Lahr (Schwarzw) station

Lahr (Schwarzw) station is the station of the town of Lahr (also known as Lahr/Schwarzwald, meaning Lahr in the Black Forest) on the Rhine Valley Railway in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It was opened on 1 August 1845 with the section of Rhine Valley Railway between Offenburg and Freiburg and lies a few kilometres west of the town's centre.[4]

Lahr (Schwarzw)
Through station
Location	Bahnhofplatz 1, 77933 Lahr, Baden-Württemberg Germany
Coordinates	48°20′25″N 7°50′06″E
Owned by	DB Netz
Operated by	DB Station&Service
Line(s)	Rhine Valley Railway (km 163.7) Lahr–Lahr Stadt (km 0.0; dismantled)
Tracks	4
Other information
Station code	3494[1]
DS100 code	RLSW[2]
IBNR	8003494
Category	4[1]
Fare zone	TGO: 60[3]
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	1 August 1845
Previous names	Dinglingen Lahr-Dinglingen
Services
Preceding station   DB Regio   Following station Friesenheim (Baden) toward Offenburg RE Rheintalbahn Orschweier toward Basel Badischer Bahnhof Friesenheim (Baden) toward Offenburg RB Rheintalbahn Orschweier toward Neuenburg (Baden) Preceding station   SNCF   Following station Offenburg toward Paris-Est TGV Emmendingen toward Freiburg
Location
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Name

The station is on the boundaries of Dinglingen, which was a separate municipality until 1933. Until the incorporation of Dinglingen into Lahr, the station was called Dinglingen. After its incorporation, Deutsche Reichsbahn called the station Lahr-Dinglingen. After the former Lahr Stadt (Lahr town) station lost its passenger services in 1959, Deutsche Bundesbahn gave the station its present name in 1962.[5]

History

From 1865, there was a short branch line to Lahr Stadt. In 1959, Deutsche Bundesbahn ended passenger services on the line and in 1995 it also ended freight services.[5]

From 1894 to 1959, there was also a transfer track to the metre gauge railway of the Central Baden Railways (Mittelbadischen Eisenbahnen), which had a level crossing over the Rhine Valley Railway until 1910, when the crossing was replaced by a bridge. There was a station on the metre-gauge line to the east of the bridge, about 250 m from the standard gauge station, which allowed the interchange of passengers.

Rail services

The station is served by Regionalbahn and Regional-Express services and has had an Intercity service daily each way between Basel and Munich since 16 December 2013[6] and a TGV service daily each way between Freiburg and Paris since 9 December 2018.

Rail services in the 2018 timetable

Service	Route	Frequency
TGV	Freiburg (Breisgau) – Emmendingen – Lahr (Schwarzw) – Offenburg – Strasbourg – Paris Est	One train pair
IC 60	Munich – Stuttgart – Karlsruhe – Offenburg – Lahr (Schwarzw) – Freiburg (Breisgau) – Basel Bad Bf	One train pair
RE	Offenburg – Lahr (Schwarzw) – Emmendingen – Freiburg – Müllheim (Baden) – Weil am Rhein – Basel Bad Bf (– Basel SBB)	Hourly
RB	Offenburg – Lahr (Schwarzw) – Kenzingen – Emmendingen – Freiburg (Breisgau) (– Schallstadt – Müllheim (Baden) – Neuenburg (Baden))	Every 2 hours
RB	Offenburg – Lahr (Schwarzw) – Kenzingen – Emmendingen – Freiburg (Breisgau) (– Schallstadt – Müllheim (Baden) – Weil am Rhein – Basel Bad Bf)	Individual services (Mon-Fri)
SWE	Offenburg – Lahr (Schwarzw)	Sundays and holidays only

References

1. "Stationspreisliste 2020" [Station price list 2020] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 4 November 2019. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
2. Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
3. "Tarifzonenplan des Tarifverbund Ortenau" (PDF). Tarifverbund Ortenau. 1 August 2019. Retrieved 2 May 2020.
4. "Bahnhof Lahr" (in German). badische-seiten.de. Retrieved 1 April 2016.
5. "Lahr-Dinglingen - Lahr Stadt" (in German). vergessene-bahnen.de. Retrieved 1 April 2016.
6. "Intercity hält ab Dezember auch in Lahr". Schwarzwälder Bote (in German). 24 October 2013. Retrieved 2 April 2015.