Nistertal-Bad Marienberg station
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Nistertal-Bad Marienberg
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| Location | Bahnhofstr. 2, Nistertal, Rhineland-Palatinate Germany |
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| Coordinates | 50°37′57″N 7°54′02″E / 50.63249°N 7.90058°ECoordinates: 50°37′57″N 7°54′02″E / 50.63249°N 7.90058°E | ||||||||||
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| Platforms | 3 | ||||||||||
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| Station code | 1620 | ||||||||||
| DS100 code | FERW | ||||||||||
| IBNR | 8001819 | ||||||||||
| Category | 6 | ||||||||||
| Website | www.bahnhof.de | ||||||||||
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| Opened | 1 October 1886 | ||||||||||
| Previous names | Erbach | ||||||||||
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Nistertal-Bad Marienberg station (formerly: Erbach) is, along with Büdingen (Westerw) station, one of two rail stations in the municipality of Nistertal in the Westerwald and the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. The station is located at line-kilometre 42.4 on the Limburg (Lahn)–Altenkirchen (Westerw)–Au (Sieg) railway (also known as the Oberwesterwaldbahn or Upper Westerwald Railway). From 1911 to 1971, the Erbach–Fehl-Ritzhausen railway branched off the Upper Westerwald Railway here.
The station was originally called Erbach (Westerw), since it was in the Nistertal district of Erbach. From 1911 to 1971, Marienberg-Langenbach station was located a few kilometres southwest of the centre of the town of Marienberg. With the decommissioning of the Erbach–Fehl-Ritzhausen railway, Erbach station became the closest station to Bad Marienberg and so it was renamed Nistertal/Bad Marienberg to reflect that fact that it now serves both municipalities.
Nistertal-Bad Marienberg station was opened with the Hachenburg–Hadamar section of the Upper Westerwald Railway on 1 October 1886 under the name of Erbach (Westerw).
The Erbach–Fehl-Ritzhausen railway was somewhat difficult to build due to the unsuitable subsurface near Erbach. The line had to be built on the western slope of the Nister. In addition to the crossing of the Upper Westerwald Railway near Erbach station, an eleven-arched concrete viaduct, which, at about 300 metres long and almost 40 metres high, was the largest of its kind in the German Empire at the time, was built over the Nister in only six months. It was built without steel reinforcement and was considered a "miracle of technology“. The railway line was finally opened on 31 August 1911.
Passenger services over the whole Erbach–Fehl-Ritzhausen railway and freight traffic between Marienberg and Fehl-Ritzhausen was discontinued on 26 September 1971. The remainder of the section, which was still used for freight traffic until the end of 1994, even if only occasionally, was closed down on 1 July 1996.
After the closure of the Erbach–Fehl-Ritzhausen railway in 1971, the Erbach Bridge was preserved as a heritage-listed technical structure.
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