The best running trails around Hoisdorf

I came here because of the book Lost & Dark Places Hamburg (Manfred Ertel). Of course, after more than 100 years, there is not much left of the old subway station. But with a bit of imagination you can recreate the platform. I really liked the fact that you can walk along the old railway embankment, which can still be traced to Großhansdorf station. From the missing bridge over Mielerstede street, however, it can only be walked parallel to it on Hasselkamp street and no longer directly. Among other things, the Beimoor train station was intended to connect a planned "3rd Hamburg mental asylum", as it was called in official German at the time. In addition, an armaments factory was to be built in the Beimoorwald with a housing estate for workers. Construction work began in 1915. Except for the electrification, the station was finished when everything changed after the First World War. The Versailles Treaty prohibited the losers from any armament production, the arms factory was not allowed to be built. And a workers' settlement for the production facility was thus obsolete. The dismantling of the ghost station began as early as 1920. (Source: Dark & Lost Places Hamburg, Manfred Ertel)

beautiful Verindungswege between Großhansdorf and Lütjensee. Beautiful nature and wide fields. Super asphalt and nicer than on the main roads.

A hidden single trail leads from the Mielerstede street through the beautiful nature of a sanctuary to the Beimoor ghost train station.

When I drove past the ghost station by chance for the first time a few years ago, I stopped immediately because I was somehow interested in the strange building. I immediately took a closer look at it and climbed up onto the embankment. At first I thought it was an old railway bridge, but the counterpart was missing on the other side. Only later did I learn the correct meaning. I was already using Komoot at the time, but wasn't registered yet. I hadn't forgotten the ghost station afterwards, but I didn't yet know what significance it had and unfortunately I hadn't remembered the exact location either. He had already impressed me back then, but unfortunately afterwards I didn't know exactly where he had been. I always assumed it was on one of the old railway lines that are now great bike paths. Of course I couldn't find him there. Only later did I rediscover it as a highlight on the Komoot map. Many thanks to Jan67SH for setting it up. I was very happy to find the ghost station as a highlight on the map - well done. This is what sets Komoot and its members apart.

Großhansdorf is served by bus lines and the subway of the Hamburger Verkehrsverbund (HVV), the U1 line (blue) has its terminus in Großhansdorf. There are a total of three stations in the municipality: Schmalenbeck, Kiekut and Großhansdorf. The journey from Großhansdorf to Hamburg Central Station takes 43 minutes. A fourth stop, Beimoor, was under construction during the First World War and shortly afterwards and had already been largely completed. The only thing missing from the double-track line and the sidings was the power rail when the project was abandoned immediately after the First World War, as was the planning of an armaments factory in the Beimoorwald. Before the Second World War, the Hitler Youth practiced blasting, so that there is almost nothing left of the station building and nothing at all of the platform roof. Bats now nest in the access tunnel, which has been partially buried and provided with a wall (with a door and an entrance hole) by the municipal administration. The slightly weathered platform for the four-car trains planned for the Walddörferbahn at that time is still fully preserved. Before the line was inaugurated in November 1921, the second track from Großhansdorf to the hall of the Volksdorf train station had also been dismantled; only in Schmalenbeck was there a passing point with the only two switches on the whole route. It was only later that the Volksdorf - Buchenkamp section on the Hamburg state territory received its second track again, as did the Großhansdorf station with track 2 and its two sidings. After the Second World War, the current status was achieved with the construction of the passing point in Ahrensburg West station; the 20-minute cycle (morning and evening even 2½ hours 10-minute cycle) made the construction necessary. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gro%C3%9Fhansdorf

Anyone who is on the subway line 1 in Hamburg knows the "Großhansdorf" display on the trains. But the place just behind the eastern border with Schleswig-Holstein was not originally intended to be the terminus of the U 1. At the beginning of the 20th century there are plans to build another station called Beimoor on the so-called Walddörfer Line. And it is also being built - but never put into operation. Today only the platform slab on the embankment and the bricked-up access tunnel are left of this terminus. Still an impressive building today. The first time I passed it, I couldn't help but stop to look at it. I didn't know what it meant at the time and at first thought it was an old railway bridge ... but there was no counterpart on the other side of the street. It was only later that I learned the correct meaning. Source and other interesting information: https://www.ndr.de/geschichte/schauplaetze/Beimoor-der-Geisterbahnhof-der-Hamburger-U-1,beimoor100.html

Take care when starting up and shutting down. There are small trails around the stop that are relatively steep and blackberry overgrown.

The museum, which is worth seeing, has been located since 1978 in the historic farmhouse "Am Thie", which was built in 1756 by the Huguenot Duvier as a village smithy. With its rich inventory, it offers you diverse insights into village life as it played out in Stormarn before the advent of the technical age. The focus of the presentation is therefore on the collections of folk work and economic tools from agriculture, domestic economy, and crafts. A farmer's spice and herb garden, veterinary equipment, and beekeeping with a living bee colony, which can be observed in a display case, complement this area. Developmental stages that have emerged over time for different areas of life and work are also presented with examples. https://www.museum-hoisdorf.de/