Since December 2008 the two stations have been served Mitteldeutsche Regionalbahn ("Central German regional railway" (MRB)) in addition to Deutsche Bahn (DB), services to and from Delitzsch oberer Bahnhof have been taken over by Abellio in 2015. The upper station is served by regional trains hourly on weekdays, two-hourly on weekends. The lower station is served by S-Bahn Mitteldeutschland and by regional trains between Leipzig and Magdeburg. Long-distance services can be reached by changing in Leipzig or Halle. The trains of the MRB take the following route: Eilenburg - Delitzsch oberer Bahnhof - Halle (Saale) Hauptbahnhof (MRB118) The DB trains run on the following lines: Eilenburg - Delitzsch oberer Bahnhof - Halle (Saale) Hauptbahnhof (RB118) Leipzig Hauptbahnhof - Delitzsch unterer Bahnhof - Bitterfeld - Dessau - Magdeburg (RE13) Leipzig Hauptbahnhof - Delitzsch unterer Bahnhof - Bitterfeld - Dessau (RB54) Leipzig Hauptbahnhof - Delitzsch unterer Bahnhof - Bitterfeld - Wittenberg (RB57) The trains of the S-Bahn Mitteldeutschland take the route: Gaschwitz - Leipzig-Connewitz - Leipzig City Tunnel - Delitzsch unterer Bahnhof - Bitterfeld (S2) Air traffic Leipzig/Halle Airport is located southwest of Delitzsch. Local businesses The most important industries in Delitzsch included the sugar and confectionery industry. Currently, the Delitzscher Chocolate Factory (acquired on 1 October 2008 by the Halloren Chocolate Factory AG), the EuroMaint Rail GmbH (former rail car plant SFW Delitzsch GmbH), URSA Insulation and the Smurfit Kappa Corrugated board plant are the major industrial employers. Most of these big companies are located in the industrial area on the south-west side. Due to the EU production quotas for sugar, the sugar factory (Südzucker) was shut down in 2001. Lignite mining was discontinued in the early 1990s, the remaining mines are planned to be a system of lakes and heathland in an arc from the southwest to the north. Sights Baroque castle with Lustgarten (pleasure gardens), formerly temporary residence and administrative centre, later dower of the Dukes of Saxony-Merseburg, built on the foundations of a medieval moated castle kennel gardens, terraced green space created between the city wall and moat (re-opened to visitors in 2010) fortifications dating back to the 14th and 15th century with two towers, defensive wall, and water-filled moat rose garden city church of St. Peter & Paul, brick church of the 15th century with significant high altar memorial to Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch executioner's house (resident executioner first documented in 1619) Stadtschreiberhaus, former home and workplace of the