The standardized railway station was a type of station constructed primarily on branch lines for the

Royal Württemberg State Railways The Royal Württemberg State Railways (''Königlich Württembergische Staats-Eisenbahnen'' or ''K.W.St.E.'') were the state railways of the Kingdom of Württemberg (from 1918 the ''People's State of Württemberg'') between 1843 and 1920. Early ...

. Between 1892 and approximately 1903, 59 such stations were constructed in

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in three different versions.

History

The original intention of the government of the

Kingdom of Württemberg The Kingdom of Württemberg ( ) was a German state that existed from 1806 to 1918, located within the area that is now Baden-Württemberg. The kingdom was a continuation of the Electorate of Württemberg, which existed from 1803 to 1806. Geogr ...

was to leave the construction of branch lines to private companies. However, when only a few companies took up the offer, a law to enable the construction of the first state branch line was passed in 1887. The line in question, the Schiltach-Schramberg railway, ran from

Nagold Nagold () is a town in southwestern Germany, bordering the Northern Black Forest. It is located in the '' Landkreis'' (district) of Calw (Germany/Baden-Württemberg). Nagold is recorded for the first time in a historical document dating back to ...

Altensteig Altensteig (; Swabian: ''Aldaschdaeg'') is a town in the district of Calw, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. History Altensteig was most likely given town rights by the Counts of Hohenberg around the middle of the 14th century. In 1398, the t ...

and was followed soon afterwards by the Swabian Alb Railway from

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to Honau and the Kocher Valley Railway from Waldenburg to

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. However, the state had limited funds and relied on financial contributions from local authorities along the route; the villages, however, had limited spending power and budgetary restrictions were extended to railway stations. Some individually designed stations were still to be seen along the Schiltach- Schramberg route (opened October 1892), the Nagold-Altensteig route (opened December 1891) and the Reutlingen-Honau route (opened June 1892). The stretch from Waldenburg-Künzelsau, which was opened in October 1892, was the first to see station buildings standardized on grounds of cost. In contrast to similar buildings on the stretch from Reutlingen–Honau, the stations here were of a simpler design with hip roofs abandoned in favour of gabled roofs. Until approximately 1903, the standardized railway station was built on all new branch lines of the Royal Württemberg State Railways and again, in 1908 and 1911 respectively, on the Wieslauf Valley Railway at Rudersberg and

Welzheim Welzheim () is a town in the Rems-Murr district, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is located 35 km east of Stuttgart, and 15 km northwest of Schwäbisch Gmünd. Welzheim has 11,239 (2005) inhabitants and is located in the 'Welzheimer ...

. It was the only railway station of standard design to be constructed across the whole kingdom. However, by the beginning of the 20th century, the standardized railway station with its

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was deemed out of keeping with a period which favoured the up-and-coming Domestic Revival style (Heimatstil). {{DEFAULTSORT:Standardized railway station (Wurttemberg) Defunct railway companies of Germany Transport in Baden-Württemberg Kingdom of Württemberg Railway stations in Baden-Württemberg History of rail transport in Baden-Württemberg