Located near Württemberg mountain, Untertürkheim is home to the headquarters of Daimler AG and the original Mercedes-Benz assembly plant.

Untertürkheim became a popular destination for day trippers, using the new transport system.

[citation needed] In the 1890s, the Royal Württemberg State Railways began to develop plans to reduce traffic at Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof (central station).

Untertürkheim station was chosen as the starting point for the new line and as a location for a new freight yard and marshalling yard and Kornwestheim station was chosen as its end point.

It included an administration building and several service buildings, loading docks for freight and military transport, five signal boxes for 162 sets of points, a separate platform for railway workers and a roundhouse with four stalls and a water tower.

In 1911, a project to develop the freight yard failed due to lack of space.

Additional tracks to Cannstatt freight yard from this end were opened on 17 November 1912.

An individual Regionalbahn service operates on track 2, running on the Schuster Railway between Kornwestheim and Untertürkheim.

The Stuttgart 21 project involves building new sidings in the Untertürkheim track field.