Kirchhain (Bz Kassel) station

Kirchhain station is a through station at the 89.2 km mark on the Main-Weser Railway. It is located very centrally in the centre of the town of Kirchhain in the German state of Hesse. Formerly, the station was the starting point of the Ohm Valley Railway to Burg- und Nieder-Gemünden and the Wohra Valley Railway to Gemünden . The station is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 4 station.HistoryThe station was opened along with the Main-Weser Railway on 4 March 1850 under the name of Kirchhain . The continuous connection from Kassel to Frankfurt was opened on 15 May 1852. Before that trains only ran between Kassel and Giessen.The northern section of the Ohm Valley Railway was opened as the Kirchhain District Railway by the Prussian state railways on 1 April 1900. Exactly one year later, it was extended to Burg- und Nieder-Gemünden station on the Prussian state railway's Gießen–Fulda line . Passenger services on the Ohm Valley Railway were abandoned on 31 May 1980. The line was closed between Nieder-Ofleiden and Burg- und Nieder-Gemünden on 28 September 1991 and finally dismantled in 1999. Freight and special passenger services continue between Kirchhain and Nieder-Ofleiden. Reactivation of the whole line between Kirchhain and Burg- und Nieder-Gemünden is under discussion.