Uelzen train station
| Uelzen train station | |
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 Hundertwasser station Uelzen
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| Location in the network | Crossing station |
| Design | Island station |
| Platform tracks | 7th |
| abbreviation | HU |
| IBNR | 8000168 |
| Price range | 2 |
| opening | 1847 Hannöverscher Bahnhof 1855 Halberstädter Bahnhof 1888 (shared) island station 2000 Hundertwasser station |
| Website URL | www.bahnhof.de |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Uelzen |
| country | Lower Saxony |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 58 '11 " N , 10 ° 33' 11" E |
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| Railway stations in Lower Saxony | |
The station Uelzen is a junction station in the Hanseatic city of Uelzen on the eastern edge of the Lüneburg Heath in the northeast Lower Saxony .
The original reception building was converted as part of an Expo 2000 project based on the ideas and concept of the Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser . The station is marketed as an "environmental and cultural station " with the name Hundertwasser-Bahnhof Uelzen and is a tourist attraction.
history
Beginning of rail traffic
The Uelzener Bahnhof was created after the route of the Royal Hanover State Railway from Hanover to Celle via Uelzen to Harburg was extended in 1847 . It still forms the Hanover – Hamburg route today . The temporary station building was replaced a short time later by a half-timbered building. After ridership had increased continuously in the following years, was erected in 1855 on the railway tracks in the Hoefftstraße a new Hanoverian station in Tudor style .
After annexation of the Kingdom of Hanover by Prussia one built the America Line , a direct connection between the capital Berlin and the naval base at Wilhelmshaven , which opened the 1,873th Three railway companies shared the construction. Since the Uelzen citizens did not want the trains between Bremen and Berlin to stop at their Hanover station - local patriotism as Hanoverians probably played a role here - the Halberstadt station was built on the west side . This solution lasted until 1888, when the Halberstadt station was demolished again and replaced by an island station designed by Hubert Stier in the Wilhelmine architectural style .
In 1924, the Uelzen – Dannenberg railway was built and closed in 1996. After the Second World War , the American line between Nienbergen and Salzwedel was interrupted due to the division of Germany . Operation of the Wieren –Nienbergen section was later also discontinued before the line to Salzwedel was put back into operation after the reunification of Germany .
In a bombing raid on February 22, 1945 , the station and the surrounding freight yard were badly damaged. As a result of subsequent extensions and renovations, it lost much of its original structure, so that a concept to improve the station was developed from the mid-1990s.
Expo project
The central point of the conception was the plan to convert the station into an "environmental station" and a "culture station". The first step in this direction was the installation and commissioning of a photovoltaic system on the station roof in 1997. In further steps, the dismantling of the track systems and fallow station areas was planned.
On December 16, 1999, the 2000 Uelzen e. V. was recognized as a worldwide project of the World Exhibition Expo 2000 . In addition to various regional authorities , Deutsche Bahn also supported the project. The focus of these measures was the redesign of the building and the platform systems based on the ideas and concept of the Viennese artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser . The execution of the plans was the responsibility of the architects Peter Pelikan and Heinz M. Springmann , with whom Hundertwasser had repeatedly worked on other of his architectural projects.
On November 25, 2000, the inauguration of the new train station took place without the idea generator and planner Hundertwasser, who had since passed away. The redesigned train station has since developed into a tourist attraction and has over 450,000 visitors annually. In the period 2006/2007 the station was modernized with the program "Lower Saxony is on the train!" Funded by the federal government and the state of Lower Saxony for 5.5 million euros. All platforms were adapted to the current standards and designed to be handicapped accessible . Up to then missing details of Hundertwasser's former draft could also be implemented.
A wall fountain at the foot of a staircase leading to the platform was inaugurated in 2004. The design was based on a design by the artist Hans Muhr . He had used typical elements from Hundertwasser's projects, the subject with “Water. The way you flow is good. ”And given the name Hundertwasser-Brunnen to this fountain .
Awards
On September 2, 2009 the Uelzener Bahnhof received the title Station of the Year 2009 from Allianz pro Schiene in the category small town station.
outlook
The Uelzen area is to be equipped with digital interlockings and ETCS by 2030 as part of the “starter package” of Digital Rail Germany , as part of the TEN core network corridor Scandinavia-Mediterranean .
Transport links
The station is served by both the ICE of DB Fernverkehr and local trains from DB Regio , metronom and erixx . (As of 2019)
| line | Line course | Cycle (min) | EVU |
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| ICE 20 | Hamburg-Altona - Uelzen - Hanover - Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe - Fulda - Frankfurt - Wiesbaden | individual trains | DB long-distance transport |
| ICE 26 | Stralsund - Hamburg - Uelzen - Hanover - Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe - Frankfurt (Main) | 120 | DB long-distance transport |
| IRE 1 | Hamburg - Uelzen - Salzwedel - Stendal - Berlin Ostbf | individual trains | DB Regio |
| RE 2 | Uelzen - Celle - Hanover - Elze - Kreiensen - Göttingen | 120 | metronome |
| RE 3 | (Hanover - Celle -) Uelzen - Lüneburg - Winsen - Hamburg | (120) 60 | metronome |
| RE 20 | Uelzen - Salzwedel - Hohenwulsch - Stendal - Tangerhütte - Magdeburg | 120 | DB Regio Southeast |
| RB 31 | Uelzen - Lüneburg - Winsen - Hamburg-Harburg - Hamburg | individual trains | metronome |
| RB 37 | Uelzen - Munster - Soltau - Langwedel - Bremen | 120 | erixx |
| RB 47 | Uelzen - Wittingen - Wahrenholz - Gifhorn - Meine - Braunschweig | 120 | erixx |
See also
literature
- Lothar Kasper, Heinrich Priesterjahn, Klaus-Dieter Tröger: Uelzen and the railway . Bahn-Media Verlag, Suhlendorf 2009, ISBN 978-3-940189-08-0
Web links
- Event center website
- photos
- Tracks in service facilities (HU) , DB Netz AG (PDF)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Digital Rail Germany #####. (PDF) The future of the railroad. In: deutschebahn.com. Deutsche Bahn, September 2019, p. 10 f. , accessed on May 2, 2020 .