Kellinghusenstraße station
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Kellinghusenstraße is a public transport
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 railway station for the rapid transit
Rapid transit
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 trains of the lines U1 and U3 located in Hamburg
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, Germany
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, in the quarter Eppendorf
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 in the Hamburg-Nord
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 borough.

History

The area of Kellinghusenpark and around the station used to be owned by a Hamburg mayor, Dr. Heinrich Kellinghusen (1796 - 1879). After a station called Olderfelder Straße had originally been planned south-west of the current station, the plans were revised to include a branch line to Ohlsdorf
Ohlsdorf station
Ohlsdorf is a train station in Hamburg, Germany, located at the junction of the Hamburg-Altona link line with the Alster Valley line and the Hamburg Airport line near the Ohlsdorf Cemetery.-History:...

, with the new station having four lines.

The architects for the new station were Ludwig Raabe und Otto Wöhleke, who also designed Landungsbrücken and Mundsburg stations, and the stone figures decorating the station were sculptured by Johann Michael Bossard (1874-1950).

It was built from 1909 to 1910 on an embankment for which some houses needed to be demolished.

When the station opened on 10 May 1912, it was a terminus for trains from Barmbeck, now Barmbek. From 25 May 1912, it was no longer a terminal, as the trains ran to Millerntor, now St Pauli. The trains used the outer two lines of the four. The inner two lines were used from 1 December 1914, when the line from Kellinghusenstraße to Ohlsdorf
Ohlsdorf station
Ohlsdorf is a train station in Hamburg, Germany, located at the junction of the Hamburg-Altona link line with the Alster Valley line and the Hamburg Airport line near the Ohlsdorf Cemetery.-History:...

 was opened, and the station was a terminus for that line until 2 June 1929, when the line was extended to Stephansplatz. In the meantime, in 1926, a bridge designed by Walther Puritz was built between the two platforms at the south end after they had been lengthened from 60 to 90 meters.

Location

The station is close to the Holthusenbad swimming baths and to Kellinghusenpark, and is on the corner of Kellinghusenstraße and Goernerstraße.

Station layout

The station is on an embankment with two island platform
Island platform
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s, joined by a bridge at the south end. There is an exit at its north end on the corner of Kellinghusenstraße and Goernerstraße, with steps leading to each platform. On the entrance level is a shop, which also sells tickets, but no lockerboxes. No personnel attends the station but there are ticket machine
Ticket machine
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s, CCTV, and emergency and information telephones.

See also

  • Hamburger Verkehrsverbund
    Hamburger Verkehrsverbund
    The Hamburger Verkehrsverbund is a company coordinating the public transport in and around Hamburg, Germany. Its main objectives are to provide the user with a unified fare system, requiring only a single ticket for journeys with transfers between different operating companies, and to further...

     (Public transport association for the Hamburg area)
  • Hamburger Hochbahn
    Hamburger Hochbahn
    Hamburger Hochbahn AG or HHA is a company operating the underground system and large parts of the bus system in Hamburg, Germany, founded in 1911 it is headquartered in Hamburg.-History:...

    (Operator of the Hamburg U-Bahn)

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