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Balduinstein is a station in the German state of
Rhineland-Palatinate Rhineland-Palatinate ( , ; german: link=no, Rheinland-Pfalz ; lb, Rheinland-Pfalz ; pfl, Rhoilond-Palz) is a western state of Germany. It covers and has about 4.05 million residents. It is the ninth largest and sixth most populous of the ...
on the Lahn Valley Railway. It lies to the north of the municipality of
Balduinstein Balduinstein is a municipality in the district of Rhein-Lahn, in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country ...
on the bank of the
Lahn The Lahn is a , right (or eastern) tributary of the Rhine in Germany. Its course passes through the federal states of North Rhine-Westphalia (23.0 km), Hesse (165.6 km), and Rhineland-Palatinate (57.0 km). It has its source in t ...
.


History

The
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construction company ''Spuhn'', which won the contract for the construction of the Lahn Valley Railway between Balduinstein and
Runkel Runkel is a town on the river Lahn in Limburg-Weilburg district in Hesse, Germany. Geography Location Runkel lies in the Lahn Valley on both sides of the river between the Westerwald and the Taunus, some eight kilometres east of Limburg. ...
, started work in Balduinstein in the autumn of 1857. Since August of the same year, the ''Georg Mayer'' company from Alzey had been working on the ''
Cramberg Cramberg is a municipality in the Nassau Nature Park in the district of Rhein-Lahn, in Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany. It belongs to the association community of Diez. Geography Cramberg is situated at the foothills of the Taunus i ...
tunnel'', the east portal of which lies south of Balduinstein. The resulting material was used as fill for the railway line, which required the demolition of many houses by the summer of 1860. The inhabitants' access to the Lahn was ensured by a number of underpasses and overpasses. The neoclassical station building was designed by the Diez architects Heinrich Velde, who also designed numerous other buildings along the railway line. The two-storey building was built with three-storey corner buildings and a very large covered porch.
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, who had moved back to his County of Holzappel in 1850, sought a stately entrance building for his guests staying at the newly redesigned Schaumburg Castle, although this matter was at discretion of the ruler, Adolphe, Duke of Nassau. The ''Fürstenzimmer'' ("princes’ room"), which had a separate entrance from the station forecourt as well as platform access and had 15 square metres of floor space, proved to be too small at the latest by the summer of 1863. Archduke Stephen requested permission to use the corner room of the first floor as a waiting room for his guests. The ''Fürstenzimmer'' was used until recently for normal platform access for all passengers. On 9 September 1991, the station building was added to Rhineland-Palatinate’s list of cultural monuments. The district administration of the
Rhein-Lahn-Kreis Rhein-Lahn-Kreis is a district (''Kreis'') in the east of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from north clockwise) Westerwaldkreis, Limburg-Weilburg, Rheingau-Taunus, Mainz-Bingen, Rhein-Hunsrück, Mayen-Koblenz, and the di ...
said that Balduinstein station was "a testimony of artistic creativity and technical activity ..in the Lahn valley" ("ein Zeugnis des künstlerischen Schaffens und des technischen Wirkens €¦im Lahntal"). Moreover, the building was a "characteristic feature" ("kennzeichnendes Merkmal") of the place and the preservation and care of the town's buildings were in the public interest for both urban and artistic reasons.


Change of ownership

Deutsche Bahn AG sold the building in February 2004 to ''First Real Estate Grundbesitz GmbH'' (FRE), which became insolvent in the autumn of 2007. In due course, ''Property First GmbH'' of Dortmund, ''Main Asset Management GmbH'' and the Luxembourg company ''Patron Elke S.a.r.L'' took possession. On 20 June 2015, the building was sold at an auction held by the auctioneer ''Karhausen AG'' for the "exceptionally high" price of €120,000 to a bidder who was resident in Limburg. With the upgrade of the Lahn Valley Railway, Deutsche Bahn stopped using it in mid-August 2015.


Operations

Balduinstein station was opened on 5 July 1862 with the opening of the
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section of the line. In the beginning, there were four passenger trains per day. The running time to Limburg was 25 minutes (2012: 11 minutes) with a stop in Fachingen; without a stop it took only 20 minutes. cited in:


Services

The following service stops at Balduinstein station:


References

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