The station building is located west of the railway facilities and has the street address of 6 Ludwigstraße.

The station was established in 1844 as the terminus of the Nuremberg–Bamberg line built by the Royal Bavarian State Railways.

Shortly after its opening in April 1845, the station became the headquarters of the Royal Bavarian State Railways in Bamberg.

[4] From 1897 to 1922, the station forecourt was the main hub of Bamberg trams, which was served by three of the four lines of the network.

[6] In 1939, Deutsche Reichsbahn electrified the railway station together with the lines to Hof and Nuremberg because it was a stop on the major long-distance link between Berlin and Munich.

Due to the damage caused to the station during the Second World War, its importance for long-distance traffic declined in the following years.

Although the reconstruction was fast, Bamberg station lost further traffic because the establishment of the Soviet occupation zone in 1946 led to the loss of long-distance services.

It has a slightly raised central section, which is extended by a two-story entrance hall and a low pitched tiled roof.

Platform lengths and heights are as follows:[8] Bamberg station is served every two hours by Intercity-Express trains on the Berlin–Munich route.