Essen Zollverein Nord | |||||||||||
Native Name Lang: | de | ||||||||||
Symbol Location: | de | ||||||||||
Type: | Through station | ||||||||||
Borough: | Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia | ||||||||||
Country: | Germany | ||||||||||
Coordinates: | 51.4936°N 7.0469°W | ||||||||||
Owned: | Deutsche Bahn | ||||||||||
Platforms: | 2 | ||||||||||
Zone: | VRR 354[1] | ||||||||||
Opened: | 1887 [2] | ||||||||||
Website: | www.bahnhof.de | ||||||||||
Map Type: | North Rhine-Westphalia#Germany#Europe | ||||||||||
Map Dot Label: | Essen-Zollverein Nord | ||||||||||
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Essen Zollverein Nord is a railway station situated in close proximity to the Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex on the Duisburg–Dortmund railway situated in Essen in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 6 station. It was originally named Zollverein, renamed Caternberg in 1897, Caternberg Süd between 1897 and 1905, Katernberg Süd between 1905 and 1912, Essen-Katernberg Süd in 1949 and Essen-Zollverein Nord on 13 December 2009. A station building was built in 1897, but was demolished between 1960 and 1990.
It is served by Regionalbahn lines RB32 (Rhein-Emscher-Bahn) and RB35 (Emscher-Niederrhein-Bahn), Essen tramway 107 (Gelsenkirchen Hbf + Hbf – Bredeney) and by bus routes 170 (Schonnebeck – Kray – Steele + Altenessen - Borbeck) and 183 (Katernberger Markt + Altenessen – Karlsplatz) operated by Ruhrbahn.[3] [4]