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The railway station Göttingen is the railway transport hub for local and long-distance traffic in southern Lower Saxony. Daily, around 20.000 passengers use the Göttinger railway station. They use the stop of around 280 passenger trains; of those are 130 ICEs. The listed building with two wings was built around 1854.

Travel information of the Deutsche Bahn

• Standard Service-Number of the railway 0180 5 99 66 33 (max 20 ct/min from landline, tariff for mobile telephones max 60 ct/min) is available 24 hours, 365 days, for the wanted information.
• Travel connections searching and booking online: www.bahn.de
• Service-Numbers, contact addresses and information: www.bahn.de

Railway management Göttingen: 0551/498 33 88
Railway mission protestant, catholic: 0551/5 61 90 Tip: arranging baggage check-in in connection with a ticket directly at the counter in the travel centre

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A short description of the railway station's history

The railway station was inaugurated as a terminus of the Hanover south rail in Göttingen in 1854. During the construction, the architects orientated themselves on the Hanover railway station. They also used natural stones and adopted the Hanover round arch style. In the course of the over 150 year history, the railway station has been rebuilt and extended several times. Around 1900, the station forecourt was newly created and decorated with palm trees, which mediate an exotic atmosphere during the summer months. Towards the end of the 2nd World War, bombs destroyed the station and tracks. During the rebuilding, the facade, among others, was redesigned. The last great modernisation measure started in 1999, it happened in three different building sections, the opening took place in March 2007. A part of the generous rebuildings inside the station and the tracks, the environment was also redesigned. A pergola separates the station from the city centre on the east side. On the west side, among others, a car park was built, an Intercity-Hotel, a press and media house and an adult education school. The old locomotive hall was turned into an event centre.

Since 2002. private railway companies offer additional local public transport connections. They are the metronom Eisenbahngesellschaft mbH (headquarter in Uelzen) (since 2002)
www.der-metronom.de services the route between Hamburg, Bremen, Uelzen, Hanover and Göttingen,

cantus Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH (headquarter in Kassel) (since 2005)
www.cantus-bahn.de services the route between Göttingen, Kassel, Bebra,

Fulda Erfurter Bahn GmbH (headquarter in Erfurt) www.erfurter-bahn.de services the route between Erfurt, Leinefelde, Göttingen, Kassel

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Information about bus travel at the bus station

Deutsche Bahn AG (timetable information)
Göttinger Verkehrsbetriebe (city bus)
Verkehrsverbund Südniedersachsen
Regionalbus Braunschweig (bus traffic region)
Der Metronom (railway company)
cantus Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH