Riesa station

Riesa station is the only passenger station of the town of Riesa in the German state of Saxony. It is a regular stop for Intercity and Intercity-Express services. The station is located at kilometer 65.8 of the Leipzig–Dresden railway. In addition, it is at the beginning of the Riesa–Chemnitz railway and the disused Riesa–Nossen railway. Since December 2013 the station has been part of the S-Bahn Mitteldeutschland network.

Riesa
Junction station
Riesa railway station
General information
Location	Bahnhofstr. 50, Riesa, Saxony Germany
Coordinates	51°18′34″N 13°17′14″E
Owned by	Deutsche Bahn
Operated by	DB Station&Service
Line(s)	Leipzig–Dresden railway (km 65.87) Riesa–Chemnitz railway (km -0.135) former Riesa–Nossen (km -0.18)
Platforms	10
Other information
Station code	5276[1]
DS100 code	DR[2]
IBNR	8010297
Category	3[1]
Fare zone	VVO: 41[3]
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	11 November 1838
Services
Preceding station DB Fernverkehr Following station Döbeln Hbf towards Chemnitz Hbf IC 17 Berlin Südkreuz towards Warnemünde Leipzig Hbf towards Wiesbaden Hbf ICE 50 Dresden-Neustadt towards Dresden Hbf Leipzig Hbf towards Stuttgart Hbf IC 55 Preceding station DB Regio Südost Following station Oschatz towards Leipzig Hbf RE 50 Glaubitz (Riesa) towards Dresden Hbf Preceding station Mitteldeutsche Regiobahn Following station Zeithain towards Chemnitz Hbf RB 45 Seerhausen towards Elsterwerda Preceding station S-Bahn Mitteldeutschland Following station Oschatz towards Falkenberg (Elster) S 4 Terminus
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History

The Leipzig-Dresden Railway Company (Leipzig-Dresdner Eisenbahn-Compagnie, LDE) opened Riesa station as part of the Oschatz–Riesa section of the Leipzig–Dresden railway in November 1838. The first station building was added in 1844.The Riesa–Chemnitz railway, which branched off to the south from the existing line, was opened in August 1847. At the same time a second station was built in Riesa with a separate entrance building. A direct connection was built between the two stations in 1867. A new unified station was built in Chemnitz between 1879 and 1881 in response to a demand from the Finance Ministry. The current railway station building was constructed as part of this work.

The station was connected to the nearby Riesa–Elsterwerda and the Riesa–Nossen railway lines in 1875 and 1877. The latter was officially closed in 2007, although passenger services had already been discontinued in 1998.

From 1889 to 1924, the station forecourt was the starting point of a metre-gauge horse-drawn tram that ran to the Rathausplatz (town hall square). Due to the hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic between 1914 and 1923, it was shut down and replaced by a bus service.

In May 1970, Riesa station was connected to the electric railway network with the electrification of the Leipzig–Dresden line. In the first half of the 1990s, a bypass was planned to the south of Riesa as part of the proposed upgrade of the Leipzig–Dresden railway. On 8 March 1995, this plan was discarded and an upgrade of the Riesa rail node (with speeds to be reduced as low as 100 km/h) was pursued instead. In the same year it was decided to establish a platform for long-distance services in Riesa.^[4] The development of the station forms part of the third stage of German Unity Transport Project (Verkehrsprojektes Deutsche Einheit) no. 9, which was approved in 2004.^[5]

The last pair of InterRegio services, running between Berlin and Chemnitz, used stop in Riesa until this services was cancelled by Deutsche Bahn in mid 2006. After that, this route was operated once a day as the Vogtland-Express by Vogtlandbahn, which is now owned by Netinera. Vogtlandbahn replaced this service by a long-distance bus service in 2012.

Infrastructure

The passenger station is located between the freight yard to the west and the bridge over the Elbe to the east. It has five through platform tracks (1–5) and five terminal platform tracks (1a and 6–9). But the only platform tracks regularly used by passengers are tracks 1–4 and 6. The bus station is served by several municipal and regional bus services operated by Verkehrsgesellschaft Meißen (VGM), the municipal transport company.

Train services

The following services currently call at the station:^[6]

Line	Route	Interval (min)	Operator
ICE 50	Dresden – Riesa – Leipzig – Erfurt – Eisenach – Fulda – Frankfurt – Mainz – Wiesbaden	120	DB Fernverkehr
IC 55	Dresden – Riesa – Leipzig – Halle – Magdeburg – Braunschweig – Hannover – Dortmund – Cologne – Bonn – Mainz – Mannheim – Heidelberg – Stuttgart (– Tübingen)	120	DB Fernverkehr
RE 50	Dresden – Radebeul Ost – Priestewitz – Riesa – Oschatz – Wurzen – Leipzig	060	DB Regio Südost
RB 45	(Zwickau–) Chemnitz – Mittweida – Döbeln – Riesa – Elsterwerda	060 (Mon–Fri) 120 (Sat–Sun)	Mitteldeutsche Regiobahn

Notes

1. "Stationspreisliste 2024" [Station price list 2024] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 24 April 2023. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
2. Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
3. "VVO-Tarifzonenplan mit Liniennetzübersicht" (PDF). Verkehrsverbund Oberelbe. 1 April 2021. Retrieved 23 August 2021.
4. Verkehrsprojekt Deutsche Einheit Schiene Nr. 9. ABS Leipzig – Dresden: Bilanz 1995 (in German). Dresden: Planungsgesellschaft Bahnbau Deutsche Einheit. January 1996. pp. 2–6.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: year (link) (13-page brochure)
5. Ralf Rothe, Seckin Kurkut (2008). "Verkehrsprojekte Deutsche Einheit Ausbaustrecke Leipzig – Dresden und S-Bahn Dresden – Coswig". Eisenbahntechnische Rundschau (in German) (7/8): 456–461. ISSN 0013-2845.
6. Timetables for Riesa station (in German)

References

• Der Eisenbahnknoten Riesa (in German) (2 (revised) ed.). Städtisches Zentrum für Geschichte und Kunst der FVG. 2007.

External links

• "Station infrastructure". OpenRailwayMap. Retrieved 30 June 2015.