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The U-Bahn station Ochsenzoll is a station on the Hamburg U-Bahn line U1 in the Ochsenzoll district of Hamburg-Langenhorn. The station's abbreviation at the operating company Hamburger Hochbahn is "OZ". Until 1969, the station was the terminus of line U1 before it was extended to Garstedt. In 2020, an average of 9,100 people boarded and alighted here on weekdays (Mon–Fri). The station was built as the northern terminus of the Langenhorn Railway and was provisionally put into operation with steam trains on January 5, 1918. Electric operation began on July 1, 1921. The freight yard of the railway, formerly located north of the U-Bahn station at street level, has not been used as such since the 1990s and was dismantled in the mid-2000s. From 1953 to 1967, the Alsternordbahn (ANB) ended on the opposite, western side of Langenhorner Chaussee. The suburban railway, which came from Ulzburg via Friedrichsgabe and Garstedt and was initially operated with battery-powered railcars and later with MAN railbuses, was replaced at the end of May 1969 by the U1 U-Bahn line extended to the new tunnel station Garstedt. During the construction work, there was rail replacement service with omnibuses from HHA and VHH. In 1996, the U-Bahn was extended to Norderstedt Mitte by the Verkehrsgesellschaft Norderstedt. During continuous night service on weekend nights, the U1 trains terminated in Hamburg at Ochsenzoll until December 2008, the northernmost station of this U1 branch within the Hamburg city limits. Since then, all night service trains have run every 20 minutes to the terminus Norderstedt Mitte. In Ochsenzoll, trains are added or removed during morning and evening hours. Since November 2015, the station has been made accessible. The station was built using the cut-and-cover method and is located in a shallow trench. The original entrance structure, which existed until the major renovation of the station from 1963–1965, resembled those of Fuhlsbüttel or Langenhorn Markt (then Langenhorn Mitte) before their redesigns. After the demolition of the old station building in 1963 and provisional intermediate wooden structures, the new, slightly deeper and completely rebuilt station with a large ticket hall at platform level, on the old site and with an underpass to the west side, was put into operation in September 1964 for the ANB stop and the bus station. This was necessary to enable the later extension to Garstedt. The tracks had to be routed under the crossing Langenhorner Chaussee. The new entrance structure, in the then-common style (e.g., Hagenbecks Tierpark station), also had a pedestrian crossing between the two tracks and two entrances each east and west of the Chaussee, with the latter even having an additional escalator in the middle. West of Langenhorner Chaussee was the then heavily frequented bus station (with many VHH bus lines (e.g., to Pinneberg via Garstedt and Schnelsen or via Quickborn, to Kisdorf via Harksheide and Henstedt, and to Wakendorf II via Glashütte and Tangstedt), the post bus line to Bad Segeberg, the Autokraft line to Bad Oldesloe, and the extended HHA express bus line 31) and the terminus of the ANB. South of the former ANB station Ochsenzoll, since 1965, there has been the western depot of the U-Bahn with three tracks between the two main tracks. At the eastern end of the Ochsenzoll U-Bahn station, there is an extensive track triangle used as a large depot. Next to the northern main track, at platform level, there was another third track until the 2000s, which previously served as a run-off track for shunting construction trains or their locomotives, also onto the track field of the higher-level freight yard. Until the 1960s, these tracks were equipped with overhead lines (island operation). The Hochbahn had a track and material storage at the eastern end of the freight yard, which is now located southwest of the Ohlsdorf station after the area was abandoned. Ochsenzoll also houses a route control center for Hamburger Hochbahn. It is responsible for operations on line U1 between Norderstedt Mitte and Stephansplatz. Several signal boxes are remotely controlled from the route control center, one of which, an electronic signal box, is located directly at the Ochsenzoll station. The signal box built in the 1960s south of the switches of the eastern depot, which was clad with yellow aluminum panels, was dismantled long ago.

The memorial column commemorates the dark chapter of forced labor in World War II. It stands at the ZOB Ochsenzoll (Langenhorner Chaussee / corner of Ochsenzoll subway station). The site marks the historical center of armament production in Langenhorn, where thousands of forced laborers had to toil in the former chain factories.

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The Tarpenbek hiking trail was the subject of political debate for years, and for a long time it was closed to bicycle traffic. The expansion is costing 1.2 million euros.

This is a great place to get to the Tarpenbek and if you want to refresh your feet, this is the place to be.

Gable roofs, half-timbered gables with pointed roofs, and white brick walls adorn the houses that, of course, make up the Black Forest settlement. These striking buildings stand directly on the border between Hamburg and Norderstedt. The funny thing is: This settlement was actually built in 1939 for workers of a southern German company. Well, they certainly felt at home here. https://geheimtipphamburg.de/geheimtipp/7-lieblingsorte-am-hamburger-stadtrand-we-love-langenhorn/

Church built from 1938-39.