Hamburg-Bergedorf Railway Company

The 1842 Hamburg- Bergedorf railway opened was the first railway line in northern Germany.

She joined the Bergedorf railway station in Hamburg, which was near the Deichtors, with the (old ) station Bergedorf on new path in mountain village.

The main rail link in Hamburg's citizenry looked at the connection to the Baltic port of Lübeck. This route, however, led by Holstein area, which was administered in personal union by the Danish king. Denmark stood across in the concession negotiations, however, could raise against the joint to Bergedorf no objections, as they went alone on the Hamburg area. The route was planned in 1838 and surveyed by William Lindley.

The opening was scheduled for May 7, 1842. Two days earlier broke out in Hamburg the " Great Fire " of which largely destroyed the city. The first trips were actually taken before the May 7: They were used to transport extinguisher and fire fighters to Hamburg and the evacuation of homeless people. At a ceremony was dispensed with.

Already in the planning of the route they had taken into account an extension beyond Geesthacht, Lauenburg to Berlin. However, a more northerly route through Büchenberg was selected for the opened on December 15, 1846 Berlin- Hamburg Railway, where there was in 1851 following the Lübeck- Büchener railroad. In Bergedorf, a new station was built and the old station mountain village lost its function. Near it later emerged the mountain village of South Railway Station, the Bergedorf - Geesthacht Railroad, which started operations in 1906.

In Hamburg Bergedorf station after 1846 has been extended, he called henceforth the Berlin station. The operating company of the Hamburg- Bergedorf railway went on at the Berlin- Hamburg Railway Company.