Holstenstraße station

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Holstenstraße is an elevated Hamburg S-Bahn station in the Altona-Nord area of Hamburg. It has two tracks and one island platform. The station is accessible by lift and has ticket machines, SOS and information phones, but no staff on site. In front of the station you can catch buses and there is a taxi stand; a small shop is inside the entrance. The station is near the Neue Flora theater and the Holsten Brewery.

Holstenstraße is served by S-Bahn lines S2 (to Sternschanze and Aumühle) and S5 (to Sternschanze and Stade). Trains run about every 5–10 minutes during peak times. On weekdays, late service runs until around midnight and restarts around 4 a.m.; on weekend nights trains run roughly every 30 minutes all night. Long-distance and regional trains pass by on separate tracks and do not stop here.

History: A horsecar stop opened here in 1883. The current elevated station opened on 1 May 1893 as part of the line from Hamburg Hauptbahnhof to Altona. The building was destroyed in World War II in 1943 and later rebuilt. It was fully renovated and rebuilt in the late 1980s.

Electrification: The line was electrified long ago with overhead lines (in 1908); the older 3rd-rail system was used briefly in 1941.