Abstract: In a spring winding device for producing right-hand or left-hand helical springs from wire, with pull-in rollers, a wire guide and two winding apparatuses, each of which has a slide guide body with a slide displaceably arranged therein, every slide guide body is swivelable at its end remote of the wire guide around a swiveling axis directed vertical to the wire guide axis. The two winding apparatuses lie on different sides of the center plane, with a drive for the movement of the slide and a cam drive controlled by a cam disk for swiveling the slide guide body. A shared cam disk with two control portions and at least one rest portion is allocated to the two cam drives. Each control portion serves to introduce controlling movements in one of the two cam drives, while the rest portion, or every rest portion, does not introduce any controlling movements in the cam drive.