Hamburg-Altona train station
| Hamburg-Altona | |
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.jpg) S-Bahn entrance and long-distance platforms
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| Location in the network | Terminus and separation station |
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End station (long-distance train) Tunnel station (S-Bahn) |
| Platform tracks | 8 long-distance railway tracks 4 S-Bahn tracks |
| abbreviation | AA (long-distance train station) AAS (S-Bahn train station) |
| IBNR | 8002553 |
| Price range | 1 |
| opening | 1844-1898-1979 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Hamburg-Altona |
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| Place / district | Altona |
| country | Hamburg |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 53 ° 33'7 " N , 9 ° 56'6" E |
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| Railway stations in the Hamburg area | |
The Hamburg-Altona station (until 1938: Altona Hauptbahnhof , colloquially Altonaer Bahnhof ) is a terminal station of the Deutsche Bahn and a through station of the Hamburg S-Bahn . With up to 100,000 travelers daily, it is one of the 21 train stations in the highest price class 1 from DB Station & Service .
As part of the Neue Mitte Altona project , the long-distance and regional train station is to be replaced by a new train station at what is now the Diebsteich S-Bahn station . The Altona S-Bahn station is to remain. A lawsuit by the VCD ( Verkehrsclub Deutschland ) temporarily stopped the relocation of the Altona train station to Diebsteich.
location
The Hamburg-Altona train station is located in the Hamburg district of Altona with the postal address Scheel-Plessen-Straße 17 in the Hamburg district of Altona Nordwest.
Historical background
In December 1840, at the instigation of merchants from Altona and Kiel, the Altona-Kieler Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft was founded in the imperial fief of the Duchy of Holstein , ruled by the Danish king in personal union . The members of this society promised themselves better sales opportunities for their goods through a traffic connection between the North Sea and the Baltic Sea and pursued the goal of building and operating a railway line from Altona to Kiel . This railway line, opened in 1844 under the beneficial name of "King Christian VIII. Baltic Sea Railway", was the first under Danish sovereignty. As the southern terminus of this railway, the terminus in Altona and near the Elbe harbor was of outstanding importance early on.
After the German war arose in 1867 from the two former duchies of Schleswig and Holstein , the Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein . From 1883 negotiations began on the purchase of the Altona-Kieler Eisenbahn by the Kingdom of Prussia , which took over the administration and operations management by the Royal Altona Railway Directorate from March 1, 1884, initially in provisional premises in the city of Altona. The Prussian State Railways became the owners of the AKE on January 1, 1887 (or July 1, 1887) for a purchase price of 70.65 million marks . The corporation was dissolved. In this context, the Altona train station became “Prussian” from 1887 onwards.
As a result, the Prussian State Railways took over all railway facilities. The station gained further economic and strategic importance as the terminus of trains that served the province of Schleswig-Holstein or whose routes ran through non-Prussian Hamburg .
First train station from 1844
A team of horses can be seen on the right-hand side, transporting freight up from the port on rails to the train station
In May 1844, Carl Theodor Arnemann laid the foundation stone for the first train station in Altona directly above a steep slope towards the Elbe , which was later referred to as the " Altona balcony ". It quickly became unpopular with the population because of the noise from the locomotives. The Mayor of Altona, Caspar Behn , therefore had the Bahnhofsstrasse (today Max-Brauer-Allee ) built parallel to the longitudinal axis of the station . Their development shielded the railway noise. In 1866, the station also became the western terminus of the connecting line to neighboring Hamburg. From 1867 the Altona-Blankeneser Railway also ran to the station. From 1845, a track on the east side of the station connected the Altona port railway to the railway network at the Altona fishing port. The freight wagons were initially transported up and down the slope to the port over an inclined plane with a cable pull. From 1876, locomotives were able to enter the fishing port through the haddock tunnel .
In the 1880s, rail traffic increased and the station had to be expanded. In the meantime, however, the development in Altona and Ottensen had increased significantly and hampered the construction plans. It was therefore decided to rebuild the station about 700 m further north, roughly at the point where the three routes that now departed from the station separated.
On the vacated railway area between the old and the new train station, a large green area with side main roads was created, today's Platz der Republik . In the years that followed, a generous new city axis grew alongside him with numerous representative buildings ( Royal Prussian Railway Directorate , Hotel Kaiserhof , Altona Museum , Stuhlmannbrunnen ). The old station building in the classical style formed the southern end of the square. It received an additional wing on the north side and took on the city administration, which moved from the town hall near the Nobistor to the now New Altona town hall . Today the building is the seat of the Altona district office .
The first train station in 1844
The passenger platforms behind the building, with two tracks between them for moving the locomotives. After a daguerreotype by Carl Ferdinand Stelzner around 1844.
Railway station of the Altona-Kiel Railway. Daguerreotype by Carl Ferdinand Stelzner around 1844 (late summer). Daguerreotype in the Altona Museum .
Rail connection from Altona station to "Elbquai", map from 1860
As of 1890, seen from the south. The semicircular portal leads to a turntable in front of the train station
Site plan with the branches to Blankenese, Kiel and the connecting railway (1890)
Second train station from 1898
After initial considerations about raising the new station, the decision was made, after good experience with the Frankfurt main station from 1888 designed by Hermann Eggert , for a new building at street level by the same architect. So that rail traffic could continue, the new systems were built in parallel to the decommissioning of the old ones in several phases from 1893 to 1898. As part of the new installation, the Hamburg-Altona connecting line was elevated in the area of the Altona freight station on what was then Rainweg, today's Harkortstrasse. This viaduct curve remained single-track even after the connecting line was re-routed and is still there today. Furthermore, the haddock tunnel was extended to the new train station.
The now Prussian Altona central station was opened on January 30, 1898. Its originally four-aisled station concourse was 160 meters long and 82 meters wide. From 1905 to 1907 a fifth aisle was built in the west for the suburban railway. The hall aisles spanned a total of 11 tracks, of which the three western ones were reserved for suburban and S-Bahn traffic. The brick entrance building in the neo-Romanesque style with its towers reminiscent of the Altona city coat of arms became an Altona landmark. The maintenance of a terminus station was obvious at the time, as it was necessary to change locomotives more frequently in steam locomotive operations. Since there was only a small depot in Hamburg in the run-up to the Berlin train station and could not be expanded for reasons of space, after the double-track expansion of the connecting line, the trains coming from the south ran through to Altona. On the route to the north, which branched off from the connecting line at Rainweg and did not touch Altona station, only freight trains ran until electrification in the 1960s.
An electromechanical bridge signal box was erected over the middle tracks in 1913 . It was destroyed in 1943 and not rebuilt after the war. When the Prussian city of Altona was incorporated into Hamburg by the Greater Hamburg Act in 1938, the Altona Central Station was named Bahnhof Hamburg-Altona on April 1, 1938 . The station was badly damaged in World War II , but rebuilt in a simplified form in the 1950s. In 1965, the railway station's tracks were electrified .
For the underground City-S-Bahn Hamburg to Hamburg Central Station, which went into operation on April 1, 1979, a new four-track tunnel station was built under the western part of the station building and the station forecourt. On the grounds that the old station building could not withstand the vibrations during construction, it was demolished in 1974, including the station halls, despite massive public opposition.
The majority of the costs of the DM 60 million project were financed by the Kaufhof department store chain , which also assumed responsibility for the new building. The opening was initially planned for Easter 1977 in 1974.
Third station from 1979
It was replaced by a two-storey building made of gray precast concrete elements, to which the double-height cuboid of a Kaufhof AG branch was attached to the southeast . The interior of the actual station building has been renovated several times in the almost three decades of its existence, and attempts have been made to make it more friendly with light paints. The four long-distance platforms were given simple roofs. Instead of the three suburban tracks, there is the ramp to the four-track tunnel station.
Signal box from 1995
At Hamburg-Altona station a 62.6 million were between 11 and 13 March, 1995 Deutschmark expensive electronic interlocking (CBI) in the network of Deutsche Bahn put into operation. The ESTW replaced eight previous signal boxes. It includes four workstations for dispatchers at the train station and a dispatcher at the freight station one kilometer away; This saved a total of 49 jobs. At the time of its commissioning, the ESTW controlled train traffic with 160 points , around 250 signals and 215 track circuits . Due to software deficiencies, there were significant problems at the beginning, twelve hours after commissioning the interlocking switched itself off for the first time. After almost three days of troubleshooting, the cause was found: Two incorrectly set bits repeatedly led to a memory overflow , which in turn led to the system being switched off. Since the old signal boxes had already been dismantled, the state could no longer be reactivated before commissioning. An emergency timetable was in effect from March 28th until the timetable change on May 27th, 1995. As a result, the electronic interlocking manufacturers Siemens and Alcatel undertook to set up test centers in which new electronic interlockings can be tested on the system under simulated maximum load and future operators can be trained before commissioning.
Refurbished station building from 2005
After the Kaufhof abandoned the location in the early 2000s, the complex was extensively rebuilt until spring 2006. The first and second floors of the former Kaufhof are now a MediaMarkt , in the basement there is a Lidl branch as well as shops for travel supplies, baked goods and take-away snacks. The Deutsche Bahn travel center , a car rental company , a Rossmann branch and other shops as well as a number of restaurants are located on the ground floor .
At the back of the building, to the west of the tracks, there is a parking garage , on the opposite, east side is the 5-storey, 133-room InterCityHotel Hamburg-Altona.
Refurbishment 2014/2016
From January 2014, the first basement level was renovated again with access to the above-ground pedestrian zones, bus platforms, long-distance train tracks and the lower-lying S-Bahn platforms. The approx. 5,000 m² area was gutted, the shops redistributed, new path connections created, floor and wall coverings renewed and new lighting systems installed. The total costs are estimated at 13 million euros. On September 8, 2016, the work was completed with an official opening event.
owner
In 2013 the British investment company Reit RDI (formerly Redefine) acquired the station building for 72.5 million euros from the Irish investment manager CMC Capital, which in turn had bought the building in 2007 for 67 million euros from Pirelli RE and DGAG Deutsche Grundbesitz. They had owned the complex since 2003. In September 2019, Reit RDI reached an agreement with Volksbank Braunschweig-Wolfsburg (Brawo) to sell the property for 91 million euros. In November 2019, the city of Hamburg announced that it would make use of its right of first refusal.
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Historic routes
- to the west ( Altona-Blankeneser Eisenbahn from 1867) in the direction of Blankenese, in 1883 extended to Wedel , today's S-Bahn line of lines S1 and S11
- to the north ( Altona-Kieler Eisenbahn , since 1844) in the direction of Elmshorn - Neumünster - Kiel, later continuation to Flensburg - Scandinavia and the Itzehoe - Husum - Westerland route ( Marschbahn ) branching off in Elmshorn
- to the east ( Hamburg-Altonaer connecting line , since 1866) in the direction of Hamburg Hbf , with a connection to the railways to Berlin and Lübeck later also to Scandinavia, Hanover - southern Germany and Bremen - Ruhr area.
- to the south to the banks of the Elbe, the Altona port railway (1845–1992) and the Altona fishing port through the haddock tunnel , exclusively for freight traffic.
Long-distance transport
There are direct connections to the cities north of Hamburg, the routes in the other directions initially touch the stations Hamburg Dammtor and Hamburg Hauptbahnhof , to the west and south (rail lines towards Bremen and Hanover ) also Hamburg-Harburg .
Numerous ICE and Intercity / EuroCity trains, some night trains and Flixtrain with the FLX 20 line start and end at Hamburg-Altona station .
| line | Line course | Tact |
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| ICE 11 | Hamburg-Altona - Hamburg - Berlin - Leipzig - Erfurt - Frankfurt - Mannheim - Stuttgart - Augsburg - Munich | individual trains |
| ICE 18 | Hamburg-Altona - Hamburg - Berlin - Halle - Erfurt - Nuremberg - Ingolstadt / Augsburg - Munich | Every two hours |
| ICE 20 | Hamburg-Altona - Hamburg - Hanover - Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe - Frankfurt - Mannheim - Karlsruhe - Freiburg - Basel - Zurich (- Chur ) | Every two hours |
| ICE 22 | Hamburg-Altona - Hamburg - Hanover - Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe - Frankfurt - Frankfurt Airport - Mannheim - Stuttgart | Every two hours |
| ICE 25 | Hamburg-Altona - Hamburg - Hanover - Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe - Würzburg - Nuremberg - Ingolstadt - Munich | Hourly |
| ICE 26 | Hamburg-Altona - Hamburg - Lüneburg - Hanover - Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe - Marburg - Gießen - Frankfurt - Darmstadt - Heidelberg - Karlsruhe | Every two hours |
| EC 27 | ( Kiel -) Hamburg-Altona - Hamburg - Ludwigslust - Berlin - Dresden - Praha | Every two hours |
| ICE 28 | Hamburg-Altona - Hamburg - Berlin - Leipzig - Erfurt - Nuremberg - Ingolstadt / Augsburg - Munich | Every two hours |
| ICE 30 | Hamburg-Altona - Hamburg - Bremen - Osnabrück - Münster - Dortmund - Essen - Duisburg - Düsseldorf - Cologne | Indent |
| ICE 31 | Hamburg-Altona - Hamburg - Bremen - Osnabrück - Münster - Dortmund - Wuppertal - Cologne - Bonn - Koblenz - Mainz - Frankfurt Airport - Frankfurt - Hanau - Würzburg - Nuremberg - Regensburg - Passau | almost every two hours |
| IC / EC 30 |
Hamburg-Altona - Hamburg - Bremen - Münster - Dortmund - Essen - Duisburg - Düsseldorf - Cologne - Bonn - Mainz - Mannheim - Stuttgart EC: Mannheim - Karlsruhe - Freiburg - Basel - Zurich / Interlaken Ost |
Every two hours EC: four pairs of trains |
| IC 31 | Hamburg-Altona - Hamburg - Bremen - Münster - Dortmund - Wuppertal - Solingen - Cologne - Mainz - Frankfurt (- Würzburg - Nuremberg - Regensburg - Straubing - Passau ) | Every two hours |
| ICE 42 | Hamburg-Altona - Hamburg - Bremen - Münster - Dortmund - Essen - Duisburg - Düsseldorf - Cologne - Siegburg / Bonn - Frankfurt Airport - Mannheim - Stuttgart - Ulm - Augsburg - Munich | a pair of trains |
| ICE 91 | Hamburg-Altona - Hamburg - Hanover - Göttingen - Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe - Fulda - Würzburg - Nuremberg - Regensburg - Plattling - Passau - Linz - St. Pölten - Vienna Meidling - Vienna | One pair of trains a day |
| FLX 20 | Hamburg-Altona - Hamburg - Osnabrück - Munster - Gelsenkirchen - Essen - Duisburg - Düsseldorf - Cologne | 1-2 train pairs |
Long-distance and regional traffic is handled on four central platforms (tracks 5–12). In principle, all tracks can be used in all directions, but ICE trains going south, which are used in Hamburg-Altona, usually depart from tracks with a higher number (e.g. tracks 9-12), while ICE trains going south, the End in Hamburg-Altona, take the lower number of tracks (about tracks 5-8). Regional traffic to the north is provided in the middle numbered tracks (around 7-10). For operational reasons there are of course deviations from this rule. Until the 1990s, the track numbering of the long-distance railway tracks was one digit lower, since until the construction of the four-track S-Bahn tunnel station in 1979 there were only three S-Bahn tracks - at that time still above ground - the old track numbering of the long-distance tracks (4-11) but was retained for the time being. Track 4 was assigned twice, both as an S-Bahn track in the tunnel station and as a long-distance track. Only after many years was the track numbering changed so that the numbers are unique.
Night trains and car trains
The previous City Night Line connections were discontinued in 2016. Some night trains were taken over by the Austrian Federal Railways and have been operating as Nightjet since then . Several seasonal trains run as Holiday Express (UEX) start their journey to the south here. In addition, the seasonal Alpen-Sylt-Nachtxpress , introduced in 2020, stops here.
The Hamburg-Altona station was one of seven Autozugterminals of DB long-distance transport in Germany. Motorail trains ran from here to Lörrach , Munich , Villach , Vienna , Alessandria , Bozen and Narbonne . By 2016, Deutsche Bahn had stopped all motorail trains, only the connection to Vienna was taken over by the Austrian Federal Railways and continued as part of the Nightjet connection. The private company BTE also continues to operate a seasonal motorail service to Lörrach and the seasonal holiday express trains operated by Train4You also transport vehicles to the south.
The loading of motor vehicles within a passenger station, which is usually carried out in remote facilities, is unique in Germany. In Altona, the overhead line is switched off when road trains are waiting to avoid accidents, the vehicles to be loaded then drive over the cross platform to the access ramps, via which both loading levels of the road train cars can be reached. The cross platform will be partially closed to the public. After loading the vehicle, passengers can transfer to the coaches, the overhead line is switched on again and the train starts to depart.
| genus | Line course | Remarks |
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ÖBB Nightjet Hamburg - Hanover - Göttingen - Würzburg - Nuremberg - Regensburg - Passau - Wels - Linz - St. Pölten - Vienna |
1 pair of trains daily; Vehicle transport between Hamburg and Vienna |
| NJ |
ÖBB Nightjet Hamburg - Hanover - Göttingen - Würzburg - Nuremberg - Augsburg - Munich - Rosenheim - Kufstein - Wörgl - Jenbach - Innsbruck |
1 pair of trains daily |
| NJ |
ÖBB Nightjet Hamburg - ( Hanover - Göttingen -) Frankfurt - Mannheim - Freiburg - Basel - Zurich |
1 pair of trains daily |
| BTE |
BTE AutoReiseZug Hamburg - Loerrach |
seasonal single train pairs; Vehicle transport between Hamburg and Lörrach |
| UEX |
Holiday Express Hamburg - Hanover - Munich - Salzburg - Bad Gastein - Villach |
seasonal single train pairs; Vehicle transport between Hamburg and Villach |
| UEX |
Holiday Express Hamburg - Hanover - Munich - Wörgl - Innsbruck |
seasonal single train pairs; Vehicle transport between Hamburg and Innsbruck |
| UEX |
Holiday Express Hamburg - Hanover - Göttingen - Würzburg - Augsburg - Munich (- Wörgl - Innsbruck - Ötztal - St Anton am Arlberg) |
seasonal single train pairs; Vehicle transport between Hamburg and Munich will be extended from / to St Anton in winter |
| UEX |
Holiday Express Hamburg - Hanover - Munich - Wörgl - Innsbruck - Bozen / Bolzano - Verona |
seasonal single train pairs; Vehicle transport between Hamburg and Verona will only run to Innsbruck in 2020 |
| NZ |
ALPEN-SYLT night express Westerland (Sylt) - Niebüll - Husum - Hamburg - Frankfurt - Würzburg - Augsburg - Munich - Freilassing - Salzburg |
Seasonally 2 train pairs per week |
(As of 2020)
Regional traffic
| table | Line course | KBS | Tact | operator | Vehicles used |
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| RE 6 | Westerland - Husum - Heide (Holstein) - Itzehoe - Elmshorn - Altona | 130 | Hourly | DB Regio SH | BR 245 + 4–10 cars |
| RE60 | Westerland - Husum - Altona | 130 | individual trains in the summer months | DB Regio SH | BR 245 + 6–10 cars |
| RB 71 | Itzehoe / Wrist - Elmshorn - Altona | 103 | Hourly | North runway | Stadler FLIRT 3 |
Train
For the traffic of the S-Bahn there has been a separate tunnel station (tracks 1–4) in the southwestern part of the station since 1979 . To the north of this, the tracks next to the long-distance platforms emerge in a ramp, behind which there are extensive parking facilities as well as overpass structures for the branching of the tracks in the direction of Blankenese, Elbgaustraße and Dammtor. To the south of the platforms is a single-track sweeping system, behind which the City-S-Bahn tunnel continues through downtown Hamburg to the main station .
Western platform - in the direction of Hamburg Hbf:
- Track 1: Line S1 via Jungfernstieg to Poppenbüttel and to the airport, Line S3 via Jungfernstieg to Neugraben, Buxtehude and Stade and Line S11 via Dammtor to Poppenbüttel.
- Track 2: Lines S31 via Dammtor to Harburg and S2 via Jungfernstieg in the direction of Bergedorf.
Eastern platform - direction out of town
- Track 3: Line S31 ends here and line S2 via Jungfernstieg to Bergedorf.
- Track 4: Line S1 towards Blankenese-Wedel, Line S2 ends here, Line S3 towards Elbgaustraße-Pinneberg and Line S11 towards Blankenese.
In both directions, connections on the same platform are provided between the trains of the S1 and S31 in the timetable.
Bus transport
At the Hamburg-Altona train station there are currently 19 bus routes from 6 departure areas.
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S Rissen - Asklepios Westklinikum - S Sülldorf - S Blankenese - Elbe shopping center - Trabrennbahn Bahrenfeld - S Othmarschen - AK Altona - Altona station | A (towards S cracks) |
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Schenefeld bus depot - Schenefelder Platz - Trabrennbahn Bahrenfeld - Altona station | B (towards Schenefeld ) |
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15th
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S Othmarschen - Altona station - U Schlump - U Hallerstraße - Alsterchaussee | A (towards S Othmarschen ) and C (towards Alsterchaussee) |
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20th
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Bf.Altona - S Holstenstraße - UK Eppendorf - U Hudtwalckerstraße - New-York-Ring - S Rübenkamp | E (towards S Rübenkamp) |
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25th
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Altona station - S Holstenstraße - UK Eppendorf - U Kellinghusenstraße - U Sierichstraße - U Mundsburg - U Wartenau - S Landwehr - U Burgstraße - S Hammerbrook - Sachsenstraße | E (towards Sachsenstraße) |
 37
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Schenefelder Platz - Elbe shopping center - S Bahrenfeld - Bf. Altona - S Reeperbahn - U St.Pauli - U Rödingsmarkt (Großer Burstah) - Central Station - U Hamburger Straße - U Dehnhaide - Bramfelder Dorfplatz (Heukoppel) | B (towards Elbe shopping center ) and F (towards Hauptbahnhof / ZOB ) |
 X86
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Teufelsbrück (ferry) - Altona station | D (towards Teufelsbrück (ferry)) |
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111
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Teufelsbrück (ferry) - Altona station - Altona cruise terminal - S Reeperbahn - US Landungsbrücken -
U Baumall - Elbphilharmonie - U Überseequartier - U HafenCity University - Baakenhöft |
C (towards Baakenhöft ) and D (towards Teufelsbrück (ferry)) |
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112
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Neumühlen / Övelgönne - Altona station - US Landungsbrücken - U St.Pauli - Johannes-Brahms-Platz -
U Stephansplatz - Hauptbahnhof - S Hammerbrook - Ausschläger Weg (traffic office) - Osterbrookplatz |
B (towards Neumühlen / Övelgönne (ferry)) and C (towards HBF / Steintorwall ) |
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150
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Estebogen - Cranz (ferry) - Estemündung barrage - AIRBUS - Finkenwerder (ferry) -
Motorway access Waltershof - AK Altona - Kreuzkirche Ottensen - Bf. Altona |
E (towards Estebogen) |
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183
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Kalvslohtwiete - Albertinen Hospital - Tiedemannstrasse - S Holstenstrasse - Altona station | E (towards Kalvslohtwiete) |
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250
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Fischbeker Heideweg - S Neugraben - S Neuwiedenthal - Motorway access Waltershof - AK Altona -
Bf. Altona |
E (towards Fischbeker Heideweg) |
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283
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Kalvslohtwiete - Albertinen-Krankenhaus - Motorway access Stellingen - Tiedemannstraße - S Holstenstraße - Altona station - S Bahrenfeld - Elbe shopping center (Julius-Brecht-Straße) | B (in the direction of the Elbe shopping center (Julius-Brecht-Straße) ) and E (in the direction of Kalvslohtwiete) |
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288
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Luther Park Care Center - Altona Station - Goethestrasse | B (in the direction of the Luther Park care center) and F (in the direction of Goethestrasse) |
 600
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Altona station - S Holstenstrasse - Gärtnerstrasse - UK Eppendorf - U Hudtwalckerstrasse - U Saarlandstrasse - US Barmbek - U Straßburger Strasse - U Straßburger Strasse - U Horner Rennbahn - Böcklerstrasse | E (towards U Wandsbek Markt) |
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601
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S Wedel - S Sülldorf - S Blankenese - Elbe shopping center - S Othmarschen - AK Altona - Bf. Altona - S Reeperbahn - U St. Pauli - U Rödingsmarkt (Großer Burstah) - Rathausmarkt | A (towards S Wedel ) and C (towards Rathausmarkt) |
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609
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Altona station - S Reeperbahn - U St.Pauli - U Rödingsmarkt (Großer Burstah) - Central Station - US Berliner Tor - U Burgstraße - Horn exit - U Horner Rennbahn - U Billstedt - U Mümmelmannsberg - Bergedorf station - Speckenweg | C (towards Speckenweg) |
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621
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S Wedel - S Sülldorf - S Iserbrook - Elbe shopping center - S Bahrenfeld - Altona station | A (towards S Wedel ) |
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641
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Altona station - S Reeperbahn - U St.Pauli - U Rödingsmarkt (Großer Burstah) - Hauptbahnhof - Harburg station - S Harburg Rathaus - S Neuwiedenthal - S Neugraben - S Neu Wulmstorf | D (towards S Neu Wulmstorf) |
Altona freight yard
Immediately to the north of the passenger station was the Altona freight station . With an area of 100,000 square meters, seven loading platforms and another six loading lanes accessible from the road and numerous shunting tracks, it was more extensive than the above-ground facilities of the passenger station. In addition, there was the port or quay station of the Altona port railway around 1000 meters away as a branch . The freight yard was in operation until 1996.
Altona depot
The Hamburg-Altona depot began in 1896 as an operating facility for the freight traffic of the Prussian-Hessian Railway Community , developed into one of the most important steam locomotive depots during the time of the Reichsbahn and Bundesbahn and housed express steam locomotives until the end of their service . In 1982 the Hamburg-Eidelstedt depot took over its function.
Historical subway plans
In the general plan for the rapid transit network from 1935, a two-storey subway station running transversely under the Altona long-distance train station was planned as a transfer stop. It should have served as a stop for a line between Freihafen and Lurup (inner city bypass) and another between Neumühlen and Freihafen ( Alsterhalbring ). In the war year 1942, a four-track subway station with central platforms was planned.
In the construction of the underground station of today's City-S-Bahn, the future construction of a stop of the Hamburg subway running underneath and across it was structurally taken into account: in this area there is a solid floor slab, a so-called "auxiliary tunnel". A tunnel could later be built underneath it without affecting the S-Bahn traffic going over it. Space was also left for the access systems to the possible station in the S-Bahn area: the stairs to the subway station could end on the wall between the stairs to the western platform and below the southern staircase (opposite the terminal building). There are no other preliminary work, in particular no complete underground tunnel. A similar auxiliary tunnel (floor slab) was also built under the A7 motorway in Bahrenfeld.
This preliminary work was provided for the planning of a U4 line between Lurup and Winterhude at the time, but this was not implemented.
Current plans
Abandonment or relocation
The construction of the network expansions from 1950 to 1965 for the Hamburg S-Bahn with the transition from the connecting line west of the Holstenstrasse station to the north branching off to the Altona-Kaltenkirchen railway line in 1962 relieved the station, especially in regional traffic.
Since the electrification of the main line to Kiel in 1995, trains coming from Neumünster / Kiel have often bypassed Altona station via Hamburg Dammtor to the main station. The terminal station operation in Altona also causes some problems: The vehicle loading for motorail trains was handled directly via the terminal platform, which is also used by passengers of other trains along with partial barriers. Around half of the regional trains from Schleswig-Holstein still end in Altona because of the bottleneck on the Hamburg-Altona connecting line, whereby travelers towards the main station have to use the S-Bahn to bridge the distance between the two stations. By shifting freight traffic to the Hamburg freight bypass, which was expanded after 2005 , more regional trains could pass through to the main station, whereby Altona's station and city center could lose a large part of their passengers or their walk-in customers .
Since the mid-1990s, there have been considerations and rough plans to rebuild the entire station about 1.5 kilometers further north directly on the north-south main line at the current Diebsteich S-Bahn station as a through station. For inner-city traffic, this would also have the advantage that if today's extensive railway area was abandoned between Stresemannstrasse and Julius-Leber-Strasse, another east-west road connection (e.g. from Bahrenfelder Steindamm to Haubachstrasse) could be created.
"Middle Altona"
According to the Authority for Urban Development and the Environment (BSU), preparatory investigations have been taking place in this connection since August 2009; in February 2010, the first drafts for the rebuilding of the track area, prepared for a preliminary study on behalf of the BSU, were published. The BSU writes "Deutsche Bahn AG is planning to move the regional and long-distance train station in Altona north to the level of the current Diebsteich S-Bahn station" and since the end of May / beginning of June 2010 has been inviting those affected and interested to information events on public participation is considered quite controversial.
In November 2010 it was announced that the design by the architect André Poitiers had won the tender for the master plan for the development of the site. This plan includes 2000 apartments and green spaces. A 13-hectare part of the site between the current long-distance railway tracks and Harkortstrasse will be developed independently of the decision to relocate the long-distance train station. In April 2011 the company ECE Projektmanagement , which builds and operates large commercial real estate, bought 60,000 square meters of the site from the Holsten brewery; In this planning area for a new “Mitte Altona” district, ECE wants to build apartments for the first time.
At the beginning of September 2013, Deutsche Bahn announced that it would not make a decision on the relocation until early 2014 [out of date] . The company justified this with imponderables after a soil survey revealed a high level of contamination. This means that the original plan to refinance a through station at Diebsteich through revenue from space can no longer be pursued and a new financing model must be found. Due to the nearby Eidelstedt depot, trains should continue to end.
In the first construction phase for the Neue Mitte Altona , 1,600 apartments are to be built.
On July 1, 2014, Deutsche Bahn announced that it would move the long-distance and regional train station to the location of today's Diebsteich S-Bahn station by 2023. An eight-track station with six long-distance and regional train tracks as well as two S-Bahn tracks and a new station building are planned. The aim is to renew the railway systems and relieve the Hamburg main station. The plan approval procedure should be initiated at the end of 2015. The plans have been publicly displayed since mid-March 2016. At the beginning of September 2016, the plans of the urban development authority for a twelve to twenty storey high reception building were rejected by all parliamentary groups in the urban planning committee of the Altona district assembly.
The city of Hamburg had to acquire the area of the existing train station by June 30, 2015 for 38.8 million euros and make it available to DB until the long-distance train station was relocated. The second development phase of Altona Mitte is to be realized on the more than 13 hectare area , with 1900 apartments being built. The planned costs of the project were not communicated; earlier estimates were around 300 million euros for the relocation of the station. So far, 13 million euros have been earmarked for planning. There are protests from the citizens' initiative Prellbock Altona against the relocation, because longer travel times for commuters are feared and because no terminal for vehicle loading is planned at the new location.
The plan approval decision of the Federal Railway Authority was issued on December 29, 2017. VCD Nord and the spokesman for the Prellbock Altona citizens' initiative brought an action for rescission on February 12, 2018. They also requested that the suspensive effect of their action be restored. The Hamburg Higher Administrative Court complied with the VCD's application by ruling on August 15, 2018. The plan approval decision suffered “from insufficient problem management with regard to the relocation of the loading facility for car train traffic”, for which there is no concrete plan yet. The VCD Nord's action could therefore be well founded. The request of the spokesman for the citizens' initiative Prellbock Altona was rejected due to a lack of legal standing.
In response to the court order, Deutsche Bahn announced in November 2019 that it would relocate vehicle loading to the Elbgaustraße S-Bahn station in Eidelstedt . On the local railway premises one should Autozuganlage be built. In February 2020, the planning was confirmed at a press conference with the Finance Senator Andreas Dressel. The court-ordered construction freeze had previously been lifted.
Web links
The history of the Altona train station. In: Hamburg Journal. NDR television, May 29, 2016, accessed on April 8, 2020 .
Individual evidence
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Web links
- The history of the Altona train station ( Memento from May 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Video in the NDR Hamburg Journal from March 29, 2016
- Site plan on bahnhof.de (PDF; 0.42 MB)
- Tracks in service facilities (AA) , DB Netz AG (PDF; 1,833 MB), DB Netz AG
- New Altona train station: View all plans online here . In: Nahverkehr Hamburg , March 14, 2016
- Historical picture gallery of the Altona train station altona.INFO web newspaper, October 16, 2009
- Aerial view of Altona train station, sight south-north; To the right of the center of the picture, the former sheds and storage buildings of the freight yard can be seen ( Memento from March 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Photo, In: Spiegel Online
