Eilenburg station is one of two railway stations in the district town of Eilenburg in the German state of Saxony. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 4 station. The station is located on the southeastern edge of the town. The station was opened in 1871 and gained importance over time in passenger and freight transport. Many workplaces were associated with it. Today, regional trains run to Leipzig, Halle (Saale), Hoyerswerda and Cottbus. Since the commissioning of the Leipzig City Tunnel, trains of the Mitteldeutschland S-Bahn stop in Eilenburg. History The town of Eilenburg was in an area that was peripheral to Prussia, having been ceded to it by the Kingdom of Saxony at the Congress of Vienna. It was not until 1868, when there was already a dense railway network that the Halle-Sorau-Guben Railway Company () was granted a concession and permit for the construction of a railway to it. The station building was built in 1871, which included service areas, ticket counters, baggage handling, housing for employees and four waiting rooms. The line from Falkenberg (Elster) via Eilenburg to Halle (Saale) was opened a year later, in April 1872. The branch to the Saxon university and trade fair city of Leipzig was opened in November 1874. The end of the line in Leipzig was at the Leipzig Eilenburger Bahnhof (the Eilenburg line station), which it had built as a terminus. The Eilenburg–Lutherstadt-Wittenberg line opened on 20 February 1895. About 1914, the idea had also developed of building a line from Eilenburg to Bitterfeld with its emerging industrial areas. Because of the outbreak of the First World War, this project did not, however, go beyond the planning phase. The last section of the Eilenburg–Wurzen railway was opened in 1927. Its construction was also almost abandoned due to the First World War. The station was a major employer from its opening. In 1910, there were a total of 233 employees and in 1933 this had risen to 570. These were distributed as follows: railway workers (250), rail workshop (40), rollingstock maintenance (6), carriage cleaning (4), track maintenance (Bahnmeisterei) together with signal maintenance and artisans (220) and freight and baggage handling and ticketing (50). The station was a powerful force for the economic development of the whole town. On 29 March 1945, the most serious accident happened in the history of the station. On that day at about 12:45