The chosen site offered convenient access to the port of Wismar.
By the end of 1847, the first buildings were built, two sheds for materials and a kyanizing works.
It was estimated that the construction of the planned entrance building would cost about 28,500 Thalers.
[4] When the railway line was inaugurated in 1848, the roundhouse had been completed, there was also a cattle ramp and a large turntable.
Parking spaces for coaches, private carriages and buses were to be built outside the station according to a plan of 1896.