Hannoverscher Bahnhof, Railway station in Osnabrück, Germany
The Hannoverscher Bahnhof is a red-brick railway station building on Sandbachstrasse in Osnabrück, opened in 1855 as the terminus of the Hannover Western Railway. Its main building faces the street, with former track areas, workshops and auxiliary structures behind it. The station lost its passenger role after the new Hauptbahnhof opened a few hundred metres east.
The station opened in 1855 as the terminus of the Hannover Western Railway and retained this role until the line extended to Rheine in 1856. This expansion transformed it from a regional endpoint into a more active rail hub for passenger and freight movement.
The station's name comes from the Hannoversche Westbahn line to Löhne, opened on 22 November 1855. Mayor Johann Carl Bertram Stüve pushed for the route east of the city in 1848 to boost the local economy, a decision that placed the terminus here rather than west of Osnabrück.
The building has been sold and is no longer open to the public, so the former station can only be viewed from outside. It stands along Sandbachstrasse, a few hundred metres west of today's Osnabrück Hauptbahnhof, where the Wanne-Eickel–Hamburg lines cross. The red-brick facade and the former platform hall are best seen from the street side.
The station's freight role ended when the central freight yard opened in the Fledder district in 1913, after which the site was used for other purposes. The red-brick building later housed Deutsche Bahn administrative offices until 2004, when it was sold and closed to the public.
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