Zell (Wiesental) station is the only station in

Zell im Wiesental Zell im Wiesental is a town in the district of Lörrach in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated in the Black Forest, on the river Wiese, 26 km northeast of Basel, and 32 km south of Freiburg. The town is famous for being the b ...

in the German state of

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 ...

and the terminus of the Wiese Valley Railway (''Wiesentalbahn''), which runs from

Basel Badischer Bahnhof Basel Badischer Bahnhof (literally "Basel Baden Railway station", the name referring to the Grand Duchy of Baden State Railways, which built the station) is a railway station situated in the Swiss city of Basel. The station is situated on Swiss s ...

. Since the summer of 2003, Zell station has been served only by the

Basel Regional S-Bahn ,french: RER trinational de Bâle , image = Logo trireno black.svg , alt = logo trireno , imagesize = 180 , image2 = Basel 2012-08 Mattes 1 (283).JPG , alt2 = S-Bahn train at B ...

History

After the opening of the line between

Basel , french: link=no, Bâlois(e), it, Basilese , neighboring_municipalities= Allschwil (BL), Hégenheim (FR-68), Binningen (BL), Birsfelden (BL), Bottmingen (BL), Huningue (FR-68), Münchenstein (BL), Muttenz (BL), Reinach (BL), Riehen (BS ...

and Schopfheim in 1862 by the Wiese Valley Railway Company (''Wiesenthalbahn-Gesellschaft'') from the ''Badischen Bahnhof'' (Baden station) in Basel, the line was extended to Zell on 5 June 1876 by the Schopfheim-Zell Railway Company (''Schopfheim-Zeller Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft''). This was followed on 7 July 1889 by a railway owned by the Baden railway consortium of Herrmann Bachstein, later called the

South German Railway Company The South German Railway Company (''Süddeutsche Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft AG'') or SEG was founded on 11 February 1895, in Darmstadt by the railway entrepreneur, Herrmann Bachstein, and several bank managers. Bachstein's railway The majority of s ...

(''Süddeutsche Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft AG''), the

Zell im Wiesental–Todtnau railway Zell may refer to: Places Austria * Zell am See, in Salzburg state * Zell am Ziller, in Tyrol * Zell, Carinthia, in Carinthia * in Upper Austria: ** Bad Zell ** Zell am Moos ** Zell an der Pram ** Zell am Pettenfirst Germany * Zell im Fichtelg ...

, known as the Upper Wiese Valley Railway (''Obere Wiesentalbahn'') and also as the ''Todtnauerli''. Passenger services on the 19 km-long narrow gauge railway Zell (Wiesental)–Todtnau were abandoned on 25 September 1966 and freight services on the line were closed on 24 September 1967. Shortly afterwards, the tracks were completely dismantled. On 15 June 2003, traffic on the Basel–Zell line was taken over by SBB GmbH, the German passenger transport subsidiary of

Swiss Federal Railways Swiss Federal Railways (german: link=no, Schweizerische Bundesbahnen, ''SBB''; french: link=no, Chemins de fer fédéraux suisses, ''CFF''; it, Ferrovie federali svizzere, ''FFS'') is the national railway company of Switzerland. It is usuall ...

(SBB), and integrated into the network of the

. Simultaneously, the status of Zell station was downgraded at this time from a station to a halt (''Haltepunkt''). It is now served only by S-Bahn lines S5 and S6.

Infrastructure

The entrance building of Zell station is now privately owned and is no longer used for railway purposes. Since the incorporation of the Wiese Valley Railway in the Basel Regional S-Bahn, Zell station has only had a single track with a platform next to the entrance building. The track ends at a buffer at the end of the platform. Directly in front of the platform next to the entrance building there are two bus stops, which are served by buses to the surrounding communities, including along the former railway line to

Todtnau Todtnau is a town in the district of Lörrach in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. As of 2009 its population was of 4,932. Geography It is situated in the Black Forest, on the river Wiese, 20 km southeast of Freiburg. The municipality counts ...

Services

Zell im Wiesental belongs to the area where public transport is organised by the (Regional transport association of Lörrach, RVL). The transitional fares of

Tarifverbund Nordwestschweiz The Tarifverbund Nordwestschweiz, also known by its initialisation TNW, is a Swiss public transport tariff network covering the whole of the cantons of Basel-Stadt and Basel-Landschaft, together with parts of the cantons of Aargau, Jura and Sol ...

(Tariff association of Northwestern Switzerland, TNW) are honoured in Basel. the following rail services stop at Zell (Wiesental): *

Basel S-Bahn ,french: RER trinational de Bâle , image = Logo trireno black.svg , alt = logo trireno , imagesize = 180 , image2 = Basel 2012-08 Mattes 1 (283).JPG , alt2 = S-Bahn train at B ...

: ** : hourly service to on Sundays. ** : half-hourly service to . In addition, some local and regional bus services run from Zell station.

References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Zell im Wiesental Railway stations in Baden-Württemberg Railway stations in Germany opened in 1876 Buildings and structures in Lörrach (district)