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Rheinfelden Railway Station

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Location: Aargau, Nordwestschweiz, Switzerland

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1. Old Rhine Bridge, Rheinfelden – Sonnenberg Tower loop from Rheinfelden (Baden)

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2. Sonnenberg Tower – Sonnenberg Tower Möhlin loop from Rheinfelden

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3. Old Rhine Bridge Rheinfelden – View of Mariastein Abbey loop from Rheinfelden (Baden)

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Úlfhéðinn

July 11, 2018

Beautifully made, probably old station house. Fits in well with the old town scene in Rheinfelden.

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Paul

December 19, 2024

Rheinfelden train station since 1875
In 1875, Rheinfelden was connected to the Bözberg line, after a train station had already been opened on the Baden side of the Rhine on the Basel-Säckingen line in 1856. The discovery of salt deposits was economically significant. From 1844, the Rheinfelden saltworks, which was closed in 1942, and the Riburg saltworks, which has been in operation since 1848, extracted brine for further processing. Brine has been used for medicinal purposes since 1846, and Rheinfelden developed into a salt spa resort. In addition, chemical companies that use brine as a raw material settled in Rheinfelden at the end of the 20th century. The Salmen brewery (closed in 2002) was founded in 1799 and the Feldschlösschen brewery in 1876. The latter is now the largest brewery in Switzerland and an important employer in the region. In 1873, the concession was granted for the Rheinfelden power plant, which was completed in 1898 as the largest river power plant and the first low-water power plant in the world. The plant has been completely renovated since 2003. The Wuhrmann cigar factory, founded in 1876, still produces hand-rolled cigars today. In the second half of the 20th century, Rheinfelden developed into an agglomeration municipality in the Basel region, whose residents also worked in the surrounding commercial and industrial zones. New residential areas were built around the city, including the Augarten settlement (from 1973), which is accessible via the A3 and has been connected to the Basel S-Bahn network with its own train station since 2008.
Text / Source: Historical Dictionary of Switzerland (HLS)
hls-dhs-dss.ch/de/articles/001803/2012-01-04

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Gyloonda

February 25, 2017

Rheinfelden station is a station of the Swiss Federal Railways in Rheinfelden in the canton of Aargau. It was opened in 1875 and is located on the Bözberg route (Basel-Brugg-Zurich).

Rheinfelden was already connected to the railway network on February 4, 1856, but on the German side: At that time, the first section of the High Rhine Railway between Basel Badischer Bahnhof and Bad Säckingen was opened. In order to develop the up-and-coming health resort of Rheinfelden, the Grand Duchy of Baden State Railways put the station near Rheinfelden into operation near the northern bridgehead of the Old Rhine Bridge. The site was almost uninhabited at the time, and the town of Rheinfelden (Baden) only came into being four decades later. Since there was still no rail connection on the Swiss side, a committee was formed in 1869 to build the Bözberg line from Basel to Brugg; the city subscribed to bonds in the amount of 500,000 francs. Construction work began in 1871 as a joint project of the Swiss Central Railway and the Swiss Northeastern Railway. After four years of construction, the route and station were opened on August 2, 1875. The station set a new development focus southwest of the old town and promoted the development of local industry. The Salmenbräu and Feldschlösschen breweries received their own sidings in 1885 and 1889.

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Rheinfelden Railway Station

1. Old Rhine Bridge, Rheinfelden – Sonnenberg Tower loop from Rheinfelden (Baden)

2. Sonnenberg Tower – Sonnenberg Tower Möhlin loop from Rheinfelden

3. Old Rhine Bridge Rheinfelden – View of Mariastein Abbey loop from Rheinfelden (Baden)

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