The Gare de Lauterbourg (Lauterbourg station) is a station in the town of Lauterbourg in the département of Bas-Rhin in the French region of Grand Est. It is on the

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and the TER Grand Est networks and is served by regional express trains. As a border station, it is also served by

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trains.

Location

Lauterbourg station is 111 metres above sea level and located at kilometric point 55.493 on the line from Strasbourg to Lauterbourg, between Mothern and the Franco-German border. It is connected to the German railway network by the Bienwaldbahn (''Bienwaldbahn''). It is at the junction to the short Lauterbourg Port railway and was the terminus of the former Lauterbourg–Wissembourg railway.

History

Construction of the Lauterbourg railway station began in 1874 after the

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annexed Alsace-Lorraine in 1871. The line from Strasbourg to Lauterbourg was opened on 25 July 1876 by the Imperial Railways in Alsace-Lorraine (''Kaiserliche Generaldirektion der Eisenbahnen in Elsaß-Lothringen''). In 1900, the station was enlarged for the opening of the new Lauterbourg–Wissembourg railway, which was put in service on 1 July of the same year.. The ''Riviera-Express'' of the

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, connecting Berlin to Nice via Frankfurt, served the station from 3 December 1900. It was abandoned when the First World War broke out On 19 June 1919, the station became part of the network of the

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(AL), as a result of the Allied victory in the First World War. The station was extended in 1920; the work included the building of a customs office. On 1 January 1938, the SNCF took control of the railway installations of Lauterbourg. However, after the annexation of Alsace-Lorraine by Germany on 1 July 1940 during the Second World War, Deutsche Reichsbahn controlled the station and held it until the liberation of France (in 1944 –1945). Passenger services towards Wissembourg ended on 1 October 1947. Lauterbourg also had a minor locomotive depot. In 2014, the SNCF estimated the number of passengers using the station at 22,502 passengers.

Passenger services

Facilities

The station is unstaffed and has open access to the platforms. It is equipped with a ticket machine for the purchase of regional tickets. In addition, there is a Deutsche Bahn ticket machine. It has two platforms with shelters.

Services

Lauterbourg is a stop on the TER Alsace network, served by regional express trains on the Strasbourg-Ville–Lauterbourg route. It is also served by German regional trains ( Regionalbahn) of the Wörth (Rhein)–Lauterbourg route.

Other modes

There is parking for bikes and vehicles at the station. It is served by the buses of ''autocars TER'' on the Rœschwoog (station)–Seltz (station)–Lauterbourg (station) route and the interurban buses of ''Réseau 67'' on the Lauterbourg– Wissembourg route (line 314).

References

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