Monsheim station
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Monsheim
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Monsheim, Rhineland-Palatinate Germany |
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| Coordinates | 49°38′01″N 8°12′30″E / 49.633685°N 8.2083857°ECoordinates: 49°38′01″N 8°12′30″E / 49.633685°N 8.2083857°E | |||||||||||||||
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| Platforms | 3 | |||||||||||||||
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| Station code | 4168 | |||||||||||||||
| DS100 code | FMSH | |||||||||||||||
| IBNR | 8000663 | |||||||||||||||
| Category | 5 | |||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1864 | |||||||||||||||
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Monsheim station is in the municipality of Monsheim in the Alzey-Worms district of the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It is at the junction of the Rheinhessen Railway, the Palatine Northern Railway and the Zeller Valley Railway. The station’s entrance building is protected as a monument. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 5 station.
The first Monsheim station was opened in 1864 simultaneously with the section of the Rheinhessen Railway from Worms. The importance of the station rose sharply as a result of the continuation of the construction of the Rheinhessen line via Alzey to Bingen and the connection of the Palatine Northern Railway and the Zeller Valley Railway. As a result, a new station building was built in 1885.
The station stopped being a railway junction with the closure of the Palatine Northern Railway between Grünstadt and Monsheim in 1984 and the Zeller Valley Railway in 1985. However, it became a railway junction again in 1995 when services were restored on the Palatine Northern Railway to Monsheim. Since 2001, excursion traffic has operated again on the Zeller Valley Railway on Sundays, but a resumption of regular services on the line is not currently proposed.
Coinciding with the reactivation of the Palatine Northern Railway, the station was transformed into the Monsheim “environmental station" (Umweltbahnhof) as a Rhineland-Palatinate pilot project. Key elements of the concept were the reuse of the reception building and goods shed, the construction of a bus station and commuter parking and the re-use of disused railway land south and north of the railway tracks.
The once extensive railway tracks were largely dismantled after 1984. The “home” platform and the adjacent track were abandoned during its conversion into an environmental station and filled in, so that the station now has only three of its original five platform tracks.
The station building was built in 1885 in an historicist style. The original three-storey central block is flanked by two two-storey wings, with the gables not facing the platform. The ground floor is accented by round-arched windows and doors.
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