{{Short description|Station on the right bank in Koblenz}} {{Infobox station | style = Deutsche Bahn | name = <small>Koblenz</small> Ehrenbreitstein | symbol = rail | symbol_location = de | image = 20230609 Koblenz Ehrenbreitstein 0001.jpg | caption = Koblenz-Ehrenbreitstein station beside the Rhine | type = | platforms = 3 <ref name =categories >{{DBCatsURL}}</ref> | trains = | accessible = No | code = {{Deutsche Bahn station codes|code=3300<ref name =categories/>|ds100=KKOE<ref name=Eisenbahnatlas >{{cite book|title=Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) | edition=2009/2010 |publisher= Schweers + Wall | year= 2009 |isbn= 978-3-89494-139-0}}</ref>|ibnr=8003351|category=5<ref name =categories>{{DBCatsURL}}</ref>}} | zone = VRM: 106<ref>{{cite web |title=Tarifwabenplan 2021 |url=https://www.vrminfo.de/fileadmin/user_upload/RZ_VRM-Tarifwabenplan_2021_ft5-Web.pdf |publisher=Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Mosel |access-date=18 January 2021 |date=January 2021 |archive-date=27 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210127203740/https://www.vrminfo.de/fileadmin/user_upload/RZ_VRM-Tarifwabenplan_2021_ft5-Web.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> | opened = 1869 | address = Hofstr.257, Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate | country = Germany | coordinates = {{coord|50|21|43|N|7|36|37|E|region:DE-RP_type:railwaystation|format=dms|display=inline,title}} | line = East Rhine Railway ({{Kursbuchlink|Region=400-499|Nummer=465}}) | website = [https://www.bahnhof.de/en/Koblenz-Ehrenbreitstein www.bahnhof.de] | services = {{Adjacent stations|system=DB Regio NRW|line=RB 27|left=Vallendar|right=Koblenz}} }}
'''Koblenz-Ehrenbreitstein station''' is the only station on the right (eastern) bank in the city of Koblenz in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It is on the East Rhine railway ({{langx|de|Rechte Rheinstrecke}}, Right Rhine line) at the foot of the Ehrenbreitstein hill in the Ehrenbreitstein district, next to the Rhine.
==History ==
left|thumb|Map of the railway facilities in the Koblenz area In 1859 and 1860 the governments of Prussia and Nassau negotiated over the construction of a railway between Ehrenbreitstein and Oberlahnstein. In Oberlahnstein the line would connect with the Nassau Rhine Railway (now part of the East Rhine line), then under construction, and the Lahntal railway. It was also stipulated in the contract that a railway bridge would be built between Koblenz and Ehrenbreitstein and the Duchy of Nassau committed itself to promote the construction of the Lahntal railway.<ref>{{cite book|publisher= Prussia |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=gLkNAAAAIAAJ&dq=Ehrenbreitstein%20Nassau&pg=PA282 |title=Gesetz-Sammlung für die königlichen preussischen Staaten |author= G. Decker |year= 1860 |page= 282 | language=German |accessdate= 14 August 2011}}</ref> {{stack| [[File:Dampfspektakel Koblenz-Ehrenbreitstein 2004.jpg|thumb|Steam locomotive 78 468 (Prussian T 18) in Koblenz-Ehrenbreitstein station]] thumb|Koblenz-Ehrenbreitstein station }} The Neuwied–Niederlahnstein section, including Ehrenbreitstein station, was put into operation on 27 October 1869. It had a railway post office and accommodation for the “track supervisor” (''Bahnmeister'').<ref>{{cite web |url =http://www.jan1995.biz/downloads/heim_samm/Bhf%20Ehrenbreitstein.pdf |title =Private site on Ehrenbreitstein station |language =German |accessdate =14 August 2011 |archive-date =30 March 2012 |archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20120330182428/http://www.jan1995.biz/downloads/heim_samm/Bhf%20Ehrenbreitstein.pdf |url-status =dead }}</ref> On the same day, the line was opened from Ehrenbreitstein station via Pfaffendorf Bridge to the former Rhenish railway station at Koblenz. The Rhenish station was northwest of today's Löhr-Center on Fischelstraße.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.uqp.de/bahnpost/koblenz_2002.HTM |title=100 Jahre Koblenz Hbf |publisher= uqp.de | language=German |accessdate= 14 August 2011}}</ref> The track remained under control of the railway company (which had become one of the Prussian state railways in 1880) only until 1899. The track over the bridge was then rebuilt for use by the Coblenz Tramway Company (''Coblenzer Straßenbahn-Gesellschaft''). In 1879, the Horchheim Railway Bridge was opened south of Pfaffendorf Bridge, connecting to the East Rhine railway and to Koblenz Hauptbahnhof (central station), when it opened in 1902.
==Services == The station is served by the Rhein-Erft-Bahn, running on the Koblenz–Cologne–Mönchengladbach route at hourly intervals; it was formerly also served by the ''Rhein-Erft-Express''. Previously, the Rhein-Erft-Express had continued to Venlo after Mönchengladbach since its introduction in 1998.<ref>{{cite web|url = http://nrwbahnarchiv.bplaced.net/linien/RE8.htm |title=Rhein-Erft-Express | work=NRW rail archive|publisher= André Joost | language=German |accessdate= 14 August 2011}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable" |- ! Line ! Service ! Route ! Frequency |- | {{ric|DB Regio NRW|RB 27}} | Rhein-Erft-Bahn | Mönchengladbach – Rheydt – Cologne – Köln/Bonn Flughafen – Troisdorf – Bonn-Beuel – Linz (Rhein) – Neuwied – '''Koblenz-Ehrenbreitstein''' – Koblenz | Hourly |} Until after the Second World War Ehrenbreitstein station also had significant long-distance traffic, since some of the trains on the right bank line did not serve Koblenz Hauptbahnhof. In the final timetable before the war all semi-fast trains and a D-train (''D-Zug'', express train with carriages with corridors) stopped at Ehrenbreitstein station.<ref>{{cite web |publisher = deutsches-kursbuch.de | url= http://www.deutsches-kursbuch.de/3_148.htm |title= Extract from the German rail timetable 1939, table 230: Frankfurt – Wiesbaden – Niederlahnstein – Köln | language=German |accessdate= 14 August 2011}}</ref>
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== References==
*{{cite book | editor= Energieversorgung Mittelrhein GmbH |title= Geschichte der Stadt Koblenz |publisher= Overall editor: Ingrid Bátori with Dieter Kerber and Hans Josef Schmidt |language=German}} ** Vol. 1: ''Von den Anfängen bis zum Ende der kurfürstlichen Zeit''. Theiss, Stuttgart 1992, {{ISBN|3-8062-0876-X}}. ** Vol. 2: ''Von der französischen Stadt bis zur Gegenwart''. Theiss, Stuttgart 1993, {{ISBN|3-8062-1036-5}}.
== External links ==
* {{cite web | url= http://stredax.dbnetze.com/Dokumente/ISR/BS/NBS/K/KKOE_NBS.pdf | title= Track plan | publisher= DB Netz | language= German | accessdate= 23 June 2017 }}{{Dead link|date=March 2026 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }} * {{cite web |url= http://www.drehscheibe-foren.de/foren/read.php?17,3002290 | title= Photographs of the loading of tanks in Koblenz-Ehrenbreitstein station |language=German |accessdate= 14 August 2011}}
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Ehrenbreitstein Category:Railway stations in Germany opened in 1869 Category:1869 establishments in Prussia