Merseburg station
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Merseburg
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| Junction station | |
Entrance building
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| Location | Bahnhofsplatz 1, Merseburg, Thuringia Germany |
| Coordinates | 51°21′25″N 11°59′26″E / 51.35694°N 11.99056°ECoordinates: 51°21′25″N 11°59′26″E / 51.35694°N 11.99056°E |
| Line(s) | |
| Platforms | 4 |
| Other information | |
| Station code | 4067 |
| DS100 code | LMG |
| IBNR | 8010232 |
| Category | 4 |
| Website | www.bahnhof.de |
| History | |
| Opened | 1846 |
Merseburg station is the station of the town of Merseburg in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. It is located on the Halle–Bebra railway (Thuringian Railway) and Deutsche Bahn assigns it to category 4. Merseburg is located in the tariff area of the Mitteldeutscher Verkehrsverbund (central Germany transport association).
Merseburg station was opened on 20 June 1846 when Merseburg was connected to the Halle (Saale) – Weißenfels railway. This was the first section opened of the route which later ran via Weimar, Erfurt and Eisenach to Bebra.
The Merseburg–Mücheln section of the Merseburg–Querfurt railway was opened in December 1886.
The line to Schafstädt was opened on 1 November 1896. Due to declining passenger numbers, Nahverkehrsservice Sachsen-Anhalt (local transport service of Saxony-Anhalt), ended all services of the Merseburg–Schafstädt railway from 14 December 2014. The rail service was replaced by state bus route 728 operated by Personennahverkehrsgesellschaft Merseburg-Querfurt.
The section of the Merseburg–Leipzig-Leutzsch railway from Merseburg to Zöschen was opened in 1910. After being interrupted by the First World War, traffic on the line resumed in 1928 and it was finally extended to Leipzig-Leutzsch on 7 July 1931, which gave the station a direct connection to Leipzig. Due to declining passenger numbers services ended in 1998, so Merseburg lost its direct connection to Leipzig and passengers now have to change in Halle (Saale) or Großkorbetha.
Merseburg finally got a new station building in 1956, because the former had been destroyed by air raids in the Second World War. The Merseburg–Halle-Nietleben railway was opened in 1967; it was mainly used by a shuttle service to Buna-Werke.
There was also a Frankfurt–Berlin InterRegio service at two-hour intervals until 1999. It continued to further destinations such as Stralsund or Konstanz.
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