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Korntal station is in the town of Korntal-Münchingen in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is on the Württemberg Black Forest railway, which is served by the Stuttgart S-Bahn network. It is the starting point of the Strohgäu Railway (Strohgäubahn), which is served by the Württembergische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (Württemberg Railway Company).HistoryThe Evangelische Brüdergemeinde Kornthal had about 600 inhabitants in the 1860s. The church’s estate in Kornthal had been very small district since the Pietist community was founded in 1819. Many of its residents worked away from the community and took advantage of the opening of the Zuffenhausen station on the Württemberg Central Railway in 1846.When the parliament of Württemberg decided to build the Black Forest Railway through the Strohgäu district on 13 August 1865, it was not certain that a station would be established in Korntal. In fact, the citizens of the larger community of Weil im Dorf petitioned the royal government for a station on the line so as not to be economically disadvantaged.On 23 September 1868, the Royal Württemberg State Railways opened Kornthal station as the only station between Zuffenhausen and Ditzingen at that time; it was later called Kornthal-Weil im Dorf. The two-storey red sandstone entrance building still exists. During the reform in 1904, when the spelling of thal was changed to tal, the name of the village and the station name changed to Korntal-Weil im Dorf.
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