List of trolleybus systems in Germany

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.

Baden-Württemberg

Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
Baden-Baden	26 June 1949	31 July 1971
Esslingen am Neckar	1 April 1944		See Trolleybuses in Esslingen am Neckar.
Heilbronn am Neckar	16 January 1911 23 September 1951	1916 30 December 1960
Ludwigsburg	21 December 1910	1 May 1923
Mannheim	1930	1931
Pforzheim	29 September 1951	1 October 1969
Ulm	14 May 1947	23 October 1963

Bavaria

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

Berlin and Brandenburg

Historic Škoda 9Tr in Eberswalde

Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
Berlin
♦ Halensee, Charlottenburg – Spandau Bock	29 April 1882	13 June 1882	Elektromote, world's first trolleybus operation.
♦ Schöneweide – Johannisthal	5 December 1904	4 January 1905	See also Gleislose Bahn Niederschöneweide–Johannisthal (German).
♦ Steglitz	20 April 1912	31 July 1914
♦ 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
Eberswalde	22 March 1901	June 1901	See Trolleybuses in Eberswalde.
Eberswalde	3 November 1940		See Trolleybuses in Eberswalde.
Potsdam	1 October 1949	2 February 1995

Bremen

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Bremen	7 August 1910 1 November 1949	19 June 1916 5 November 1961
	Bremerhaven	20 November 1947	30 June 1958

Hamburg

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Hamburg	2 January 1911	?
	♦ Harburg	12 July 1949	18 January 1958

Hesse

Location	Date (From)	Date (To)
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 1 October 1947	Feb 1945 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

Lower Saxony

Location	Date (From)	Date (To)
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

North Rhine-Westphalia

Trolleybus of the Solingen network in Wuppertal-Vohwinkel

Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
Aachen	2 January 1944 1 August 1948	13 September 1944 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 28 May 1983	23 November 1959 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
Grevenbrück (today: Lennestadt)	6 February 1903	6 June 1916
Mettmann	26 August 1930	31 December 1954
Minden	19 December 1953	20 July 1965
Moers	27 October 1950	19 September 1968
Monheim am Rhein	31 May 1904	5 November 1908
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

Rhineland-Palatinate

Location	Date (From)	Date (To)
Bad Neuenahr - Ahrweiler	23 May 1906	1919
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]

Saarland

Location	Date (From)	Date (To)
Neunkirchen	1 August 1953	31 March 1964
Saarbrücken	12 November 1948	11 May 1964
Völklingen	12 November 1950	4 June 1967

Saxony

Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
Döbeln	1 May 1905	1914
Dresden	24 March 1903 5 November 1947	19 March 1904 28 November 1975
Hoyerswerda	6 October 1989	30 December 1994
Königstein - Königsbrunn	10 July 1901	Sep 1904
Leipzig	1912 29 July 1938	1912 31 May 1975
Wurzen	7 April 1905	1929	Non-passenger operation only.
Zwickau	1 December 1938	30 August 1977

Saxony-Anhalt

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

Schleswig-Holstein

Name of System	Location	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Flensburg	9 October 1943	15 September 1959
	Kiel	28 May 1944	15 April 1964

Thuringia

Location	Date (From)	Date (To)
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:

Allenstein: see Olsztyn, Poland
Breslau: see Wrocław, Poland
Danzig: see Gdańsk, Poland
Insterburg: see Chernyakhovsk, Russia
Landsberg an der Warthe: see Gorzów (Wielkopolski), Poland
Liegnitz: see Legnica, Poland
Waldenburg: see Walbrzych, Poland

Sources

References

1 2 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

Urban public transport networks and systems in Germany

S-Bahn	Berlin Bremen Cologne Dresden Erfurt¹ Freiburg Hamburg Hanover Karlsruhe Magdeburg Mitteldeutschland Munich Nuremberg Offenburg Rhine-Main Rhine-Neckar Rhine-Ruhr Rostock Stuttgart

U-Bahn	Berlin Hamburg Munich Nuremberg

Stadtbahn	Bielefeld Bochum Bonn Chemnitz Cologne Dortmund Duisburg Düsseldorf Erfurt Essen Frankfurt Gelsenkirchen Hanover Karlsruhe Kassel Saarbrücken Mülheim Stuttgart

Trams	Aachen² Augsburg Bad Schandau-Kirnitzschtal Berlin (Suburban: Schöneiche-Rüdersdorf · Woltersdorf) Bochum Bonn Brandenburg an der Havel Braunschweig Bremen Chemnitz Cologne Cottbus Darmstadt Dessau Döbeln Dresden Duisburg Düsseldorf Erfurt Essen Frankfurt am Main Frankfurt (Oder) Freiburg Gelsenkirchen Gera Görlitz Gotha Halberstadt Halle Hamburg² Hanover Heidelberg Heilbronn Jena Karlsruhe Kassel Kiel² Krefeld Leipzig (History) Lößnitz Ludwigshafen Magdeburg Mannheim Merseburg Mülheim Munich Mainz Münster² Naumburg Nuremberg Nordhausen Oberhausen Plauen Potsdam Regensburg² Rostock Saarbrücken Schwerin Strausberg Stuttgart Ulm Weil am Rhein Wuppertal² Würzburg Zwickau

Trolleybuses	Eberswalde Esslingen am Neckar Solingen

Suspension monorails	Dortmund H-Bahn Schwebebahn Dresden Düsseldorf SkyTrain Wuppertal Schwebebahn

Other	Bad Schandau Elevator

¹ Former S-Bahn network ² Former tramway network

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