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
Name of System | Location | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
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Baden-Baden | 26 June 1949 | 31 July 1971 | ||
Esslingen am Neckar | 1 April 1944 | See Trolleybuses in Esslingen am Neckar. | ||
Gleislose Bahn Heilbronn–Böckingen | Heilbronn am Neckar | 16 January 1911 | 1916 | See also Gleislose Bahn Heilbronn–Böckingen (in German) for the old system |
23 September 1951 | 30 December 1960 | |||
Ludwigsburger Oberleitungs-Bahnen | Ludwigsburg | 21 December 1910 | 1 May 1923 | See also Ludwigsburger Oberleitungs-Bahnen (in German) |
Mannheim | 1930 | 1931 | ||
Pforzheim | 29 September 1951 | 1 October 1969 | ||
Ulm | 14 May 1947 | 23 October 1963 |
Bavaria
Name of System | Location | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
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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

Name of System | Location | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
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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 |
Bremen
Name of System | Location | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
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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 |
Hamburg
Name of System | Location | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
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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 |
Hesse
Name of System | Location | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
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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 |
Lower Saxony
Name of System | Location | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
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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
Name of System | Location | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
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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 |
Rhineland-Palatinate
Name of System | Location | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
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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] |
Saarland
Name of System | Location | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
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Neunkirchen | 1 August 1953 | 31 March 1964 | ||
Saarbrücken | 12 November 1948 | 11 May 1964 | ||
Völklingen | 12 November 1950 | 4 June 1967 |
Saxony
Name of System | Location | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
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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 |
Saxony-Anhalt
Name of System | Location | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
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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 |
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Flensburg | 9 October 1943 | 15 September 1959 | ||
Kiel | 28 May 1944 | 15 April 1964 |
Thuringia
Name of System | Location | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
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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
- List of trolleybus systems, for all other countries
- Trolleybus
- (in German) Oberleitungsbus
- Trolleybus usage by country
- List of town tramway systems in Germany
- List of light-rail transit systems
- List of rapid transit systems
Sources
References
- 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
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