Wildpark stop
| Wildpark stop | |
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 The abandoned breakpoint in 2009
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| Data | |
| Operating point type | Breakpoint |
| Platform tracks | two |
| opening | 1896 |
| Conveyance | May 28, 1961 |
| location | |
| Place / district | Stuttgart-South |
| country | Baden-Württemberg |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 45 '29 " N , 9 ° 7' 30" E |
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| Railway stations in Baden-Württemberg | |
The Wildpark stop is a former stop at kilometer 11.1 of the Stuttgart – Horb railway line in the urban area of Stuttgart . It was opened in 1896, 17 years after the route opened. Originally it was just a block section , which later received two outer platforms . On May 28, 1961, the breakpoint was finally abandoned.
The station is located at an altitude of 395 meters above sea level in an undeveloped forest area, above the Heslacher waterfalls , right next to the Rudolf-Sophien-Stift and about one kilometer from the outskirts of Stuttgart-Heslach . The center of Heslach is two kilometers to the east and is about one hundred meters lower. The next stop in the direction of Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof was the Stuttgart-Heslach stop, 1.7 kilometers away. The Wildpark stop was used for local recreation and was mainly used for Sunday excursions to the Bärenschlössle , the park lakes , the Heslach waterfalls, the Solitude Castle and the red and wild boar park that gave it its name .
Current condition
The former station building on the side of the platform in the direction of Stuttgart has largely been preserved as it was in the 1960s, including the outer walls and doors of the waiting room and the service room. In addition, there are locked and overgrown access stairs in both directions, which together with the viaduct over Leonberger Straße, the former Bundesstraße 14 , form a structural unit.
The "wildlife park station" around 1900
The waiting room and the service room (2009)
Ticket office 50 years after opening (May 28, 2011)
Platform access towards Böblingen (2009)
Platform access towards Stuttgart (2009)
The viaduct over Leonberger Straße with white and red piling girders (2009). The latter comes from the time when the viaduct was damaged several times by trucks on the B 14.
Others
During the Second World War, the journalist and writer Josef Eberle and his Jewish wife Else were temporarily hidden in the attic of the station building by the station director Sebastian Imhof.