Gundelfingen (Breisgau) station
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Location | Rosenstr. 18, Gundelfingen, Baden-Württemberg Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 48°02′41″N 7°52′28″E / 48.04459°N 7.87439°E | ||||||||||||||||||||
Elevation | 241 m (791 ft) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Owned by | Deutsche Bahn | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Platforms | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Station code | 2412[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
DS100 code | RGDN[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||
IBNR | 8002465 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Category | 5[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
Fare zone | RVF: A[3] | ||||||||||||||||||||
Website | www.bahnhof.de | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Opened | 30 July 1845 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Gundelfingen station is a railway station in Gundelfingen in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It lies on the Mannheim–Karlsruhe–Basel railway (Rhine Valley Railway). The Freiburg bypass, which is reserved for freight traffic, branches off south of the station. It is served by Breisgau S-Bahn (BSB) and DB Regio trains and has two side platforms. DB designates it as a class 5 station.
History
[edit]Gundelfingen station was established on 30 July 1845 with the opening of the Offenburg–Freiburg Hbf section of the Rhine Valley Railway from Mannheim to Basel via Karlsruhe.
The freight bypass branching off in Gundelfingen was inaugurated on 4 September 1905 to relieve traffic at Freiburg Hauptbahnhof.[4][5][6]
The entire route of the Rhine Valley Railway, including Gundelfingen station, was electrified In 1955.
Operations
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Around 100 DB Regio and Breisgau S-Bahn trains stop in Gundelfingen every day. There are direct connections to Basel, Freiburg im Breisgau, Offenburg, Karlsruhe, Waldkirch and Elzach. The municipality belongs to Regio-Verkehrsverbund Freiburg (Freiburg Regional Transport Association, RVF), which administers local services and fares.
Long-distance services
[edit]No long-distance services stop in Gundelfingen. The closest station served by long-distance traffic is Freiburg (Breisgau) Hauptbahnhof.
Local services
[edit]Gundelfingen is almost exclusively served by Breisgau S-Bahn services from Freiburg via Gundelfingen, Denzlingen and Waldkirch to Elzach every 30 to 60 minutes.
Regional-Express services between Offenburg and Basel as well as Regionalbahn services between Basel or Neuenburg and Offenburg, sometimes extended to/from Karlsruhe, occasionally stop in Gundelfingen.
Train class | Route | Frequency |
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RE | Offenburg – Lahr (Schwarzw) – Emmendingen – Denzlingen – Gundelfingen (Breisgau) – Freiburg (Breisgau) – Schallstadt – Bad Krozingen – Müllheim (Baden) – Basel Bad Bf (– Basel SBB) | Individual services |
RB | (Karlsruhe –) Offenburg – Lahr (Schwarzw) – Emmendingen – Denzlingen – Gundelfingen (Breisgau) – Freiburg (Breisgau) – Ebringen – Schallstadt – Bad Krozingen – Heitersheim – Müllheim (Baden) – Neuenburg (Baden) / Basel Bad Bf | Individual services |
BSB | Elzach – Waldkirch – Denzlingen – Gundelfingen (Breisgau) – Freiburg (Breisgau) | Every 30 minutes (to/from Waldkirch) every 60 minutes (to/from Elzach) |
Freight transport
[edit]Gundelfingen junction is located directly south of the station. There, the sometimes dense north-south freight traffic is routed to the Freiburg freight bypass railway.
Bus services
[edit]Bus routes 15, 16 (both Gundelfingen–Wildtal–Zähringen–Freiburg) and bus route 24 (Gundelfingen–Freiburg Industriegebiet Nord) run from Gundelfingen station. These are operated by Freiburger Verkehrs AG. Regional buses are operated by Südbadenbus over a wider area.
References
[edit]Footnotes
[edit]- ^ a b "Stationspreisliste 2024" [Station price list 2024] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 24 April 2023. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
- ^ Railway Atlas 2017, p. 206.
- ^ "Tarifzonenplan mit Übergangsbereichen" (PDF). Regio-Verkehrsverbund Freiburg. December 2020. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 January 2021. Retrieved 9 February 2021.
- ^ Deutsche Reichsbahn 1935.
- ^ Greß 1997, p. 66.
- ^ 140 Years 1985.
Sources
[edit]- Greß, Gerhard (1997). Verkehrsknoten Freiburg und seine Umgebung in den fünfziger und sechziger Jahren (in German). Freiburg: EK-Verlag. ISBN 3-88255-263-8.
- Deutsche Reichsbahn (1935). Die Deutschen Eisenbahnen in ihrer Entwicklung 1835 – 1935 [The development of the German railways 1835 – 1935] (in German). Berlin.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland [German railway atlas]. Schweers + Wall. 2017. ISBN 978-3-89494-146-8.
- 140 Jahre Eisenbahn in Freiburg – Nebenstrecken [140 years of railways in Freiburg – branch lines] (brochure) (in German). Freiburg. 1985.
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