denk.mal Hannoverscher Bahnhof (Lohseplatz)
A quiet memorial in HafenCity's Lohsepark marking the site of the former Hannoverscher Bahnhof, from where more than 8,000 Jews, Sinti and Roma were deported between 1940 and 1945. A lowered path called the Fuge traces the old railway tracks toward the remains of Platform 2.
About this place
The denk.mal Hannoverscher Bahnhof stands on ground that once held one of Hamburg's busiest freight stations. The Hannoverscher Bahnhof opened in 1872 and became a goods yard after the city's central station was completed in 1906, but between 1940 and 1945 it was turned to a far darker purpose. In twenty transports, more than 8,000 Jews, Sinti and Roma from Hamburg and northern Germany were assembled at Platform 2 and sent to the ghettos of Lodz, Minsk, Riga and Theresienstadt and to the camps of Belzec and Auschwitz-Birkenau. After the war the ruined station was almost forgotten, and only when HafenCity was planned did Hamburg resolve to preserve the memory rather than build over it. The memorial, inaugurated in May 2017 within the newly created Lohsepark, preserves fragments of the platform, sets twenty name plaques along the site, and leads visitors through the Fuge, a lowered path cut into the earth that follows the exact line of the vanished tracks.
Key facts
- 8000 people deported — Jews, Sinti and Roma sent from this station to ghettos and camps between 1940 and 1945
- 20 transports — Deportation trains that departed for occupied Central and Eastern Europe
- 2017 year opened — The memorial was inaugurated in the Lohsepark on the site of the former Platform 2
📍 Lohseplatz, 20457, Hamburg