Neustrelitz Hauptbahnhof () is a railway station in the city of Neustrelitz, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. The station lies on the Stralsund-Neubrandenburg railway, Neustrelitz–Warnemünde railway and . The train services are operated by Deutsche Bahn, DB Regio Nordost, and Hanseatische Eisenbahn. Next to the main station, a separate station was built for the formerly private railway from the Prussian border at Buschhof to Strasburg, now called Neustrelitz Süd (south). Its entrance building and several outbuildings to the station have heritage protection. Location and name The station is located east of central Neustrelitz at kilometer 98.5 of the Berlin Northern Railway. The line from Berlin reaches Neustrelitz from the south and, north of the station, it turns to the east. The Neustrelitz–Warnemünde railway (Lloydbahn, Lloyd Railway) begins at the station and runs to the northwest. Neustrelitz Süd station on the Wittenberge–Strasburg railway is located east of the station. This line comes from the west, passes under the Northern Railway south of the station and then first runs parallel with the Northern Railway. In passenger transport, the Neustrelitz Süd station has no longer been used since the tracks from the direction of Mirow were diverted so that trains of this line could start from Neustrelitz Hbf. Originally the station was called only Neustrelitz. With the commissioning of a separate station for the private railway, it was called Neustrelitz Staatsbahnhof (state station) from 1908 and Neustrelitz Reichsbahnhof (Reichsbahn state station) from 1922. Since 15 June 1941, the station has been called Neustrelitz Hauptbahnhof. History Plans for a railway line from Berlin to Stralsund via Neustrelitz, then the location of the court of the Mecklenburg-Strelitz, had been around since the 1850s. In 1853, the Prussian king Frederick William IV of Prussia approved a private railway line between these cities. However, the project failed because of the poor state of the economy and the lack of state support. In the 1860s, these plans were revived and the Berlin Northern Railway Company (Berliner Nord-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft) was incorporated. Construction work began on the line in the spring of 1872 and on the Mecklenburg section in 1873. In 1875, the shares of the company were taken over by the Prussian government and the line from Berlin via Neustrelitz to Neubrandenburg was finally opened on 10 July 1877; the rest of the line to Stralsund was opened on 1 January 1878. The line in Mecklenburg was also administered by the Prussian state