Schwerin Hauptbahnhof

Railway station in Germany

Schwerin Hbf

Station building and station forecourt

General information
Location| Grunthalplatz 4, Schwerin, MV
Germany
Coordinates| 53°38′04″N 11°24′29″E﻿ / ﻿53.63444°N 11.40806°E﻿ / 53.63444; 11.40806
Owned by| Deutsche Bahn
Operated by| DB Station&Service
Line(s)|

* Hagenow–Bad Kleinen (–Rostock) (KBS 100)
* Ludwigslust–Wismar (KBS 204)
* Schwerin–Parchim (KBS 152)
* Schwerin–Rehna (KBS 152)

Platforms| 4
Construction
Accessible| Yes
Other information
Station code| 5755[1]
DS100 code| WS[2]
IBNR| 8010324
Category| 3[1]
Website| www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened| 1 May 1847; 178 years ago (1847-05-01)
Electrified| 30 May 1987; 38 years ago (1987-05-30)

Services

| Preceding station  |  DB Fernverkehr | Following station

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Bützow

towards Stralsund Hbf

|  | ICE 26 |  | Hamburg Hbf

Terminus

Bützow

towards Ostseebad Binz

|  | ICE 39 |  | Hamburg Hbf

towards Nürnberg Hbf

Rostock Hbf

towards Ostseebad Binz

|  | ICE 43 |  | Hamburg Hbf

towards Basel SBB

Bad Kleinen

towards Warnemünde

|  | IC 57 |  | Ludwigslust

towards Leipzig Hbf

Preceding station  |  DB Regio Nordost | Following station
Schwerin Mitte

towards Hamburg Hbf

|  | RE 1 |  | Bad Kleinen

towards Rostock Hbf

Lübstorf

towards Wismar

|  | RB 17 |  | Schwerin Mitte

towards Ludwigslust

Lübstorf

towards Bad Kleinen

|  | RB 18 |  | Terminus
Schwerin Mitte

towards Ludwigslust

|  | RB 28 |  | Bad Kleinen

towards Rostock Hbf

Preceding station  |  Ostdeutsche Eisenbahn | Following station
Lübstorf

towards Wismar

|  | RE 8 |  | Schwerin Mitte

towards BER Airport

Schwerin-Lankow

towards Rehna

|  | RB 13 |  | Schwerin Mitte

towards Parchim

Location

Schwerin Hauptbahnhof is the main railway station[3] of the capital of the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and is located in the northwest of the central city. It includes four tracks on two platforms and a siding west of the fourth track. Currently the station is used by about 12,000 passengers a day.

## Building

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Fountain in front of the station

The station building was built in 1889 and 1890 to a design by E. Müller in the style of the Gründerzeit. The main hall has two lower links connecting to corner pavilions. The entrance hall was lowered in 1927. A few shops are located in the lobby next to the service facilities of Deutsche Bahn. A pedestrian tunnel leads from the hall to two island platforms with four platform tracks. On the opposite side of the station the tunnel is connected to two staircases and an elevator. These lead to Straße Zum Bahnhof (street), which connects to the Platz der Freiheit.

At the station forecourt is a fountain called Rettung in Seenot ("rescue at sea") built in 1910 with bronze sculptures by Hugo Berwald. The fountain was located in the Markt (market) square until 1927. The station forecourt is surrounded by other public transport facilities, the InterCity Hotel (built in 1972 as the Hotel Stadt Schwerin) and residential buildings, four of which were designed by Georg Adolph Demmler in 1847 and built with a uniform facade.

## History

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The original 1847 station building

Schwerin had its first rail connection in 1847 with the opening of the railway to Hagenow. This was the first railway in Mecklenburg, opened by the Mecklenburg Railway Company, connecting to the Mecklenburg Railway line. Lines were opened to Wismar in 1848, from Bad Kleinen to Rostock in 1850. A line to Crivitz (extended to Parchim in 1899) and to Ludwiglust opened in 1888 and a line to Rehna opened in 1898.

Between 1889 and 1890 the current station building was built in place of the original station building of 1847. This building has been preserved with its exterior largely unchanged. In the 1920s the station tunnel was built to allow safe access to the platforms.

The square in front of the station is named Grunthalplatz in memory of Marianne Grunthal, who was hanged from a lamppost by SS guards shortly before the end of World War II for welcoming the news of Hitler's death.

The station was officially re-opened in December 2005, after three and a half years of modernisation.

## Rail services

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The station was served by the following services in 2024:

### Long distance

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Line  | Route  | Interval  | Operator

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ICE 26 | (Binz) or (Greifswald) – Stralsund – Rostock – Schwerin – Hamburg – Hannover – Frankfurt (Main) – Karlsruhe | About every 2 hours together with ICE 43 | DB Fernverkehr
ICE 39 | Binz – Stralsund – Rostock – Schwerin – Hamburg – Münster – Düsseldorf – Cologne – Koblenz – Frankfurt Airport – Frankfurt – Nuremberg | 1 train pair on Sat and Sun
ICE 43 | Binz – Stralsund – Rostock – Schwerin – Hamburg – Münster – Dortmund – Essen – Düsseldorf – Cologne – Frankfurt Airport – Mannheim – Karlsruhe – Freiburg – Basel SBB | 1 train pair
IC 57 | (Warnemünde –) Rostock – Schwerin – Stendal – Magdeburg – Halle (Saale) – Leipzig | 1 train pair

### Regional

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Line  | Route  | Interval  | Operator

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RE 1 | Rostock – Bützow – Bad Kleinen – Schwerin – Hagenow Land – Büchen – Hamburg  | Every 2 hours  | DB Regio Nordost
RE 4 | Schwerin – Bad Kleinen – Grevesmühlen – Lübeck | 1 train pair
RE 8 | Wismar – Bad Kleinen – Schwerin – Ludwigslust – Wittenberge – Berlin – BER Airport | Every 2 hours  | Ostdeutsche Eisenbahn
RB 13 | Rehna – Gadebusch – Schwerin – Crivitz – Parchim  | Hourly
RB 17 | Wismar – Bad Kleinen – Schwerin – Ludwigslust  | Every 2 hours  | DB Regio Nordost
RB 18 | Bad Kleinen – Schwerin
RB 28 | Ludwigslust – Schwerin – Bad Kleinen – Bützow – Rostock  | Some trains

## See also

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* Rail transport in Germany
* Railway stations in Germany

## References

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1. ^ a b "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. ^ Schwerin Hbf station at the Deutsche Bahn website

## External links

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* Track plan for Schwerin Hbf from the site of Deutschen Bahn (PDF; 161,2 KB)

Authority control databases |

* Deutsche Bahn

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*[IBNR]: Internationale Bahnhofsnummer