Othmarschen station

Railway station in Hamburg, Germany

Preceding station	Hamburg S-Bahn			Following station
Klein Flottbek towards Wedel		S1		Bahrenfeld towards Poppenbüttel or Hamburg Airport

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Othmarschen railway station is on the Altona-Blankenese line and served by the city trains, located in Hamburg, Germany. The station was opened in 1897. The rapid transit trains of the line S1 of the Hamburg S-Bahn calls the station in the quarter Othmarschen of the Altona borough.^[3] Right along the railway tracks is the border to the quarter Groß Flottbek.

History

In 1858 planning for the rail line Altona – Blankenese begun, in 1867 the first trains ran. And in 1882 an Othmarschen stop was built, this stop was to the west of today's station. In 1897, with the development of the double tracked line, the current Othmarschen station was opened. The station is listed as a cultural heritage building.^[4]

Station layout

The station is elevated with a gabled roof supported by wooden columns. The connecting struts and the columns are decorated. On the platform are a small shop, a passenger shelter, and a shelter for the lineman preserved.^[4] The station is an island platform and 2 tracks. In direction Wedel is a separated track siding to reverse the train direction, if necessary. The station is unstaffed but an emergency call and information telephone is available. There are about 20 places to lock a bicycle. There are no lockerboxes.

A small shop in the station sells newspapers and snacks. There is also a kebab shop serving food most hours of the day and evening. A shopping street is close to the station, with a supermarket and several banks with ATM facilities.

Services

On track no. 1 the trains in direction Blankenese and Wedel and on track no. 2 the trains in direction Hamburg center call the station. A bus station in front of the railway station is used by several bus lines.^[5]

Visitors to DESY

Othmarschen station receives many hundreds of visitors a year from other parts of Germany and numerous countries abroad, as it is the nearest S-Bahn station to the DESY synchrotron laboratory. The bus service from the station to the labs is frequent and excellent, running late into the night including at weekends.

References

^ "Tarifplan" (PDF). Hamburger Verkehrsverbund. 9 December 2018. Retrieved 18 October 2019.
^ ^a ^b Cf. „Streckenelektrifizierungen“, on: Königlich preußische Eisenbahndirection zu Altona, retrieved on 19 January 2018.
^ "Stationspreisliste 2021" (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service AG. 1 January 2021.
^ ^a ^b "S-Bahnhof Othmarschen: Teil der Bahnverbindung Altona - Blankenese". Behörde für Kultur, Sport und Medien (in German). Archived from the original on 2011-09-28. Retrieved 2009-08-30.
^ "HVV Pläne – Metrobus: alle Linien schematisch" (PDF). HVV (in German). 13 December 2020.