Höfingen station
- Black Forest Railway ( KBS 790.6 )
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The Höfingen station is located at kilometer 10.9 of the Württemberg Black Forest Railway and is a station in the network of the Stuttgart S-Bahn. For the purposes of railway construction and operation order is not a train station, but a breakpoint.
History
On 1 December 1869, the Royal Württemberg State Railways opened the second stretch of the Black Forest Railway, between Ditzingen and Weil der Stadt. It is assumed that Foreign Minister Karl von Varnbühler, the then owner of the castle Höfingen, the route of influence. However, although the route in the Glemstal went over the district of Höfingen, the village was at first without consideration. After that, many residents joined together to form a citizens' association, who campaigned for the construction of a breakpoint. 1885 gave the church of Karl Varnbühler honorary citizenship.
On September 27, 1888 for the first time spoke of the establishment of the breakpoint. In the presence of cheering people held on January 16, 1889 for the first time a train in Höfingen. The one-story wooden building with reception and waiting room service, as well as an adjoining goods shed, no longer exists. The scheduled journey from Stuttgart to Höfingen then took 35 minutes.
On September 30, 1932, the German Reichsbahn between Ditzingen and Leonberg took a second main track in operation. On May 15, 1939, the electric operation between Zuffenhausen and Leonberg started.
In the 1970s, the German Federal Railroad built around the breakpoint for future S -Bahn station. In 1975, she tore it from the reception building. The former Bahnwärterhaus remained. Since October 1, 1978 hold in Höfingen S-Bahn line S 6 Because the city - Schwabstraße. Since 8 December 2012, the station is also served by the S- Bahn line S 60 Böblingen- Renningen - Schwabstraße.
Railway operation
The breakpoint is served by the lines S 6 and S 60 of the Stuttgart S-Bahn. Track 1 is the S-Bahn direction Zuffenhausen available, track 2 which direction Leonberg.
The Höfingen station corresponds, according to the Deutsche Bahn AG, the train station category 5