Landungsbrücken is a railway station and

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, located in

Hamburg Hamburg (, ; ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg,. is the List of cities in Germany by population, second-largest city in Germany after Berlin and List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, 7th-lar ...

St. Pauli St. Pauli (Sankt Pauli; ) is a quarter of the city of Hamburg belonging to the centrally located Hamburg-Mitte borough. Situated on the right bank of the Elbe river, the nearby Landungsbrücken is a northern part of the port of Hamburg. St. Pau ...

quarter at the

Landungsbrücken The St. Pauli Piers (, often only referred to as ''Landungsbrücken''; ), is the largest landing site in the Port of Hamburg, Germany, and also one of Hamburg's major tourist attractions. Other English language translations include St. Pauli Land ...

. It is part of the City S-Bahn line and the

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History

U-Bahn station

The first U-Bahn line in Hamburg was begun in 1906 by the

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. It forms a ring around the inner city. A station was also built near the

in the slope of the Stintfang hill with 26m NN, nearby Bismarck Monument, designed 1906 by the architects, Johann Emil Schaudt and Walter Puritz. The station, which is called ''Landungsbrücken'' today, was built semi-open, which means that the western end is roofed with a concrete slab and the eastern end is left open. The station with the name of ''Hafentor'' (Harbor gate), together with the stretch ''Millerntor - Rathaus'' (today ''St. Pauli - Rathaus''), finally went into operation on 29 June 1912. The striking tower at the entrance and the elevated railway stop, designed by Emil Schaudt, were torn down during construction of the ''City-S-Bahn''. The new entrance with a copper roof (designed by Hans L. M. Loop and Fritz Trautwein) is connected to the ferry piers by a pedestrian bridge. The eastern entrance was designed by Walter Puritz and was built in the 1920s.

S-Bahn station

The ''Landungsbrücken'' station of the

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has existed since 1975. Since 1979 it is part of the ''city line tunnel'' from the

Main station Central stations or central railway stations emerged in the second half of the nineteenth century as railway stations that had initially been built on the edge of city centres were enveloped by urban expansion and became an integral part of the ...

to Altona station. A burned S-Bahn train in the station on 30 September 1984, required the station to be completely renovated.

Layout

The main entrance to the station has an escalator and is inside the U-Bahn station building. There is a minor entrance at Eichholz, a side street in the East.

Services

Landungsbrücken is served by the S1 and S3 lines of the

Hamburg S-Bahn The Hamburg S-Bahn is a rapid transit railway system in the Hamburg Metropolitan Region. Together, the S-Bahn, the Hamburg U-Bahn, the AKN Eisenbahn, AKN railway and the regional railway form the backbone of railway public transport in the city ...

and by the U3 of the

Gallery

Hh-u-landungsbruecken.jpg, The station's entrance Landungsbrücken (Hamburg-St. Pauli).U-Bahnhof.2.phb.ajb.jpg, Aerial view of the station (right) and the tower of St. Pauli Piers (left)

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External links

Line and route network plans
at hvv.de {{DEFAULTSORT:Landungsbrucken Station Hamburg S-Bahn stations in Hamburg Hamburg U-Bahn stations in Hamburg U3 (Hamburg U-Bahn) stations Railway stations located underground in Hamburg Railway stations in Germany opened in 1912