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Wendlingen (Neckar) station

Wendlingen (Neckar)
Deutsche Bahn
Through station
Bahnhof Wendlingen.jpg
Location Bahnhofstr. 15, Wendlingen, Baden-Württemberg
Germany
Coordinates 48°40′23″N 9°22′24″E / 48.67306°N 9.37333°E / 48.67306; 9.37333Coordinates: 48°40′23″N 9°22′24″E / 48.67306°N 9.37333°E / 48.67306; 9.37333
Line(s)
Platforms 5
Other information
Station code 6671
DS100 code TWD
IBNR 8006331
Category 4
Website www.bahnhof.de
History
Previous names Unterboihingen

Wendlingen (Neckar) station (formerly Unterboihingen station) is the only station in the town of Wendlingen in the German state of Baden-Württemberg and is a railway junction on the Neckar-Alb Railway from which the Teck Railway branches. It is served by regional trains and the Stuttgart S-Bahn.

On 20 September 1859 the Royal Württemberg State Railways opened the PlochingenReutlingen line, the first section of the Upper Neckar Railway. Its first stop after Plochingen was Unterboihingen station, which was about 700 metres north of Unterboihingen village.

As a connection to the district of Kirchheim was not under consideration by the State Railways, the city council sought on 13 August 1860 permission for a private railway company to build the connection. The railway would run from Unterboihingen to Kirchheim. On 12 August 1863 the Württemberg State Parliament approved its construction. The starting point of the eastward running line was at the Hotel Keim, which had a platform. On 21 September 1864 the Kirchheim Railway Company (Kirchheimer Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft) commenced operations. On 1 January 1899, the Royal Württemberg State Railways took over the Teck Railway (Teckbahn). In 1902, a second track was added to the Plochingen–Reutlingen section.

In 1913, the director of the Behr Company, who had been a resident in Wendlingen for a year, sought to have the station renamed as "Unterboihingen-Wendlingen". The community in Wendlingen supported him. The State Railway Board refused, however, and even pointed out that if there was a name change, it would be called after the larger town of Köngen. Double names could also only be used in exceptional cases. After the Württemberg State Railways was absorbed into the Deutsche Reichsbahn, Wendlingen asked the Railway Administration (Reichsbahndirektion) in Stuttgart to rename the station after the town on 25 April 1921. Meanwhile, Köngen and Wendlingen had become almost equal in population and Pfauhausen-Steinbach station had been given a double name without complaint. Nevertheless, the Stuttgart Railway Administration again denied the request. Again on 30 November 1927, the Railway Administration pointed to Wendlingen’s disadvantage in size compared to Köngen. In 1933 the deputy mayor of Wendlingen pointed out to the Railway Administration that Wendlingen and Unterboihingen had grown together and that Wendlingen had about 3,000 inhabitants compared to Unterboihingen with 1,100 inhabitants. On 1 April 1940, the communities of Wendlingen, Unterboihingen and Bodelshofen merged and the station received its present name of Wendlingen (Neckar).


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