Neuenburg (Baden) station is a station in Neuenburg am Rhein in

Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg (; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants across a ...

, Germany. It lies on the single-track on the

Müllheim–Mulhouse railway The Müllheim–Mulhouse railway is a 22.140 km-long single-track railway, crossing the Upper Rhine between Baden, Germany and Alsace, France. The whole line is electrified with overhead lines, catenary, using different national electrificat ...

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(DB) designates it as a class 6 station. The station lies on the border between

Baden Baden (; ) is a historical territory in South Germany, in earlier times on both sides of the Upper Rhine but since the Napoleonic Wars only East of the Rhine. History The margraves of Baden originated from the House of Zähringen. Baden is ...

(Germany) and

Alsace Alsace (, ; ; Low Alemannic German/ gsw-FR, Elsàss ; german: Elsass ; la, Alsatia) is a cultural region and a territorial collectivity in eastern France, on the west bank of the upper Rhine next to Germany and Switzerland. In 2020, it had ...

(France) and is served by DB and

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trains.

Location

Neuenburg station is located on the southern outskirts of Neuenburg in an industrial area, a few metres from a small shopping centre. The national border between Germany and France is around 1.5 kilometres to the northwest. Its address is ''Beim Bahnhof 2''.

History

Neuenburg station was opened in 1878 as part of the construction of the Müllheim–Mülhausen railway. The nearby bridge over the Rhine at

Chalampé Chalampé (; german: Eichwald) is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France, just across the river Rhine from Neuenburg, Germany. The town was founded by soldiers of Marshal Dubourg who in 1709 had beaten the Aus ...

was destroyed in the Second World War, but rebuilt after the war. International passenger traffic ended in the mid-1970s, but in the summer of 1975 there were still four train pairs between Mulhouse and Müllheim. Neuchatel was subsequently the terminus of a branch line from Müllheim, which had been electrified since May 1965. This section was also finally closed on 31 May 1980 and the station lost all passenger services. After a feasibility study on the line found that it would have positive net benefits, special train services were resumed on selected Sundays and public holidays from 2006 onwards. The station has been served by regular services since the extension of the

Offenburg Offenburg ("open borough" - coat of arms showing open gates; Low Alemannic German, Low Alemmanic: ''Offäburg'') is a city located in the state of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. With nearly 60,000 inhabitants (2019), it is the largest city and the ad ...

–) Freiburg– Müllheim Regionalbahn service to Neuenburg at the 2010 annual timetable change. Up to seven additional services between Baden and Alsace were added each day on 9 December 2012.

Rail services

Neuenburg is located in the area where rail services and fares are administered by ''Regio-Verkehrsverbund Freiburg'' (Freiburg regional transport association, RVF). The station is served every two hours by Regionalbahn services on the Neuenburg–Freiburg(–Offenburg–

Karlsruhe Karlsruhe ( , , ; South Franconian: ''Kallsruh'') is the third-largest city of the German state (''Land'') of Baden-Württemberg after its capital of Stuttgart and Mannheim, and the 22nd-largest city in the nation, with 308,436 inhabitants. ...

) route. Some additional services run on working days. Services are operated with Class 146 locomotives and double-deck coaches or class 111 locomotives and

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("n-coaches"). In addition, up to seven train pairs on the Müllheim–

Mulhouse Mulhouse (; Alsatian language, Alsatian: or , ; ; meaning ''Mill (grinding), mill house'') is a city of the Haut-Rhin Departments of France, department, in the Grand Est Regions of France, region, eastern France, close to the France–Switzerl ...

route stop at the station every day, at least one train pair of which runs directly from/to Freiburg. These services are operated by French Alstom Coradia (classX 73900) diesel multiple units of

TER Grand Est TER Grand Est or TER Fluo is the regional rail network serving the region of Grand Est, northeastern France. It is operated by the French national railway company SNCF. It was formed in 2016 from the previous TER networks TER Alsace, TER Lorra ...

Planning

After the completion of the third and fourth track on the

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, an S-Bahn operation would run hourly from Mulhouse via Müllheim and Freiburg to Sasbach according to the " Breisgau S-Bahn 2020 " concept.

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