Schwerin Hauptbahnhof

Location
	Schwerin Hauptbahnhof Location within Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Schwerin Hauptbahnhof
Schwerin Hauptbahnhof
Through station
	Station building and station forecourt
General information
Location	Grunthalplatz 4, Schwerin, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern; Germany
Coordinates	53°38′04″N 11°24′29″E / 53.63444°N 11.40806°E
Owned by	Deutsche Bahn
Operated by	DB Station&Service
Line(s)	Hagenow–Bad Kleinen (–Rostock) (KBS 100); (Berlin–)Ludwigslust–Bad Kleinen–Wismar (KBS 204); Schwerin–Parchim (KBS 152); Schwerin–Rehna (KBS 152);
Platforms	4
Construction
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Station code	5755
DS100 code	WS
IBNR	8010324
Category	3
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	1 May 1847; 177 years ago
Electrified	30 May 1987; 37 years ago
Services
Location
Location
	Schwerin Hauptbahnhof Location within Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

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

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

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

The station was served by the following services in 2024:

Long distance

Line	Route	Interval	Operator
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

Line	Route	Interval	Operator
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	DB Regio Nordost
RE 8	Wismar – Bad Kleinen – Schwerin – Ludwigslust – Wittenberge – Berlin – BER Airport	Every 2 hours	Ostdeutsche Eisenbahn
RB 13	Rehna – Gadebusch – Schwerin – Crivitz – Parchim	Hourly	Ostdeutsche Eisenbahn
RB 17	Wismar – Bad Kleinen – Schwerin – Ludwigslust	Every 2 hours	DB Regio Nordost
RB 18	Bad Kleinen – Schwerin	Every 2 hours	DB Regio Nordost

References

^ ^a ^b "Stationspreisliste 2024" [Station price list 2024] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 24 April 2023. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
^ Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
^ Schwerin Hbf station at the Deutsche Bahn website

External links

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

[categories-1] "Stationspreisliste 2024" [Station price list 2024] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 24 April 2023. Retrieved 29 November 2023.

[Eisenbahnatlas-2] Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.

[station-3] Schwerin Hbf station at the Deutsche Bahn website

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