Puttgarden station is a major ferry terminal on the Vogelfluglinie (bird flight line) on the island of Fehmarn in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein.

The station was very important from the beginning, since a large proportion of rail freight and passenger traffic was shipped to and from Scandinavia via Puttgarden.

This is shown by the large and, since the end of freight traffic on the bird flight line, almost completely idle network of rail tracks.

After the completion of the bridge over the Great Belt in Denmark in 1998, most trains run for financial reasons over a lengthy detour by that route because of the limited track capacity of the roll-on/roll-off ships and to avoid the associated shunting.

The former locomotive-hauled EuroCity service from Hamburg to Copenhagen were replaced in the 1990s by a three-carriage Danish IC3 multiple unit, which can be coupled and uncoupled without any shunting.

[3] Beginning August 31, 2022, all rail traffic between Neustadt and Puttgarden was suspended due to construction work on the double-track railway line connecting to the Fehmarn Belt Fixed Link (currently forecast in 2028) until its completion.