Fellbach station

Fellbach station is located in Fellbach on the Rems Railway (Remsbahn) in the German state of Baden-Württemberg and is a station on the Stuttgart S-Bahn network.HistoryDuring the construction of the Rems Railway by the Royal Württemberg State Railways in 1861, it built a station for Fellbach on the fields of the village of Schmiden as the only station between Cannstatt and Waiblingen. It was at that time about one kilometre north of Fellbach and one and a half kilometres south of Schmiden at the boundary of the two villages. Even before the construction of the railway, Fellbach had almost 3,000 inhabitants and was one of the largest villages in Württemberg.The Rems Railway was opened on 25 July 1861. The station building has been preserved and is still used as such. It was built of light sandstone and has two full floors and a Kniestock (“knee jamb”, which raises the base of a pitched roof to give more usable space). Windows and doors on the ground floor have rounded arches.Between 1862 and 1869 the newly established post office operated from the building. Then it was transferred to Cannstatter Straße. In 1864, the State Railways opened a second main line track from Cannstatt to Fellbach.The volume of traffic rose steadily, as did the number of inhabitants of Fellbach and Schmiden, which both grew towards the station.Deutsche ReichsbahnDeutsche Reichsbahn enlarged the station between 1923 and 1925. It created a platform underpass for passengers.