Schwäbisch Hall-Hessental station

Schwäbisch Hall-Hessental station is the more important of the two stations of the major district town of Schwäbisch Hall in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is a junction station where the Waiblingen–Schwäbisch Hall railway branches off the Crailsheim–Heilbronn railway .LocationSchwäbisch Hall-Hessental station is four kilometres from Schwäbisch Hall, located in the district of Hessental. In the immediate vicinity of the station are the Breitloh/Karl-Kurz-Areal industrial area on the site of the former Kurz barrel factory, which was one of the largest companies in the city of Schwäbisch Hall until its bankruptcy in 1998.HistoryThe station precinct emerged in December 1867 with the opening of the Crailsheim–Heilbronn railway, then called the Kocherbahn . The line was built at the request of the population and followed its approval by the Württemberg Chamber of Deputies in 1860. The entrance building was not built until twelve years later, when the line was completed from Waiblingen to Hessental via Backnang and Gaildorf. As a result of the new connection, Schwäbisch Hall-Hessental station became operationally more significant that Schwäbisch Hall station, which was more centrally located in the town.The Hessental concentration camp, which still existed in April 1945, was established in Alsace in a former barracks of the Reich Labour Service at Hessental station in the summer of 1944 as a sub-camp of the Natzweiler-Struthof camp. The first assignment of 600 prisoners arrived on 14 October 1944.