List of trolleybus systems in Germany

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This is a list of trolleybus systems in Germany by Land. It includes all trolleybus systems, past and present.

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[edit] Flag of Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg

Name of System Location Date (From) Date (To) Notes
  Baden-Baden 26 Jun 1949 31 Jul 1971  
  Esslingen 1 Apr 1944    
  Heilbronn am Neckar 16 Jan 1911

23 Sep 1951

 1916

30 Dec 1960

  
  Ludwigsburg 21 Dec 1910 1 May 1923  
  Mannheim 1930 1931  
  Pforzheim 29 Sep 1951 1 Oct 1969  
  Ulm 14 May 1947 23 Oct 1963  

[edit] Flag of Bavaria Bayern (Bavaria)

Name of System Location Date (From) Date (To) Notes
  Augsburg 28 Oct 1943 17 Mar 1957  
  Landshut 27 Nov 1948 22 May 1966  
  München /Munich 28 Apr 1948 28 Apr 1966  
  Nürnberg /Nuremberg 15 Nov 1948 12 Dec 1962 Previous operations 25 Jan 1931 - 1931, and Mar 1935 - 1935,
  Regensburg 18 Mar 1953 17 May 1963  

[edit] Flag of Berlin Berlin and Flag of Brandenburg Brandenburg

Historic Škoda 9Tr in Eberswalde
Historic Škoda 9Tr in Eberswalde
Name of System Location Date (From) Date (To) Notes
  Berlin      
  ♦ Halensee, Charlottenburg - Spandau Bock 29 Apr 1882 13 Jun 1882 Eletromote, world's first trolleybus operation.
  ♦ Schöneweide - Johannestal 5 Dec 1904 4 Jan 1905  
  ♦ Steglitz 20 Apr 1912 31 Jul 1914  
  ♦ Spandau, West Berlin 24 Dec 1933 17 Dec 1952  
  ♦ Steglitz, West Berlin 2 May 1935 22 March 1965  
  ♦ Mitte - Lichtenberg, East Berlin 1 Aug 1951 1 Feb 1973  
  Eberswalde 22 March 1901

3 Nov 1940

 Jun 1901

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  Potsdam 1 Oct 1949 2 Feb 1995  

[edit] Flag of Bremen (state) Bremen

Name of System Location Date (From) Date (To) Notes
  Bremen 7 Aug 1910

1 Nov 1949

 19 Jun 1916

5 Nov 1961

  
  Bremerhaven 20 Nov 1947 30 Jun 1958  

[edit] Flag of Hamburg Hamburg

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

[edit] Flag of Hesse Hessen (Hesse)

Name of System Location Date (From) Date (To) Notes
  Darmstadt 1 Mar 1944 16 Apr 1963  
  Frankfurt am Main 6 Jan 1944 17 Oct 1959  
  Gießen 18 Jun 1941 23 Dec 1968  
  Kassel 12 Jul 1944

1 Oct 1947

 Feb 1945

27 May 1962

  
  Marburg 19 May 1951 5 Oct 1968  
  Offenbach am Main 14 Jul 1951 26 Sep 1972  
  Wiesbaden 23 Dec 1948 17 Nov 1961  

[edit] Flag of Lower Saxony Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony)

Name of System Location Date (From) Date (To) Notes
  Hannover 6 Jun 1937 10 May 1958  
  Hildesheim 7 Aug 1943 30 May 1969  
  Oldenburg 26 Sep 1936 26 Oct 1957  
  Osnabrück 2 Dec 1949 10 Jun 1968  
  Wilhelmshaven 1 Oct 1942 30 Oct 1960  
  ♦ Wilhelmshaven - Jever 8 Dec 1944 30 Sep 1954  

[edit] Flag of North Rhine-Westphalia Nordrhein-Westfalen (North Rhine-Westphalia)

Trolleybus in Solingen
Trolleybus in Solingen
Name of System Location Date (From) Date (To) Notes
  Aachen 2 Jan 1944

1 Aug 1948

 13 Sep 1944

3 Feb 1974

  
  Bielefeld 27 May 1944 8 Nov 1968  
  Bochum 18 Jun 1949 18 Oct 1959  
  Bonn 17 Feb 1951 30 Jun 1971  
  Dortmund 29 May 1942 17 Jun 1967  
  Duisburg 18 Dec 1954 28 May 1967  
  Essen 8 May 1949

28 May 1983

 23 Nov 1959

24 Sep 1995

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Dual-mode guided bus (DUO-BUS) operation.
  Gummersbach 25 Nov 1948 30 Sep 1962  
  Köln /Cologne 6 Nov 1950 16 Mar 1959  
  Krefeld 3 Dec 1949 29 May 1964  
  Langenfeld - Monheim 31 May 1904 5 Nov 1908  
  Grevenbrück (today: Lennestadt) 6 Feb 1903 6 Jun 1916  
  Mettmann 26 Aug 1930 31 Dec 1954  
  Minden 19 Dec 1953 20 Jul 1965  
  Moers 27 Oct 1950 19 Sep 1968  
  Monheim am Rhein 31 May 1904 5 Nov 1908  
  Münster 1 Oct 1949 26 May 1968  
  Neuss 28 Aug 1948 31 Dec 1959  
  Neuwied 1 Oct 1949 28 Feb 1963  
  Rheydt 18 May 1952 16 Jun 1973 Rheydt was merged into Mönchengladbach from 1975.
  Siegen 16 Oct 1941 5 Jan 1969  
  Solingen 19 Jun 1952    
  Wuppertal 1 Oct 1949 27 May 1972  

[edit] Flag of Rhineland-Palatinate Rheinland-Pfalz (Rhineland-Palatinate)

Name of System Location Date (From) Date (To) Notes
  Bad Neuenahr - Ahrweiler 23 May 1906 1919  
  Idar-Oberstein 22 Feb 1932 11 May 1969  
  Kaiserslautern 29 Oct 1949 30 Nov 1985  
  Koblenz 17 Jul 1941 30 Oct 1970  
  Mainz 19 May 1946 12 Feb 1967  
  Pirmasens 25 Nov 1941 12 Oct 1967  
  Trier 20 Jan 1940 27 May 1970  

[edit] Flag of Saarland Saarland

Name of System Location Date (From) Date (To) Notes
  Neunkirchen 1 Aug 1953 31 Mar 1964  
  Saarbrücken 12 Nov 1948 11 May 1964  
  Völklingen 12 Nov 1950 4 Jun 1967  

[edit] Flag of Saxony Sachsen (Saxony)

Name of System Location Date (From) Date (To) Notes
  Döbeln 1 May 1905 1914  
  Dresden 24 Mar 1903

5 Nov 1947

 19 Mar 1904

28 Nov 1975

  
  Hoyerswerda 6 Oct 1989 30 Dec 1994  
  Königstein - Königsbrunn 10 Jul 1901 Sep 1904  
  Leipzig 1912

29 Jul 1938

 1912

31 May 1975

  
  Wurzen 7 Apr 1905 1929  
  Zwickau 1 Dec 1938 30 Aug 1977  

[edit] Flag of Saxony-Anhalt Sachsen-Anhalt (Saxony-Anhalt)

Name of System Location Date (From) Date (To) Notes
  Bitterfeld Oct 1984 Oct 1988  
  Elbingerode (Harz) Mar 1988 Feb 1989  
  Magdeburg 1 Jul 1951 31 Oct 1970  

[edit] Flag of Schleswig-Holstein Schleswig-Holstein

Name of System Location Date (From) Date (To) Notes
  Flensburg 9 Oct 1943 15 Sep 1959  
  Kiel 28 May 1944 15 Apr 1964  

[edit] Flag of Thuringia Thüringen (Thuringia)

Name of System Location Date (From) Date (To) Notes
  Erfurt 26 Feb 1948 7 Nov 1975  
  Gera 2 Nov 1939 14 Sep 1977  
  Greiz 21 Sep 1945 11 Jul 1969  
  Weimar 2 Feb 1948 3 Apr 1993  

Towns in historic East Prussia (Ostpreußen), West Prussia (Westpreußen), Lower Silesia (Niederschlesien) and Brandenburg that are no longer part of Germany:

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