Hannöversche Südbahn
In 1856 the Kingdom of Hanover opened the Hanoverian Southern Railway ("Hannöversche Südbahn") from Hanover to Kassel with a station in Elze. After the annexation by Prussia in 1866, the town became an important railway junction with the building of the Elze–Löhne railway ("Weserbahn") to Löhne in Westphalia by entrepreneur Bethel Henry Strousberg, finished in 1875. Elze is also the junction of the Bundesstraße 1 and Bundesstraße 3 federal highways.