Echterdingen station

Echterdingen station is located in Leinfelden-Echterdingen at the 22.7 kilometre point of the Stuttgart-Rohr–Filderstadt railway in the German state of Baden-Württemberg and is a station on the Stuttgart S-Bahn network.HistoryEchterdingen’s first rail connection was made on 12 December 1888, with opening by the Filder Railway Company (Filderbahn-Gesellschaft) of the Degerloch–Möhringen–Hohenheim metre gauge steam tramway. The station was in the Möhringen district, near the Gasthof Landhaus (country house inn), at the junction of the road from Degerloch to Echterdingen and the road from Möhringen to Plieningen. It was about four kilometres north of the town of Echterdingen. A refuge was established for travellers from Echterdingen.On 22 August 1891, planning began on a new route from Möhringen to Echterdingen, construction of which was approved by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on 14 April 1896. The metre gauge railway was extended from Echterdingen to Neuhausen. Their formal opening was held on 23 December 1897, with regular operations beginning the next day. The Echterdingen station on the Möhringen–Hohenheim line was renamed Landhaus, also on 24 December 1897. Today, there is a stop on the Stuttgart Stadtbahn network with this name. Due to the relaying of route in 1906, the existing station is located further south than the original station.