Bremerhaven-Lehe railway station

• Bremerhaven - Cuxhaven (km 187.8 )
• Bremen- Bremerhaven
• Bremerhaven - Buxtehude
• Bremerhaven - Bederkesa

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Bremerhaven -Lehe passenger station or railway station or train station usually the Leher Lehe is a through station at kilometer 187.8 of the railway line Bremerhaven - Cuxhaven. The station is located at the Bürgermeister- Cherry Square in Lehe district of the city of Bremerhaven. The station opened in 1914, is a listed building.

History

Bremerhaven, Geestemünde and Lehe had grown together at the end of the 19th century to an urban fabric. Only in 1924 or 1939 it became the city Wesermünde, today announced the port of Bremerhaven. Since 1862 there was the railway Bremen- Geestemünde, also referred to as " Geestemünde train". In 1896 the railway line Lehe - Cuxhaven and Lehe after Bederkesa. Lehe now had a first very humble station, which was about the end of the road Apenrader.

Freight and passenger then also on the same track facilities within the city turned out to be an obstacle for the economic and urban development. Therefore, the rail networks in the three sub- Weser municipalities were reorganized together. By 1914, a new route from Cuxhaven on Speckenbüttel and Lehe after Geestemünde with the new passenger stations Geestemünde (today Bremerhaven Hauptbahnhof) at the Friedrich -Ebert-Straße and the smaller station Lehe arose.

The transit station in Lehe was designed by architect Ernst Moeller of the Royal Railway Directorate Hanover from 1912 until 1 July 1914. Lehe The design of the station is related to the set up at the same time, larger main railway station in Geestemünde significantly. The Lehe station has a similar layout of the function areas, such as the one established by Prussian Railway Administration Hanover Central Station.

In the center of the symmetrical building facility: the reception building with the entrance hall which opens to the station forecourt with two straight concluded Groups window. The lower buildings on both sides contained once the luggage check-in and waiting lounges. In the northern wing were separated, the waiting halls for the 1st and 2nd as well as 3rd and 4th class. In the south wing, the station management was housed; a Eilgutschuppen joined them. A tunnel connects the elevated platforms with the station building.

The mansard roof above the central wing adorns on the ridge a turret for the clock. Projectile Cross- wall projections divide the facade. About the nearly equal -sized wings are hipped roofs. The building dates from the era of the turn of the century in the reform period style has a few decorative ingredients. As architectural decoration there is the articulating elements and three sandstone reliefs on the pillars of the central pavilion of the sculptor Hermann Mesecke. He shows allegories of rail transport and fishing.

In 1983 the station building was sold.

Conservation

The Lehe station was declared a National Monument in 2010. See also: List of cultural monuments in Bremerhaven.

Traffic

At the station a regional express bus line stops to Bremen, there runs this alternately to Hanover or Osnabrück. The traffic to Bremen is compressed by the Regio -S -Bahn to twist rings and towards Cuxhaven wrong EVB.