Korntal station

• Black Forest Railway ( KBS 790.6 )
• Strohgäubahn ( KBS 790.61 )
• Access route to Kornwestheim

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The train station is in Korntal Korntal at kilometer 3.6 of the Württemberg Black Forest Railway and is the starting point of Strohgäubahn. It is operated by the Stuttgart S-Bahn trains and the Württemberg railway company.

History

The Evangelical Brethren grain valley counted in the 1860s around 600 inhabitants. Since Pietists until 1819 the community founded on the manor grain valley, they had only a very small district. Many of the residents worked away and took advantage after the opening of the Württemberg Zentralbahn 1847 Zuffenhausen station.

As the state legislature approved the construction of the Black Forest path through the Strohgäu on August 13, 1865 the establishment of a station Korntal not stable yet. So the connection to the rail network is also thanks to the citizens of the larger community, because in the village who asked the royal government to a train station to be not economically disadvantaged.

As the first and so far only station between Zuffenhausen and Ditzingen the Royal Württemberg State Railways on September 23 opened in 1868, the grain valley station - later known as grain Thal- Because in the village. The two-storey reception building with its reddish sandstones still exists. After the spelling reform in 1904, the place name and hence the station name changed in Korntal or Korntal- Because in the village.

From 1898, several congregations scheduled for the construction of a railway line between Zuffenhausen or Ludwigsburg through northern Heckengäu to Pforzheim one. From Pforzheim as the end point, the railway committee looked quickly. Likewise Muenchingen could not be taken into account when the railway line in Ludwigsburg would be diverted. To save further, the starting point was first built in Korntal. On August 13, 1906, the branch lines Württemberg AG took the route to Weissach in operation.

Since December 30, 1926, the Municipal tram Feuerbach Feuerbach wrong to Gerlingen. They enabled the passengers from and to Weil in the village a more convenient travel option and saved the wide footpath. Thus, the Korntal station recorded falling passenger numbers. The term Korntal -Weil disappeared in the village. December 1, 1937, the German Reichsbahn the doubling of the track section between Zuffenhausen and Korntal done. The electrification of Zuffenhausen to Leonberg took place on May 15, 1939.

After the Second World War, Korntal had finally developed into a residential suburb of Stuttgart. On June 30, 1958, the Interior Ministry gave the place a city charter. Meanwhile, there were over 8,000 residents in the former Brethren.

In May 1962 years presented the transport expert Professor Walther Lambert the Stuttgart City Council its plans for an S -Bahn network for the state capital. It should also replace the 1940 furnished electric local mode Stuttgart Weil der Stadt. With the opening of the S -Bahn line S6 on 1 October 1978, the German Federal Railways converted the ideas. The Strohgäubahn, however, repeatedly threatened the closure, due to lack of passengers. Their electrification and integration into the network of the Stuttgart Stadtbahn was planned. By investing the districts of Ludwigsburg, Böblingen and they remained.

Railway operation

The railway station serving the lines S6 and S60 of the Stuttgart S-Bahn trains and the Württemberg Railway Company (WEG ). On track 1, the main platform, keep the S-Bahn direction Leonberg. Track two is by moving trains. On track 3 keep the S-Bahn to Stuttgart. Track 4 has no platform and is also used by by moving trains. Track 7 is a head track whose platform is connected to the main platform. Start here the features of the WEG direction Hemmingen.

The Korntal station corresponds, according to the Deutsche Bahn AG, the train station category 4

S -Bahn

Regional Transport