Rheinhausen Ost station

Rheinhausen Ost
Through station
Platform 2, 2015
Location	Friedrich-Alfredstr. 182, Rheinhausen-Mitte, Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia Germany
Coordinates	51°24′06″N 6°43′26″E / 51.40177°N 6.72387°E / 51.40177; 6.72387Coordinates: 51°24′06″N 6°43′26″E / 51.40177°N 6.72387°E / 51.40177; 6.72387
Line(s)	Osterath–Dortmund Süd
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	5254
DS100 code	KRHO
IBNR	8005065
Category	5
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	1 October 1907
Previous names	Rheinhausen Rheinhausen (Nrh)
Services
Preceding station   Deutsche Bahn   Following station Rheinhausen toward Aachen Hbf RB 33 Rhein-Niers-Bahn Duisburg-Hochfeld Süd toward Duisburg Hbf Preceding station   Abellio Rail   Following station Rheinhausen toward Mönchengladbach Hbf RB 35 Emscher-Niederrhein-Bahn Duisburg-Hochfeld Süd toward Wesel

Rheinhausen Ost (east) is a station designated as a Haltepunkt (halt) in the Duisburg suburb of Rheinhausen in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It was built in 1907 after the commissioning of the Rheinhausen–Kleve railway on the left (western) bank of the Lower Rhine for workers of the Krupp’s steel works. The station was directly at the main entrance to the steel works, Tor 1 (gate 1), which is now heritage-listed.

Its construction resulted from the visit of the German Emperor Wilhelm II to the Krupp’s steel works, which took place one year before, on 9 August 1906. A temporary halt was set up at the location of the later station. "At 10:05 am, the emperor arrived at the halt in the imperial special train and was received by the board of directors of Krupp", according to an Extrablatt des Allgemeinen Anzeigers für den Kreis Mörs ("special edition of the general gazette of the District of Mörs"). On departure, the men's chorus of the Krupp company was placed opposite the imperial saloon car.

On 16 May 1907, the Krupp company requested a permanent station for works traffic in Atrop, a district of Hochemmerich, to add to the existing Rheinhausen station, which was located on the territory of the former municipality of Friemersheim at the headquarters of the Krupp company. The then rivalry between the two municipalities led to a fierce dispute over the designation of the stations; some argued that Rheinhausen station should have been renamed Friemersheim; Hochemmerich initially wanted the name of Atrop for the Rheinhausen Ost station and the Krupp’s works wanted the name of Friedrich-Alfred-Hütte (after Friedrich Alfred Krupp, with Hütte meaning "works"). The original Rheinhausen station, which was established in 1877, was renamed Friemersheim when the new halt was opened, which was given the name of Rheinhausen. After the merger of the municipality with the rural community of Rheinhausen in 1923 it was given the slightly amended name of Rheinhausen (Nrh) (Nrh standing for Niederrhein or Lower Rhine). The current name was adopted in 1936/37.