Bad Wimpfen station
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Bad Wimpfen
 
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Station building
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| Location | Eulenberger Hof, Bad Wimpfen, Baden-Württemberg Germany |
| Coordinates | 49°13′47″N 9°10′04″E / 49.22965°N 9.16776°ECoordinates: 49°13′47″N 9°10′04″E / 49.22965°N 9.16776°E |
| Line(s) | Elsenz Valley Railway (km 33.8) |
| Platforms | 2 |
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| Architectural style | Gothic Revival |
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| Station code | 364 |
| DS100 code | RBWF |
| IBNR | 8000364 |
| Category | 6 |
| Website | www.bahnhof.de |
| History | |
| Opened | 1868 |
Bad Wimpfen station is a station in a station in the spa town of Bad Wimpfen in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is at the kilometre 33.8 point on the Elsenz Valley Railway. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 6 station. The station building is heritage-listed.
Bad Wimpfen station is located at the eastern edge the Wimpfen am Berg district in the centre of the spa town. Directly east of the station, the line crosses state road 530, which is called Carl-Ulrich-Straße at this point. The address of the station is Carl-Ulrich-Straße 1.
Bad Wimpfen station was opened in 1868 with the building of the railway from Heilbronn via Bad Friedrichshall, Sinsheim, Meckesheim and Neckargemünd to Heidelberg in the 1860s. The railway gave a substantial stimulus to the business of the spa, which was opened in 1817.
As part of the expansion of Heilbronn Stadtbahn northern branch, the Bad Rappenau–Bad Friedrichshall section was closed for upgrading between 7 January 2014 and 1 May 2015. At the same time, Bad Wimpfen station was upgraded as a two-track crossing station and the bridge over the L 530 was rebuilt as a two-track bridge.
The very stately Bad Wimpfen station building is a massive two-storey building in the Gothic Revival style with numerous decorative shapes such as tracery windows on the ground floor and an angular structure with gables. The building served until 1992 as a station building and was then rebuilt as a restaurant and the town’s tourist information centre. It is the only station in Southern Germany built in the Gothic Revival style that still exists. The building is listed by Baden-Württemberg as a grade 2 monument.
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