Oebisfelde station

Oebisfelde
Through station
Oebisfelde station in winter
Location	Oebisfelde, Saxony-Anhalt Germany
Coordinates	52°26′21″N 10°59′02″E / 52.43917°N 10.98389°E / 52.43917; 10.98389Coordinates: 52°26′21″N 10°59′02″E / 52.43917°N 10.98389°E / 52.43917; 10.98389
Line(s)	Berlin–Lehrte (KBS 301) Oebisfelde–Magdeburg (KBS 308) former Oebisfelde–Salzwedel former Helmstedt–Oebisfelde former Schandelah–Oebisfelde former Wittingen–Oebisfelde
Platforms	4
Other information
Station code	4727
DS100 code	LOE
Category	5
Services
Preceding station   Deutsche Bahn   Following station Wolfsburg Hbf Terminus RB 35 Miesterhorst toward Stendal Wolfsburg Hbf Terminus RB 36 Bösdorf toward Magdeburg Hbf

Oebisfelde (German: Bahnhof Oebisfelde) is a railway station located in Oebisfelde, Germany. The station opened in 1871 and is located on the Berlin-Lehrte Railway. The train services are operated by Deutsche Bahn.

The station was a border station during the time of the Iron Curtain, until 1990.

The station was opened in 1871 at a location that was then on the northern edge of the town of Oebisfelde during the construction of the Berlin–Lehrte railway, which connected Berlin with Hanover. The line was first used for freight transport on 1 November 1871 and it was opened for passenger transport a month later. Subsequently Oebisfelde was connected by railway lines to several other places. In 1874, the Magdeburg-Neuhaldensleben railway was extended to Oebisfelde. The line to Salzwedel was opened in 1889. The Helmstedt–Oebisfelde railway went into operation six years later. At the beginning of the 20th century lines were opened to Schandelah east of Brunswick (1902) and Wittingen (1909), the latter as a standard-gauge Kleinbahn with its own station directly north of Oebisfelde station.

After 1880, Oebisfelde became the location of a railway workshop, which developed into a locomotive depot (Bahnbetriebswerk). The number of trains that stopped at Oebisfelde station rose continuously: 15 trains stopped each day in 1888; this rose to 53 trains in 1912. The population of Oebisfelde increases substantially and the railway was the town’s main employer. An overpass was built at the western end of the station in 1910 because of the dense rail traffic. In 1918, the station was called Oebisfelde-Kaltendorf for several years following the unification of these two municipalities.

The depot immediately to the east of the station was rebuilt in 1921. 199 daily trains ran through Oebisfelde in 1934.