Herrenberg station

Herrenberg station is located on the Stuttgart–Horb 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.

Herrenberg
Deutsche Bahn S-Bahn
Through station
General information
LocationBahnhofstr. 14, Herrenberg, Baden-Württemberg
Germany
Coordinates48°35′37″N 8°51′46″E
Line(s)
Platforms6
Other information
Station code2726
DS100 codeTHE
IBNR8002785
Category3[1]
Fare zone
  • VVS: 5[2]
  • naldo: 501 (VVS transitional tariff)[3]
Websitewww.bahnhof.de
History
Opened2 September 1879
Services
Preceding station DB Fernverkehr Following station
Gäufelden
towards Zürich HB
IC 87 Böblingen
Preceding station DB Regio Baden-Württemberg Following station
Gäufelden
towards Rottweil
RE 14a Böblingen
Gäufelden RE 14b
Terminus RB 63 Herrenberg Zwerchweg
towards Bad Urach
Preceding station Stuttgart S-Bahn Following station
Terminus S 1 Nufringen
Location
Herrenberg is located in Baden-Württemberg
Herrenberg
Herrenberg
Location in Baden-Württemberg
Herrenberg is located in Germany
Herrenberg
Herrenberg
Location in Germany
Herrenberg is located in Europe
Herrenberg
Herrenberg
Location in Europe

History

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.

The railways’ planners foresaw the beginning of a connection from the Gäu Railway to Tübingen. Böblingen campaigned for this line to run from Böblingen, but in 1900 it was decided that the line would run from Herrenberg to the Upper Neckar Railway. The line through the valley of the Ammer was less complicated and costly than the line through the Schönbuch.

At that time, were also plans for a line from Herrenberg to Calw, Althengstett or Wildberg. Two routes were considered to Wildberg but were rejected because such a line would have competed with the Nagold Valley Railway.

Enlargement of the station was necessary for the Ammer Valley Railway. As a new junction, it received several new tracks, a signal box, a locomotive shed with a turntable and a water tower. The Ammer Valley Railway was opened on 12 August 1909 as far as Pfäffinger and on 1 May 1910 to Tübingen. On 25 September 1966, Deutsche Bundesbahn passenger services were abandoned between Herrenberg and Entringen and the line was closed between Herrenberg and Gültstein in 1973.

On 6 December 1992, the station was connected to the Stuttgart S-Bahn network with extension of line S 1, which had earlier ended in Böblingen. After the Zweckverband ÖPNV im Ammertal (Ammer Valley public transport association) acquired the Ammer Valley Railway from Deutsche Bahn in 1996, the restoration of the line could be started. Since 1 August 1999, trains are again running between Herrenberg and Tübingen.

Operations

Herrenberg station is a railway junction on the Gäu Railway, from which the Ammer Valley Railway branches off. Platform track 1 is assigned to Regional-Express services towards Böblingen. Track 2 is used for the start and end on S-Bahn services. Track 3 is used by terminating S-Bahn services, before they are parked in the rear track field. Regional-Express trains to Eutingen im Gäu stop on track 4. Tracks 101 and 102 are terminating tracks, on which Regionalbahn services start to Tübingen and Bondorf. The station is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 3 station.

Regional Transport

RouteFrequency
IC 87 /
RE 87
Stuttgart – Herrenberg – Singen (Hohentwiel)Konstanz Every 2 hours
RE 14a Stuttgart – Böblingen – Herrenberg – Bondorf (b Herrenberg)Eutingen im GäuHorbRottweil120 minutes (runs between Stuttgart and Eutingen together with line RE 14B)
RE 14b Stuttgart – Böblingen – Herrenberg – Bondorf (b Herrenberg) – Eutingen im Gäu – Freudenstadt120 minutes (runs between Stuttgart and Eutingen together with line RE 14A)
RB 63 Bad Urach – Metzingen (Württ) – TübingenEntringen – Herrenberg30 minutes
RB 14a Herrenberg – Bondorf (b Herrenberg) (– Eutingen im Gäu – Horb)Individual pairs of trains in the morning, at noon and in the evening, Mon–Fri

S-Bahn

Line Route
S 1 Kirchheim (Teck)WendlingenPlochingenEsslingenNeckarparkBad CannstattHauptbahnhofSchwabstraßeVaihingenRohrBöblingenHerrenberg (extra trains in the peak between Esslingen and Böblingen.)

Notes

  1. "Stationspreisliste 2023" [Station price list 2023] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 28 November 2022. Retrieved 14 December 2022.
  2. "Tarifzoneneinteilung" (PDF). Verkehrs- und Tarifverbund Stuttgart. 1 April 2020. Retrieved 16 April 2020.
  3. "naldo-Tarifwabenplan" (PDF). Verkehrsverbund Neckar-Alb-Donau. 1 January 2020. Retrieved 6 April 2020.

References

  • Hans-Wolfgang Scharf, Burkhard Wollny (1992). Die Gäubahn von Stuttgart nach Singens (in German). Freiburg im Breisgau: EK-Verlag. ISBN 3-88255-701-X.
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