Burg- and Nieder-Gemünden railway station

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Castle u. Nieder-Gemünden
Burg- and Nieder-Gemünden railway station, July 2012
Burg- and Nieder-Gemünden railway station, July 2012
Data
Operating point type Breakpoint
Design Through station
Platform tracks 1 (formerly 5)
abbreviation FBNG
IBNR 8000061
Price range 6th
opening July 29, 1870
Website URL Information about the train station
location
City / municipality Gemünden
Place / district Nieder-Gemünden
country Hesse
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 41 '26 "  N , 9 ° 2' 51"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 41 '26 "  N , 9 ° 2' 51"  E
Height ( SO ) 237  m above sea level NHN
Railway lines
Railway stations in Hessen
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The Burg- und Nieder-Gemünden train station is, along with Ehringshausen (Oberhess) train station, one of two train stations in the eastern Hessian community of Gemünden (Felda) in the Vogelsberg district . It is located at 38.0 km of the Vogelsbergbahn (Gießen – Fulda). From 1901 to 1991 the railway line Kirchhain – Burg- and Nieder-Gemünden (Ohmtalbahn) branched off here via Homberg (Ohm) to Kirchhain . It is a cultural monument according to the Hessian Monument Protection Act , the station building itself is in a neglected condition.

history

The Burg- und Nieder-Gemünden station was opened on July 29, 1870 with the opening of the Grünberg – Alsfeld section of the Vogelsberg Railway. On October 30th of the same year the Vogelsbergbahn was extended to Lauterbach , on December 31st to Bad Salzschlirf . On July 31, 1871, it was completed with the Bad Salzschlirf – Fulda section.

On April 1, 1901, the Burg- and Nieder-Gemünden – Nieder-Ofleiden section of the Kirchhain – Burg- and Nieder-Gemünden railway was opened by the Hessian State Railways .

On May 31, 1980, passenger traffic on the Kirchhain – Burg- and Nieder-Gemünden railway was stopped. On September 28, 1991, freight traffic ended up to the connection of the basalt works at Nieder-Ofleiden , and the section was closed. When the Ohm Valley Railway was dismantled in 1999, the Burg- und Nieder-Gemünden station was turned back to a stopping point.

location

The Burg- und Nieder-Gemünden train station serves the two eponymous districts of Burg-Gemünden and Nieder-Gemünden in the municipality of Gemünden (Felda) . It has the house number Bahnhofstraße 14 and is located on the southwestern outskirts of Nieder-Gemünden.

Railway systems

Tracks

The Burg- und Nieder-Gemünden railway station had 5 tracks on 3 platforms until the Kirchhain – Burg- und Nieder-Gemünden railway was partially closed. The main platform on track 1 and track 2 served the Vogelsbergbahn from Gießen to Fulda. The remaining tracks (tracks 3 to 5) served the Kirchhain – Burg- and Nieder-Gemünden railway. Except for the house platform, which is still used by the Vogelsbergbahn trains today, all the other tracks are overgrown but not dismantled. Shortly after the disused signal box in the north of the station, the route of the Kirchhain – Burg- and Nieder-Gemünden railway swung north. Shortly afterwards the remaining track ends.

Reception building

The reception building of the station castle and Nieder-Gemünden dates back to 1870, the founding period of the Vogelsberg Railway. It has been empty for a long time and is visibly deteriorating. In 2012 the reception building was put up for auction with a minimum bid of 1,000 euros.

Signal box

The mechanical interlocking of the Zimmermann and Buchloh type from 1909 in the north of the train station in Burg- and Nieder-Gemünden was decommissioned in 2008.

traffic

Burg- und Nieder-Gemünden is in the tariff area of ​​the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV).

train

The stop is served hourly by regional trains on the Limburg – Gießen – Fulda route. Since December 11, 2011, the Vogelsbergbahn has been operated by the Hessische Landesbahn (HLB) . LINT 41 railcars are used. Before that, DB Regio trains ran on the route with class 628 railcars . On weekdays, additional regional trains run on the Gießen – Alsfeld route during rush hour.

Since the 2016/2017 timetable change on December 11, 2016, the trains of the Vogelsbergbahn and the subsequent Lahntalbahn have been running continuously as RB 45 instead of the previous RB 25 (Lahntalbahn) or RB 35 (Vogelsbergbahn).

line route Clock frequency
RB 45 Vogelsbergbahn
( Limburg (Lahn) - Weilburg - Wetzlar -) Gießen - Grünberg (Oberhess) - Mücke (Hess) - Burg- u. Nieder-Gemünden - Alsfeld (Oberhess) - Lauterbach (Hess) North - Fulda 		Hourly
(+ individual reinforcement trains at rush hour)

←
 Lines
→
Low ohmen Hessian state railwayRB 45
Vogelsbergbahn 		Ehringshausen (Oberhess)

bus

At the station there is a connection to some regional bus routes .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ abbreviation
  2. ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Railway in Hesse. Cultural monuments in Hessen
  3. ↑ a b Data on the Ohm Valley Railway ( Memento from June 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Burg- und Nieder Gemünden railway station is looking for a new owner . In: hessenschiene . No. 86 , 2012, ISSN  0342-1902 , p. 48 ( probahn-bus.org [PDF]).
  5. ↑ accessed on August 3, 2019