Göhrde station

Göhrde
Halt
The station building in 2007
Location	Breese am Seißelberge, Lower Saxony Germany
Coordinates	53°10′4″N 10°51′5″E / 53.16778°N 10.85139°E / 53.16778; 10.85139
Line(s)	Dannenberg–Lüneburg (KBS 112 / HVV R 31)
Platforms	1
Other information
Station code	AGH
Website	DB AG: Göhrde

Göhrde station is a railway halt on the Dannenberg–Lüneburg railway in the northeastern part of the German state of Lower Saxony. The former through station in Breese am Seißelberge in the municipality of Nahrendorf was the destination station for imperial hunts in the nearby state forest of Göhrde (pronounced "girder"). It was built in 1874 by the Berlin-Hamburg Railway Company on the old Wittenberge-Buchholz line at kilometre stone 196.3 and is a protected monument.

The station was originally called Breese, but its name was changed in 1875 to Staatsbahnhof Göhrde (Göhrde state railway station) because of its importance to the imperial hunts which took place from 1871 to 1913 in the Göhrde. The station was also popularly known as the Kaiserbahnhof Göhrde or ("Emperor Station, Göhrde"). Since 1979 the station building has been home to the Göhrde Station Child and Youth Training Centre (Bildungsstätte Kinder- and Jugendzentrum Bahnhof Göhrde). In 1989 the station facilities were downgraded to a single track used by passenger trains only. Since then Göhrde has no longer been a station (Bahnhof) according to German railway regulations, but a halt (Haltepunkt). The halt is on timetable route  KBS 112 (as at: 2008) and, since 2004, has been the eastern limit of the Hamburg Transport Network (Hamburger Verkehrsverbund), or HVV, on regional route 31. It is classified as a category 6 station (local halt), its facilities equating to those of a bus stop.

A railway halt at Breese am Seißelberge was first mentioned in August 1869 in an explanatory report about preparations for the construction of the Wittenberge-Buchholz branch. At the time only a halt was planned – and it would have been the only one on the line; all the other stopping points were stations. When the construction of the line was already well under way and the opening of the section to Hitzacker was imminent in October 1873, the first designs for a station at Breese were unfolded by the Berlin-Hamburg Railway. It was intended from the outset as the reception station for the emperor's hunting parties and was built in the following year, 1874. The station was ceremonially opened on 26 November 1874 on the occasion of the first visit by the German Emperor.