Herrenberg station
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Herrenberg station
 
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| Location | Bahnhofstr. 14, Herrenberg, Baden-Württemberg Germany |
| Coordinates | 48°35′37″N 8°51′46″E / 48.59361°N 8.86278°E |
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| Platforms | 6 |
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| Station code | 2726 |
| DS100 code | THE |
| IBNR | 8002785 |
| Category | 3 |
| Website | www.bahnhof.de |
| History | |
| Opened | 2 September 1879 |
Herrenberg station is located on the Gäu Railway (German: Gäubahn) and is at the start of the Ammer Valley Railway (Ammertalbahn). Because it is a stop for Regional-Express services and it is a terminus for both Stuttgart S-Bahn line S 1 and Regionalbahn services from Tübingen and Bondorf, it is an important transport node. It is located about 200 metres west of the old centre of Herrenberg in the German state of Baden-Württemberg.
In the mid 19th century the citizens of Oberamt Herrenberg (one of the former districts of Baden-Württemberg, that were replaced in 1934 by Landkreise) were mostly engaged in agriculture. The most profitable seems to have been the cultivation of sugar beet and hops. In the 1860s, Herrenberg sought a connection to the rail network so that and the district could have access to night soil from the latrines of Stuttgart as cheap fertilizer in order to grow produce for supply to the Böblingen sugar beet factory and the breweries. The cities of Böblingen and Freudenstadt also participated in the campaign. But because of the difficult geographical conditions, the parliament of Württemberg voted not to require the Royal Württemberg State Railways to build the connection sought from Stuttgart via the western Filder plain and the Korngäu district of the northern Black Forest. Only in November 1873 was construction authorised for the railway line, now called the Gäubahn.
On 2 September 1879, the State Railways opened the line. Herrenberg station had the still preserved three-story reception building and the now demolished freight shed. In that year, the trip from Stuttgart to Herrenberg took one hour and 22 minutes. In the 1880s, the freight facilities had to be expanded. Funding of this work involved the city of Herrenberg and the surrounding communities of Kuppingen, Oberjettingen, Unterjettingen and Affstätt, whose inhabitants still hoped to have their own stations.
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