This is a list of trolleybus systems in Germany by Land . It includes all trolleybus systems, past and present. A city name in bold indicates a presently existing system.
Name of System
Location
Date (From)
Date (To)
Notes
Augsburg
28 October 1943
17 March 1957
Landshut
27 November 1948
22 May 1966
München /Munich
28 April 1948
28 April 1966
Nürnberg /Nuremberg
15 November 1948
12 December 1962
Also a line at the MAN factory, 25 January 1931 – 1935.
Regensburg
18 March 1953
17 May 1963
Historic Škoda 9Tr in Eberswalde
Name of System
Location
Date (From)
Date (To)
Notes
Berlin
Electromote
♦ Halensee , Charlottenburg – Spandau Bock
29 April 1882
13 June 1882
Electromote , world's first trolleybus operation.
Gleislose Bahn Niederschöneweide–Johannisthal
♦ Schöneweide – Johannisthal
5 December 1904
4 January 1905
See also Gleislose Bahn Niederschöneweide–Johannisthal (in German) .
Oberleitungsbus Steglitz
♦ Steglitz
20 April 1912
31 July 1914
See also Oberleitungsbus Steglitz (in German)
♦ Spandau , West Berlin
24 December 1933
17 December 1952
♦ Steglitz , West Berlin
2 May 1935
22 March 1965
♦ Mitte – Lichtenberg , East Berlin
1 August 1951
1 February 1973
Gleislose Bahn Eberswalde
Eberswalde
22 March 1901
June 1901
See Trolleybuses in Eberswalde , see also Gleislose Bahn Eberswalde (in German) for the old system
3 November 1940
Potsdam
1 October 1949
2 February 1995
Name of System
Location
Date (From)
Date (To)
Notes
Bremen-Arster Gleislose Bahn for the old system
Bremen
7 August 1910
19 June 1916
See also Bremen-Arster Gleislose Bahn (in German) , for the old system
1 November 1949
5 November 1961
Bremerhaven
20 November 1947
30 June 1958
Name of System
Location
Date (From)
Date (To)
Notes
Gleislose Bahn Blankenese–Marienhöhe
Hamburg
2 January 1911
1 August 1914
See also Gleislose Bahn Blankenese–Marienhöhe (in German)
♦ Harburg
12 July 1949
18 January 1958
Name of System
Location
Date (From)
Date (To)
Notes
Darmstadt
1 March 1944
16 April 1963
Frankfurt am Main
6 January 1944
17 October 1959
Gießen
18 June 1941
23 December 1968
Kassel
12 July 1944
Feb 1945
1 October 1947
27 May 1962
Marburg
19 May 1951
5 October 1968
Offenbach am Main
14 July 1951
26 September 1972
Wiesbaden
23 December 1948
17 November 1961
Name of System
Location
Date (From)
Date (To)
Notes
Hannover
6 June 1937
10 May 1958
Hildesheim
7 August 1943
30 May 1969
Oldenburg
26 September 1936
26 October 1957
Osnabrück
2 December 1949
10 June 1968
Wilhelmshaven
1 October 1942
30 October 1960
♦ Wilhelmshaven – Jever
8 December 1944
30 September 1954
Trolleybus of the Solingen network in Wuppertal -Vohwinkel
Name of System
Location
Date (From)
Date (To)
Notes
Aachen
2 January 1944
13 September 1944
1 August 1948
3 February 1974
Bielefeld
27 May 1944
8 November 1968
Bochum
18 June 1949
18 October 1959
Bonn
17 February 1951
30 June 1971
Dortmund
29 May 1942
17 June 1967
Duisburg
18 December 1954
28 May 1967
Essen
8 May 1949
23 November 1959
28 May 1983
24 September 1995
Dual-mode guided bus (Duo-Bus ) operation.
Gummersbach
25 November 1948
30 September 1962
Köln /Cologne
6 November 1950
16 March 1959
Krefeld
3 December 1949
29 May 1964
Langenfeld – Monheim
31 May 1904
5 November 1908
Veischedetalbahn
Grevenbrück (today: Lennestadt )
6 February 1903
6 June 1916
See also Veischedetalbahn (in German)
Mettmann
26 August 1930
31 December 1954
Minden
19 December 1953
20 July 1965
Moers
27 October 1950
19 September 1968
Gleislose Bahn Monheim–Langenfeld
Monheim am Rhein
31 May 1904
5 November 1908
See also Gleislose Bahn Monheim–Langenfeld (in German)
Münster
1 October 1949
26 May 1968
Neuss
28 August 1948
31 December 1959
Neuwied
1 October 1949
28 February 1963
Rheydt
18 May 1952
16 June 1973
Rheydt was merged into Mönchengladbach from 1975.
Siegen
16 October 1941
5 January 1969
Solingen
19 June 1952
See Trolleybuses in Solingen .
Wuppertal
1 October 1949
27 May 1972
One trolleybus line from Solingen terminates in Wuppertal-Vohwinkel
Name of System
Location
Date (From)
Date (To)
Notes
Elektrische gleislose Bahn Ahrweiler
Bad Neuenahr – Ahrweiler
23 May 1906
1919
See also Elektrische gleislose Bahn Ahrweiler (in German)
Idar-Oberstein
22 February 1932
11 May 1969
Kaiserslautern
29 October 1949
30 November 1985
Koblenz
17 July 1941
30 October 1970
Mainz
19 May 1946
12 February 1967
Pirmasens
25 November 1941
12 October 1967
Trier
20 January 1940[1]
27 May 1970[1]
Name of System
Location
Date (From)
Date (To)
Notes
Neunkirchen
1 August 1953
31 March 1964
Saarbrücken
12 November 1948
11 May 1964
Völklingen
12 November 1950
4 June 1967
Name of System
Location
Date (From)
Date (To)
Notes
Mühlenbahn Großbauchlitz
Döbeln
1 May 1905
1914
See also Mühlenbahn Großbauchlitz (in German) , a non-passenger operation only, cargo line
Dresdner Haide-Bahn for the first system
Dresden
24 March 1903
19 March 1904
See also Dresdner Haide-Bahn (in German) for the first system
5 November 1947
28 November 1975
Hoyerswerda
6 October 1989
30 December 1994
Gleislose Bielathal-Motorbahn mit elektrischer Oberleitung
Königstein – Königsbrunn
10 July 1901
Sep 1904
See also Gleislose Bielathal-Motorbahn mit elektrischer Oberleitung (in German)
Leipzig
1912
1912
29 July 1938
31 May 1975
Wurzen
7 April 1905
1929
Non-passenger operation only.
Zwickau
1 December 1938
30 August 1977
Name of System
Location
Date (From)
Date (To)
Notes
Bitterfeld
Oct 1984
Oct 1988
Non-passenger (coal mine).
Elbingerode (Harz)
Mar 1988
Feb 1989
Non-passenger (limestone works).
Magdeburg
1 July 1951
31 October 1970
Name of System
Location
Date (From)
Date (To)
Notes
Flensburg
9 October 1943
15 September 1959
Kiel
28 May 1944
15 April 1964
Name of System
Location
Date (From)
Date (To)
Notes
Erfurt
26 February 1948
7 November 1975
Gera
2 November 1939
14 September 1977
Greiz
21 September 1945
11 July 1969
Weimar
2 February 1948
2 April 1993
Towns in historic East Prussia , West Prussia , Lower Silesia and Brandenburg that are no longer part of Germany:
See also
Sources
References
^ a b Zenz, Emil (1980). 75 Jahre Städtische Verkehrsbetriebe, 1905–1980 [75 Years of City Transit Service ] (in German). Stadtwerke Trier. pp. 60, 98–99.
Books and periodicals
Alan G. Murray (2000). World Trolleybus Encyclopaedia . ISBN 978-0-904235-18-0 .
Werner Stock (1987). Obus-Anlagen in Deutschland: die Entwicklung der Oberleitungs-Omnibus-Betriebe im Deutschen Reich, in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und in der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik seit 1930 . ISBN 978-3-926882-00-4 .
Robert Peschkes (1993). World Gazetteer of Tram, Trolleybus, and Rapid Transit Systems, Part 3: Europe . ISBN 978-0-948619-01-4 .
Trolleybus Magazine (ISSN 0266-7452). National Trolleybus Association (UK). Bimonthly.
Blickpunkt Strassenbahn . Arbeitsgemeinschaft Blickpunkt Strassenbahn e.V. (Germany). Bimonthly.
External links
Media related to Trolleybuses in Germany at Wikimedia Commons