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Hückelhoven-Baal Station
Hückelhoven-Baal station is in the Hückelhoven district of Baal in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia on the Aachen–Mönchengladbach railway. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a German railway station categories, category 5 station. With its construction as an interchange station on two levels, it became important as a hub for passenger services, but in recent years it has lost this significance due to the closure of the adjacent section of the Jülich–Dalheim railway. Meanwhile, the passenger station has been reclassified as a halt and it was renamed as Hückelhoven-Baal in 2002. Baal freight yard still exists. History In 1852, was the Aachen–Mönchengladbach line was opened by the former Royal Division of the Aachen-Düsseldorf-Ruhrort Railway, Aachen-Düsseldorf-Ruhrort Railway Company and Baal station was at the 41.6 kilometre point, serving passengers and freight. This station was equipped with an entrance building, a ramp for handling freight, a small Rai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hückelhoven
Hückelhoven (; ) is a town in the district of Heinsberg, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated on the river Rur, approx. 10 km east of Heinsberg, 20 km south-west of Mönchengladbach and approximately 15 km from the border with the Netherlands. Hückelhoven owes its development from village to town to the coal mining industry; the Sophia-Jacoba colliery was opened in 1914. This colliery (the last in the Aachen coalfield) was closed in 1997. Town parts The urban area of Hückelhoven extends in a north-south direction of around 10 km from Altmyhl to Brachelen and in an east-west direction of around 6 km from Hilfarth to Baal and Ratheim to Kleingladbach. This gives it a total area of 61.27 km². The urban area is divided into the following 11 districts. * Altmyhl * Baal * Brachelen * Doveren * Hilfarth * Hückelhoven * Kleingladbach * Millich * Ratheim * Rurich * Schaufenberg History The place name Hückelhoven with its place name ending in -hoven sug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linnich
Linnich is a town in the district of Düren in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located on the River Rur (Roer river), approx. 10 km north-west of Jülich. Economy Linnich is the home of SIG Combibloc, the specialist for aseptic carton packaging. On the same Industrial site Gascogne Laminates Germany is producing laminates packaging for the pharmaceutical industry. Town twinnings Since 1974, Linnich is twinned with the French town of Lesquin in the Nord département. Transportation Linnich has no direct connections to German Autobahns, but the exits Erkelenz-Süd of the BAB 46, Titz, Jülich-Ost or Aldenhoven of the BAB 44 can be used. Linnich is connected to the Rurtalbahn since 2002, and has one station near the SIG-factory and one in the suburb Tetz. Culture and landmarks Museums * Deutsche Glasmalerei-Museum (''German Stained glass Stained glass refers to coloured glass as a material or art and architectural works created from it. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wuppertal Hauptbahnhof
Wuppertal Hauptbahnhof (German language, German for Wuppertal central station) is a railway station in the city of Wuppertal, just south of the Ruhr Area, in the Germany, German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is on Elberfeld–Dortmund railway, the line between Düsseldorf/Cologne and Dortmund. The 1848 reception building is one of the oldest of its kind. The station was originally Elberfeld station and has been renamed several times since. Since 1992, it has been called ''Wuppertal Hauptbahnhof''. Wuppertal Hauptbahnhof is also the site of lost luggage operations for Deutsche Bahn. History On 3 September 1841, a few years after the opening of the first railway in Germany, the Dusseldorf-Elberfeld Railway Company (German language, German: ''Düsseldorf-Elberfelder Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft'', DEE) began operation of the Düsseldorf–Elberfeld railway, Düsseldorf–Elberfeld line from its Düsseldorf station to its Elberfeld station (now Wuppertal-Steinbeck station). It wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof
Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof is the main railway station of Düsseldorf, the state capital of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. History The station was opened on 1 October 1891. It replaced the three following stations: *the ''Bergisch-Märkische station'' of the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company (BME), originally opened by the Düsseldorf-Elberfeld Railway Company in 1838 in the area that is now Graf-Adolf-Platz as a through station on the Düsseldorf–Elberfeld railway, company's east–west line from Elberfeld to its station at Rheinknie. *the ''Cologne-Minden station'' which the Cologne-Minden Railway Company (CME) opened in 1845 southeast of the BME station as a terminus to which branches were built from the company's north–south Cologne–Duisburg railway, Cologne–Duisburg main line, and *the ''Rhenish station'' built by the Rhenish Railway Company (RhE) in 1877 in Düsseldorf-Pempelfort at the end of a branch line from its north–south Troisdorf–Mülheim-Speldorf r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mönchengladbach Hauptbahnhof
Mönchengladbach Hauptbahnhof (German for ''Mönchengladbach main station'') is a railway station in the city of Mönchengladbach in western Germany. Overview The station is the largest railway station in the city and, along with Rheydt Hbf, one of the two Hauptbahnhof stations in Mönchengladbach. Mönchengladbach is the only city with two stations designated as a Hauptbahnhof on its soil, due to the merger between the cities of Mönchengladbach and Rheydt in the 1970s, and the subsequent reluctance of Deutsche Bundesbahn to rename Rheydt Hauptbahnhof. Mönchengladbach Hbf also is the busiest (in terms of passengers) station in Germany to lack long-distance trains. Railway lines calling at the station The station is on the following routes: * Aachen–Mönchengladbach (KBS 485) * Duisburg-Ruhrort–Mönchengladbach (KBS 425) * Mönchengladbach–Düsseldorf (KBS 485, 450.8) * Mönchengladbach–Cologne (KBS 465) See also * Rail transport in Germany * Railway stations i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rheydt Hauptbahnhof
Rheydt Hauptbahnhof is a railway station in Mönchengladbach, Germany. Mönchengladbach is the only city in Germany that has two stations called Hauptbahnhof, due to the merger of the city of Rheydt into Mönchengladbach in the late 1970s. Rheydt Hbf and Mönchengladbach After the merging of the two cities, the station was not renamed to ''Mönchengladbach-Rheydt'' as in all other cases where cities were merged in the 1970s. The Deutsche Bundesbahn retained the name (and the name of suburban stops such as ''Rheydt-Odenkirchen''); Mönchengladbach has two "main stations", Mönchengladbach Hauptbahnhof and Rheydt Hauptbahnhof. Operational usage The station is served by the following lines: * Aachen–Mönchengladbach railway, Aachen – Mönchengladbach (KBS 485) * Rheydt–Köln-Ehrenfeld railway, Rheydt – Köln-Ehrenfeld (KBS 465) * Iron Rhine, Rheydt – Dalheim (– Antwerpen) (KBS 487) Only regional services call at the station. It is at the southwestern border of the Ver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herzogenrath Station
Herzogenrath station is the most important railway station in the city of Herzogenrath, Städteregion Aachen, NRW, Germany. Here, the lines to Sittard via Landgraaf and Heerlen and to Stolberg, both part of the regional ''Euregiobahn'' network, branch from the main line from Aachen to Mönchengladbach. The station is in the area of the Aachen transport association ''(Aachener Verkehrsverbund, AVV)'' and linked to an adjacent bus station and a park-and-ride parking deck. For the RE 18 trains to Heerlen, this is the only stop in Germany. History Herzogenrath was connected to the railway network in 1852, and the still-in-use station building was inaugurated one year later. 1857, a loading platform was constructed to load coal from the near Grube Anna in Alsdorf before a route to Stolberg via Alsdorf was opened in 1890. In this year, also a Rail yard started operation, but went defunct in 1950. 1892, the railway line to Heerlen in the Netherlands was opened. In December 2004 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aachen Hauptbahnhof
Aachen Hauptbahnhof (German for Aachen main station) is the most important railway station for the city of Aachen, in the far west of Germany near the Dutch and Belgian border. It is the largest of the four currently active Aachen stations, and is integrated into the long-distance network. History A station at Aachen was first opened in 1841, when the Rheinische Eisenbahngesellschaft opened its line from Cologne. The line first was extended to Herbesthal (near the Belgian border) and on 15 October 1843 to Antwerp. The first station was built outside of the city walls, however the city soon grew and the station eventually became surrounded by new buildings. The Prussian state railways deemed that rather impractical and decided to build a new station situated on a hillside. Embankments and new bridges were built from 1901 onward, and on 21 December 1905 the station opened at its new location. The station remained largely undisturbed until suffering from damage in 1944, when ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wupper-Express
The Wupper-Express (RE 4) is a Regional-Express service in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) running between and via , , and . It is the third most widely used Regional-Express line in the area administered by the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr (VRR) with approximately 24,000 passengers a day. The line is part of the Rhein-Ruhr-Express (RRX) network and is operated by National Express Germany. History Today's RE 4 is the successor to the former ''StädteExpress'' line SE from Aachen to Hagen and Iserlohn. Later, the end point was moved to Hamm and after the abolition of InterRegio services it was extended to Munster. Under the second stage of North Rhine-Westphalia's integrated timetable (ITF 2), introduced in December 2002, it was replaced by the Maas-Wupper-Express (RE 13) and the Ems-Börde-Bahn (RB 89) services between Hagen and Munster and the Wupper-Express has since then run to Dortmund with a stop in Witten. A reorganisation of services between Cologne an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erkelenz Station
Erkelenz station on the Aachen–Mönchengladbach railway is in the town of Erkelenz in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It has been classified by Deutsche Bahn since January 2011 as a category 4 station. The station is served by the Wupper-Express and the Rhein-Niers-Bahn. It consists of a simple station building from the 1950s with two platforms. Close to the station there are a park and ride lot and transfer facilities to express, regional and city buses. While freight has declined in importance at Erkelenz station with the relocation of heavy traffic from rail to road in the 1980s, passenger traffic has developed to such an extent that the station today is the most important stop between Aachen and Moenchengladbach, based on entry and exit numbers. From 1992 to 2001, Erkelenz station was an InterRegio stop on the route towards eastern Germany (Aachen–Chemnitz). With the conversion of the railway line to electronic interlocking In railway signalling, an in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wassenberg
Wassenberg (; ) is a town in the district Heinsberg, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated near the border with the Netherlands, on the river Rur, approx. 6 km north-east of Heinsberg and 15 km south-east of Roermond Roermond (; or ) is a city, municipality, and diocese in the Limburg (Netherlands), Limburg province of the Netherlands. Roermond is a historically important town on the lower Roer on the east bank of the river Meuse. It received City rights i .... References External links Heinsberg (district) {{Heinsberg-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wegberg
Wegberg (; ) is the northernmost town in the district of Heinsberg (district), Heinsberg in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Geography Wegberg is situated between Mönchengladbach in the northeast and Erkelenz in the southeast; the town of Rheindahlen is to the east. The city lies in the ''Naturpark Meuse (river), Maas-Schwalm (Meuse), Schwalm-Nette (Niers), Nette'', a nature and wildlife park hugging the border to the Netherlands. Its name derives from the three rivers that define its boundaries. History The first mention of Wegberg under the name of ''Berck'' is in a document dating from during the reign of Otto I, dated 966. Its modern-day name appeared around the 14th century, and derives from the city's location on an old Roman road. The many castles and defense structures (the so-called ''Motten'', sngl. ''Motte'') that dot the area in whole or as ruins are indications of a history of martial as well as raiding forays in and around Wegberg. One infamous stronghold that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
