Landau (Pfalz) Hauptbahnhof

Landau (Pfalz)
Junction station
Track field and platforms with a Regionalbahn service to Pirmasens
Location	Landau in der Pfalz, Rhineland-Palatinate Germany
Coordinates	49°11′53″N 8°7′34″E / 49.19806°N 8.12611°E / 49.19806; 8.12611Coordinates: 49°11′53″N 8°7′34″E / 49.19806°N 8.12611°E / 49.19806; 8.12611
Line(s)	Neustadt–Wissembourg railway former Germersheim–Landau railway
Platforms	5
Other information
Station code	3505
DS100 code	RLA
IBNR	8000216
Category	4
History
Opened	1855

Landau (Pfalz) Hauptbahnhof (Landau (Pfalz) main station) is the centre of public transport in the city of Landau in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

The history of the station begins in 1855, when the Palatine Maximilian Railway was opened on the Neustadt–Landau–Winden–Wissembourg route. In 1872, a new station building was built in the Romanesque revival style, replacing the original timber building. In the same year, the Lower Queich Valley Railway (Untere Queichtalbahn) was opened from Germersheim to Landau. The Queich Valley Railway (Queichtalbahn), connecting Landau, Annweiler, Biebermühle and Zweibrücken, was opened in 1874/5.

Long distance trains ran in all directions, on the Amsterdam–Bingerbrück–Bad Kreuznach–Neustadt–Landau–Strasbourg–Basel route and on the Munich–Ulm–Stuttgart–Bruchsal–Germersheim–Landau–Biebermühle–Zweibrücken–Saarbrücken route.

In 1898 the branch line to Herxheim was opened. The Palatine Overland Railway (Pfälzer Oberlandbahn), an overland tramway (interurban) running from Neustadt to Landau, was completed in 1913 to the station, but it was closed to Landau in1953.