Standseilbahn Stuttgart, Funicular railway in Stuttgart, Germany

Standseilbahn Stuttgart is a metre-gauge funicular linking the Südheimer Platz valley station in Heslach with the Waldfriedhof in Degerloch. Its two teak-bodied cars, built by Maschinenfabrik Esslingen, counterbalance on a 536-metre track with a 35-millimetre haul rope, climbing 87 metres at up to 28.3% gradient in about three to four minutes.

A funicular to the Waldfriedhof was already planned when the cemetery opened in August 1914, but the First World War prevented construction. The present line was built in 1928/1929 by Maschinenfabrik Esslingen, replacing a 1914 bus route, and opened on 30 October 1929. Its AEG equipment made it the fastest funicular of its time at 3 m/s, carrying 690,000 passengers in 1930.

Locals call it the "Erbschleicher-Express" (legacy-hunter express) and, since 2004, the "Lustige-Witwen-Bahn" (merry widows' railway), nicknames tied to its role carrying cemetery visitors. It is also nicknamed "Schnürlesbahn" after its cable. Since the late 1990s it runs as line 20 in the Stadtbahn numbering, without the U prefix.

The valley station at Südheimer Platz connects directly to Stadtbahn lines U1 and U14, and the funicular runs as line 20 within the VVS network. Bicycles are not carried at any time. Service runs roughly from 9:10 to 17:50, normally every 20 minutes, with extra trips when demand is high.

The funicular was among the world's first semi-automatic cable railways, running without operating staff from the start; only two car attendants are needed. Because the remote hill station had no permanent supervisor, a flower shop was planned there from the beginning, and its operator also handled currency exchange and ticket sales. The shop has stood without a tenant since 31 March 2019.