Lörrach Hauptbahnhof is one of seven stations and halts in

Lörrach Lörrach () is a city in southwest Germany, in the valley of the Wiese, close to the French and the Swiss borders. It is the district seat of the district of Lörrach in Baden-Württemberg. It is the home of a number of large employers, inclu ...

in the German state of

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. The station located on the

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(''Wiesentalbahn'') from Basel Badischer station to

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 ...

and is classified by

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as a category 4 station. Its train services are part of the

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and are operated by

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, a subsidiary of

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History

Lörrach station was opened in 1862 as part of the first private railway in the

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, which was built by the Wiese Valley Railway Company (''Wiesenthalbahn-Gesellschaft''). The line ran from the Basel Baden station in

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, where it connected to the Baden Mainline, to

Schopfheim Schopfheim () is a town in the Lörrach (district), district of Lörrach in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated on the river Wiese (river), Wiese, 10 km north of Rheinfelden (Baden), Rheinfelden, and 13 km east of Lörrach. The ...

. It was extended to

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in 1876. The first test run was carried out on 10 May 1862 and on 5 June the line was formally opened in the presence of the Grand Duke Friedrich of Baden. In the 1860s, before the opening of the line, the location the Lörrach station was a controversial issue. Technical and financial issues eventually led to the selection of its current location just north of Rheinfelder Straße (now Wallbrunnstraße). The

Grand Duchy of Baden State Railway Grand Duchy of Baden had its own state-owned railway company, the Grand Duchy of Baden State Railways (''Großherzoglich Badische Staatseisenbahnen or G.Bad.St.E.''), which was founded in 1840. At the time when it was integrated into the Deutsche ...

acquired the line and station as of 1 January 1889. The first station building was built in 1862 and it was rebuilt in 1905. The passenger station and the associated freight yard formerly had four signal boxes, but these were replaced in 2004 with an

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. The station was called Lörrach station until 2009, when it was renamed at the initiative of the

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(''Freie Wähler''). At the end of 2011, a bike parking garage was built in the northern part of the station building.

Location

The station is located in Lörrach on the eastern edge of the pedestrian zone developed by the city near the main post office, the Lörrach town hall and the central bus station. Currently, as part of urban development and the redesign of Belchenstraße, connections between the station and the city's eastern district are being improved. It is estimated that this work will be completed in May 2013.

Infrastructure

The entrance building consists of a five-part structure with its facade clad in dressed stone. Together with the north and south signal boxes, each building has brick walls and a hipped roof. The complex is listed in the city's heritage register. Lörrach has included, since 1963, a

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terminal of

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, located in the freight yard 500 metres north-north-east of the passenger platforms. DB AutoZug terminated operations in 2013. From 2016, Bahntouristikexpress runs a weekly night train from this terminal to Hamburg, which was put under the Flixtrain brand from 2018.

Services

the following services stop at Lörrach Hauptbahnhof: *

: ** : half-hourly service between and on weekdays; hourly service to Weil am Rhein on Saturdays and Zell (Wiesental) on Sundays. ** : half-hourly service between and .

Notes

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lorrach Hauptbahnhof Railway stations in Baden-Württemberg Railway stations in Germany opened in 1862 Buildings and structures in Lörrach (district)