Hannover Central Station's current building was designed by Hubert Stier and opened on June 22, 1879, after work began in April 1877. The 1845 to 1847 central station's architect is uncertain, and Georg Laves and Ferdinand Schwarz contributed. The article names no client for any phase. A temporary station opened in 1843.
The article calls the 1879 building Renaissance Revival, with yellow brick, red stripes and a sandstone base. The earlier station was romantic neoclassical yellow plaster over masonry. There are two train halls, each 121 feet (37 m) wide and 549 feet (167.5 m) long. The buildings cost 12.7 million marks, and the whole precinct cost 22.5 million.
Air raids largely destroyed the station in 1943. Electrification reached it in 1963. Expo 2000 brought a rebuild, passenger lifts and the S-Bahn. Deutsche Bahn owns it. The article gives no station hours, though most shops in the underground area close at 10 p.m. on weekdays.
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