Herrenberg station
- Gäubahn (km 41.6 ) ( KBS 740, KBS 790.1 )
- Ammertalbahn (km 21.4 ) ( KBS 764 )
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The Herrenberg train station is at the Gäubahn and is the terminus of Ammertalbahn. Since he is served by regional express trains and both the Stuttgart S -Bahn line S1 and the regional trains from Tübingen and Bondorf end here, it is an important node in the public transport. In the weekday evening rush since 2006, a pair of trains otherwise ending in Eutingen in Gaeu Karlsruhe tram- line S41 is also bound by up to Herrenberg. It is located approximately 200 meters west of the old town of Herrenberg.
History
Middle of the 19th century lived the citizens of the official city Herrenberg primarily from agriculture. At the most rewarding of the cultivation of sugar beets and hops seemed. To supply the sugar factory in Boeblingen and the breweries faster and around the fecal matter from the Stuttgart latrines to refer as a favorable fertilizer, Mr. Berg made in the 1860s strong for a connection to the railway network. This is followed by the cities of Böblingen and Freudenstadt involved. But because of the difficult geographical conditions was the Royal Württemberg State Railways, after voting in the parliament, the desired compound of Stuttgart over the western Filderebene and the Upper Gaeu in the northern Black Forest for the time being not build. In November 1873, the construction of the railway, which was designated Gäubahn.
On September 2, 1879, the State Railway opened the line. The Herrenberg station had still preserved the three-storey station building and goods shed now demolished. In that year, the trip from Stuttgart to Herrenberg lasted an hour and 22 minutes, but the confidence of the residence was to be moved a little closer. Already in the 1880s, had to be extended to freight the plant. At the cost also the surrounding communities Kuppingen, lower and Oberjettingen and Affstätt involved alongside the city Herrenberg, although its inhabitants still hoping for its own station.
The traffic planners of railway management saw from the beginning a connection from the Gäubahn to Tübingen before. Always strove the Members of the Upper Office Böblingen, Otto Elves to this important branch in Böblingen. But in 1900 it was clear finally that Mr. Berg should be the starting point of the railway line to the Upper Neckar Railway. The lines through the valley of the Ammer was less complex and expensive than that by the beautiful book. At that time also plans a route from Herrenberg to Calw, Althengstett or wild mountain emerged. The leaders opted for wild mountain and put two different routes to choose from. The one led on Kuppingen and Deckenpfronn, the other on Kuppingen and Untersulz. Without much consideration of the proposal, the Directorate of State Railways rejected him and never put him in front of the parliament. Their reasoning was that the railway line would have been in direct competition for Nagold Valley Railway.
For the Ammertalbahn an enlargement of the station was necessary. As a new hub, he received several new tracks, a signal box and a locomotive shed with a turntable and a water tower. The Ammertalbahn was from August 12, 1909 for the time being until Pfäffingen, from 1 May 1910, be traveled to Tübingen. On September 25, 1966, the Federal Railroad hired the traffic between Herrenberg and Entringen and built in 1973 the tracks to Gültstein from.
On 6 December 1992, the longed-for connection came to the Stuttgart S -Bahn network, by the line S1, which ended earlier in Böblingen. After the purpose of public transport association acquired the Ammertalbahn by Deutsche Bahn AG Ammer 1996 could be started with the restoration of the rail path. Since August 1, 1999 roll again trains between Herrenberg and Tübingen.
Railway operation
The Herrenberg train station is a railway junction on the Gäubahn at which branches off the Ammertalbahn. Track 1 is the regional express trains assigned to the direction of Böblingen. Start, track 2 and end the S-Bahn line S1. On track 3 send the S-Bahn before they are placed in the rear track field. On track 4, the regional express trains stop in the direction Eutingen Gaeu. The rails 101 and 102 are head tracks. Start the regional trains towards Tübingen and Bondorf and the evening train pair of light rail line S41 on them.
The Herrenberg station corresponds, according to the Deutsche Bahn AG, the train station category 3