Hagenow Land station is a railway junction in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, which was opened on 15 October 1846.

The fact that the Berlin-Hamburg railway ever made a 20 km detour via the comparatively small town of Hagenow, which then had 3400 inhabitants, resulted from the negotiations of the five states of Prussia, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Denmark, Lübeck and Hamburg on the construction of the line.

The Mecklenburg side under Grand Duke Frederick Francis II undertook in a treaty agreed on 8 November 1841 to subscribe half of the share capital and was able to achieve a route that ran close to the Mecklenburg residence in Schwerin.

Even before that, on 10 March 1846, the Mecklenburg Railway Company (Mecklenburgische Eisenbahngesellschaft) had received the concession to build a line from Hagenow to Schwerin.

[6] About 300 m behind the point where the routes from Schwerin and Ludwigslust converge, a single-track line branches off on a tight 90 degree turn to the north-west towards Zarrentin via Hagenow Stadt station.

After the Second World War, the line to Bad Oldesloe was interrupted at the Inner German border west of Zarrentin.

After 1990, long-distance traffic from Berlin and Schwerin to Hamburg increased strongly, reducing the significance of Hagenow Land station.

Passenger services to Zarrentin ended in 2000, only Hagenow Stadt station is served.

The Neoclassical station building has a two-story midsection with larger three-storey wings on both sides.

[7] Georg Dehio’s Handbook of German Art History (Handbuch der deutschen Kunstgeschichte) says the building is built "in a form based on the Florentine Renaissance palaces," with “components of different heights, a symmetrical structure and horizontal elements with sill cornices, arched windows of each storey decreasing in height and a cantilevered cornice.” It is assumed that the building "...was probably built after a design by F.

"[8] Although the builder and architect Friedrich Neuhaus led the construction of the entire Berlin–Hamburg railway and he was heavily involved for example in the design of the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, the detailed design of the station building has been lost, as is the case for almost all other stations.

It is similar, but built lower and in a simpler style so that it has about the same footprint as one of the side wings of the entrance building.

Another very similar building nearby suggests a second roundhouse, but all traces of a turntable and sidings that probably once existed have disappeared.