Hamburg Dammtor station

Hamburg Dammtor is a railway station for long distance, regional and suburban trains on the Hamburg-Altona link line, located in Central Hamburg, Germany. In front is a bus station of the same name for public transport.

Hamburg Dammtor
Rapid transit transport hub
Outside view
General information
Location	Dag-Hammarskjöld-Platz 15, 20354 Hamburg, Germany
Coordinates	53°33′39″N 9°59′22″E
Line(s)
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	4
Connections	Bus
Construction
Structure type	Elevated
Platform levels	1
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Station code	ds100: ADF (main line) DB station code: 2513 Type: Hp Category: 2[1]
Fare zone	HVV: A/000[2]
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	16 July 1866; 158 years ago (1866-07-16)
Rebuilt	7 June 1903; 121 years ago (1903-06-07)
Electrified	29 January 1908; 116 years ago (1908-01-29), 6.3 kV AC system (overhead; turned off in 1955)[3] 10 April 1941; 83 years ago (1941-04-10), 1.2 kV DC system (3rd rail)[3] 6 April 1965; 59 years ago (1965-04-06), 15 kV AC system (overhead)[3]
Services Preceding station DB Fernverkehr Following station Neumünster towards Kiel Hbf ICE 4 Sprinter Hamburg Hbf towards Frankfurt Airport Hamburg-Altona One-way operation Hamburg-Altona Terminus ICE 11 Hamburg Hbf towards München Hbf ICE 18 Neumünster towards Kiel Hbf ICE 20 Hamburg Hbf towards Zürich HB Hamburg-Altona Terminus Neumünster One-way operation ICE 22 Hamburg Hbf towards Stuttgart Hbf Hamburg-Altona Terminus ICE 24 Hamburg Hbf towards München Hbf or Schwarzach-St.Veit IC 24 Königssee Hamburg Hbf towards Berchtesgaden Hbf Neumünster towards Kiel Hbf ICE 25 Hamburg Hbf towards München Hbf Hamburg-Altona Terminus Hamburg-Altona towards Hamburg-Altona or Westerland ICE 26 Hamburg Hbf towards Karlsruhe Hbf Neumünster towards Hamburg-Altona, Kiel Hbf or Westerland EC 27 Hamburg Hbf towards Praha Hamburg-Altona Terminus ICE 28 Terminus ICE 43 Hamburg Hbf towards Basel SBB Rendsburg towards Aarhus Central IC 76 Hamburg Hbf Terminus Preceding station ÖBB Following station Hamburg-Altona Terminus Nightjet Hamburg Hbf One-way operation Hamburg Hbf towards Zürich HB Preceding station DB Regio Nord Following station Elmshorn towards Flensburg or Kiel Hbf RE 7 Hamburg Hbf Terminus Elmshorn towards Kiel Hbf RE 70 Preceding station Following station Pinneberg towards Itzehoe RB 61 Hamburg Hbf Terminus Preceding station Hamburg S-Bahn Following station Sternschanze towards Hamburg-Altona S2 Hamburg Hbf towards Aumühle Sternschanze towards Elbgaustraße S5 Hamburg Hbf towards Stade
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The railway station is one of five long-distance train stations in Hamburg. The other stations are Hamburg Hauptbahnhof, Hamburg-Altona, Hamburg-Harburg and Hamburg-Bergedorf. Despite its size and importance, the station is classified as a railway stop (Haltepunkt) because it does not have any switches, a requirement for a station (Bahnhof) according to the regulations.^[4]

History

The name Dammtor originates from an old city gate located here until the end of the 19th century. The present railway station was opened on 7 July 1903. A previous station, built in 1866, was located around 100 metres (330 ft) away.

Location

Hamburg Dammtor is close to the Wallring and the center of Hamburg, located in the quarter Rotherbaum of the Eimsbüttel borough. Nearby are also the University of Hamburg and the Congress Center Hamburg. As a result, the railway station signs have the addition Messe- und Kongressbahnhof (trade fair and congress station).

Gallery

• 
  Aerial photo from 1920
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  Interior view
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  Aerial view to northwest
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  Aerial view to southwest

Service

The railway station has 4 elevated tracks, on two island platforms, one servicing the regional and long-distance trains, the other platform servicing the S-Bahn.

Line	Route		Frequency
ICE 4	Kiel – Hamburg-Dammtor – Hamburg Hbf – Frankfurt – Frankfurt Flughafen – Mannheim – Stuttgart ( –Ulm –Augsburg –München)		Some trains
ICE 11	Hamburg-Altona – Hamburg-Dammtor – Hamburg Hbf – Berlin – Leipzig – Erfurt – Frankfurt – Stuttgart – Munich
ICE 18	Hamburg-Altona – Hamburg-Dammtor – Hamburg Hbf – Berlin – Halle – Erfurt – Nuremberg – Ingolstadt – Munich		Every two hours
ICE 20	(Kiel / Hamburg-Altona –) Hamburg Dammtor – Hamburg Hbf – Hannover – Göttingen – Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe – Frankfurt – Mannheim – Karlsruhe – Freiburg – Basel (– Zürich /– Interlaken Ost)
ICE 22	(Kiel / Hamburg-Altona – ) Hamburg Dammtor – Hamburg Hbf – Hannover – Göttingen – Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe – Frankfurt – Frankfurt Airport – Mannheim (– Heidelberg) – Stuttgart
ICE 24	Hamburg-Altona – Hamburg Dammtor – Hamburg – Hannover – Kassel – Würzburg – Augsburg – Munich –	Schwarzach-St. Veit	Some trains
		Innsbruck
ICE 25	Hamburg-Altona ←	Hamburg Dammtor – Hamburg Hbf – Hannover – Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe – Fulda – Würzburg – Nuremberg – Ingolstadt – Munich	Some trains
	Kiel –
EC 27	Westerland / Hamburg-Altona – Hamburg Dammtor – Hamburg Hbf – Berlin – Dresden – Prague – Brno		Some trains
ICE 28	Hamburg-Altona – Hamburg Dammtor – Hamburg Hbf – Berlin – Leipzig – Erfurt – Nuremberg – Augsburg / Ingolstadt – Munich		Hourly
ICE 43	Hamburg-Altona – Hamburg Dammtor – Hamburg – Bremen – Münster – Dortmund – Essen – Düsseldorf – Cologne (– Siegburg/Bonn – Frankfurt Airport – Mannheim – Karlsruhe – Freiburg – Basel)		Every two hours

Regional services

Line	Route	Operator
RE 7	Flensburg – Neumünster – Hamburg Dammtor – Hamburg	DB Regio Nord
RE 70	Kiel – Neumünster – Hamburg Dammtor – Hamburg	DB Regio Nord
RB 61	Itzehoe – Elmshorn – Hamburg Dammtor – Hamburg	Nordbahn Eisenbahngesellschaft

See also

• Hamburg portal

• Dammtor
• Hamburg S-Bahn
• Hamburger Verkehrsverbund

References

1. Name, station code and category: Liste Bahnhofskategorie 2008, DB Station&Service AG, Köthener Straße 2, 10963 Berlin (2008) (in German)
2. "Tarifplan" (PDF). Hamburger Verkehrsverbund. 9 December 2018. Retrieved 18 October 2019.
3. Cf. „Streckenelektrifizierungen“, on: Königlich preußische Eisenbahndirection zu Altona, retrieved on 19 January 2018.
4. "Eisenbahn-Bau- und Betriebsordnung, §4". Gesetze im Internet (in German). Bundesministerium der Justiz und für Verbraucherschutz. Retrieved 29 April 2021.

External links

Media related to Bahnhof Hamburg Dammtor at Wikimedia Commons

• (in English)
• Pictures of the Dammtor Station (in German)