Lauterbourg station (French: Gare de Lauterbourg) is a railway station in the town of Lauterbourg in the département of Bas-Rhin in the French region of Grand Est.
It is at the junction to the short Lauterbourg Port railway and was the terminus of the former Lauterbourg–Wissembourg railway.
History
Construction of the Lauterbourg railway station began in 1874 after the German Empire annexed Alsace-Lorraine in 1871. The line from Strasbourg to Lauterbourg was opened on 25 July 1876 by the Imperial Railways in Alsace-Lorraine (Kaiserliche Generaldirektion der Eisenbahnen in Elsaß-Lothringen).[2]
In 1900, the station was enlarged for the opening of the new Lauterbourg–Wissembourg railway,[3] which was put in service on 1 July of the same year.[4]
The Riviera-Express of the Compagnie des wagons-lits, connecting Berlin to Nice via Frankfurt, served the station from 3 December 1900. It was abandoned when the First World War broke out[5]
The station was extended in 1920; the work included the building of a customs office.
On 1 January 1938, the SNCF took control of the railway installations of Lauterbourg. However, after the annexation of Alsace-Lorraine by Germany on 1 July 1940 during the Second World War, Deutsche Reichsbahn controlled the station and held it until the liberation of France (in 1944 –1945).
Passenger services towards Wissembourg ended on 1 October 1947.
In 2014, the SNCF estimated the number of passengers using the station at 22,502 passengers.[7]
Passenger services
French and German trains in Lauterbourg station.
Facilities
The station is unstaffed and has open access to the platforms. It is equipped with a ticket machine for the purchase of regional tickets.[8] There is an island platform and a side platform serving three tracks.[9]
Services
Lauterbourg is a stop on the TER Alsace network, served by regional express trains on the Strasbourg-Ville–Lauterbourg route.
There is parking for bikes and vehicles at the station.[8]
It is served by the buses of autocars TER on the Rœschwoog (station)–Seltz (station)–Lauterbourg (station) route and the interurban buses of Réseau 67 on the Lauterbourg–Wissembourg route (line 314).
^Reinhard Douté (2011). "(145) Strasbourg - Lauterbourg". Les 400 profils de lignes voyageurs du réseau français: 001 à 600 (in French). Vol. 1. La Vie du Rail. p. 71. ISBN978-2-918758-34-1..
^*Räntzsch, Andreas M. (1997). Die Eisenbahn in der Pfalz. Dokumentation ihrer Entstehung und Entwicklung [The Railways in the Palatinate. Documentation of their Origin and Development] (in German). Aalen: Verlag Wolfgang Bleiweis. p. 19. ISBN3-928786-61-X.
