Hannoverscher Bahnhof (Osnabrück)
| Osnabrück Hannoverscher Bahnhof | |
|---|---|
 Hannoverscher Bahnhof seen from
Wittekindstrasse |
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| Data | |
| opening | 1855 |
| Conveyance | 1895 |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Osnabrück |
| country | Lower Saxony |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 16 '36 " N , 8 ° 3' 11" E |
| Railway lines | |
| Railway stations in Lower Saxony | |
multicolored pencil drawing by Friedrich Gottlieb Müller , 1865
The Hannoversche Bahnhof is the former main station of the city of Osnabrück. The station on today's Wittekindstrasse went into operation with the Hanoverian Westbahn in the direction of Löhne on November 22, 1855. Until the shutdown of passenger traffic in 1895, the Hanover station was the most important station in the city of Osnabrück. Due to the intersection with the Wanne-Eickel-Hamburg railway a few hundred meters east of the Hanover station, the new Osnabrück main station was built there . Freight traffic continued until the central freight transshipment station in the Fledder district was completed in 1913. The station building served the Deutsche Bahn as an administration building until 2004, but has since been sold.
Construction and operation
Since 1844, various route proposals for the construction of a railway line in the west of the Kingdom of Hanover have been developed. Until the final route was determined in 1848, various routes were planned and then discarded. The alignment in Osnabrück was not easy either. There were plans for a western and an eastern guidance of the route past the city. The western route would have been led through the desert district with a train station at Johannistor, but was dropped in favor of the eastern one.
The mayor of Osnabrück, Johann Carl Bertram Stüve , played a key role in the implementation of the eastern variant , who wanted to promote the local economy. The eastern route was better for the mine Piesberg and the quarry operation on Piesberg , as they were just a few hundred meters away. However, this construction was linked to the condition that the city had to provide the land for the route and the train stations and to build the Piesbergbahn on its own.
From the opening of the line towards Löhne on November 21, 1855, the Hanover station was the terminus of the Hanover Western Railway until the completion of the further section towards Rheine on June 19, 1856.
The station facilities along today's Liebigstrasse had extensive tracks and workshops. A small coking plant for the production of coke for the locomotives from Borgloh coal was also located on the tracks.
From 1876 onwards, the station also served the Oldenburg Southern Railway from Oldenburg to Osnabrück and then also the Delmenhorst – Hesepe – Osnabrück railway as the end point. The Hasestollen was connected to the train station in 1857 and the city harbor in 1915.
Shutdown
With the construction of the Hamburg-Venloer Bahn , a crossing station for the two lines became necessary. In 1895, the Osnabrück main station, which is still in operation today, was opened. When it opened, the Hanover railway station was no longer required for passenger traffic and was closed. Its railway lines were relocated to today's routes. Goods handling, on the other hand, continued through the Hanover station until 1913, when the Fledder freight station was completed.
As a further replacement station in addition to the main station, which is now further away from the city center, the Hasetor stop , now Osnabrück's old town, was opened in 1896 .
Later use
The building has since been used as the administration building for the railway. A nuclear bunker was built in front of the station building during the Cold War. In the event of a defense, rail traffic in northern Germany should be controlled from here.
Since January 1, 1997, the headquarters of DB Netz , Osnabrück, has been housed in the listed reception building of the Hanover train station. At the beginning of 2004, DB withdrew from the building. It was sold to a citizen from Melle in 2012. He sold the property in 2013 to a company from Recke in Westphalia , which carried out renovation and conversion work and has been renting the premises to various commercial users since 2015.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Osnabahn: KBS 375. The Hannoversche Westbahn
- ↑ Magnificent building is about to be sold: Meller bought a train station with a nuclear bunker. In: New Osnabrück Newspaper. 20th February 2013.
- ^ New life in the Hanover station in Osnabrück In: Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung. May 12, 2015.