Station Übach-Palenberg
Description
Übach-Palenberg station is in Übach-Palenberg on the southern edge of Heinsberg in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is located on the Aachen–Mönchengladbach railway on the western outskirts of Palenberg near the Wurm and is served by the Wupper-Express and the Rhein-Niers-Bahn. Its current form reflects its reconstruction and modernisation in the 1990s and in 2008. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 5 station.HistoryThe Herzogenrath to Rheydt section of the Aachen–Mönchengladbach railway was opened on 11 November 1852 and a year later the Aachen-Düsseldorf-Ruhrort Railway Company completed its line between Aachen–Düsseldorf line. At this time Palenberg did not have its own station. The exact year in which the first station was built has no been determined. In the statistics of the year 1861, it is not mentioned, but in 1881 in the Official Journal (referring to special trains during the Great Pilgrimage to Aachen Cathedral) a station at Palenberg is mentioned. During this time a station must have been built on the western outskirts of Palenberg, which was then a small hamlet and was part of the still independent municipality of Frelenberg. In 1912, a siding was built for the Carolus Magnus colliery and on the site there is now a commuter parking area, which was built in the 1990s next to the wooden station building. Palenberg and the station became part of the new municipality of Ubach-Palenberg in 1935 and a year later the new station building was built on the eastern side and the station was renamed Ubach-Palenberg. This building was enlarged in 2002 and converted into a youth and seniors centre.
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