Description
<p><b>Endersbach station</b> is located in the Endersbach district of the town of <a href="/pages/w/103113959729010">Weinstadt</a> at the 14.4 kilometre point of the <a href="/pages/w/135779206455155">Rems Railway</a> in the German state of <a href="/pages/w/112445535439262">Baden-Württemberg</a> and is a station on the <a href="/pages/w/102586566462998">Stuttgart S-Bahn</a> network.</p><h2>History</h2><p>The <a href="/pages/w/110097075707831">Royal Württemberg State Railways</a> built some earthworks north of Endersbach for the establishment of the Rems Valley Railway from <a href="/pages/w/108255902590576">Cannstatt</a> to <a href="/pages/w/106049036102678">Wasseralfingen</a>. It built a viaduct with four arches over the Haldenbach river and the road to <a href="/pages/w/506652136030369">Großheppach</a>. It built Endersbach station a little to the east. The first trains ran over the new route on 25 July 1861, as planned.</p><p>The station building is still standing. It is a two-storey sandstone building with a high <i>Kniestock</i> (“knee jamb”, which raises the base of a pitched roof to give more usable space) and a shallow hipped roof. On the ground floor there was a waiting room, a storage room, service room and a post office distribution centre, which was responsible until 1896 for Endersbach, <a href="/pages/w/410945572300928">Beutelsbach</a>, Schnait and <a href="/pages/w/105774869455718">Aichelberg</a>. The staff lived on the upper floors.</p><p>The municipality of Strümpfelbach, which was three kilometers away, tried on several occasions to persuade the State Railways to rename the station <i>Endersbach-Strümpfelbach</i>. But these requests were refused.</p><p>The anticipated speedy establishment of factories did not happen. Freight traffic consisted mainly of fruit—especially cherries—which was despatched by the farmers of Endersbach, Schnait, Strümpfelbach and Stetten towards <a href="/pages/w/108031939218618">Stuttgart</a>; some went to <a href="/pages/w/103796796325832">Munich</a>, which is about 200 km away.</p>
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