The Lauenburg-Hohnstorf Ferry (German: Trajekt Lauenburg-Hohnstorf or Lauenburg-Hohnstorfer Elb-Traject-Anstalt) was a railway ferry over the River Elbe between Hohnstorf on the left bank of the Elbe in the old Kingdom of Hanover

Kingdom of Hanover

The Kingdom of Hanover was established in October 1814 by the Congress of Vienna, with the restoration of George III to his Hanoverian territories after the Napoleonic era. It succeeded the former Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg , and joined with 38 other sovereign states in the German...

 (which became the Prussian province of Hanover in 1866) and Lauenburg

Lauenburg/Elbe

Lauenburg/Elbe is a town in the state of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is situated at the northern bank of the river Elbe, east of Hamburg. It is the southernmost town of Schleswig-Holstein. Lauenburg belongs to the Kreis of Herzogtum Lauenburg and had a population of 11,900 as of 2002...

 in the Duchy of Lauenburg on the right bank which was then part of Denmark

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

. From 15 March 1864 to 1 November 1878 the rail ferry linked the Lübeck–Lauenburg railway with the Lüneburg–Hohnstorf line. Both were sections of the Lübeck–Lüneburg railway.

Ferry operations

class="hintergrundfarbe6" style="font-weight:normal; text-align:left; padding:0.3em; border:1px solid #aaaaaa;" | Annual traffic, 1864–1878
(- = not known)

Year	Passengers	Goods in tonnes
1864	29.662	16.421
1865	35.294	23.648
1866	30.966	22.134
1867	43.984	42.251
1868	39.317	54.822
1869	44.243	84.386
1870	26.598	102.082
1871	-	150.818
1872	-	190.709
1873	-	169.480
1874	27.357	178.611
1875	21.497	115.317
1876	21.443	134.626
1877	23.287	142.132
1878	-	-

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