Leun/Braunfels station

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Leun/Braunfels
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Through station
Lahnbahnhof Bahnhof.jpg
View of the entrance building and the platforms
General information
LocationBurgsolmer Str. 3, Lahnbahnhof, Leun, Hesse
Germany
Coordinates 50°32′24″N8°22′01″E / 50.539907°N 8.366911°E / 50.539907; 8.366911
Line(s)
Platforms2
Construction
ArchitectHeinrich Velde
Other information
Station code831 [1]
DS100 code FBFS [2]
IBNR8001132
Category 6 [1]
Fare zone Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund logo.svg : 5329 [3]
Website www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened10 January 1863
Services
Preceding station Hessische Landesbahn Following station
Stockhausen (Lahn)
towards Limburg (Lahn)
RB 45 Solms (Lahn)
towards Fulda

Leun/Braunfels is a heritage-listed station in the district of Lahnbahnhof in the town of Leun in the German state of Hesse. It is in the network of the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV) and is located on the Lahn Valley Railway (Lahntalbahn). Directly next to the entrance building was the Braunfels terminus of the Ernst Railway (Ernstbahn) to Philippstein of which only a few remains are visible. It operated from 1875 to 1962.

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History

The station was opened under the name of Braunfels (Lahn) on 10 January 1863 with the completion of the third stage of the Lahn Valley Railway. [4]

In September 2010, the station was modernised and the station was reclassified as a Haltepunkt (halt). The old island platform was removed and was replaced a new side platform connected by a pedestrian subway. Both platforms have barrier-free access. [5] [6]

The building was sold to a Dutch bidder at an auction for €34,000 on 7 December 2012. [7]

Infrastructure

The station building is located in the Leun district of Lahnbahnhof (“Lahn station”) on Burgsolmser Straße near the old Leun bridge. The neo-classical building was designed by Heinrich Velde and resembles the station buildings of Weilburg and Diez, which also derive from his designs. [4]

It has its windows and doors along seven vertical axes of a side-gabled and plastered building with tower-like elevated avant-corps at each end. These have hip roofs and adjoin the side-gabled structure. While the western avant-corps has four windows, the eastern one has only one window axis; a further side building has been added later.

Connections

The fares of services at the station are set by the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV).

Trains

Deutsche Bahn operates Regionalbahn services on the Lahn Valley Railway between Limburg and Gießen, some continuing to Alsfeld and Fulda. These services were operated by Deutsche Bahn until December 2011. Since the timetable change of 2011/2012 on 11 December 2011, the RB services on this section of the Lahn Valley Railway have been operated by Hessische Landesbahn. Alstom Coradia LINT 41 (class 648) sets are used. The Regional-Express (RE 25) services run through the station without stopping. The Regional-Express (RE 25) services are operated with LINT 27 and 41 (class 640 and 648) railcars and Bombardier Talent (class 643) sets. The cities of Limburg, Weilburg, Wetzlar and Gießen can be reached from here without changing trains.

The following service stops in Leun/Braunfels station: [8]

LineRouteInterval
RB 45Regionalbahn
Limburg (Lahn) – Eschhofen – Weilburg – Leun/Braunfels – Wetzlar – Gießen (– Grünberg (Oberhess) – Mücke (Hess) – Alsfeld (Oberhess) – Fulda)		Hourly
(+ extra trains in peak hour)

Buses

Bus route 180 serves Leun and Braunfels. The departure times are coordinated with rail services on the Lahn Valley Railway. Connections are available from Monday to Friday and on Saturday afternoons. In addition, bus route 120 operates several times a day between Holzhausen and Solms and stops at the station.

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References

  1. 1 2 "Stationspreisliste 2024" [Station price list 2024](PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 24 April 2023. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
  2. ↑ Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN   978-3-89494-139-0.
  3. ↑ "Tarifinformationen 2021" (PDF). Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund. 1 January 2021. p. 132. Retrieved 8 April 2021.
  4. 1 2 "Bahnhof, Leun" (in German). Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Hessen. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
  5. ↑ Pro Bahn & Bus e.V., ed. (2008). Hessenschiene 73. Streckentelegramm (in German). Butzbach: Druckhaus Gratzfeld. pp. 44ff.
  6. ↑ Pro Bahn & Bus e.V., ed. (2009). Hessenschiene 77. Modernisierung der Bahnstationen in Mittelhessen (in German). Butzbach: Druckhaus Gratzfeld. pp. 15ff.
  7. ↑ "unknown". Wetzlarer Neue Zeitung (in German). 5 January 2013.{{cite news}}: Cite uses generic title (help)
  8. ↑ "Time table line number 625" (in German). Deutsche Bahn. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
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