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Endersbach station is located in the Endersbach district of the town of Weinstadt at the 14.4 kilometre point of the Rems Railway in the German state of Baden-Württemberg and is a station on the Stuttgart S-Bahn network.HistoryThe Royal Württemberg State Railways built some earthworks north of Endersbach for the establishment of the Rems Valley Railway (Remsthalbahn, old spelling) from Cannstatt to Wasseralfingen. It built a viaduct with four arches over the Haldenbach river and the road to Großheppach. It built Endersbach station a little to the east. The first trains ran over the new route on 25 July 1861, as planned.The station building is still standing. It is a two-storey sandstone building with a high Kniestock (“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, Beutelsbach, Schnait and Aichelberg. The staff lived on the upper floors.The municipality of Strümpfelbach, which was three kilometers away, tried on several occasions to persuade the State Railways to rename the station Endersbach-Strümpfelbach. But these requests were refused.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 Stuttgart; some went to Munich, which is about 200 km away.
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