<p><b>Rüdesheim station</b> is in the town of <a href="/pages/w/108027045886507">Rüdesheim am Rhein</a> in the German state of <a href="/pages/w/106015402763290">Hesse</a> on the <a href="/pages/w/113201355396287">East Rhine Railway</a>. It is on the western edge of the town separated from the <a href="/pages/w/112229065461094">Rhine</a> only by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundesstra%C3%9Fe_42" class="wikipedia">federal highway B 42</a>. The entrance building is a double storey stucco building in a <a href="/pages/w/110411565653491">neoclassical</a> style. It is now one of the cultural monuments listed in <a href="/pages/w/113414038668982">UNESCO World Heritage Site</a> of the <a href="/pages/w/103097493064131">Upper Middle Rhine Valley</a>. The station is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a <a href="/pages/w/143896985625492">category 5 station</a>.</p><h2>History</h2><h3>Construction</h3><p>The station was designed by the architect Heinrich Velde of <a href="/pages/w/111976952152928">Diez</a> and built in the years 1854–1856 and was opened on 11 August 1856 as the first terminus of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nassau_Rhine_Railway" class="wikipedia">Nassau Rhine Railway</a> (<i>Nassauische Rheinbahn</i>) from <a href="/pages/w/103103133063669">Wiesbaden</a> to Rüdesheim. On 22 February 1862, the line was extended to <a href="/pages/w/108577055832739">Oberlahnstein</a> and it became a through station.</p><p>The entrance building is built in a single style that was prevalent at the time with the entrance hall and function rooms on the ground floor and the stationmaster's accommodation on the first floor above. The stucco facade with a simple series of windows is built in the style of neoclassical architecture that was used for <a href="/pages/w/104156786287054">Prussia</a>n government buildings. Apart from Rüdesheim, the only buildings built purely in form of this architecture left in the Middle Rhine Valley are at the stations of <a href="/pages/w/186048481528547">Oberwesel</a> and <a href="/pages/w/107830565912271">Bacharach</a> on the <a href="/pages/w/231889823500161">West Rhine Railway</a>.</p>