Paderborn Hauptbahnhof (English: Paderborn Main Station) is the main passenger station in the city of

Paderborn Paderborn (; Westphalian language, Westphalian: ''Patterbuorn'', also ''Paterboärn'') is a city in eastern North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, capital of the Paderborn (district), Paderborn district. The name of the city derives from the river Pade ...

in the

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. It is located on the Hamm–Warburg line, part of the ''Mid-Germany Connection'' from

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and

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. The Senne Railway branches off to

Bielefeld Bielefeld () is a city in the Ostwestfalen-Lippe Region in the north-east of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. With a population of 341,755, it is also the most populous city in the administrative region () of Detmold (region), Detmold and the L ...

in Paderborn.

History

The railway between Hamm and Paderborn was opened on 1 October 1850 by the

Royal Westphalian Railway Company The Royal Westphalian Railway (, KWE) was a German rail company established in 1848 with funding from the Prussian government, which later became part of the Prussian State Railways. The network eventually extended about 315 km from Rheine v ...

. The line was extended to

Warburg Warburg (; Westphalian: ''Warberich'' or ''Warborg'') is a town in eastern North Rhine-Westphalia, central Germany on the river Diemel near the three-state point shared by Hessen, Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia. It is in Höxter distr ...

in 1853. The Senne Railway was opened in July 1902. The Alme Valley Railway was opened in 1899 towards Büren; it was closed in 1981. Recently there was an attempt to reopen the line to provide a link to

Paderborn Lippstadt Airport Paderborn Lippstadt Airport (German: ''Flughafen Paderborn Lippstadt'') is a minor international airport in the Ostwestfalen-Lippe area in the Germany, German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Despite its name, the airport is actually located nea ...

. The old building of Paderborn Hauptbahnhof was demolished in June 2021 after some delays, and the new building didn't start developed until 2022. On 30 January 2024, the new building of Paderborn Hauptbahnhof (Hbf) opened. The newly designed, seven-storey building includes an IntercityHotel, other shops and a DB ServiceStore.

Operations

Several long-distance trains on

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line 51 stop at Paderborn. Regional services operate on several

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and

Regionalbahn The ''Regionalbahn'' (; lit. Regional train; abbreviated ''RB'') is a train categories in Europe, type of Regional rail, local passenger train (stopping train) in Germany. It is similar to the Regionalzug (R) and Regio (Swiss railway train), R ...

lines through Paderborn. In addition,

Hanover S-Bahn The Hanover S-Bahn (in German: ''S-Bahn Hannover'') is an S-Bahn network operated by Transdev Hannover in the area of Hanover in the German state capital of Lower Saxony. It went operational shortly before Expo 2000 and is focused on the Hanover ...

services terminate at the station.

Location

The station is only 500 metres from the city centre. ''PaderSprinter'' buses operate from ''Westerntor'' and ''Zentralstation'' bus stops next to the station, connecting to the centre as well as most other parts of the city. Regional buses run from the bus station to nearby towns (including

Delbrück Delbrück () is a town in the east of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, located in the district Paderborn. History The first document mentioning the town dates to 1219. In 1410, the town was destroyed by fire during a conflict between the bisho ...

Hövelhof Hövelhof () is a municipality in the district Paderborn, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Since 14 March 2012, Hövelhof can use the official prefix ''Sennegemeinde'' (English: "Senne municipality"). Geography Hövelhof is located in the S ...

Bad Lippspringe Bad Lippspringe () is a town in the district of Paderborn, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Geography Bad Lippspringe is situated on the western slope of the Teutoburger Wald, approximately north-east of Paderborn. The river Lippe has its sour ...

, Büren and Warburg).

Access

Only platforms 1 to 3 are accessible by lift. There is a wheelchair lift (operated by rail staff) on the stairs to platforms 4 and 5, which are served by Regionalbahn trains to and from

Herford Herford (; ) is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, located in the lowlands between the hill chains of the Wiehen Hills and the Teutoburg Forest. It is situated in the cultural region of Ostwestfalen-Lippe (OWL) and the Detmold (administrat ...

and Holzminden.

Transport Associations

Paderborn is part of the ''Paderborn-Höxter Regional Transport Association'' (''Nahverkehrsverbund Paderborn-Höxter'').

References

External links

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Track plan of ''Paderborn Hbf''
on the website of Deutsche Bahn (PDF; 235,7 KB) {{Authority control Railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia Hannover S-Bahn stations Railway stations in Germany opened in 1850 1850 establishments in Prussia Buildings and structures in Paderborn (district)