Uelzen station

Uelzen station
Bf
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)	Hanover–Hamburg Uelzen–Langwedel Stendal–Uelzen Brunswick–Uelzen
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.