Bremerhaven Hauptbahnhof
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Bremerhaven Hauptbahnhof
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Station building in 1998
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| Location | Friedrich-Ebert-Straße 73 27570 Bremerhaven Geestemünde, Bremerhaven, Free Hanseatic City of Bremen Germany |
| Coordinates | 53°32′06″N 8°35′58″E / 53.534958°N 8.599538°ECoordinates: 53°32′06″N 8°35′58″E / 53.534958°N 8.599538°E |
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| Platforms | 4 |
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| Station code | 0868 |
| DS100 code | HBH |
| IBNR | 00051 |
| Category | 3 |
| Website | www.bahnhof.de |
| History | |
| Opened | 1914 |
| Electrified | 1966 |
| Previous names | Geestemünde-Bremerhaven (1914-1924) Wesermünde-Bremerhaven (1924-1947) |
Bremerhaven Hauptbahnhof is a railway station in the city of Bremerhaven in northwestern Germany. It is the main railway hub for the city, offering regional connections to Bremen, Osnabrück, Cuxhaven, Bremervörde and Hamburg. Museal services on the line to Bad Bederkesa also call at the station during weekends in summer.
First plans to build a railway link between Bremerhaven and Bremen were laid out as early as the 1850s. From 1859 to 1862, a line was built with a terminal station at Geestemünde (now a borough of Bremerhaven). In 1896, the railway line to Cuxhaven was built, also connecting to the terminus station. Due to an increase in traffic, it was decided to abandon the old station and build a new one, because the old one, connected with single-track, can't be increased, and on July 1, 1914 the new station, then called Geestemünde-Bremerhaven, was opened together with a new, grade-separated line to Lehe and Cuxhaven.
When Geestemünde and Lehe were merged to form Wesermünde in 1924, the station was renamed to Wesermünde-Bremerhaven. The station building survived World War II, but the station hall was pulled down in the early 70's - having survived the railway electrification in 1966. The station name changed again when Wesermünde was renamed to Bremerhaven in 1947, and the station became known as Bremerhaven Hauptbahnhof. Due to the US Army barracks in Bremerhaven, there were also regular military train services, as well as official duty trains to Berlin during the Cold War.
From the mid-1990s to 2000, there used to be a daily InterCityExpress service to Munich, leaving Bremerhaven in the morning and arriving in the evening. This service was abandoned, leaving the station without long-distance services ever since.
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