Lüneburg station

Lüneburg station consists of the two formerly independent stations of the town of Lüneburg. Lüneburg Ost (east) is the current station and Lüneburg West now only forms part of the station precinct. Both entrance buildings are located on islands between the platforms.

Lüneburg
Through station
LocationBahnhofstr. 10, Lüneburg, Lower Saxony
Germany
Coordinates53°15′0″N 10°25′11″E
Owned byDeutsche Bahn
Operated byDB Station&Service
Line(s)
Platforms2 (west) + 5 (east)
Other information
Station code3855[1]
DS100 codeALBG[2]
IBNR8000238
Category2[1]
Fare zoneHVV: E/807[3]
Websitewww.bahnhof.de
Services
Preceding station   DB Fernverkehr   Following station
ICE 26
towards Karlsruhe
Preceding station   DB Regio Nord   Following station
Echem
toward Kiel Hbf
RE 83
via Lübeck		Terminus
Preceding station   Metronom   Following station
Winsen
toward Hamburg Hbf
RE 3
Bienenbüttel
toward Hannover Hbf
Bardowick
RB 31Terminus
Preceding station   Erixx   Following station
TerminusRB 32
Wendlandbahn
Wendisch Evern
toward Dannenberg Ost
Location
Lüneburg
Location within Lower Saxony

Train services

The eastern station is on the main line from Hanover to Hamburg and is served by trains of both Deutsche Bahn and Metronom Eisenbahngesellschaft. In addition to regional trains, Intercity and Intercity-Express trains also stop in Lüneburg.

The route to Lübeck via Lauenburg (Elbe) and Büchen and the route to Bleckede also operate from the eastern station.

The western station served the formerly continuous line from Wittenberg to Buchholz, which is now a single-track branch line to Dannenberg Ost, also called the Wendlandbahn (Wendland Railway), and is used for the transport of nuclear waste to Gorleben. There is also a connection from the western station to the line to Soltau Süd.

Osthannoversche Eisenbahnen (OHE) operate freight and excursion traffic over separated routes to Bleckede and Soltau that are connected by Deutsche Bahn track. While passenger trains from Bleckede ended in the eastern station instead of OHE’s Lüneburg Nord station as early as 1960, the terminus for passenger trains from Soltau was traditionally at Lüneburg Süd (south) station, one kilometre away. Later a contract was signed between DBAG and OHE for the operation of trains to the western station. The operation of scheduled passenger services by OHE to Bleckede was abandoned on 21 May 1977.

The station is served by the following services:[4]

Line Route Interval (min) Operator
ICE 11 München – Stuttgart – Frankfurt – Göttingen – Hannover – Lüneburg – Hamburg Individual services at night DB Fernverkehr
ICE 20 Hamburg-Altona – Lüneburg – Hannover – Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe – Fulda – Frankfurt – Wiesbaden Individual services DB Fernverkehr
ICE 26 Stralsund – Hamburg – Lüneburg – Hannover – Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe – Frankfurt (Main) – Karlsruhe 0120 DB Fernverkehr
IRE 1 Berlin Ostbahnhof – Stendal – Salzwedel – Lüneburg – Hamburg Individual services DB Regio
RE 3 (Hannover – Celle –) Uelzen – Lüneburg – Hamburg 060 (120) metronom
RE 83 Lüneburg – Büchen – Lübeck Flughafen – Lübeck (– Kiel) 060 DB Regio
RB 31 Lüneburg – Winsen (Luhe) – Maschen – Hamburg-Harburg – Hamburg 060 metronom
RB 32 Lüneburg – Dahlenburg – Dannenberg Ost 180 erixx

Until December 2014 the station was also served by EuroCity "Wawel", which used to run once daily between Hamburg Altona and Wrocław Główny six days a week.

Station infrastructure

The station consists of two stations, each with their own entrance buildings, which lie opposite each other separated by Bahnhofstrasse (station street).

The western station is now used as a casino

The Lüneburg West section of the station is on Wittenberge–Buchholz railway. The station building is built in an elaborate neoclassical style and is now used as a casino. In addition to the disused platform next to the station building, there is another platform that is used by the Regionalbahn services to and from Hamburg and Dannenberg.

The Lüneburg East section of the station has a somewhat simpler entrance building, which is still used as the station building. In addition to the main platform next to the station building, there are still three platforms, each with edges to tracks on both sides, but the easternmost is no longer used.

South of the passenger station is the freight yard. The Lüneburg workshop (Bahnbetriebswerk Lüneburg) was east of it on the opposite side of the tracks until 1960. Since the reconstruction of the station area between 1994 and 2002,[5] the workshop area has been used for the parking of rolling stock.[6]

Lüneburg South station was a few metres to the south, but has been almost completely dismantled.

Facilities

The station has a park and ride car park, two bicycle parking garages and a passenger drop-off point. The station also has a bus station and a taxi rank.

Art at the station
Matthäus Merian cityscape of Lüneburg, which served as the basis for the mural

The Bardowick painter Hugo Friedrich Hartmann (1870–1960) painted two large murals in the waiting room of the eastern station in 1939. One image shows a heathland scene, the other a Luneburg cityscape based on a copper engraving of the Topographia Germaniae by Matthäus Merian the Elder.

Fares

The city and district of Lüneburg have been part of the Hamburger Verkehrsverbund (Hamburg Transport Association) since December 2004. Lüneburg is easily accessible with its proximity to Hamburg and its convenient location. The traveling time to Hamburg Hauptbahnhof is about 30 minutes.

Notes
  1. "Stationspreisliste 2021" [Station price list 2021] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 16 November 2020. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
  2. Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
  3. "Tarifplan" (PDF). Hamburger Verkehrsverbund. 9 December 2018. Retrieved 19 October 2019.
  4. Timetables for Lüneburg station (in German)
  5. Architektenkammer Niedersachsen, ed. (2003). Tag der Architektur 2003 (PDF; 2.48 MB) (in German). Hanover. p. 68. Retrieved 15 April 2014.
  6. Matthias Fuhrmann (ed.). "Das Bw Lüneburg". Deutsche Bahnbetriebswerke und der Triebfahrzeugpark der deutschen Eisenbahnen von 1920 bis heute (in German). Munich: GeraNova Zeitschriften-Verlag. ISSN 0949-2119.
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