| Dresden-Plauen | |
| Native Name Lang: | de |
| Symbol: | rail |
| Symbol Location: | de |
| Symbol2: | s |
| Symbol Location2: | Dresden |
| Type: | Hp |
| Address: | Altplauen 20, 01187, Dresden, Saxony |
| Country: | Germany |
| Coordinates: | 51.0296°N 13.7032°W |
| Platforms: | 1 |
| Tracks: | 2 |
| Opened: | January 1926 |
| Website: | www.bahnhof.de |
| Map Type: | Saxony#Germany#Europe |
Dresden-Plauen station (German: Haltepunkt Dresden-Plauen) is a railway station located in Dresden, Germany. The station is located on the Dresden–Werdau line and operated by DB Station&Service.
The Haltepunkt Plauen bei Dresden ("Plauen near Dresden halt") was opened on 18 June 1855 together with the Albertsbahn (Albert's Railway) and was located to the left (south-east) of the railway. In 1897, the so-called Alte Bahnhof (old station) Plauen was opened with the station building located near the right-hand side of the current tracks. A few months later, the original building was demolished, when the connection to the Felsenkeller brewery was built there.[1] A waiting room was erected in its place, which was moved to the Boderitz-Cunnersdorf halt of the Windbergbahn (Windberg Railway, a former mining railway now used as a heritage railway) in 1923 and still exists today (2016). In 1903, after the incorporation of the village of Plauen into Dresden, the station's name was changed to Dresden-Plauen. Since the station was located quite poorly for the population of Dresden-Plauen, which had now grown to 12,000 people, a new station was opened about 800 m further north in January 1926 and the old station was closed.[2] This halt, opened in 1926, is to be renovated by the middle of 2018.[3] The entrance building that was built in 1897 (the old station) was renovated in the late 1990s and today houses a glass workshop (2016).
The station is currently served hourly by the operated by Mitteldeutsche Regiobahn and Dresden S-Bahn service.[4]
Bus lines 62, 63 and 85 of Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe frequently stop at this station.[5]
DB will be carrying out a bridge replacement and station renovation project in 2020–2022. The current bridge is functionally obsolete.[6] The Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe (DVB) is considering extending the tram to make a direct connection with the S-Bahn as a part of Stadtbahnprogrammn 2020.[7]