Wittenberge station

Location
	Wittenberge Location within Brandenburg Wittenberge Location within Germany Wittenberge Location within Europe

Wittenberge
Wittenberge
Through station
General information
Location	Am Bahnhof 1, Wittenberge, Brandenburg ; Germany
Coordinates	53°00′07″N11°45′46″E / 53.00194°N 11.76278°E
Owned by	Deutsche Bahn
Operated by	DB Station&Service
Line(s)	Berlin–Hamburg (KBS 204); Wittenberge–Wittstock [ de ] (KBS 206); Magdeburg–Wittenberge (KBS 305); Wittenberge–Lüneburg (closed);
Platforms	5
Construction
Accessible	Yes
Architectural style	Neoclassical
Other information
Station code	6825
DS100 code	WW
IBNR	8010382
Category	3
Fare zone	VBB: 4430
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	15 October 1846;178 years ago
Electrified	30 May 1987;37 years ago, 15 kV 16 2⁄3 Hz AC system (overhead)
Passengers
	< 5,000
Services
Location
Location
	Wittenberge Location within Brandenburg Wittenberge Location within Germany Wittenberge Location within Europe

Last updated December 30, 2024

Wittenberge station is the railway station for the Brandenburg town of Wittenberge in Germany. About 5,000 passengers use the station daily and it is served by around 100 trains per day.

Infrastructure

The station is located about 1.3 kilometres from the city centre on the eastern edge of the town of Wittenberge. The entrance building and the main platform are accessible from the west over several directly abutting streets. Following an extensive rebuild in 2004, the station now has a 55 centimetre high and 375 metre long home platform as well as two island platforms 405 metres in length and 76 centimetres in height. Another part of the platform, which is approximately 60 metre-long, lies to the south, but it is not directly connected to the through tracks.

Two island platforms, each with a length of 405 m and a height of 76 cm, extend towards the north from the centre of the entrance building. They are connected to the main platform by a 65 m long underpass.

Barrier-free accessibility is provided by a wheelchair ramp next to the three sets of steps down to the road-side at the entrance building and to the island platforms are reached by lifts beside the access steps.

History

The station was built in 1846 at kilometre post 126 on the Berlin-Hamburg Railway. In 1851 the Wittenberge–Stendal line was opened. That made Wittenberge station into the most important railway hub between Berlin and Hamburg. The station building of this Keilbahnhof ("wedge station", i.e. situated between the two converging lines of a junction) was located between the western approach tracks of the Magdeburg route and the eastern approach tracks on the Berlin-Hamburg Railway.

From 1870 trains also ran from here on a branch of the Berlin-Hamburg Railway, that led over the river Elbe near Dömitz and via Dannenberg to Buchholz.

Upgrade

Berlin side after the rebuilding of the station WittenbergeBerlinerSeite.JPG — Berlin side after the rebuilding of the station

Wittenberge station was comprehensively refurbished as part of the upgrade of the Berlin-Hamburg Railway in 2000. It lost its status as an island station, as all the tracks are now on the eastern side of the station building. The so-called Magdeburg Side lost its tracks, the line from Stendal being re-routed south of the building on the Berlin Side. The number of tracks was also significantly reduced.

The refurbishment required 280,000 tonnes of earth to be moved, around 22 kilometres track to be replaced, 120 points to be removed, 42 points to be installed and 32 kilometres of catenary to be replaced. The running speed through the station was raised from 30 to 160 km/h; an increase to 197 km/h, which was also considered, would have required the control of active tilting technology by the train safety system, LZB, but this was not put into practice.^[4] A total of seven million euros was invested.

The opening of the rebuilt station took place on 24 August 2004 in the presence of the German chancellor, Gerhard Schröder.

Transport links

Long-distance services are provided by five InterCity/EuroCity pairs of trains between Berlin/Dresden or Hamburg on workdays and an IC train pair between Rostock and Leipzig. One or two ICE trains stop at the station during the daily rush hours, but most pass through without stopping.

In the 2023 timetable the following lines stop at the station:

Line	Route	Frequency (min)	Operator
ICE 18	Hamburg-Altona – Wittenberge – Berlin – Bitterfeld – Halle – Erfurt – Bamberg – Nuremberg – Augsburg – München	Some trains	DB Fernverkehr
ICE 27	Hamburg-Altona – Wittenberge – Berlin – Dresden	One train pair
ICE 28	Hamburg – Ludwigslust – Wittenberge – Berlin – Berlin Südkreuz (– Leipzig – Coburg – Bamberg – Nürnberg – München	Some trains
ICE 29	Hamburg-Altona – Wittenberge – Berlin – Berlin-Südkreuz	One train towards Südkreuz
IC 27	Hamburg-Altona – Wittenberge – Berlin – Berlin-Südkreuz	One train pair
EC 27	(Kiel –) Hamburg – Wittenberge – Berlin – Dresden – Prague (– Budapest)	120
IC 57	Magdeburg – Stendal – Wittenberge – Ludwigslust – Hamburg	1 train pair
IC 57	Leipzig – Halle – Magdeburg – Stendal – Wittenberge – Ludwigslust – Schwerin – Rostock (– Warnemünde)	2 train pairs
RE 6	Wittenberge – Perleberg – Pritzwalk – Wittstock – Neuruppin – Hennigsdorf – Berlin-Charlottenburg	60	DB Regio Nordost
RE 8	Wismar – Schwerin – Ludwigslust – Wittenberge – Berlin – BER Airport	120 (Wismar–Wittenberge) 60 (Wittenberge–Cottbus)	Ostdeutsche Eisenbahn
S 1	Wittenberge – Osterburg – Stendal – Tangerhütte – Magdeburg – Schönebeck-Bad Salzelmen	60 (Mon–Fri) 120 (Sat–Sun)	DB Regio Südost

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[categories-1] 1 2 "Stationspreisliste 2025" [Station price list 2025](PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 28 November 2024. Retrieved 5 December 2024.

[Eisenbahnatlas-2] Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.

[3] "Der VBB-Tarif: Aufteilung des Verbundgebietes in Tarifwaben und Tarifbereiche" (PDF). Verkehrsbetrieb Potsdam. Verkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg. 1 January 2017. Retrieved 27 November 2019.

[4] Hans-Jürgen Kielke: Umbau des Bahnhofs Wittenberge „Befreiung aus der Insellage“. In: Roland Heinisch, Armin Keppel, Dieter Klumpp, Jürgen Siegmann (Hrsg.): Ausbaustrecke Hamburg–Berlin für 230 km/h. Eurailpress, Darmstadt 2005, S. 113

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