Gedenkstätte am Nordbahnhof, Memorial at Nordbahnhof Station in Stuttgart, Germany.
The Gedenkstätte am Nordbahnhof is a memorial at the former station in Stuttgart dedicated to deportations during World War II. The site preserves five original railway tracks and displays over 2500 names of Jewish residents and approximately 250 Sinti and Roma people on a 70-meter wall, documenting those transported to concentration camps from this location.
The Nordbahnhof was a central point for deportations from Stuttgart between 1941 and 1944. From this station, Jewish residents and Sinti and Roma people were transported to concentration camps in the east, including Riga, Theresienstadt, and Auschwitz.
The name refers to the station's location in northern Stuttgart. Walking through, visitors can see the original railway tracks and information panels that convey the reality of the place where thousands began their final journey.
The memorial lies on the old goods yard of the inner Nordbahnhof, between Pragfriedhof cemetery and Nordbahnhofstraße, about 2 km north of Stuttgart's centre. The open site can be visited at any time; the covered wall with information panels stands at the head of the tracks. Three of the five tracks were removed in November 2025 for a lizard habitat, so parts of the layout have changed.
In November 2025, Deutsche Bahn removed three of the memorial's five tracks to create a habitat for wall lizards, under a permit from the Federal Railway Authority; the memorial was reportedly overlooked in the planning. The remaining tracks and buffer stops are the original goods-yard rails between Pragfriedhof and Nordbahnhofstraße.
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