Overview

• From December 2025, only five ICE services are slated to call at Riesa: 6:48 and 8:48 toward Leipzig, and 19:11, 21:11, and 23:11 toward Dresden, according to VVO.
• All other ICE trains would pass through Riesa, while IC services are expected to continue stopping roughly every two hours.
• District administrator Ralf Hänsel calls the reduction a painful setback and demands retention of the current level of service.
• Riesa mayor Marco Müller argues the industrial and events hub needs an hourly long‑distance connection to remain competitive.
• Passenger group Pro Bahn links the cuts to a 25‑minute ‘Kurzwende’ in Dresden intended to save rolling stock and urges scrapping it in favor of using stabled trains or modernized long ICE 1 sets on the RE50, with no reversal from Deutsche Bahn announced.