Mülheim (Ruhr) Hauptbahnhof

Mülheim (Ruhr) Hauptbahnhof is a railway station for the city of Mülheim in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It was renamed as a Hauptbahnhof in 1974 at the time of the rebuilding of the Dortmund–Duisburg line as part of the establishment of the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 3 station.[1]

Mülheim (Ruhr) Hauptbahnhof
Through station
Entrance of station
Location	Dieter aus dem Siepen Platz 3, Mülheim an der Ruhr, North Rhine-Westphalia Germany
Coordinates	51°25′53″N 06°53′11″E
Owned by	Deutsche Bahn
Operated by	DB Netz DB Station&Service
Line(s)	Dortmund–Duisburg Railway (KBS 415, 425, 427, 450.1, 450.3) Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn Lines S 1, S 3 (KBS 450.1, 450.3)
Platforms	4
Connections	S 1 S 3
Other information
Station code	4219 [1]
DS100 code	EMLR [2]
Category	3 [1]
Fare zone	VRR: 340, 342, and 344[3]
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	1 September 1866 [4]
Services Preceding station   DB Fernverkehr   Following station Duisburg towards Cologne IC 55 Essen towards Cologne Preceding station   DB Regio NRW   Following station Duisburg Hbf toward Aachen Hbf RE 1 NRW-Express Essen Hbf toward Hamm Hbf Duisburg Hbf toward Düsseldorf Hbf RE 2 Rhein-Haard-Express Essen Hbf toward Osnabrück Hbf Duisburg Hbf toward Cologne/Bonn Airport RE 6 Rhein-Weser-Express Essen Hbf toward Minden Hbf Duisburg Hbf toward Mönchengladbach Hbf RE 42 Niers-Haard-Express Essen Hbf toward Osnabrück Hbf Preceding station   Abellio Rail NRW   Following station Duisburg Hbf toward Düsseldorf Hbf RE 11 Rhein-Hellweg-Express Essen Hbf toward Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe Mülheim an der Ruhr-Styrum toward Wesel RE 49 Wupper-Lippe-Express Essen West toward Wuppertal Hbf Preceding station   Eurobahn   Following station Mülheim (Ruhr)-Styrum toward Aachen Hbf RB 33 Rhein-Niers-Bahn Essen Hbf Terminus Preceding station   Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn   Following station Mülheim-Styrum toward Solingen Hbf S 1 Essen-Frohnhausen toward Dortmund Hbf Mülheim West toward Oberhausen Hbf S 3 Essen-Frohnhausen toward Hattingen (Ruhr) Mitte Preceding station   Essen Stadtbahn   Following station Terminus U18 Von-Bock-Straße toward Berliner Platz Preceding station   Mülheim Tramway   Following station Aktienstraße toward Oberdümpten 102 Mülheim Stadtmitte toward Uhlenhorst Terminus 901 Mülheim Stadtmitte toward Obermarxloh Schleife
Location
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The original station is unusual in that it was built as two adjoining stations by the two main private railways buildings lines in the Ruhr area, the Rhenish Railway Company (Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, RhE) and the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company (Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn Gesellschaft, BME).

History

The station was opened as Mülheim RhE as part of a section of the RhE's mainline through the Ruhr opened on 1 September 1866 between Osterath and Essen. Just to the north of the RhE's station, the BME opened its own station in 1867 as Mülheim-Eppinghofen BME on its own main line opened in 1862 between Dortmund and Duisburg.[4] Although the two railways were nationalised in 1880 and 1882 the two stations were not linked.

On 1 June 1888, the station was renamed Mülheim (Ruhr), but on 11 August 1892 it was again renamed as Mülheim-Eppinghofen because another station (now called Mülheim (Ruhr) West) was then renamed as Mülheim (Ruhr),[5] but it was never popularly accepted as the main station in Mülheim. Between 1905 and 1910 a common station with a peaked roof was built to serve both lines, but it was destroyed during World War II and never rebuilt. During the electrification of the Cologne-Hamm line in the 1950s the stopping place for long-distance trains was moved back to the Eppinghofen station and on 22 May 1955 it was renamed Mülheim (Ruhr) Stadt ("city"). In 1974 the station was relocated with the opening of Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn and finally renamed Mülheim (Ruhr) Hbf.

Current situation

The current station consists of four tracks to the east and west located on the site of the BME station. The RhE lines have been closed and dismantled.

The following services currently call at Mülheim Hauptbahnhof:[6][7]

Long-distance

A total of 11 long-distance trains per day stop at the station.

Line	Route	Train no
ICE 31	Cologne – Duisburg – Mülheim – Dortmund – Münster – Bremen – Hamburg-Altona	ICE 1028
IC 30	Dortmund – Mülheim – Duisburg – Cologne – Bonn – Koblenz	IC
IC 31	Hamburg-Altona – Bremen – Münster – Dortmund – Mülheim – Duisburg – Cologne – Bonn – Koblenz – Mainz – Frankfurt	IC 2020
EC 32	Münster – Gelsenkirchen – Essen – Mülheim – Duisburg – Cologne – Bonn – Koblenz – Mainz – Mannheim – Heidelberg – Stuttgart – Ulm – Lindau - Innsbruck	IC 119
IC 32	Berlin – Hannover – Hamm – Dortmund – Mülheim – Duisburg – Cologne	IC 1911 IC 1916
	Berlin – Hannover – Hamm – Dortmund – Mülheim – Duisburg – Mönchengladbach – Aachen	IC 2222 IC 2223
IC 55	Leipzig – Halle – Magdeburg – Braunschweig – Hannover – Bielefeld – Hamm – Dortmund – Mülheim – Duisburg – Cologne – Bonn – Koblenz – Mainz – Mannheim – Heidelberg – Stuttgart – Ulm – Oberstdorf	IC 2013
	Ulm – Stuttgart – Heidelberg – Mannheim – Mainz – Koblenz – Bonn – Cologne – Duisburg – Mülheim – Dortmund – Hamm – Hannover – Braunschweig – Magdeburg	IC 2012

Regional services

In local passenger service, Mülheim is served by several regional and S-Bahn lines:

Line	Route	Frequency
RE 1 NRW-Express	Aachen – Eschweiler – Düren – Horrem – Cologne – Düsseldorf – Düsseldorf Airport – Duisburg – Mülheim – Essen – Bochum – Dortmund – Hamm	60 min
RE 2 Rhein-Haard-Express	Düsseldorf – Duisburg – Mülheim – Essen – Gelsenkirchen – Recklinghausen – Münster	60 min
RE 6 Rhein-Weser-Express	Minden – Herford – Bielefeld – Hamm – Dortmund – Essen – Mülheim – Duisburg – Düsseldorf Airport – Düsseldorf – Neuss – Cologne – Cologne/Bonn Airport	60 min
RE 11 Rhein-Hellweg-Express	Düsseldorf – Düsseldorf Airport – Duisburg – Mülheim – Essen – Dortmund – Hamm – Paderborn – Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe	60 min
RE 42 Niers-Haard-Express	Münster – Haltern am See – Recklinghausen – Gelsenkirchen – Essen – Mülheim – Duisburg – Krefeld – Viersen – Mönchengladbach	60 min
RE 49 Wupper-Lippe-Express	Wesel – Oberhausen – Mülheim –Essen – Wuppertal-Vohwinkel – Wuppertal	60 mins
RB 33 Rhein-Niers-Bahn	Essen – Mülheim – Duisburg – Krefeld – Mönchengladbach – Aachen	60 mins
S 1	Dortmund – Bochum – Essen – Mülheim – Duisburg – Düsseldorf Flughafen – Düsseldorf – Hilden  – Solingen	30 min
S 3	Oberhausen – Mülheim – Essen – Hattingen (Ruhr) Mitte	30 min

Public transport

Mülheim U-Bahn station under the main station, 2005

An underground station for line U18 of the Essen Stadtbahn, line 102 of Mülheim/Oberhausen trams and line 901 of Duisburg trams lies adjacent to the former RhE station and is connected to the current station by a corridor.

In addition, the station is served by several bus lines.

References

1. "Stationspreisliste 2021" [Station price list 2021] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 16 November 2020. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
2. Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
3. "Wabenplan für das Rheinbahn-Bedienungsgebiet" (PDF). Rheinbahn. 1 August 2008. Retrieved 4 November 2019.
4. "Mülheim (Ruhr) Hauptbahnhof operations". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
5. "Mülheim (Ruhr) West area operations". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
6. "Mülheim Hauptbahnhof". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
7. "VRR rapid-transit plan 2013" (PDF) (in German). VRR. Retrieved 1 January 2014.

External links

• Ansichtskarten – Mülheim und die Eisenbahn (in German). Eisenbahnfreunde Mülheim e. V. 1990.
• Martin Menke (2008). "Der Mülheimer Hauptbahnhof im Wandel der Zeit". In Geschichtsverein Mülheim an der Ruhr (ed.). Zeugen der Stadtgeschichte – Baudenkmäler und historische Orte in Mülheim an der Ruhr (in German). Essen: Klartext Verlag. pp. 139–145.