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Uelzen station

Uelzen station
Bf
Uelzen - Hundertwasserbahnhof 08 ies.jpg
Station hall in Hundertwasser style
Other names Hundertwasser Bahnhof
Location Uelzen, Lower Saxony
Germany
Coordinates 52°58′11″N 10°33′11″E / 52.96972°N 10.55306°E / 52.96972; 10.55306Coordinates: 52°58′11″N 10°33′11″E / 52.96972°N 10.55306°E / 52.96972; 10.55306
Line(s)
Platforms 5
Other information
Station code 6310
DS100 code HU
Category 2
Website www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened 1847
Key dates
1847 Hanoverian station
1855 Halberstädter station
1888 Unified station
2000 Hundertwasser station

Uelzen (German: Bahnhof Uelzen) is a railway station located in Uelzen, Germany, at the eastern edge of the Lüneburg Heath Nature Park. The station is located on the Hannover–Hamburg railway, Uelzen–Langwedel railway, Stendal–Uelzen railway and Brunswick–Uelzen railway. The train services are operated by Deutsche Bahn, Metronom and Erixx.

The original station was renovated for Expo 2000 following plans by the Austrian artist and architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser. As an "environmentally culturally oriented" station, the Uelzen station is now marketed as the Hundertwasser-Bahnhof Uelzen (Hundertwasser Station, Uelzen). Today it is one of the town's popular tourist attractions.

After 1847, the stretch of the Royal Hanoverian State Railways's line between Hamburg and Hanover was modified, coursing from Hanover to Celle, then through Uelzen, finally arriving at the Hamburg-Harburg station. Due to this modification, the Uelzen station was built. The original temporary entrance hall was later replaced with a truss structure. When the number of travelers continued to increase, a new Tudor-style Hanoverian station was built.


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