Bad Münster am Stein station

Bad Münster am Stein station
Through station
Entrance building (street side)
Location	Berliner Str. 20, Bad Münster am Stein-Ebernburg, Rhineland-Palatinate Germany
Coordinates	49°48′48″N 7°50′49″E / 49.813398°N 7.8470063°ECoordinates: 49°48′48″N 7°50′49″E / 49.813398°N 7.8470063°E
Line(s)	Nahe Valley Railway (KBS 672/680) Alsenz Valley Railway (KBS 672) Glan Valley Railway (ex KBS 641)
Platforms	4
Other information
Station code	307
DS100 code	SBMS
IBNR	8000726
Category	4 [1]
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	1859
Services
Preceding station   Deutsche Bahn   Following station Staudernheim toward Saarbrücken Hbf RE 3 Rhein-Nahe-Express Bad Kreuznach toward Frankfurt (Main) Hbf Norheim toward Idar-Oberstein RB 33 Nahetalbahn Bad Kreuznach toward Mainz Hbf Altenbamberg toward Kaiserslautern Hbf RB 65 Alsenztalbahn Bad Kreuznach toward Bingen (Rhein) Hbf

Bad Münster am Stein station is a station at a railway junction in Bad Münster am Stein-Ebernburg in the district of Bad Kreuznach in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Here the Alsenz Valley Railway (German: Alsenztalbahn) branches from the Nahe Valley Railway (Nahetalbahn). The station building, dating from about 1910, is protected as a monument.^[2] It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 4 station.^[1]

History

Panorama of Münster am Stein with the first station building of 1859 (centre)

Munster am Stein was connected to the rail network in 1859 with the inauguration of the second section of the Nahe Valley Railway. It became a separation station with the opening of Alsenz Valley Railway in 1871. It was connected to the Glan Valley Railway (Glantalbahn) in 1904. Increasing traffic and the rising importance of the town as a health resort led in 1910 to the reorganisation of the station facilities and the construction of a prestigious entrance building.

Building

The station building dating from around 1910 is a representative one-story Art Nouveau building, which is covered by a large hipped roof and thus reflects the architecture of the spa and bath house of 1911. It is partly built in timber framing. Nearby to its northwest there is also a single-storey outbuilding with a shallow hipped roof.

Passenger services

Bad Münster am Stein station is served by the following regional rail services:

Line	Route	Frequency
RE 3/80	Rhein-Nahe-Express Saarbrücken – Neunkirchen – Ottweiler – Türkismühle – Idar-Oberstein – Bad Münster – Bad Kreuznach – Mainz (– Frankfurt)	Hourly (to Mainz), every 2 hours (to Frankfurt)
RB 33	Nahetalbahn Idar-Oberstein – Bad Münster – Bad Kreuznach – Idar-Oberstein – Mainz	Hourly
RB 65	Alsenztalbahn Kaiserslautern – Winnweiler – Rockenhausen – Bad Kreuznach – Bingen (– Mainz)	Hourly

Notes

1. "Stationspreisliste 2016" [Station price list 2016] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 1 December 2015. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
2. Generaldirektion Kulturelles Erbe Rheinland-Pfalz, ed. (2009). "Nachrichtliches Verzeichnis der Kulturdenkmäler Kreis Bad Kreuznach" (PDF, 1.6 MB) (in German). Koblenz. p. 23. Retrieved 29 May 2012.