Koblenz-Ehrenbreitstein station

Koblenz-Ehrenbreitstein
Through station
Koblenz-Ehrenbreitstein station beside the Rhine
Location	Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate Germany
Coordinates	50°21′43″N 7°36′37″E / 50.36194°N 7.61028°ECoordinates: 50°21′43″N 7°36′37″E / 50.36194°N 7.61028°E
Line(s)	East Rhine Railway(KBS 465)
Platforms	3 [1]
Other information
Station code	3300
DS100 code	KKOE[2]
IBNR	8003351
Category	5[1]
History
Opened	1869
Services
Preceding station   Deutsche Bahn   Following station Vallendar toward Mönchengladbach Hbf RE 8 Rhein-Erft-Express Koblenz Hbf Terminus

Koblenz-Ehrenbreitstein station is the only station on the right (eastern) bank in the city of Koblenz in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It is on the East Rhine railway (German: Rechte Rheinstrecke, Right Rhine line) at the foot of Ehrenbreitstein hill in Ehrenbreitstein district, next to the Rhine.

History

Map of the railway facilities in the Koblenz area

In 1859 and 1860 the governments of Prussia and Nassau negotiated over the construction of a railway between Ehrenbreitstein and Oberlahnstein. In Oberlahnstein the line would connect with the Nassau Rhine Railway (now part of the East Rhine line), then under construction, and the Lahn Valley Railway. It was also stipulated in the contract that a railway bridge would be built between Koblenz and Ehrenbreitstein and the Duchy of Nassau committed itself to promote the construction of the Lahn Valley Railway.^[3]

The Neuwied–Niederlahnstein section, including Ehrenbreitstein station, was put into operation on 27 October 1869. It had a railway post office and accommodation for the “track supervisor” (Bahnmeister).^[4] On the same day, the line was opened from Ehrenbreitstein station via Pfaffendorf Bridge to the former Rhenish railway station at Koblenz. The Rhenish station was north-west of today's Löhr-Center in Fischelstraße.^[5] The track remained under control of the railway company (which had become one of the Prussian state railways in 1880) only until 1899. The track over the bridge was then rebuilt for use by the Coblenz Tramway Company (Coblenzer Straßenbahn-Gesellschaft). In 1879, the Horchheim Railway Bridge was opened south of Pfaffendorf Bridge, connecting to the East Rhine railway and to Koblenz Hauptbahnhof (central station), when it opened in 1902.

Services

Steam locomotive 78 468 (Prussian T 18) in Koblenz-Ehrenbreitstein station

Koblenz-Ehrenbreitstein station

The station has since 2002 been served by the Rhein-Erft-Express, running on the Koblenz–Cologne–Mönchengladbach route at hourly intervals. Previously, the Rhein-Erft-Express had since its introduction in 1998 continued to Venlo after Mönchengladbach.^[6]

Line	Service	Route	Frequency
RE 8	Rhein-Erft-Express	Mönchengladbach – Rheydt – Cologne – Köln/Bonn Flughafen – Troisdorf – Bonn-Beuel – Linz (Rhein) - Neuwied - Koblenz-Ehrenbreitstein – Koblenz	Hourly

Until after the Second World War Ehrenbreitstein station also had significant long-distance traffic, since some of the trains on the right bank line did not served Koblenz Hauptbahnhof. In the final timetable before the war all semi-fast trains and a D-train (D-Zug, express train with carriages with corridors) stopped at Ehrenbreitstein station.^[7]

Notes

1. "Stationspreisliste 2016" [Station price list 2016] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 1 December 2015. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
2. Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
3. G. Decker (1860). Gesetz-Sammlung für die königlichen preussischen Staaten (in German). Prussia. p. 282. Retrieved 14 August 2011.
4. "Private site on Ehrenbreitstein station" (PDF) (in German). Retrieved 14 August 2011.
5. "100 Jahre Koblenz Hbf" (in German). uqp.de. Retrieved 14 August 2011.
6. "Rhein-Erft-Express". NRW rail archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 14 August 2011.
7. "Extract from the German rail timetable 1939, table 230: Frankfurt – Wiesbaden – Niederlahnstein – Köln" (in German). deutsches-kursbuch.de:. Retrieved 14 August 2011.

References

• Energieversorgung Mittelrhein GmbH (ed.). Geschichte der Stadt Koblenz (in German). Overall editor: Ingrid Bátori with Dieter Kerber and Hans Josef Schmidt.
  • Vol. 1: Von den Anfängen bis zum Ende der kurfürstlichen Zeit. Theiss, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-8062-0876-X.
  • Vol. 2: Von der französischen Stadt bis zur Gegenwart. Theiss, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-8062-1036-5.

External links

• "Track plan" (PDF) (in German). DB Netz. Retrieved 14 August 2011.
• "Photographs of the loading of tanks in Koblenz-Ehrenbreitstein station" (in German). Retrieved 14 August 2011.