Rheinzabern station

Rheinzabern
Through station
Stadtbahn train at the entrance of Rheinzabern station in February 2014
Location	Bahnhofstraße 26, Rheinzabern, Rhineland-Palatinate Germany
Coordinates	49°07′11″N 8°16′27″E / 49.119597°N 8.274264°E / 49.119597; 8.274264Coordinates: 49°07′11″N 8°16′27″E / 49.119597°N 8.274264°E / 49.119597; 8.274264
Line(s)	Schifferstadt–Wörth (41.0 km)
Platforms	2
Construction
Architectural style	Neoclassical
Other information
Station code	5429
DS100 code	RRZA
IBNR	721609
Category	6
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	25 June 1876

Rheinzabern station is the main station in the town of Rheinzabern in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Deutsche Bahn classifies it as a category 6 station and it has two platform tracks. It is located on the network of the Karlsruher Verkehrsverbund (Karlsruhe Transport Association, KVV) and belongs to fare zone 540. Since 2001, the station has also been part of the area where the fares of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar (Rhine-Neckar Transport Association, VRN) are accepted at a transitional rate. Its address is Bahnhofstraße 26.

It is located on the Schifferstadt–Wörth railway and was opened on 25 July 1876 with the commissioning of the Germersheim–Wörth section of that railway. It is now classified as a Haltepunkt (halt). Since late 2010, it has been part of the Karlsruhe Stadtbahn. Since two new halts were opened at the same time in Rheinzabern, it is also sometimes called Rheinzabern Bahnhof (Rheinzabern station) including in the recorded announcements of the Karlsruhe Stadtbahn.

The station is located on the northern edge of the built-up area of Rheinzabern.

Originally the administration of the Circle of the Rhine (Rheinkreis), which was part of Bavaria, planned that its first railway line would be first in the north-south direction from Rheinschanze via Lauterbourg to Strasbourg, which would compete with the Mannheim–Basel railway proposed by Baden. However, instead it was decided to build the Palatine Ludwig Railway (Pfälzische Ludwigsbahn, Ludwigshafen–Bexbach), which was opened in the period from 1847 to 1849. In the meantime, discussions took place as to whether a line from Neustadt via Landau to Wissembourg or a line along the Rhine via Speyer, Germersheim and Wörth was more urgent and desirable. Since the military preferred a route on the edge of the Palatinate Forest (Pfälzerwald), this was built in the form of the Maximilian Railway between Neustadt and Wissembourg.