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Göhrde station is a railway halt on the Dannenberg–Lüneburg railway in the northeastern part of the German state of Lower Saxony. The former through station in Breese am Seißelberge in the municipality of Nahrendorf was the destination station for imperial hunts in the nearby state forest of Göhrde (pronounced "girder"). It was built in 1874 by the Berlin-Hamburg Railway Company on the old Wittenberge-Buchholz line at kilometre stone 196.3 and is a protected monument. The station was originally called ''Breese'', but its name was changed in 1875 to ''Staatsbahnhof Göhrde'' (Göhrde state railway station) because of its importance to the imperial hunts which took place from 1871 to 1913 in the Göhrde. The station was also popularly known as the ''Kaiserbahnhof Göhrde'' or ("Emperor Station, Göhrde"). Since 1979 the station building has been home to the Göhrde Station Child and Youth Training Centre (''Bildungsstätte Kinder- and Jugendzentrum Bahnhof Göhrde''). In 1989 the station facilities were downgraded to a single track used by passenger trains only. Since then ''Göhrde'' has no longer been a station (''Bahnhof'') according to German railway regulations, but a halt (''Haltepunkt'').〔 Eisenbahn-Bau- and Betriebsordnung.〕 The halt is on timetable route (as at: 2008) and, since 2004, has been the eastern limit of the Hamburg Transport Network (''Hamburger Verkehrsverbund''), or HVV, on regional route 31. It is classified as a category 6 station (local halt), its facilities equating to those of a bus stop.〔 〕 == History == A railway halt at Breese am Seißelberge was first mentioned in August 1869 in an explanatory report about preparations for the construction of the Wittenberge-Buchholz branch. At the time only a halt was planned – and it would have been the only one on the line; all the other stopping points were stations. When the construction of the line was already well under way and the opening of the section to Hitzacker was imminent in October 1873, the first designs for a station at Breese were unfolded by the Berlin-Hamburg Railway. It was intended from the outset as the reception station for the emperor's hunting parties and was built in the following year, 1874. The station was ceremonially opened on 26 November 1874 on the occasion of the first visit by the German Emperor. The construction of the railway and the station at the northern end of the former ''Rundling'' village of Breese am Seißelberge, along with its associated road that ran parallel to the railway, changed the appearance of the village and gave it a rectangular shape. With the end of the monarchy in Germany in 1918, the heyday of the station was over and no more hunting parties or high-ranking personalities arrived. From then on the station, and particularly the station building, were fully used for railway operations and were modified several times thereafter. During the time of the Third Reich the Nazi leadership and the Reichsbahn management certainly had further plans to use the station for high-ranking occasions and thus to double the size of the station buildings, but they did not come to fruition. Allegedly Hermann Göring did not consent to hunting in the Göhrde. During the Reichsbahn era the station was an operating point that reported to the railway office at Wittenberge and belonged to the Hamburg Reichsbahn division. It was grouped into the fourth and lowest category (by comparison Lüneburg was a first class station, Dahlenburg third class and Dannenberg Ost second class). After the Second World War, through traffic over the river Elbe was severed and the importance of the line shrank to a regional railway, just serving Lüchow-Dannenberg district. At the same time the use of private transport gained increasing momentum. In the post-war years the Deutsche Bundesbahn concentrated on the functional preservation of the station and on simplifying railway operations. The preservation of the historic buildings faded into the background. In 1979 the Deutsche Bundesbahn sold the station building in a run-down state to the Göhrde Station Child and Youth Training Centre. The station was placed under conservation protection in 1981 and work began on its restoration in 1983. The interior of the station building was converted into a training centre and restored to its original historic appearance externally. In 1989 the last downgrading of the station facilities was carried out. Its goods facilities were closed and ''Göhrde'' became no more than a passenger halt. In 2004 the district of Lüneburg joined the Hamburg Transport Network (''Hamburger Verkehrsverbund'' or HVV). Since 12 December 2004 the halt has been the easternmost railway station in the HVV's fare zone. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Göhrde station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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