Bempflingen station
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Bempflingen
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Bempflingen station
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| Location | Bahnhofstraße 30, Bempflingen, Baden-Württemberg Germany |
| Coordinates | 48°34′21″N 9°16′23″E / 48.5725°N 9.273056°ECoordinates: 48°34′21″N 9°16′23″E / 48.5725°N 9.273056°E |
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| Platforms | 2 |
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| Station code | 479 |
| DS100 code | TBEM |
| IBNR | 8000865 |
| Category | 6 |
| Website | www.bahnhof.de |
| History | |
| Opened | 20 September 1859 |
Bempflingen station is located in Bempflingen in the German state of Baden-Württemberg at line kilometre 22.2 of the Plochingen–Tübingen railway. According to the German railway regulations, it should be downgraded from a station to the status of a Haltepunkt (roughly: "halt").
In the mid-1850s, the Royal Württemberg State Railways (Königlich Württembergischen Staats-Eisenbahnen) was planning the construction of the line from Plochingen to Tübingen, then called the Obere Neckarbahn (Upper Neckarbahn). The management of the Elmer & Zweifel company, which had operated a cotton mill in Bempflingen since 1855, called for the construction of a station in Bempflingen. They wrote a petition to the authorities in Stuttgart and promoted the place on behalf of the municipality of Bempflingen and the surrounding communities. The letter stated, inter alia:
Zuffenhausen, Eislingen and other small towns also have halts that hardly have the importance that such would acquire in Bempflingen
Bempflingen, then counting about 700 inhabitants, finally received a station about half a kilometre to the east of the village. This was built on an embankment, which cut the road to Großbettlingen.
A two-storey, sandstone station building was built, which is still preserved. The building is covered with a gabled roof. The outer roof beams are covered with wooden slats. Windows and doors on the ground floor were given Rundbogenstil (Romanesque Revival) arches. A platform track and a crossing loop were built at the station.
On 20 September 1859, the State Railways opened the first section between Plochingen and Reutlingen. On that day, the first post office was opened in Bempflingen, which was located on the ground floor of the entrance building. An underpass was built to reconnect the road to Großbettlingen.
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