Hinterweidenthal Ost station
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Hinterweidenthal Ost
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Hinterweidenthal Ost station, then Kaltenbach Ost, 1911
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| Location | Kaltenbach 15, Hinterweidenthal, Rhineland-Palatinate Germany |
| Coordinates | 49°12′11″N 7°46′23″E / 49.20311°N 7.773042°ECoordinates: 49°12′11″N 7°46′23″E / 49.20311°N 7.773042°E |
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| Platforms | 2 (formerly 3) |
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| Station code | 2780 |
| DS100 code | SHW |
| IBNR | 8079147 |
| Category | 6 |
| Website | www.bahnhof.de |
| History | |
| Opened | 1 December 1911 |
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Hinterweidenthal Ost station (originally called Kaltenbach Ost and later called Hinterweidenthal until 1970) is one of a total of three stations in the municipality of Hinterweidenthal in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Deutsche Bahn classifies it as a category 6 station and it has two platform tracks. The station is located in the network of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar (Rhine-Neckar transport association, VRN) and belongs to fare zone 998.
It was opened in 1911 as a junction station for the newly built Wieslauter Railway to Bundenthal. Its importance has always been as an interchange station between the latter and the Landau–Rohrbach railway, which has existed in its present form since 1895. After passenger services were abandoned at the station, it functioned exclusively as a depot for railway operations and as a freight yard. After traffic on the Wieslauter line was reactivated on weekends in 1997, it has again been served by passenger trains, but only in order for passengers to change trains to and from the main line. Therefore it is only served when the branch line is operating. Its address is Kaltenbach 15.
The station is located about two kilometres northeast of the built-up area of Hinterweidenthal. The Landau–Rohrbach railway runs in this area from the east-northeast to the west. The Wieslauter Railway branches off parallel to this, but it runs down a slope to the lower valley of the Lauter.Federal highway 10 and the neighbouring Horbach stream also run parallel to both lines.
During the building of the South Palatinate Railway (Südpfalzbahn, now the Landau–Rohrbach railway), a railway station was built in the heights of the hamlet of Kaltenbach, which at that time was in the municipality of Wilgartswiesen. Due to its importance for the nearby municipality of Hinterweidenthal, the station was designated as Hinterweidenthal-Kaltenbach.
In the meantime, plans were made to build a railway line in the Wieslauter valley. While some plans intended that such a line would connect to the main line at Kaltenbach, there was also support for the extension of the Winden–Bad Bergzabern railway, which was opened to Dahn in 1870. On the Bavarian side, there were plans for a line from Wissembourg (which had been part of Germany since 1870 and called Weißenburg) via Dahn and Lemberg to Pirmasens. Since this proved to be too expensive, the decision was taken to build a branch line. The station in Kaltenbach was found to be unsuitable for a junction because of its unfavourable topographical situation and as a result a new station was built two kilometres east of it, originally under the name of Kaltenbach Ost (east) at the junction to the branch line. The latter was opened together with the Wieslauterbahn (Wieslauter Railway) to Bundenthal-Rumbach on 1 December 1911. The opening train left the station at nine o'clock in the morning.
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