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Aachen-Rothe Erde station is a station in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia on the Cologne–Aachen high-speed railway. It is located in the eastern Aachen district of Rothe Erde near the districts of Frankenberg, Forst and Ostviertel. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 4 station.HistoryWith the opening of the Haaren–Aachen-Rothe Erde railway on 31 December 1875, the station was also opened by the Aachen Industrial Railway Company (Aachener Industriebahn) under the name of Rothe Erde. Especially after Adolph Kirdorf accelerated the expansion of the Aachener Hütten-Aktien-Vereins Rothe Erde (Aachen Iron Works-Rothe Erde Association), the station served initially as a transfer station to the tracks connecting here to various factories in Rothe Erde. As the station was originally only used for freight, it was used for connections to the coal mines in neighbouring Belgium, the northern part of the Aachen district and the quarries in Stolberg. Ten years after its opening, the Venn Railway (Vennbahn) was opened, connecting to Luxembourg via Monschau and St. Vith, and the station was connected to the local ARBED steel works. The new Aachen-Rothe Erde locomotive workshop was opened at the same time.
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