Hamburger Bahnhof - Citizendia

You might be looking for Hamburg's central train station, Hamburg Hauptbahnhof. Hamburg (English, German: ˈhambʊɐk local pronunciation Low German / Low Saxon: Hamborg) is the second-largest city in Germany is the Hauptbahnhof for the German city of Hamburg. It was opened on 6 December 1906.

Hamburger Bahnhof

Established	1996
Location	Invalidenstraße 50-51, 10557 Berlin, Germany
Visitor figures	250,000 (2007)
Director	Eugen Blume
Curator	Britta Schmitz
Website	http://www.hamburgerbahnhof.de/

Hamburger Bahnhof is a former train station in Berlin, Germany on Invalidenstraße in the Moabit district opposite the Charité hospital. |}A train station, railway station, railroad station, or station yard is a facility at which Passengers may board and alight from Trains Berlin is the capital city and one of sixteen states of Germany. Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. Moabit is an Inner city locality of Berlin. Since Berlin's 2001 administrative reform it belongs to the newly regrouped governmental borough The Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin is the Medical school for the Free University of Berlin and the Humboldt University of Berlin. Today it serves as the Museum für Gegenwart, a contemporary art museum. Contemporary art can be defined variously as art produced at this present point in time or art produced since World War II.

Former use as a train station

The station was built according to Friedrich Neuhaus' plans in 1846/47 as the starting point of the Berlin-Hamburg railroad. Hamburg (English, German: ˈhambʊɐk local pronunciation Low German / Low Saxon: Hamborg) is the second-largest city in Germany It is the only still existing terminus building in Berlin from the late classic period and counts as one of the oldest station buildings in Germany. |}A train station, railway station, railroad station, or station yard is a facility at which Passengers may board and alight from Trains For the works or study of works from classical antiquity see Classics Classicism, in the arts, refers generally to

The building has not been used as a station since 1884, when north-bound long distance trains from Berlin began to leave from Lehrter Bahnhof, which is just 400m to the south-west -- now the site of Berlin Hauptbahnhof. or Berlin Central Station, is the main Railway station in Berlin, Germany and the largest crossing station in Europe. or Berlin Central Station, is the main Railway station in Berlin, Germany and the largest crossing station in Europe.

Rebirth as a museum

Severely damaged during World War II, it found a new use in 1996 as the Museum für Gegenwart (Museum of the Present), which exhibits modern and contemporary art e. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including g. by Joseph Beuys, Anselm Kiefer, Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Long, Andy Warhol and Cy Twombly. Joseph Beuys (ˈjoːzɛf ˈbɔʏs May 12, 1921 – January 23, Anselm Kiefer (born March 8, 1945, Donaueschingen) is a German painter and Sculptor. Roy Fox Lichtenstein (October 27 1923 &ndash September 29 1997 was a prominent American Pop artist his work heavily influenced by both popular advertising and Richard Long (born June 2, 1945) is an English sculptor, Photographer and painter, one of the best known British Land For the song by David Bowie, see Andy Warhol (song. Andrew Warhola (August 6 1928 &ndash February 22 1987 known as Andy Warhol Cy Twombly (born April 25 1928 is an American artist well known for his large scale freely-scribbled calligraphic style Graffiti paintings on solid fields of

Between 2004 and 2010, the Museum für Gegenwart is exhibiting parts of the art collection of Friedrich Christian Flick. Due to his Flick family background, the display, which before was rejected in Zurich by the local authorities, caused various protests. The Flick family is a wealthy German industrial and political dynasty heir to an industrial empire embracing coal steel and the DaimlerChrysler company Zürich (, Zürich German: Züri, Zurich, Zurigo; in English generally Zurich) is the largest city in Switzerland and capital of the

Former use as a train station

Rebirth as a museum

See also