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Location of Büchen within Herzogtum Lauenburg district
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| Coordinates | |
| Administration | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Schleswig-Holstein |
| District | Herzogtum Lauenburg |
| Municipal assoc. | Büchen |
| Mayor | Uwe Möller (SPD) |
| Basic statistics | |
| Area | 16.85 km2 (6.51 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 20 m (66 ft) |
| Population | 5,614 (31 December 2010)[1] |
| - Density | 333 /km2 (863 /sq mi) |
| Other information | |
| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) |
| Licence plate | RZ |
| Postal code | 21514 |
| Area code | 04155 |
| Website | www.buechen.de |
Büchen is a municipality in the district of Lauenburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is situated on the Elbe-Lübeck Canal, approx. 13 km northeast of Lauenburg/Elbe, and 45 km east of Hamburg.
Büchen is the seat of the Amt ("collective municipality") Büchen. It has a station on the Berlin-Hamburg and the Lübeck–Lüneburg lines.
Between 1945 and 1990 Büchen served as West German inner German border crossing for rail transport. The crossing was open for trains travelling between the Soviet Zone of occupation in Germany (till 1949, thereafter the East German Democratic Republic, or West Berlin and the American zone of occupation (till 1949) and thereafter the West German Federal Republic of Germany. The traffic was subject to the Interzonal traffic regulations, that between West Germany and West Berlin followed the special regulations of the Transit Agreement (1972).