Burg- und Nieder-Gemünden station
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- Vogelsberg Railway (km 38.0)
- Kirchhain–Burg- und Nieder-Gemünden railway (km 0.0) (closed)
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 Burg- und Nieder-Gemünden station in July 2012 | |||||||||||
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| Location | Bahnhofstr. 14, Nieder-Gemünden, Gemünden, Hesse Germany | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 50°41′26″N 9°02′51″E / 50.690633°N 9.047488°E | ||||||||||
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| Platforms | 1 (formerly 5) | ||||||||||
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| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||
| Architectural style | Neoclassical | ||||||||||
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| Station code | 978[1] | ||||||||||
| DS100 code | FBNG[2] | ||||||||||
| IBNR | 8000061 | ||||||||||
| Category | 6[1] | ||||||||||
| Fare zone |  : 0910[3] | ||||||||||
| Website | www.bahnhof.de | ||||||||||
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| Opened | 29 July 1870 | ||||||||||
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Burg-und Nieder Gemünden station is, along with Ehringshausen (Oberhess) station, one of two stations in the municipality of Gemünden (Felda) in Vogelsbergkreis, Hesse, Germany. It lies at kilometer 38.0 of the Vogelsberg Railway (Gießen–Fulda). From 1901 to 1991, Kirchhain–Burg- und Nieder-Gemünden railway (also known as the Ohmtalbahn—Ohm Valley Railway) branched off here to Kirchhain via Homberg (Ohm). It is listed as a cultural monument under the Hessian Monument Protection Act (Hessischer Denkmalschutzgesetz),[4] but the station building itself is in a neglected state.
Burg- und Nieder-Gemünden station was opened with the Grünberg–Alsfeld section of the Vogelsberg Railway on 29 July 1870. The Vogelsberg Railway was extended to Lauterbach on 30 October and to Bad Salzschlirf on 31 December of the same year. The Bad Salzschlirf–Fulda section was completed on 31 July 1871.
The Burg- und Nieder-Gemünden–Nieder-Ofleiden section of the Kirchhain–Burg- und Nieder-Gemünden railway was opened by the Grand Duchy of Hesse State Railways (Großherzoglich Hessische Staatseisenbahnen) on 1 April 1901.[5]
Passenger traffic on the Kirchhain–Burg- und Nieder-Gemünden railway ended on 31 May 1980. Freight transport ended on the siding to the Nieder-Ofleiden basalt plant on 28 September 1991 and the line was closed.[5] When the Ohm Valley Railway was dismantled in 1999, Burg- und Nieder-Gemünden station was reclassified as a Haltepunkt (halt).
Location
Burg- und Nieder-Gemünden station serves the two districts that it is named after, Burg-Gemünden (Castle Gemünden) and Nieder-Gemünden (Lower Gemünden) of the municipality of Gemünden (Felda). It has the address of Bahnhofstraße 14 and is located on the south-western outskirts of Nieder-Gemünden.