Ottweiler (Saar) station
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- Nahe Valley Railway (114,8 km)
- Oster Valley Railway (0,0 km)
(and 1 special platform)
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| Location | Bahnhofstr. 2, Ottweiler, Saarland Germany | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 49°24′09″N 7°09′58″E / 49.402388°N 7.166077°E | |||||||||||||||
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| Platforms | 2 (previously 3) (and 1 special platform) | |||||||||||||||
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| Accessible | Platform 1 only | |||||||||||||||
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| Station code | 4837 | |||||||||||||||
| DS100 code | SOTW[1] | |||||||||||||||
| IBNR | 8000875 | |||||||||||||||
| Category | 5 [2] | |||||||||||||||
| Fare zone | SaarVV: 351[3] | |||||||||||||||
| Website | www.bahnhof.de | |||||||||||||||
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| Opened | About 1860 | |||||||||||||||
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| ca. 1300 | ||||||||||||||||
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Ottweiler (Saar) station is centrally located in the town of Ottweiler in the German state of the Saarland on the Nahe Valley Railway, which was opened in 1860. Since 1937, the Ottweiler–Schwarzerden line (also called the Ostertalbahn, Oster Valley Railway) has branched off in Ottweiler; it is now used as a museum railway. The station is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 5 station.[2]
A half-timbered building was erected as a temporary station building in 1859. Due to financial difficulties of the Rhein-Nahe Railway (Nahe Valley Railway), however, the building remained in operation until 1877. The station building built in 1877 is one of the oldest in the Saarland and is a listed building.[4] The two-storey, plastered building with a slated gabled roof (with the gable facing the tracks), is located west of the railway tracks. The windows and doors are built in the round-arch style (Rundbogenstil).[5]
The Deutsche Bahn station building was closed in 1995. The station was sold to the town of Ottweiler in 2012. Its future use was still controversial in 2012.[6] After renovation, the Ottweiler municipal library is now housed there.
