Germersheim station
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Germersheim
 
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Germersheim station in 2015
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| Location | Bahnhofstr. 13, Germersheim, Rhineland-Palatinate Germany |
| Coordinates | 49°13′33″N 8°21′53″E / 49.225915°N 8.364807°ECoordinates: 49°13′33″N 8°21′53″E / 49.225915°N 8.364807°E |
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| Platforms | 4 |
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| Station code | 2092 |
| DS100 code | RGE |
| IBNR | 8000376 |
| Category | 5 |
| Website | www.bahnhof.de |
| History | |
| Opened | 14 March 1864 |
Germersheim station is a junction station in the town of Germersheim in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Deutsche Bahn classifies it as a category 5 station and it has four platform tracks. The station is located in the network of the Karlsruher Verkehrsverbund (Karlsruhe Transport Association, KVV) and belongs to fare zone 575. Since 1996, Germersheim has also been part of the area where the tickets of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar (Rhine-Neckar Transport Association, VRN) are accepted at a transitional rate. The address of the station is Bahnhofstraße 13.
The station was opened on 14 March 1864 as the terminus of the first section of the branch line from Schifferstadt to Speyer. On 16 May 1872, it became the eastern terminus of a line from Landau. The line from Schifferstadt was extended to Wörth on 25 July 1876. On 15 May of the following year, the Bruhrain Railway from Bruchsal was extended from Rheinsheim across the Rhine to Germersheim. The line to Landau was gradually phased out in the 1980s. Since 2006 the station has been part of the Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn and since 2010 also part of the Karlsruhe Stadtbahn. The original entrance building is under heritage protection.
The station is located on the northern outskirts of Germersheim. Part of the track layout is in the municipality of Lingenfeld. District road 31 runs to to Lingenfeld to the west and parallel to the tracks and the street of Am Alten Bahnhof runs to the east.
The Schifferstadt–Wörth railway comes from the north-north-west. South of the station, it takes a large arc around the town. The Bruhrain Railway (Bruhrainbahn) follows it first to the south, then runs on a higher embankment and runs over an approximately semicircular course to cross the state border between Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate in the form of Rhine. The now disused route to Landau followed the route to Schifferstadt to the north and branched off to the west just before Lingenfeld station, passing through the built-up area of Lingenfeld municipality.
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