Hamburg Central Station
| Hamburg Central Station | |||
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 Hamburg Central Station, south side:
left to Hanover and Bremen, right to Lübeck, Rostock and Berlin |
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| Location in the network | Separation station | ||
| Design | Riding station | ||
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| abbreviation | AH AHS (S-Bahn) ZMB (IATA-Code) HB (U-Bahn Hauptbahnhof Süd) HX (U-Bahn Hauptbahnhof Nord) |
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| IBNR | 8002549 8098549 (S-Bahn) |
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| Price range | 1 | ||
| opening | 5th December 1906 | ||
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Hamburg_Hbf | ||
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| architect | Heinrich Reinhardt and Georg Süßenguth | ||
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| Place / district | St. George | ||
| country | Hamburg | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| Coordinates | 53 ° 33 '10 " N , 10 ° 0' 23" E | ||
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The Hamburg Central Station is a major railway junction of Germany ; With 550,000 passengers per day in 2018, it was the busiest long-distance train station of Deutsche Bahn and, after Paris-Nord, the busiest train station in Europe. The central building and the above-ground track systems are connected to the underground stations Hauptbahnhof Nord and Hauptbahnhof Süd of the Hamburger Hochbahn and a directional platform of the S-Bahn Hamburg . The regional rail lines are integrated into the Hamburg transport association .
The station is one of the 21 stations in the highest price class 1 from DB Station & Service . Judging by the daily traffic numbers in distance passenger and regional transport to twelve platform tracks it is stated by the former railway boss Rüdiger Grube of the biggest " bottleneck " in the network of Deutsche Bahn. Since 2010, the station has been considered a congested rail route.
The through station was built from 1904 to replace the earlier scattered head stations of various railway companies and put into operation on December 6, 1906.
location
Hamburg Central Station is centrally located on the eastern edge of the city center . It is located about 800 meters northeast of Hamburg City Hall , the shortest distance to the Elbe and the facilities of the Hamburg port is 600 meters, and it is about 450 meters to the Inner and Outer Alster . Built on the site of the former Hamburg city wall and the old stone gate cemeteries, the underground tracks roughly follow the course of the old fortification between Hamburg and the former suburb of St. Georg to the east. The course of today's district boundaries around the train station assigns it entirely to the Hamburg-St. Georg to. The postal address is Hachmannplatz 16.
The exits on the east side lead further into this district with the Hachmannplatz / Heidi-Kabel-Platz located there with the Ohnsorg Theater in the Bieberhaus and the Deutsches Schauspielhaus on Kirchenallee, the Museum for Art and Commerce in the direction of Steintorplatz and the Hamburg Central Bus Station (ZOB). The exits on the west side lead across the Glockengießer- / Steintorwall street directly to the Hamburg-Altstadt district with the Mönckebergstraße shopping streets and the Spitalerstraße pedestrian zone and to the Hamburger Kunsthalle located northwest of the main train station .
In the long-haul network, Hamburg Central Station is the hub for connections to the north (Kiel, Denmark, Sylt), northeast (Lübeck, Schwerin, Rostock), east (Berlin, Prague) and south / southwest (Hanover, Bremen).
architecture
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A competition was announced in 1900 for the representative design of the train station, which was won by architects Heinrich Reinhardt and Georg Süßenguth from Charlottenburg . Kaiser Wilhelm II rated their first draft as "simply hideous" and had to be revised. The technical concept came from Ernst Moeller .
Hall and reception building
The subsequently revised plan was more monumental and emphasized from the outside the enormous 73 meter span of the platform hall . The hall is 150 meters long, 114 meters wide and up to 37 meters high. The station building, flanked by two 45-meter-high towers with a square cross-section, was built with a bridge or the “north footbridge” across the platform hall on the north side. At the southern end of the hall, the narrower Südsteg runs as a pedestrian bridge over the tracks and on the outside the wide road bridge of the Steintordamm, which acts as a short link between Mönckebergstrasse and Adenauerallee. The hall is seen as a successful quote from the Palais des Machines of the Paris World's Fair of 1889 . The station is founded on 800 reinforced concrete driven piles and is one of the first larger structures with reinforced concrete piles in northern Germany. The establishment was carried out in 1902 by the "Engineer Bureau for Cement-Iron Constructions" ( Eduard Züblin ) from Strasbourg.
During the Second World War , Hamburg Central Station was given a camouflage cover in the spring of 1941 in the form of a painted wooden structure to make it difficult for approaching Allied bomber units to orientate themselves. Despite this measure, it was badly damaged by bombs , especially in November 1941 and July 1943 (" Operation Gomorrah "), so that after the end of the war in 1945 even demolition and rebuilding were discussed. However, it was decided to keep the old building and some makeshift repairs were made initially. After the currency reform in 1948 , the repairs were completed. A complete renovation finally took place in the 1970s.
With the construction of the tunnel station 1969–1975 east of the hall for the City-S-Bahn , side extensions on the east side were demolished and the north footbridge ("Wandelhalle") renovated.
Tunnel systems
The so-called "Südsteg tunnel" runs parallel to the south footbridge below the track level. He was as an underground direct connection for passengers between the platforms and the Subway Hauptbahnhof Süd (U1 / U3) thought -Haltestelle. At the turn of the year 1991/92 it was closed except for the entrances to the two S-Bahn platforms. The reason given was the frequent stay of drug and alcohol addicts there.
The S-Bahn tunnel via Jungfernstieg to Landungsbrücken ( City S-Bahn , 1979 extension to Altona ) ends north of the station hall in a partly underground and partly above-ground threading structure. In connection with this, a parallel, double-track tunnel station with a central platform was built east of the station hall for the northbound S-Bahn trains and put into operation in 1981. Above the south exit of the tunnel station, instead of the former side wing, a cuboid operating building with a metal-clad facade, called a cookie jar , was built.
Thereafter, the tracks were renumbered, the tracks in the new station were given the numbers 1 and 2, the previous tracks 1 to 12 in the hall became tracks 3 to 14. At the same time, the S-Bahn was in service for the trains departing south relocated exclusively to tracks 3 and 4. The track was dismantled on track 5 (previously 3), which was previously used by the S-Bahn, and has been used for regional and long-distance traffic since then.
Lobby
The connecting hall above the tracks, which is typical of equestrian stations, is located on the north side of the station and was known as the Wandelhalle. It includes the entrance and exit halls on the west and east sides, each with a striking 45 meter high clock tower ; as access to the first (eastern) platform for the S-Bahn with the current tracks 3 and 4 there is an additional entrance hall. The first to fourth class waiting rooms were previously located in the foyer, while the ticket counters and baggage handling and delivery were located in the entrance and exit halls.
As part of the renewal of the supporting structure, the north footbridge of the main station was rebuilt. The Wandelhalle received a gallery with shops as an additional floor. Previously, this area was only used for billboards.
In 1988, a private investor was found to build the new foyer after the original hall had been demolished for a long time due to reasons of age. The new foyer celebrated its opening on June 1, 1991. On 7,600 square meters and two floors there are numerous shops and restaurants, and a further 3,600 square meters of office and storage space are added on the upper floors. Due to the location in the train station, the shops were not subject to the legally limited shop opening hours from 1900 to 2007 , but were - and are - open every seven days of the week from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m.
The gourmet station was enlarged in 2005 and offers 19 different gastronomic styles.
The real estate fund DG Immobilien-Anlage 22 , a subsidiary of the Deutsche Genossenschaftsbank, acquired the Wandelhalle from Deutsche Bahn in 1991 under heritable building rights for a period of 70 years. In September 2017 it was announced that the foyer would be sold. According to a press report, the providers hope for a purchase price in the three-digit million euro range.
Associated operating facilities
"Hbr" depot and depot
About 400 meters south of the passenger station, branching off from the line to Harburg , the current depot is located on the area of the former Berlin train station in Hamburg between Banksstrasse and Högerdamm , where trains are completely provided and serviced , as well as the maintenance depot at the southeast end of the locomotives. During the steam operation were there as later Bahnbetriebswerk Hamburg-Rothenburgsort coal handling plants as well as a hub to which the locomotives with a Tender in the currently required preferential direction were filmed and later a rectangular engine shed with sliding platform . As of 2016, there is only a tank system for the diesel locomotives there , while the locomotive shed has been converted for other purposes and the transfer table has been removed.
Central signal box
Between the access tracks to the depot and the north canal bridge is the six-story building of the central signal box Hzf - the identifier stands for "Hauptbahnhof / Zentral / Fahrdienstleiter" - for the entire main station complex. It is a relay interlocking of the type Sp Dr S 60. As a rule, it is manned by two dispatchers, a third dispatcher can be used. As long as trains were still being formed in the depot, there was also a shunting manager. In addition, employees for operational monitoring and for passenger information have their workplaces on the platforms. The area now extends to Hamburg Sternschanze , Hamburg-Wandsbek , Berliner Tor and the Norderelbbrücken (exclusively). The signal box was built in the mid-1970s and put into operation on June 12, 1977. It replaced the signal boxes Hn ( north ), Hs ( south ) and Ho ( east ), as well as the signal box Hbr ( depot ), which were previously located in the northern and southern track aprons of the passenger station; they were mostly demolished in the same year. The bridge signal box Hp ( Postecke ), which was located above the tracks leading to what was then the Postbahnhof , had already been dismantled two years earlier . The signal towers were built during the construction of the main station in 1906, Hn, Hs and Ho as electromechanical dispatcher interlocking , Hp as mechanical guards interlocking and HBr as an electromechanical interlocking. In 1933 Hp was replaced by an equestrian signal box with electromechanical equipment, in 1941 the new building by Ho was put into operation, and in 1949 the new buildings by Hn and Hs, which had already started during the war . The last three were now designed as electromechanical four-row signal boxes. The Hbr signal box received a new building in 1963. The Hr and Hl marshalling yards in the depot, also built in 1906, had been given up earlier.
service
Tracks 1–8 and 11–14 are available for passenger traffic, with tracks 1 and 2 being underground outside the hall. Tracks 1–4 are reserved exclusively for S-Bahn traffic. Long-distance and regional traffic is handled via tracks 5-8 and 11-14. The five central platforms are accessible via stairs and escalators from the north and south footbridge. The platforms are extended beyond the south end of the hall, the platforms on tracks 11-14 have roofs in this area. The platforms of tracks 5-8 also extend beyond the platform hall on the north side. Freight traffic and shunting runs are handled via two through tracks (9 and 10) without a platform. In the past, these tracks were used not only for freight traffic but also for serving the Hühnerposten railway post office .
On the northwest side, the tracks go over the Hamburg-Altona connecting railway with the long-distance stations Dammtor and Altona in the direction of Schleswig-Holstein and Jutland .
On the southeast side, the track bundles branch off directly behind the hall in the (north-) eastward directions to Lübeck (see: Vogelfluglinie ) and Berlin as well as the southern strand over the Elbe bridges , with further branches behind the long-distance train station Hamburg-Harburg to the south ( Hanover , Maschen marshalling yard ), southwest ( Bremen , Cologne etc.) and west ( Stade , Cuxhaven ).
With a total of 207 arrivals and departures of regular long-distance trains per day, the main station was the fourteenth most important node in the network of the Deutsche Bundesbahn in the 1989 summer timetable. The importance of the station for long-distance traffic has increased significantly again since 1995. The railway lines in Schleswig-Holstein had not been electrified until then . Since the electrification of the line to Neumünster – Kiel / Flensburg , which was completed in 1995, it is no longer necessary for long-distance trains to or from the north to go to the terminus in Altona to change locomotives . Since regional trains to and from Kiel and Flensburg begin and end in Hamburg Hbf instead of Hamburg-Altona station, parts of the transfer traffic have been relocated from there.
Since the construction of Hamburg Central Station could only be expanded with great effort, several platform tracks were equipped with passenger systems, with the help of which two short trains can stop one behind the other on the same platform. For practical purposes, the platform areas were divided into two sections, each marked with a and b . These subdivisions were also shown next to the track numbers on the display boards and in the timetables.
Since 2015, for this orientation information with capital letters displayed on panels cart status markings of the platforms used in accordance with, for example, be in display panels and schedules for a train A-C or D-F etc. appended to the track numbers. A regional express going north (e.g. to Flensburg) from track 12 can stop at section D – F, while a regional express going south (e.g. to Bremen) uses track section 12 A – C.
This subdivision is used for tracks 5-7 and 11-14, but not for track 8, as this branch in the middle of the platform area in the direction of Hamburg-Harburg on the one hand and Hamburg-Bergedorf or Lübeck on the other. This track is usually used for long-distance trains that travel to Hamburg Central Station as a turning station on their route between the south and the Baltic Sea coast . B. EC and IC trains from Stuttgart to Binz on Rügen and vice versa.
Long-distance transport
| line | Line course | Tact | operator |
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| ICE 11 | Hamburg-Altona - Hamburg - Berlin - Leipzig - Erfurt - Frankfurt - Stuttgart - Munich | individual trains | DB long-distance transport |
| Hamburg - Hanover - Frankfurt - Stuttgart - Frankfurt - Munich | individual trains at night | ||
| ICE 18 | Hamburg-Altona - Hamburg - Berlin - Halle - Erfurt - Nuremberg - Ingolstadt / Augsburg - Munich | Every two hours | |
| ICE 20 | ( Kiel -) Hamburg - Hanover - Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe - Frankfurt - Mannheim - Karlsruhe - Freiburg - Basel - Zurich (- Chur ) | ||
| ICE 22 | (Kiel -) Hamburg - Hanover - Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe - Frankfurt - Frankfurt Airport - Mannheim - ( Heidelberg -) Stuttgart | ||
| ICE 25 | ( Lübeck -) Hamburg - Hanover - Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe - Fulda - Würzburg - Nuremberg - Ingolstadt - Munich (- Garmisch-Partenkirchen ) | Hourly | |
| ICE 26 | ( Binz -) Stralsund - Rostock - Schwerin - Hamburg - Hanover - Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe - Gießen - Frankfurt - Heidelberg - Karlsruhe | Every two hours | |
| EC 27 | ( Westerland -) Hamburg - Berlin - Dresden - Praha - Brno - Budapest | two pairs of trains | ÖBB / DB |
| ICE 28 | Hamburg - Berlin - Leipzig - Erfurt - Nuremberg - Munich | Hourly | DB long-distance transport |
| EC 30 | Hamburg-Altona - Hamburg - Bremen - Osnabrück - Münster - Dortmund - Bochum - Essen - Duisburg - Düsseldorf - Cologne - Bonn - Koblenz - Mainz - Mannheim - Karlsruhe - Baden-Baden - Freiburg - Basel - Zurich - / Interlaken Ost | 4 pairs of trains daily | DB long-distance traffic / SBB |
| IC 30 | Hamburg-Altona - Hamburg - Bremen - Osnabrück - Münster - Dortmund - Duisburg - Düsseldorf - Cologne - Bonn - Koblenz - Mainz - Mannheim - Stuttgart (or Karlsruhe - Freiburg - Basel - Zurich - Chur ) | Every two hours | DB long-distance transport |
| ICE 30 | Hamburg-Altona - Hamburg - Bremen - Diepholz - Osnabrück - Münster - Essen - Duisburg - Düsseldorf - Cologne | Indent | |
| ICE 31 | Kiel - / Hamburg-Altona - Hamburg - Bremen - Osnabrück - Münster - Dortmund - Hagen - Wuppertal - Solingen - Cologne - Bonn - Koblenz - Mainz - Frankfurt Airport - Frankfurt - Hanau - Würzburg - Nuremberg - Regensburg - Passau | almost every two hours | |
| IC 31 | (Kiel -) Hamburg - Bremen - Osnabrück - Münster - Dortmund - Wuppertal - Cologne - Bonn - Koblenz - Mainz - Frankfurt (- Würzburg - Nuremberg - Regensburg - Straubing - Passau ) | Every two hours | |
| ICE 42 | Hamburg-Altona - Hamburg - Bremen - Münster - Dortmund - Cologne - Stuttgart - Munich | a pair of trains | |
| IC / EC 392 | Hamburg - Padborg - Copenhagen | individual trains | |
| IC 76 | Aarhus - Flensburg - Neumünster - Hamburg - Berlin East | ||
| ICE 91 | Hamburg-Altona - Hamburg - Hanover - Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe - Fulda - Würzburg - Nuremberg - Regensburg - Plattling - Passau - Linz - St. Pölten - Vienna | a pair of trains | |
| FLX 20 | Hamburg-Altona - Hamburg - Hamburg-Harburg - Osnabrück - Münster - Gelsenkirchen - Essen - Duisburg - Düsseldorf - Cologne | 1-2 train pairs | Flixtrain |
The night trains have been operating as the ÖBB Nightjet since December 2016 (under the EuroNight category until 2017 ). The previous connections as City Night Line were discontinued at the same time.
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ÖBB Nightjet Hamburg-Altona - Hamburg Hbf - Hanover - Göttingen - Würzburg - Nuremberg - Regensburg - Passau - Wels - Linz - St. Pölten - Vienna |
1 pair of trains daily | ÖBB |
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ÖBB Nightjet Hamburg-Altona - Hamburg Hbf - Hanover - Göttingen - Würzburg - Nuremberg - Augsburg - Munich - Rosenheim - Kufstein - Wörgl - Jenbach - Innsbruck |
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ÖBB Nightjet Hamburg-Altona - Hamburg Hbf - (from December 15, 2019 - Bremen) ( Hanover - Göttingen -) Frankfurt - Mannheim - Freiburg - Basel - Zurich |
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BTE FlixTrain / AutoReiseZug Hamburg-Altona - Hamburg Hbf - Hanover Hbf - Freiburg (Breisgau) - Lörrach |
Seasonal individual pairs of trains FilxTrain offer discontinued until further notice |
Railway tourism express |
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Holiday Express Hamburg-Altona - Hamburg Hbf - Hanover - Munich - Salzburg - Bad Gastein - Villach |
seasonal single train pairs | Train4You |
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Holiday Express Hamburg-Altona - Hamburg Hbf - Hanover - Munich - Wörgl - Innsbruck |
seasonal single train pairs | ||
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Holiday Express Hamburg-Altona - Hamburg Hbf - Hanover - Göttingen - Würzburg - Augsburg - Munich (- Wörgl - Innsbruck - Ötztal - St Anton am Arlberg) |
Seasonal single train pairs will be extended from / to St Anton in winter |
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Holiday Express Hamburg-Altona - Hamburg Hbf - Hanover - Munich - Wörgl - Innsbruck - Bozen / Bolzano - Verona |
Seasonal single train pairs will only run to Innsbruck in 2020 |
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ALPEN-SYLT night express Westerland (Sylt) - Husum - Hamburg-Altona - Hamburg Hbf - Frankfurt (Main) - Würzburg - Nuremberg - Augsburg - Munich - Salzburg |
Seasonal two pairs of trains per week | RDC |
Regional traffic
| line | Line course | Tact | Motor vehicle + wagon type | EVU | Remarks | |
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| IRE 1 | Hamburg - Lüneburg - Uelzen - Salzwedel - Stendal - Berlin | individual trains | 147 + InterRegio car | DB Regio Nordost | ||
| RE 1 | Hamburg - Hamburg-Bergedorf - Büchen - Schwerin - Bad Kleinen - Rostock | Every two hours | 120 / 182 + 5 Doppelstockwagen | DB Regio Nordost | Amplifier in the HVZ to Schwerin Hbf | |
| RE 3 | Hamburg - Hamburg-Harburg - Winsen - Lüneburg - Uelzen - Celle - Hanover | Hourly | 146.2 + 7 double-deck cars | metronome | Amplifier in the high season to Uelzen; Two-hour extension to Hanover |
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| RE 4 | Hamburg - Hamburg-Harburg - Buchholz - Tostedt - Rotenburg - Bremen | Amplifiers in the high season to Tostedt / Buchholz | ||||
| RE 5 | Hamburg - Hamburg-Harburg - Buxtehude - Horneburg - Stade - Wingst - Cuxhaven | 246 + 5 double deck cars | Start of the Lower Elbe | Amplifiers in the peak hours to Stade | ||
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Hamburg - Pinneberg - Elmshorn - Neumünster |
- Rendsburg - Schleswig - Flensburg | 445 | DB Regio North | Train division in Neumünster | |
| - Einfeld - Bordesholm - Kiel Hbf | ||||||
| RE 8 | Hamburg - Bad Oldesloe - Lübeck | 112 + 7 double deck cars | ||||
| RE 60 | Hamburg - Husum - Niebüll - Westerland (Sylt) | individual trains | 245 + married pair car | 1-2 pairs of trains in the summer months | ||
| RE 70 | Hamburg - Hamburg Dammtor - Elmshorn - Kiel | Hourly | 445 | |||
| RE 80 | Hamburg - Ahrensburg - Bad Oldesloe - Reinfeld - Lübeck | 112 + 7 double deck cars | ||||
| RB 31 | Hamburg - Hamburg-Harburg - Maschen - Stelle - Winsen - Bardowick - Lüneburg | 146.1 + 5–6 double deck cars | metronome | Amplifier in the peak hours to Lüneburg | ||
| RB 41 | Hamburg - Hamburg-Harburg - Buchholz - Sprötze - Tostedt - Rotenburg (Wümme) - Ottersberg - Bremen | 146.1 + 5–6 double deck cars | Amplifier in peak hours to Tostedt / Rotenburg | |||
| RB 61 | Hamburg - Hamburg Dammtor - Pinneberg - Tornesch - Elmshorn - Itzehoe | 1428, 1429 | northern runway | |||
| RB 81 | Hamburg - Hasselbrook - Wandsbek - Tonndorf - Ahrensburg - Bargteheide - Bad Oldesloe | Half-hourly | 112 + 5 double-decker cars | DB Regio North | Amplifier in the peak hours to Ahrensburg | |
| RE 83 | Hamburg - Lübeck Hbf - Bad Schwartau - Eutin - Plön - Preetz - Kiel Hbf | individual trains | 218 + 5 double-decker cars | 1 pair of trains in peak hours | ||
| RE 85 | Hamburg - Ahrensburg - Bad Oldesloe - Lübeck Hbf - Puttgarden | 1–2 pairs of trains in the summer months | ||||
Train
Hamburg Central Station offers access to all S-Bahn lines on a total of four tracks with two directional central platforms. Tracks 1 and 2 were subsequently laid in a tunnel parallel to the station hall. Here the lines run "inwardly of the city". The previous tracks 1 and 2 (within the station hall) were renamed to tracks 3 and 4 with the completion of the tunnel stop. The lines “out of town” run from this platform. If necessary, tracks 3 and 4 can also be operated in the opposite direction.
The S-Bahn traffic is handled by employees on the platform due to the high number of passengers. The platforms are barrier-free with one elevator each and have escalators and fixed stairs to the ticket hall level. In the middle of the platform, a staircase leads to a tunnel across the tracks, which enables the passage to the lower-lying subway station Hauptbahnhof Süd .
The renovation of the tunnel station started in October 2019. As a first step, the tiles were chipped off the back rail walls. Then the walls were painted black, as before at all other stations of the City-S-Bahn tunnel , and the brackets for the upcoming panels were attached.
The station is also served by the A1 line twice a day:
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( Temporarily: Hamburg - Dammtor - Sternschanze - Holstenstraße - Diebsteich - Langenfelde - Stellingen -) Eidelstedt - Quickborn - Ulzburg Süd - Kaltenkirchen - Bad Bramstedt - Boostedt ( not in the HVV tariff: - Neumünster) |
Subway
There are two separate underground stations at the main station: Hauptbahnhof Süd and Hauptbahnhof Nord. The two tunnels cross again under the railway tracks that are already below street level.
Central station south
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.jpg) Platform in the Hauptbahnhof Süd underground station on the U3 (platform 3) |
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| Tracks (platform) | 4 ( central platform ) |
| Coordinates | 53 ° 33 ′ 8 " N , 10 ° 0 ′ 32" E |
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| Passengers | 127,800 / day (Mon-Fri, 2017) |
The Hauptbahnhof Süd station (until 1968: Hauptbahnhof ) is located southeast of the station hall and was opened in 1912. The trains of today's line U1 ( Norderstedt - Ohlstedt / Großhansdorf ) and line U3 (Barmbek-Wandsbek-Gartenstadt (ring)) stop here .
During the construction of the main train station, the tunnel under the railway tracks from the west was completed, as was a pedestrian tunnel, which allowed underground access to the long-distance platforms until it was closed in 1991. The station consists of two masonry tubes with vaulted ceilings and was designed for four tracks: the trains of the subway ring line stopped on the outer tracks, and the branch line to Rothenburgsort , which was no longer built after the Second World War , started on the inner tracks . After the opening of the Hauptbahnhof Nord station , passages were created between the two tubes and the inner tracks were replaced by a very wide platform for the U3 line.
Immediately to the south of it, another tunnel station was opened in 1960 for the section of the U1 line coming from Meßberg , the tunnel of which was driven under the railway systems in 1959 by means of a shield drive .
The U1 stop and the mezzanine level have been extensively modernized since 2016. As part of the renovation, the service point will move into new premises and a new elevator will be built, as well as the connecting passage to the nearby central bus station in Hamburg (ZOB) .
Central station north
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 U-Bahn train in Central Station North (U2) |
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| Tracks (platform) | 2 ( outside platform ) |
| Coordinates | 53 ° 33 ′ 15 ″ N , 10 ° 0 ′ 22 ″ E |
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| Passengers | 53,300 / day (Mon-Fri, 2017) |
The Hauptbahnhof Nord station, which opened in 1968, is located at the northern end of the station concourse across under the Deutsche Bahn tracks. It consists of four tubes at a depth of 30 meters. At both ends of the tubes, stairs lead into vestibules, each with further corridors, from which the surface can be reached via stairs. Some of the extensive access tunnels have now been closed again.
The trains of today's line U2 (Niendorf Nord – Mümmelmannsberg) and line U4 (Elbbrücken – Billstedt) stop here .
Of the four tunnel tubes that were laid next to one another as a precaution during construction, only the two inner tubes are in operation. The outer platforms were intended for a subway line from Winterhude to Lurup , which was to be built in the 1970s. However, its realization was stopped by the Hamburg Senate in the early 1970s for financial reasons. The tubes are now cordoned off, and there is an art installation in the northern tube. In 2006, during the barrier-free expansion of the station, elevators were installed in the unused track troughs and access shafts.
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Niendorf Nord - Schippelsweg - Joachim-Mähl-Straße - Niendorf Markt - Hagendeel - Hagenbeck Zoo - Lutterothstraße - Osterstraße - Emilienstraße - Christ Church - Schlump - Exhibition Halls - Gänsemarkt - Jungfernstieg - North Central Station - Berliner Tor - Burgstraße - Hammer Church - Rauhes Haus - Horner Rennbahn - Legienstrasse - Billstedt - Merkenstrasse - Steinfurther Allee - Mümmelmannsberg |
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Elbbrücken - HafenCity University - Überseequartier - Jungfernstieg - North Central Station - Berliner Tor - Burgstrasse - Hammer Church - Rauhes Haus - Horner Rennbahn | - Legienstrasse - Billstedt | under construction: - Stoltenstrasse - Horner Geest |
Predecessor stations
The following railway lines ended in Hamburg around 1870: from the west the Hamburg-Altona connecting line from Altona and Kiel , from the northeast from Lübeck , from the east via Bergedorf from Berlin . Each of these lines had its own train station, which was about 200 to 600 meters apart on the southeastern edge of the former city wall. In addition, in the city of Harburg, which belongs to the Kingdom of Prussia, on the southern side of the Elbe, there was the route to Hanover, which was opened in 1847 . The Bremen-Hamburg route ( Venloer Bahn ) was still under construction.
Berlin train station
The Berlin station was built in 1846 for the Berlin-Hamburg railway at the Oberhafen , instead of the first station for the railway line to Bergedorf from May 1842, which was included in the line to Berlin. The Deichtorhallen are located at this point today .
Lübeck train station
The Lübeck train station was built in 1865 by the Lübeck-Büchener Eisenbahn at the point on Spaldingstrasse where the S-Bahn viaduct leads to Hammerbrook and Harburg today.
Under Walther Brecht , who was the company's chairman at the time of the construction of the new train station, the line to Hamburg in the new Hamburg central train station was expanded to two tracks. For his redesign of the LBE railway system , he was awarded the Order of the Red Eagle 2nd Class at the opening of the station and the Royal Crown Order 2nd Class at the Coronation and Order Festival on January 18, 1907 .
In 1902, Hermann Textor closed the associated Lübeck freight yard and connected the LBE with the freight yard of the Hanover station in Rothenburgsort . This connection later became the first section of the Hamburg freight bypass .
Klosterthor train station
The Klosterthor station in 1866 as the end point of the Hamburg-Altona link line built and was located just south of today's Altmannbrücke its railway tracks were later to railway post office Hühnerposten (now the Central Library of the Hamburg Bücherhallen removed). A track was later built from Klosterthor train station in front of the portal of the Berlin train station and a freight traffic track was brought there from the Lübeck train station, which is about 600 m away.
Venlo / Hanover train station
The Venlo train station on Grasbrook was built in 1872 and renamed Hannoverscher Bahnhof in 1892 . The Hanover-Hamburg railway of the Hanoverian State Railways ended first in 1866 to the Kingdom of Hanover belonging city Harburg . The crossing of the southern and northern Elbe with two elaborate Elbe bridges from Harburg to Grasbrook in Hamburg was not carried out by the Cologne-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft until 1872 as part of the Hamburg-Venloer Bahn . The station served as the end point of the line to Hanover and, as part of the Venloer Bahn, to Wanne-Eickel in the direction of the Ruhr area and the Rhineland. Since the latter was the northernmost section of the Paris – Hamburg railway project initiated by France , the end point of the Venlo or Hanover railway was also called the Paris train station . After the construction of the central train station, the premises of the Hanover station became the first main freight station in the Hanseatic city. The Venlo / Hanover station was particularly unfavorable. You had to cross two bridges to get to the old town and the other train stations.
Central Station
After the contracts for the creation of a central train station in Hamburg had been ratified in 1899, the new central Hamburg main train station, which replaced the individual stations, was built north of the Klosterthor train station with the inclusion of the Hamburg-Altona connecting line. The Prussian Railway Administration was responsible for the construction . Two stone reliefs with the coat of arms of Hamburg and the coat of arms of Prussia in the middle of the north facade of the station hall are symbolic of this .
Relief of the Hamburg city arms
North facade with the coats of arms on the central side pillars
Relief Prussian state coat of arms
Railway Post Office Chicken Post
Simultaneously with the construction of the new central station, the construction of the post station and railway post office Hühnerposten began and was also completed in 1906.
Several of the tracks leading south from the central station led directly to the opposite post station building, there were eleven loading tracks and seven covered loading platforms.
The other side of the building is on the eponymous road, Hühnerposten , where it is connected to the road network. In 1924, the originally three-story building was extended by two full and two stacked floors and given a flat roof.
In 1973 parcel delivery was handed over to the parcel post office at Diebsteich . On May 31, 1997, Deutsche Post AG's letter post transport by rail was terminated after 148 years and the track and post systems in the Hühnerposten building were subsequently dismantled. The arched openings for the tracks in the "basement" of the building have been preserved and can still be seen. Since 2004 the central library of the Hamburg public library has been housed in the building .
Extensions and conversions
bunker
Since 1940/41 there has been a two-storey bunker for 950 people on the east side under Hachmannplatz , the capacity of which was expanded to around 1700 places in the 1960s. On the west side, a three-storey bunker was also built between 1941 and 1944 as a Reichsbahn bunker under the Steintorwall for 2,460 people (expanded to 2702 places by 1970). The travelers could reach this bunker directly from the Südsteg tunnel.
Discussions about structural extensions
For a long time there have been plans in various modified forms, with which the steadily increasing number of passengers should be managed:
- In January 2008, the DB presented plans for the first time to build a building to extend the station hall to the south. For this purpose, the adjacent street Steintordamm or the Steintorbrücke should be closed, relocated or covered. The south footbridge is to be widened so that much more space is created for shops and restaurants.
Conversion of the toilet facility
In 2009, water-saving 3.5 liter toilets were introduced in the main train station. In 2012 a pilot project was started in the basement in which the excrement is separated and processed. Here is faeces mixed with charcoal and microorganisms and Terra preta converted. The urine is mixed with microorganisms that break down organic components. The wastewater is then passed through a nanofilter . Medicines can also be filtered out.
expansion
In the course of the work on the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan 2030 , various measures to increase capacity and operational quality were examined in the area of the Hamburg node. The aim is to increase the attractiveness of rail transport and enable the expansion of services. According to this, a new platform edge is planned in Hamburg Hbf station on track 9 on the subgrade of track 10. Further measures (e.g. on the Hamburg – Elmshorn route ) are to be examined in connection with the new Altona long-distance train station.
The results of a “traffic study around the main train station” should be available in autumn 2018. Another feasibility study by DB should then also be available.
Plans for the renovation of the main station were presented in January 2019.
A performance agreement on the basic assessment and preliminary planning for the platform on track 9 is to be concluded in 2019 .
In mid-January 2020 it became known that new stairs would be built from the platforms to the Steintordamm bridge. The corresponding plans were presented to the Transport Committee on January 14, 2020 by Deutsche Bahn. Specifically, it should be access to tracks 3/4, 5/6, 7/8, 11/12 and 13/14. The stairs will be simple stairs and not escalators. Construction is scheduled to start in 2021.
At the beginning of 2020, the federal government became aware of plans to build a S-Bahn tunnel along the connecting line as part of the Germany cycle . This could clear S-Bahn tracks 3 and 4 in the main station for long-distance and regional traffic. It should be examined to what extent this idea can be realistically implemented.
See also
literature
- Erich Staisch : Railways roll through the “gateway to the world”. A look at the historical development of Hamburg's railway systems . Georg Stilke, Hamburg 1956.
- NN: 75 years of Hamburg Central Station . In: Lok Magazin . No. 111 . Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung W. Keller & Co. , Stuttgart November 1981, p. 416-426 .
- Gerhard Greß: Hamburg Transport Hub . EK-Verlag GmbH, Freiburg 2001, ISBN 3-88255-269-7 .
- Hermann Hoyer, Dierk Lawrenz, Benno Wiesmüller: Hamburg Central Station . EK-Verlag GmbH, Freiburg 2006, ISBN 3-88255-721-4 .
- Ulrich Alexis Christiansen: Hamburg's dark worlds. The mysterious underground of the Hanseatic city . Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 3-86153-473-8 .
Web links
- Tracks in service facilities (AH) , DB Netz AG (PDF; 1.844 MiB)
- Site plan on bahnhof.de (PDF; 0.76 MiB)
- Location plan of the shops on kaufsbahnhof.de (advertising association Hauptbahnhof), c / o DB Station & Service
- Track systems and some permitted speeds in the train station on the OpenRailwayMap
- Wandelhalle Hamburg Hauptbahnhof
- Map of Hamburg main station on Kaufbahnhof.de, zoomable
- History workshop St. Georg: 100 years of the main train station. With numerous historical pictures (PDF; 4.9 MiB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 1906: Hamburg gets a main station , NDR.de from May 18, 2018.
- ↑ Jörg Riefenstahl: Central station is at its limit . Ed .: Hamburger Abendblatt. Hamburg ( Abendblatt.de [accessed on August 12, 2018]).
- ↑ Overcrowded Hamburg Central Station is to be expanded. Hamburger Abendblatt, August 19, 2015, accessed on August 19, 2015 .
- ↑ Wiebke Dördrechte: 500,000 visitors a day: behind the scenes of our main train station . In: MOPO.de . Hamburg January 2018 ( mopo.de [accessed on August 12, 2018]).
- ↑ Hub of the North in: Eisenbahn Journal Special 2019, p. 19.
- ↑ Irene Jung: What rail boss Rüdiger Grube has in common with Joachim Löw . In: Hamburger Abendblatt . No. 165 , July 16, 2016, ZDB -ID 40002-6 , p. 19 .
- ↑ BT-Drs. 18/6319 (PDF; 837 KiB) Answer of the federal government to the small question of the MPs Matthias Gastel, Stephan Kühn (Dresden), Tabea Rößner, other MPs and the parliamentary group BÜNDNIS 90 / DIE GRÜNEN - Drucksache 18/6149 - Congested railways in Germany
- ^ Bahnhof Hamburg Hbf. DB Station & Service, accessed on May 28, 2020 (German).
- ↑ Ulrich Alexis Christiansen: Hamburg's dark worlds: the mysterious underground of the Hanseatic city, Christoph-Links-Verlag 2008, p. 131.
- ↑ message rebuild the pump room at the Hamburg main station starts - private funding . In: Eisenbahn-Kurier , No. 196, 1, 1989, ISSN 0170-5288 , p. 9.
- ↑ The lobby of Hamburg Central Station is for sale. Retrieved October 1, 2017 .
- ↑ DG Real Estate Annex No. 22 "Hamburg, Munich". Retrieved October 1, 2017 .
- ^ Hamburger Abendblatt - Hamburg: Wandelhalle in Hamburg Central Station is sold . ( Abendblatt.de [accessed October 1, 2017]).
- ↑ a b Three-digit million amount hoped for: Hamburg's most famous shopping property is sold . In: manager magazin . ( manager-magazin.de [accessed October 1, 2017]).
- ↑ Hoyer / Lawrenz / Wiesmüller: Hamburg Hauptbahnhof , EK-Verlag, Freiburg, 2006, ISBN 978-3-88255-721-3 , pp. 147–151.
- ^ Hoyer / Lawrenz / Wiesmüller: Hamburg Hauptbahnhof , EK-Verlag, Freiburg, 2006, ISBN 978-3-88255-721-3 , page 114.
- ↑ Hoyer / Lawrenz / Wiesmüller: Hamburg Hauptbahnhof , EK-Verlag, Freiburg, 2006, ISBN 978-3-88255-721-3 , page 57.
- ↑ Benno Wiesmüller: One for nine . In: railway magazine . No. 11 , 2017, ISSN 0342-1902 , p. 58-59 .
- ↑ Ralph Seidel: The influence of changed framework conditions on network design and frequencies in long-distance rail passenger transport in Germany . Dissertation at the University of Leipzig. Leipzig 2005, p. 46 .
- ↑ Station modernization in the autumn holidays - insight into the construction work on s-bahn.hamburg from October 11, 2019, accessed on November 2, 2019
- ↑ a b Answer of the Hamburger Hochbahn from December 17, 2018 to an inquiry about the Hamburg Transparency Act at https://fragdenstaat.de/en/question/haltestellennutzer-2017/ , accessed on February 2, 2019
- ↑ The coronation and religious feast. In: Zeno.org . Retrieved February 8, 2020 .
- ↑ Weekly chronicle from Lübeck and the surrounding area. In: Vaterländische Blätter , No. 5, year 1907, edition of January 27, 1907, p. 20.
- ↑ Local Notes. In: Lübeckische Blätter ; Volume 49, number 5, edition of February 3, 1907, p. 66.
- ↑ Historical photo of the Klostertor station with the new hall of the main station in the background (around 1906)
- ^ Website "History of the Hamburger Hochbahn 1891–1912" ( Memento from May 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b PLUS GbR - Society for Planning and Urban Strategies "Report Münzviertel 2006" ( Memento from April 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b c Hoyer / Lawrenz / Wiesmüller: Hamburg Hauptbahnhof , EK-Verlag, Freiburg, 2006, ISBN 978-3-88255-721-3 , page 141
- ↑ Helmut Roggenkamp: Jahrbuch Eisenbahnverkehr 16 - Current issues from the German rail transport system of the year 1996. Verlag Kenning, Nordhorn, 1997, ISBN 3-927587-78-8 , p. 13.
- ↑ Hachmannplatz underground bunker in Hamburg. Retrieved January 23, 2020 .
- ^ The bunker at Hamburg Central Station - Steintorwall underground bunker. Hamburger Unterwelten e. V., accessed on May 28, 2014 .
- ↑ Steintorwall underground bunker. Retrieved January 23, 2020 .
- ↑ Angelika Hillmer: Humus from Hamburg Central Station. Hamburger Abendblatt, August 28, 2012, accessed on January 24, 2016 .
- ↑ Project Information System (PRINS) for 2030 Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan Projektinfo K-002-V01; Hamburg node. In: Bundesverkehrswegeplan 2030. Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure, accessed on September 1, 2018 (In addition, the following additional measures are planned in the catchment area of the main train station: Shortening the single-track section Rothenburgsort - Üst Anckelmannplatz by expanding it to two tracks (approx. 1.1 km) from junction Hamburg-Rothenburgsort Rop to east of the railway bridge over the Bille, unbundling structures in Hamburg-Harburg , double-track expansion of the eastern and western bypass Rbf Maschen , crossing structure Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg , double-track expansion of the railway line from Hohe Schaar-Wilhelmsburg port station .).
- ↑ Feasibility studies for the main train station . In: turntable . tape 36 , no. 287 , May 2018, ISSN 0934-2230 , p. 35 .
- ^ Project of the century: This is how the new central station in Hamburg should look
- ↑ German Bundestag (Ed.): Answer of the Federal Government to the small question of the MPs Matthias Gastel, Stefan Gelbhaar, Stephan Kühn (Dresden), other MPs and the parliamentary group BÜNDNIS 90 / DIE GRÜNEN - printed matter 19/10271 - . Results of the “Fulda Round” 2019. Volume 19 , no. 10571 , June 3, 2019, ISSN 0722-8333 , p. 2 ( BT-Drs. 19/10571 ).
- ↑ Mike Schlink: Commuter chaos in Hamburg: Hauptbahnhof: A plan is now concrete. January 15, 2020, accessed on January 21, 2020 (German).
- ^ Schleswig-Holstein / Hamburg . In: Bahn-Report . No. 2 , March 2020, ISSN 0178-4528 , p. 30 f .