königsplatz – Hochschule Augsburg – Schwaben Center – Friedberg West P+R  | 6 min

#### Buses

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* Bus route  and : towards Firnhaberau

* Bus route : towards Klinikum BKH or Königsplatz and Zoo/ Botanical Garden
* Bus route : towards Diakonissenhaus or Anna-Hintermayr-Stift
* Night bus route : towards Steppach, Bergen, Leitershofen, Königsplatz and Oberhausen
* Night bus route : towards Lechhausen, Hammerschmiede and Firnhaberau or Königsplatz and Hochzoll/Süd

All these lines except line , which is operated by the Storz company, are operated by the Augsburger Verkehrsgesellschaft (Augsburg Transport Company).

On the station forecourt there is a bus station with several bus platforms. A total of 22 regional bus lines, operating in all directions, start or end here.

Augsburg Hauptbahnhof

## See also

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* Rail transport in Germany
* Railway stations in Germany

## Notes

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1. ^ a b c "Stationspreisliste 2025" [Station price list 2025] (PDF) (in German). DB InfraGO. 28 November 2024. Retrieved 5 December 2024.
2. ^ Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
3. ^ "Tarifzonenplan Verbundraum" (PDF). Augsburger Verkehrs- und Tarifverbund. January 2020. Retrieved 2 March 2020.
4. ^ "Brochure: Personenbahnhöfe in Bayern" (PDF) (in German). Deutsche Bahn. Archived from the original (PDF; 7.4 MB) on 22 October 2013. Retrieved 12 July 2017.
5. ^ Wolfgang Bublies, Edgar Mathe (1993). Augsburger Localbahn (in German). Augsburg-Haunstetten. p. 131.
6. ^ a b "Augsburg: weniger ICE ab Dezember 2006". Eisenbahn-Revue International (in German) (4): 158. 2006. ISSN 1421-2811.
7. ^ Ralph Seidel (2005). "Der Einfluss veränderter Rahmenbedingungen auf Netzgestalt und Frequenzen im Schienenpersonenfernverkehr Deutschlands". Dissertation of the University Leipzig (in German). Leipzig: 27.
8. ^ "FlixTrain startet größte Expansion seit Bestehen" (in German). Retrieved 17 January 2022.
9. ^ "Fahrplanauskunft für unsere Zugverbindungen" (in German). FlixMobility. Retrieved 17 January 2022.

## References

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* Ernst Erhart (2000). Eisenbahnknoten Augsburg – Drehscheibe des Eisenbahnverkehrs (in German). Munich: GeraMond Verlag. ISBN 3-9327-8523-1.

## External links

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Augsburg Hauptbahnhof.

* Construction work information of Deutsche Bahn (in German)
* "Trackplan of Augsburg Hbf" (PDF; 196.70 KB) (in German). Deutsche Bahn. Retrieved 5 April 2013.
* "Hauptbahnhof" (in German). Augsburg-Wiki. Archived from the original on 19 September 2020. Retrieved 5 April 2013.

Authority control databases |

* Deutsche Bahn

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*[IBNR]: Internationale Bahnhofsnummer