Geltendorf station
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Geltendorf
 
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Street side of the station building
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Geltendorf, Bavaria Germany |
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| Coordinates | 48°06′21″N 11°02′15″E / 48.1059°N 11.0376°ECoordinates: 48°06′21″N 11°02′15″E / 48.1059°N 11.0376°E | ||||||||||
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| Platforms | 5 | ||||||||||
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| Station code | 2058 | ||||||||||
| DS100 code | MGE | ||||||||||
| IBNR | 8000119 | ||||||||||
| Category | 3 | ||||||||||
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| Opened | 30 June 1898 | ||||||||||
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| Passengers | 6,000 | ||||||||||
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Geltendorf station is the largest railway station of the town of Geltendorf and is a railway junction in Upper Bavaria, Germany. The railway junction is also a station of the Munich S-Bahn. It has five platforms and is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 3 station. The station is served by about 150 trains daily of Deutsche Bahn, Bayerische Regiobahn (a subsidiary of Veolia Verkehr, BRB) and Regentalbahn, including 50 services of the Munich S-Bahn. The Bavarian Allgäu Railway and the Ammersee Railway cross at the station.
Geltendorf municipality also includes Walleshausen station and the disused stations of Kaltenberg and Wabern, all located on the Ammersee Railway.
Geltendorf station lies south of the town centre in the south of the district of Geltendorf Bahnhof (Geltendorf station). The station building is located just north of the tracks and has the address of Am Bahnhof 6. The station is about a kilometre away from the town centre of Geltendorf.
On 1 May 1873, the last section of the Allgäu Railway from Munich to Kaufering was opened, completing the line from Munich to Lindau. This route went through the municipality of Geltendorf, but no station was built in Geltendorf. The station was only built with the opening of Ammersee Railway from Augsburg to Schondorf on 30 June 1898 (and completed to Weilheim on the 24 December 1898) at the junction of two lines near Geltendorf. This was done particularly on the insistence of the monastery of St. Ottilien, which needed it for the carriage of building materials. Two signal boxes were built at the western and the eastern ends of the station. In 1907, the Allgäu Railway was duplicated and, as a result, Geltendorf station was expanded to five tracks and received an underpass to the central platforms. A grade-separated crossing was also built between the Ammersee and Allgäu railways and the route of the Ammersee Railway was changed. During the First World War, a prison camp (Puchheim central prison) was established in 1915 to the east of the station with its prisoners working on the railways. It was closed in 1921. Between 1937 and 1938, track supervisor’s office (Bahnmeisterei) No 2 was built at the eastern end of the station. In World War II, a bunker was built at the station for the railway employees. However, the station was not destroyed because of its low strategic importance. Between 18 June 1944 and the 27 April 1945, concentration camp prisoners were transported on both lines through Geltendorf station. Moreover, the original route of the Ammersee Railway was reactivated during World War II. This was used as a hiding place for ammunition shipments and was dismantled in 1947. From 1951 to 1952, the track supervisor’s office was expanded by building a second building.
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