On the night of 21/22 October 1940, the district leadership in South Baden, as part of the Wagner-Bürckel Action, authorised 450 Jews from Freiburg and the former Freiburg district to be deported from the station's goods hall to the Gurs internment camp. Since 2003, there has been a memorial to the deportation on Wiwilí bridge.Memorial plaque on Wiwilí bridge.
