List of town tramway systems in Germany

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

Contents 1 Baden-Württemberg 2 Bayern (Bavaria) 3 Berlin and Brandenburg 4 Bremen 5 Hamburg 6 Hessen 7 Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania) 8 Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony) 9 Nordrhein-Westfalen (North Rhine-Westphalia) 9.1 Rhein-Ruhr 10 Rheinland-Pfalz (Rhineland-Palatinate) 11 Saarland 12 Sachsen (Saxony) 13 Sachsen-Anhalt (Saxony-Anhalt) 14 Schleswig-Holstein 15 Thüringen (Thuringia) 16 References 17 See also

[edit] Baden-Württemberg

Name of System	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Baden-Baden	Electric	24 Jan 1910	28 Feb 1951
	Esslingen am Neckar	Electric	24 May 1912	7 Jul 1944
	♦ Esslingen - Nellingen - Denkendorf	Electric	19 Dec 1926	28 Feb 1978
	Freiburg im Breisgau	Electric	14 Oct 1901
	Heidelberg	Horse	13 May 1885	7 Oct 1902
		Electric	17 Mar 1903		see also Mannheim.
	♦ Heidelberg - Schwetzingen			4 Jan 1974
	♦ Schwetzingen - Ketsch	Electric	12 Dec 1910	31 Mar 1938.
	♦ Walldorf (in Baden)	Horse	22 Feb 1902	21 Feb 1907
		Electric	22 Feb 1907	1 Aug 1954	Separate undertaking to 3 Sep 1945.
	♦ Wiesloch	Horse	1 Sep 1886	4 July 1901
	♦ Heidelberg - Wiesloch	Electric	24 Jul 1901	16 Jun 1973
	Heilbronn (am Neckar)	Electric	29 May 1897 21 Jul 2001	1 April 1955 -	New segment opened 2001 worked as par of Karlsruhe regional system.;
	Karlsruhe	Horse	21 Jan 1877	19 Mar 1900
		Steam	16 Jul 1881	19 Mar 1900
		Accumulator (storage battery)	10 Feb 1900	1903
		Electric	10 Feb 1900
Albtalbahn		Steam	1 Dec 1897	1911
		Electric	1 Dec 1898
	♦ Karlsruhe - Ettlingen		1 Dec 1897
	♦ Ettlingen - Bad Herrenalb		2 Jul 1898		Opened in stages, completed 2 July 1898.
	♦ Branch Busenbach - Ittersbach		10 Apr 1899
	Lörrach	Electric	16 Nov 1919	31 Aug 1967	Worked by tramcars hired from Basel, CH, tramway undertaking (q.v.). Operation suspended 1 Sep 1939 - 11 May 1947 because of closure of border.
	Mannheim	Horse	2 Jun 1878	22 May 1902
		Steam	6 May 1884	23 Mar 1914
		Electric	10 Dec 1900		Operated jointly with Ludwigshafen system (q.v.). See also Heidelberg.
OEG	Mannheim - Heidelberg	Steam	12 Dec 1887	31 Aug 1956
		Electric	10 Dec 1900
OEG	♦ Mannheim - Heidelberg				Opened 1892. Electrified 1928 - 1929.
OEG	♦ Mannheim - Weinheim				Opened 1887. Electrified 1915.
OEG	♦ Heidelberg - Weinheim				Opened 1890. Electrified 1949 - 1956.
	Müllheim	Steam	15 Feb 1896	1913
		Electric	7 Apr 1914	22 May 1955
	♦ Müllheim - Badenweiler			22 May 1955
	Pforzheim	Electric	1 Dec 1911	10 Oct 1964
	Ravensburg - Weingarten - Baienfurt	Steam	6 Jan 1888	12 Sep 1911
		Electric	1 Sep 1910	1 Jul 1959
	Reutlingen	Steam	1 Nov 1899	24 Jul 1912
		Electric	24 Jul 1912	19 Oct 1974
	Stuttgart	Horse	28 Jul 1868	28 Nov 1896
		Electric	26 Sep 1895		First tunnel segment opened 1966. First standard-gauge Stadtbahn line opened 28 Sep 1985.
	♦ Bad Cannstatt	Electric	20 Jul 1899		Separate undertaking to 1 Jan 1919.
	♦ Feuerbach	Electric	30 Dec 1926		Separate undertaking to 1 Jan 1934.
	♦ Rack tramway	Steam	23 Aug 1884	1907
		Electric	1 May 1904
	Ulm (an der Donau)	Electric	15 May 1897

[edit] Bayern (Bavaria)

Name of System	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Augsburg	Horse	8 May 1881	31 Aug 1898
		Steam	12 Sep 1886	15 Jun 1887
		Electric	1 Sep 1898
	Bamberg	Electric	1 Nov 1897	10 Jun 1922
	Hof (an der Saale)	Electric	5 Aug 1901	14 Nov 1922
	Ingolstadt (an der Donau)	Horse	10 Nov 1878	3 Mar 1921
		(Electric)			Construction started, not completed (ca. 1914).
	Landshut (in Bayern)	Horse	1 July 1902	1913
		Electric	15 Jan 1913	18 Mar 1945	Closed because of war damage.
	München /Munich	Horse	21 Oct 1876	1 Nov 1900
		Steam	9 Jun 1883	15 Jul 1900
		Accumulator (storage battery)	1 Jul 1886	17 Jul 1895
		Electric	23 Jun 1895
	Nürnberg /Nuremberg	Horse	25 Aug 1881	20 Jul 1898
		Electric	7 May 1896
	♦ Nürnberg - Fürth	Steam	7 Dec 1835	31 Oct 1922	Bayerische Ludwigsbahn, Nürnberg - Fürth, first railway in Germany.
		Electric	?	21 Jun 1981	Express tramway, built on alignment of closed railway (Ludwigsbahn). Closed, together with remaining tramway lines in Fürth, because of U-Bahn (metro) construction.
	Regensburg	Electric	21 Apr 1903	1 Aug 1964
	Schweinfurt	Horse	5 May 1895	31 Jan 1921
	Würzburg	Horse	8 Apr 1892	4 Oct 1900
		Electric	30 Jun 1900 18 Sep 1924	20 Apr 1920 -	Reopened by a new undertaking.

[edit] Berlin and Brandenburg

Name of System	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Berlin	Horse	22 Jun 1865	8 Dec 1907
		Steam	5 May 1886	1919
		Accumulator (storage battery)	8 Feb 1895	1902
		Electric	16 May 1881
	♦ Buchholz	Horse	9 Jul 1904	8 Dec 1907
		Electric	8 Dec 1907		Separate undertaking to 22 Jul 1907.
	♦ Heiligensee an der Havel	Electric	29 May 1913	1 Jun 1958	Separate undertaking to 3 Dec 1920.
	♦ Köpenick (Cöpenick)	Horse	18 Oct 1882	11 Aug 1903
		Electric	11 Aug 1903		Separate undertaking to 1 Oct 1920.
	♦ Spandau	Horse	5 Jun 1892	17 Mar 1896
		Electric	18 Mar 1896	2 Oct 1967	Separate undertaking to 1 Aug 1920.
	♦♦ Spandau - Nonnendamm	Electric	30 Sep 1908	2 Oct 1967
	♦♦ Spandau West - Henningsdorf	Petrol (gasoline)	1 Aug 1923	11 Nov 1929
		Electric	11 Nov 1929	Apr 1945
Grunewaldbahn	♦ Steglitz	Electric	3 Dec 1905	2 May 1963
	♦ Teltow				Separate undertaking to 16 Apr 1921.
	♦♦ Berlin-Lichterfelde - Steglitz - Südende-Mariendorf line	Electric	16 May 1881	14 Feb 1930	Incorporated segment of line opened 1881 by Siemens und Halske, world's first electric tramway.
	♦♦ Berlin-Lichterfelde - Teltow - Stahnsdorf - Klein Machnow (Schleuse)	Steam	1 Jul 1888	30 Mar 1907
		Electric	30 Mar 1907	2 May 1966
	♦♦ Potsdam	Horse	11 May 1880	1 Sep 1907
		Electric	2 Sep 1907
	♦♦ Schöneiche (bei Berlin)	Petrol (gasoline)	28 Aug 1910	30 May 1914
		Electric	30 May 1914
	♦♦ Strausberg	Steam	17 Aug 1893	15 Mar 1921
		Electric	18 Mar 1921
	♦♦ Woltersdorf (bei Berlin)	Electric	17 May 1913

Name of System	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Brandenburg (an der Havel)	Horse	1 Oct 1897	20 Apr 1911
		Electric	1 Apr 1911
	♦ Plaue (an der Havel)	Electric	24 Dec 1912	28 Sep 2002	Separate undertaking to 1 Oct 1952.
	Cottbus (Chóśebuz)	Electric	8 Jul 1903
	Eberswalde	Electric	1 Sep 1910	3 Nov 1940
	Frankfurt an der Oder	Electric	23 Jan 1898		see also Słubice, Poland.
	Guben	Electric	24 Feb 1904	8 Jun 1938	see also Gubin, Poland.
	Jüterbog	Horse	21 Mar 1897	29 Jul 1928
	Küstrin	Electric	16 May 1927	30 Jan 1945	see also Kostrzyn nad Odrą, Poland.
	Werder (an der Havel)	Horse	27 Jul 1895	7 Aug 1926

Note for Berlin: Tramway divided into East Berlin and West Berlin systems from 16 Jan 1953. West Berlin tramway lines replaced by motorbus from 1954, final closure on 2 Oct 1967. (See Berlin Straßenbahn; link to English-language page.)

[edit] Bremen

Name of System	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Bremen	Horse	4 Jun 1876	31 Oct 1911
		Electric	22 Jun 1890
	Bremerhaven	Horse	26 Jun 1881	28 Aug 1908
		Accumulator (storage battery)	21 Aug 1898	31 Jul 1908
		Electric	4 Jun 1908	30 Jul 1982

[edit] Hamburg

Name of System	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Hamburg	Horse	16 Aug 1866	18 Dec 1922
		Steam	13 May 1878	22 Jun 1897
		Electric	5 Mar 1894	1 Oct 1978
	♦ Harburg	Electric	30 Sep 1899	24 Sep 1975
	♦ Alt-Rahlstedt - Volksdorf	Electric	30 Oct 1906	15 Apr 1923	Town tramway service on local railway (kleinbahn).
	♦ Altona - Blankenese	Electric	26 Aug 1899	9 Nov 1921

[edit] Hessen

Name of System	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Bad Homburg (vor der Höhe)	Electric	26 Jul 1899	31 Jul 1935	Served by line of Frankfurt am Main system to 1971 (this line was upgraded to the Frankfurt U-Bahn line that serves Bad Homburg).
	Darmstadt	Horse	25 Aug 1886	31 Mar 1922
		Electric	24 Nov 1897
	Eltville - Schlangenbad	Steam	20 Jun 1895	17 Mar 1933
	Frankfurt am Main	Horse	19 May 1872	17 Jun 1904
		Steam	1 Sep 1888	13 Jul 1929
		Accumulator (storage battery)	1 Jan 1897	9 Sep 1900
		Electric	18 Feb 1884
	♦ Offenbach am Main	Horse	10 Apr 1884	28 Oct 1906
		Electric	27 Oct 1906	3 Nov 1963.	Worked by Frankfurt tramway system, 31 Mar 1907 - 3 Nov 1963. Offenbach am Main served by line of Frankfurt am Main tramway system to 1 Jun 1996.
	Gießen	Electric	20 Nov 1909	31 Mar 1953
	Hanau	Electric	15 Jun 1908	18 Mar 1945	Closed because of wa damage.
	Kassel	Steam	9 Jul 1877	10 May 1899
		Horse	27 Apr 1884	28 Feb 1899
		Electric	14 Dec 1898
	♦ Kassel - Wolfsanger	Horse	24 Sep 1897	20 Oct 1911
		Electric	20 Oct 1911
Herkulesbahn	♦ Kassel - Palmenbad, Brasselsberg, Herkules, Hohes Gras	Electric	27 Apr 1903	12 Apr 1966
	Marburg (an der Lahn)	Horse	1 Oct 1903	10 Oct 1911
		Electric	28 Nov 1911	17 May 1951
	Wiesbaden	Horse	16 Aug 1875	14 Aug 1900
		Steam	18 May 1889	27 Aug 1900
		Electric	16 May 1896	30 Apr 1955	See also Mainz (Rheinland-Pfalz).

[edit] Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)

Name of System	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Rostock	Electric	16 Oct 1888
	Schwerin	Electric	1 Dec 1908
	Stralsund	Electric	25 Mar 1900	7 Apr 1966
	Warnemünde	Electric	1 Jul 1910	30 Apr 1945	Closed because of war damage.

[edit] Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony)

Name of System	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Bad Pyrmont	Horse	1 Jun 1879	12 Mar 1925
	Bückeburg - Bad Eilsen	Electric	1918	21 May 1966
	Braunschweig	Horse	11 Oct 1879	24 Sep 1904
		Electric	28 Oct 1897
	Celle	Electric	1 Nov 1907	2 Jun 1956
	Cuxhaven	Petrol-electric (Benzolelektrisch)	6 Jul 1914	2 Aug 1914
	Emden	Electric	23 Feb 1902	30 Apr 1953
	Göttingen	(Electric)			Construction started, not completed (ca. 1914).
	Hannover	Horse	16 Sep 1872	1897
		Accumulator (storage battery)	10 Sep 1895	20 Nov 1903
		Electric	19 May 1893
	♦ Hannover - Hildesheim	Electric	22 Mar 1899	16 Aug 1959
	Hildesheim	Electric	7 Aug 1905	22 Mar 1945	Closed because of war damage.
	Osnabrück	Electric	31 Jan 1906	29 May 1960
	Wilhelmshaven	Electric	17 Mar 1913	30 Mar 1945	Closed because of war damage.

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

Name of System	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Aachen	Horse	26 Dec 1880	10 Sep 1897
		Caustic soda (Natronsmotor)	Jun 1884	Mar 1885
		Electric	15 Jul 1895	29 Sep 1974
	♦ Eschweiler	Electric	1897	6 Oct 1969
	♦ Stolberg	Electric	1898	8 Jan 1967
	Bad Salzuflen	Horse	1 Jul 1909	1924
	♦ Bad Salzuflen - Schötmar	Horse	15 Jun 1912	1915
	Bielefeld	Electric	20 Dec 1900
	Düren	Steam	1 Apr 1893	1913
		Electric	20 Nov 1913	30 Jun 1965
Dürener Kreisbahn	♦ Düren - Nörvenich - Besenich	Electric	6 Oct 1908	30 Apr 1963	Nörvenich - Besenich closed 31 Jan 1960. Düren - Nörvenich closed 30 April 1963.
	Gummersbach	Electric	1 Oct 1915	4 Oct 1953
	Herford	Steam	10 Aug 1900	10 May 1932
		Electric	26 Jun 1930	22 Apr 1966
	Kleve	Electric	1 Oct 1911	31 Mar 1962
	Minden (in Westfalen)	Steam	7 Sep 1893	7 Dec 1920
		Electric	9 Dec 1920	29 Dec 1959
	Münster (in Westfalen)	Electric	14 Jul 1901	25 Nov 1954
	Paderborn	Electric	11 Nov 1900	27 Sep 1963
	♦ Detmold	Electric	1 Mar 1900	15 Aug 1954	Separate undertaking to 1920.
	Plettenberg	Steam	25 May 1896	1 Jan 1959
	Rees - Empel	Steam	5 Sep 1897	1914
		Electric	28 Feb 1915	30 Apr 1966
	♦ Wesel - Rees - Emmerich (am Rhein)	Electric	25 May 1914	30 Apr 1966
	Siegen	Electric	14 Nov 1904	31 Aug 1958
	♦ Siegen - Kreuztal	Electric	14 Nov 1904	29 May 1952

[edit] Rhein-Ruhr

Ruhrgebiet (Ruhr Area) towns in geographic order, west to east:

Name of System	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Moers	Electric	1 Oct 1908	25 Sep 1954
	♦ Homberg	Electric	1 Apr 1909	25 Sep 1954	Separate undertaking to 1 January 1925.
Homberg lines extended to:	♦♦ Ruhrort		1913	Mar 1945
Homberg also served by:	♦♦ Düsseldorf (Rheinbahn) system		1911	20 Oct 1958
	♦♦ Krefeld system		1918	2 Nov 1962
	♦ Moers - Kamp - Rheinberg	Electric	12 Feb 1915	11 Oct 1952
	Duisburg	Horse	24 Dec 1881	31 Jul 1898
		Steam	22 Jul 1882	25 Dec 1897
		Electric	3 Aug 1897		First Stadtbahn tunnel segment opened 11 Jul 1992.
Duisburg lines extend to:	♦ Ruhrort		24 Dec 1881
	♦ Hamborn		24 Feb 1898
	♦ Dinslaken		1 May 1900
	♦ Mülheim an der Ruhr		1912
	Oberhausen (im Rheinland)	Electric	4 Apr 1897 1 Jun 1996	13 Oct 1968 -	- Connects with Mülheim an der Ruhr system.
Oberhausen lines connected with:	♦ Essen system				Now closed.
	♦ Mülheim an der Ruhr system				Closed, now reopened.
	♦ Recklinghausen system				Now closed.
	♦ Duisburg system				No track connection at Duisburg-Holten because of gauge difference. Now closed.
Oberhausen also served by:	♦ Mülheim an der Ruhr system			4 Apr 1971
	Mülheim an der Ruhr	Electric	8 Jul 1897		First Stadtbahn tunnel opened 3 Nov 1979 (served by Essen system). First tunnel segment for Mülheim system opened 27 Apr 1985.
Mülheim an der Ruhr lines connect with:	♦ Essen system
	♦ Oberhausen system
	Essen	Electric	23 Aug 1893		First tunnel segment opened 5 Oct 1967. First Stadtbahn tunnel segment opened 29 May 1977.
Essen lines connect with:	♦ Mülheim an der Ruhr system
	♦ Bochum - Gelsenkirchen system
	♦ Recklinghausen system				Now closed.
	Bochum - Gelsenkirchen	Electric	23 Nov 1894		First tunnel segment (Bochum) opened 26 May 1979. First Stadtbahn tunnel segment (Bochum - Herne) opened 2 Sep 1989. First tunnel segment (Gelsenkirchen) opened 1 Sep 1984.
Bochum - Gelsenkirchen lines extend to:	♦ Herne		23 Nov 1894
	♦ Wanne-Eickel		20 Oct 1896
	♦ Gelsenkirchen		3 Nov 1895
	♦ Buer		24 Jun 1901
	♦ Horst		24 Jun 1901	18 Oct 1955	Now closed.
	♦ Hattingen		1 Oct 1902
	♦ Witten		21 Dec 1900
	♦ Castrop-Rauxel		20 Dec 1909	8 May 1967
	♦ Hattingen	Electric	12 Mar 1914	30 Jun 1969	Operation suspended 24 Oct 1923 - 31 May 1924 because of Occupation of the Ruhr. Separate undertaking to 1 Oct 1932.
	Herne	Electric	20 Dec 1906	30 Sep 1959	Lines extended to Castrop-Rauxel, 15 Jul 1910 - 1 Jan 1952.
	Castrop-Rauxel
Served by:	♦ Bochum - Gelsenkirchen system		1909	8 May 1967
	♦ Herne system		15 Jul 1910	30 Sep 1959
	♦ Dortmund system		1 Nov 1910	1 Jul 1962
	Dortmund	Horse	1 Jun 1881	1897
		Steam	Feb 1892	1896
		Electric	1 Mar 1894		First tunnel segment opened 1983.
Dortmund lines extended to:	♦ Recklinghausen (Henrichenburg)		1 Nov 1910	1 Jul 1958	Now closed.
	♦ Castrop-Rauxel		1 Nov 1910	1 Jul 1962	Now closed.
	♦ Unna		1906	31 Mar 1965	Now closed.
	Unna - Kamen - Werne	Electric	1 Aug 1909	15 Dec 1950	See also Dortmund.
	Hamm (im Westfalen	Electric	20 Oct 1898	2 Apr 1961

Name of System	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
Vestische Straßenbahn	Recklinghausen	Electric	26 Feb 1898	30 Dec 1982	Connected with Essen and Bochum - Gelsenkirchen systems.
	Lines extended to:
	♦ Herten in Westfalen		10 May 1901	30 May 1981
	♦ Wanne-Eickel		10 May 1901	15 Nov 1975
	♦ Buer		1907	1 Oct 1980
	♦ Gladbeck		1909	31 Oct 1978
	♦ Horst		1909	31 Oct 1978
	♦ Bottrop		1910	27 Nov 1976

Bezirksregierung Düsseldorf (Düsseldorf Region) and Bezirksregierung Arnsberg (Arnsberg Region) towns not tabulated above, in geographic order, west to east:

Name of System	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Mönchengladbach	Horse	10 Aug 1881	14 Feb 1900
		Electric	15 Feb 1900	15 Mar 1969	Lines extended to Rheydt (10 Aug 1881 - 5 Oct 1968). Connected with Krefeld system.
	♦ Rheydt	Horse	10 Aug 1881	14 Feb 1900
		Electric	15 Feb 1900	31 Jan 1959
	Krefeld	Steam	3 May 1883	18 Sep 1901
		Horse	11 May 1883	6 Apr 1901
		Electric	30 Oct 1901
Krefeld lines extended to:	♦ Mönchengladbach (Neuwerk		1910	8 Mar 1954	Now closed.
	♦ Moers		1918	2 Nov 1962	Now closed.
Rheinbahn	Düsseldorf	Horse	6 Feb 1876	21 Jun 1900
		Steam	5 Aug 1901	30 Apr 1902
		Electric	27 Jan 1896		Lines extend to Neuss (27 Dec 1901 -). First tunnel segment opened 4 Oct 1981. See also Rheinbahn; link to English-language page.
	♦ Düsseldorf - Duisburg	Electric	31 Oct 1899		New alignment opened 1 May 1926.
	♦ Düsseldorf - Moers	Electric	1911	20 Oct 1958
	♦ Düsseldorf - Krefeld	Electric	15 Dec 1898
	♦ Mettmann	Electric	19 Jul 1909	17 May 1952
	♦ Düsseldorf (Benrath) - Solingen (Ohligs)	Electric	1899	15 Apr 1962
	♦ Düsseldorf (Benrath) - Wuppertal (Vohwinkel)	Steam	1899	1900
		Electric	1900	7 May 1961
	♦ Neuss	Electric	24 Dec 1910	7 Aug 1971	Served by Düsseldorf system (21 Dec 1901 -).
	Solingen	Electric	1 Jul 1897	15 Nov 1959
Solingen lines extended to:	♦ Wuppertal (Vohwinkel)		1899	1 Oct 1958	Now closed.
	♦ Solingen (Ohligs)		19 Nov 1898	1 Aug 1953	Now closed.
	♦ Burg am der Wupper		1908	12 Oct 1959	Now closed.
	Remscheid	Electric	9 Jul 1893	10 Apr 1969
Remscheid lines extended to:	♦ Burg am der Wupper		12 Jul 1900	31 Jul 1960	Now closed.
	♦ Wuppertal (Cronenfeld)		1901	30 Apr 1965	Worked jointly with Wuppertal system, now closed.
	Wuppertal	Horse	10 Apr 1874	5 Feb 1896
		Steam	28 May 1891	3 Apr 1903
		Electric	16 Apr 1894	30 May 1987	Towns of Barmen, Eberfeld and several neighboring towns were amalgamated at 1929 as Wuppertal.
Barmer Bergbah	♦ Rack tramway (zahnradbahn), Barmen - Toelleturm	Electric	16 Apr 1894	4 Jul 1959
Wuppertal lines extended to:	♦ Velbert - Essen (Werden)		15 Mar 1899	1 Feb 1952	Now closed.
	♦ Essen (Steele)		24 Nov 1907	16 Apr 1954	Now closed.
	♦ Sprockhövel - Hattingen		1907	30 Nov 1953	Now closed.
	♦ Schwelm - Milspe		7 Aug 1896	3 May 1969	Schwelm - Milpse segment, 18 Jan 1907 - 28 Sep 1964. Now closed.
	♦ Remscheid		15 Aug 1901	16 Jun 1954	Now closed.
	♦ Solingen		4 Aug 1914	3 May 1969	Now closed.
	♦ Wülfrath		19 July 1909	1 June 1952	Now closed.
	♦ Mettmann		19 Jul 1909	17 May 1952	Now closed.
	Ennepetal (in Westfalen)	Electric	24 Feb 1907	31 Mar 1956
Ennepetal lines extended:	♦ Gevelsberg - Milspe - Voerde		24 Feb 1907	31 Mar 1956	Now closed.
	♦ Gevelsberg - Haßlinghausen		19 May 1909	31 Mar 1956	Now closed.
	Hagen	Horse	13 Nov 1884	1 July 1898
		Accumulator (storage battery)	7 Jan 1895	20 Dec 1902
		Electric	18 Nov 1896	29 May 1976
Hagen lines extended to:	♦ Gevelsberg		12 Apr 1900	26 Jul 1953	Now closed.
	♦ Hagen (Hohenlimburg)		8 May 1900	15 Sep 1968	Now closed.
	♦ Eckesey	Horse	7 Jul 1895	189_
		Accumulator (storage battery)	1 Jul 1898	20 Oct 1900
		Electric	21 Oct 1900	26 May 1974
	♦ Hagen (Haspe) - Voerde - Breckerfeld	Steam	1 May 1903	1927 (?)	Opened in stages to 1906. Passenger service withdrawn 1921. restored 1926.
		Electric	9 Dec 1927	Nov 1963	Separate undertaking to 1926.
	Iserlohn	Electric	4 Mar 1901	31 Dec 1959

Note for Rheydt: Amalgamated with Mönchengladbach from 29 Jul 1929 to 31 Jul 1933, and again from 1 Jan 1975.

Note for Mettmann: Line extended Düsseldorf (Auf der Hardt) - Mettmann (closed 9 Dec 1936) - Wülfrath (closed 14 May 1938) - Tönisheide (closed 14 May 1938), and Mettmann - Wieden (closed 17 May 1952). Separate undertaking to 1 Apr 1937.

Note for Wuppertal: Town tramway system ranked as fifth-largest in Germany, with peak system length of 175 km (109 mi, ca. 1948).

Bezirksregierung Köln (Cologne Region) towns in geographic order, north to south:

Name of System	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Opladen - Lützenkirchen	Electric	9 Apr 1914	11 Jul 1955
	♦ Köln - Opladen - Solingen (Ohligs) / Solingen (Höhscheid)	Electric	22 Jul 1911	10 Jul 1955
	Köln	Horse	28 Apr 1877	22 May 1907
		Steam	13 Nov 1893	1914
		Electric	15 Oct 1901		First tunnel segment opened 1968.
	Wahn	Electric	6 May 1917	1 Oct 1961
	Zündorf - Troisdorf - Siegburg	Electric	19 Mar 1914	31 Aug 1965	Opened in stages, completed 1 Oct 1921. Closed in stages from 14 Oct 1963.
Rheinuferbahn	Köln - Wesseling - Bonn	Electric	Sep 1905
Vorgebirgsbahn	♦ Köln - Brühl - Bonn	Electric	1 Aug 1897		Opened in stages, (Köln - Brühl) completed 20 Jan 1898.
	Bonn	Horse	19 Apr 1891	24 Sep 1909
		Steam	22 May 1892	12 Oct 1911
		Electric	21 May 1902		First tunnel segment opened 22 Mar 1975.
	♦ Bonn - Bad Godesberg	Steam	22 May 1892	1911
		Electric	27 Mar 1911		Tunnel segment in Bad Godesberg opened Sep 1994.
	♦ Bad Godesberg - Mehlem	Electric	3 Oct 1911	23 Dec 1976
	♦ Bonn - Siegburg	Electric	21 Sep 1911
	♦ Bonn - Königswinter - Bad Honnef	Electric	18 Mar 1913		Königswinter - Bad Honnef segment opened 27 Sep 1925.

[edit] Rheinland-Pfalz (Rhineland-Palatinate)

Name of System	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Bad Kreuznach	Electric	11 Sep 1906	5 Jan 1953
	Bingen (am Rhein)	Electric	25 Feb 1906	20 Oct 1955
	Idar-Oberstein	Electric	1 Oct 1900	29 Jul 1956
	Kaiserslautern	Electric	18 Dec 1916	1 Jul 1935
	Koblenz	Horse	28 May 1887	1 Oct 1899
		Electric	17 Jan 1899	19 Jul 1967
	Ludwigshafen am Rhein	Horse	2 Jun 1878	23 May 1902
		Electric	30 May 1902		Operated jointly with Mannheim system (q.v.).
Rhein-Haardtbahn	♦ Ludwigshafen - Bad Dürkheim	Electric	4 Sep 1913		Trains operate over town tramway systems in Ludwigshafen and Mannheim to serve business centers and main railway stations.
	Mainz	Horse	27 Sep 1883	1 Oct 1904
		Steam	12 Aug 1891	8 Jun 1923
		Electric	15 Jul 1904		See also Wiesbaden (Hesse).
	Neuwied	Electric	29 Jul 1901	31 Oct 1950
	Pirmasens	Electric	8 Jun 1905	3 Jul 1943
	Trier	Horse	27 Jul 1890	15 Jul 1905
		Electric	13 Oct 1905	14 Sep 1951
	Worms|Worms (am Rhein)	Electric	22 Dec 1906	29 Jan 1956

[edit] Saarland

Name of System	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Neunkirchen (im Saarland)	Electric	13 Sep 1907	10 Jun 1978
	Saarbrücken	Steam	4 Nov 1890	26 Sep 1899
		Electric	8 Feb 1899 24 Oct 1997	22 May 1965 -	- International line to Sarreguemines, France.
	♦ Rastpfuhl - Heusweiler	Electric	27 Jan 1907	1948	Separate undertaking to 1 Jul 1937.
	Saarlouis	Electric	20 May 1913	28 Feb 1961
	♦ Saarlouis - Dillingen (an der Saar)			31 May 1957
	Völklingen (an der Saar)	Electric	3 Sep 1909	18 Apr 1959

[edit] Sachsen (Saxony)

Name of System	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
Kirnitzschtalbahn	Bad Schandau	Electric	28 May 1898	Operation suspended from 21 Jul 1969 following an accident. Operation restored from 24 Jul 1972.
	Chemnitz	Horse	22 April 1880	5 February 1894
		Electric	19 Dec 1893		First standard-gauge line opened 8 May 1960. Last 925-mm gauge line closed 6 Nov 1988.
	♦ Chemnitz - Altchemnitz - Stollberg	Electric	15 Dec 2002		Operates over DB railway line (Würschnitztalbahn) between Altchemnitz and Stollberg,
	Döbeln	Horse	10 Jul 1892	20 Dec 1926
	Dresden	Horse	26 Sep 1872	25 Aug 1900
		Gas	28 Jul 1894	31 Dec 1895
		Electric	6 Jul 1893
	♦ Dresden - Bühlau	Electric	22 Aug 1899		Separate undertaking to 1926.
	♦ Dresden-Cotta - Cossebaude	Electric	27 Sep 1906	2 Dec 1990	Separate undertaking to 1926.
Lößnitzbahn	♦ Dresden-Mickten - Zitzschewig	Electric	21 Aug 1899		First electric narrow-gauge railway in Saxony, later regauged. Separate undertaking to 1926. Initial segment, Mickten - Weißes Roß. Weißes Roß - Radebeul - Coswig reopened in stages Sep 1929 - May 1930. Coswig - Weinböhla reopened 14 Nov 1931.
Lockwitztalbahn	♦ Dresden-Niedersedlitz - Kreischa	Electric	3 Mar 1906	18 Oct 1977
	Freiberg in Sachsen	Electric	11 Aug 1902	31 Dec 1919
	Görlitz	Horse	25 May 1882	30 Nov 1897
		Electric	1 Dec 1897		See also Zgorzelec, Poland.
	Hohenstein-Ernstthal - Oelsnitz (Erzgebirge)	Electric	15 Feb 1913	26 Mar 1960
	Klingenthal (Sachsen)	Electric	27 May 1917	4 Apr 1964
	Leipzig	Horse	18 May 1872	16 Apr 1897
		Electric	17 Apr 1896		See Leipzig Transport Company (LLC), Leipzig Tramway Network History.
	Meißen	Electric	13 Dec 1899	1 Mar 1936
	Plauen (im Vogtland)	Electric	17 Nov 1894
	Zittau	Accumulator (storage battery)	29 Jun	22 Sep 1902
		Electric	14 Dec 1904	19 Nov 1919
	Zwickau	Electric	6 May 1894

[edit] Sachsen-Anhalt (Saxony-Anhalt)

Name of System	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Bernburg	Electric	1 Apr 1897	19 Apr 1921
	Dessau	Gas	15 Nov 1894	24 Mar 1901
		Electric	26 Mar 1901
	Groß Rosenburg	Horse	3 Oct 1884	1 Oct 1922
	Halberstadt	Horse	28 Jun 1887	30 Apr 1903
		Electric	2 May 1903
	Halle an der Saale	Horse	15 Oct 1882	14 May 1899
		Electric	24 Apr 1891
	♦ 'Halle - Merseburg	Electric	15 Mar 1902		Separate undertaking to 1 May 1951.
	Magdeburg	Horse	16 Oct 1877	19 Dec 1899
		Steam	14 Jul 1886	21 Mar 1900
		Electric	18 Jul 1899
	Mansfeld - Eisleben	Electric	10 Apr 1900	2 Dec 1922
	Naumburg (an der Saale)	Electric	18 Jun 1892		Operation suspended 19 Aug 1991 because of poor track condition. Reopening in 2007.
	Schönebeck - Salzelmen	Horse	22 Jun 1886	15 Feb 1917
	Staßfurt	Electric	10 Apr 1900	31 Dec 1957
	Stendal	Horse	3 Jun 1892	14 Oct 1926
	Lutherstadt Wittenberg	Horse	26 Jul 1888	1921
	Zerbst	Horse	2 Nov 1891	1 Aug 1928

[edit] Schleswig-Holstein

Name of System	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Wittdün - Norddorf (Amrum island, North Frisian Islands)	Steam	1893	1 Nov 1939
		Electric	10 Jul 1909	Aug 1910	Use of electric traction ended because generating station was destroyed by fire. Overhead contact system removed 1920. Operation suspended 17 Oct 1918 - 1920.
	Flensburg	Horse	8 May 1881	30 Dec 1906
		Electric	6 Jul 1907	2 Jun 1973
	Kiel	Horse	9 Jul 1881	11 Apr 1896
		Electric	12 May 1896	4 May 1985
	Lübeck	Horse	1 May 1881	19 Jun 1894
		Electric	12 May 1894	15 Nov 1959
	Schleswig	Horse	1 Jul 1890	31 Dec 1909
		Electric	1 Jan 1910	26 Aug 1936

Light railway (kleinbahn) operating under tramway (straßenbahn) concession (from 1952 - 1953):

Name of System	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Sylt (Sylter Inselbahn)
♦ Nordbahn	Westerland - List		8 Jul 1888	29 Dec 1970
♦ Südbahn	Westerland - Hörnum		1 Jul 1901	30 May 1970

[edit] Thüringen (Thuringia)

Name of System	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Altenburg	Electric	18 Apr 1895	30 Apr 1920
	Eisenach	Electric	3 Aug 1897	31 Dec 1975
	Erfurt	Horse	13 May 1883	20 Aug 1894
		Electric	1 Jun 1894
	Gera	Electric	22 Feb 1892
	Gotha	Electric	3 May 1894
Thüringerwaldbahn	♦ Gotha - Waltershausen	Electric	17 Jul 1929
	Jena	Electric	6 Apr 1901
	Mühlhausen	Electric	21 Dec 1898	27 Jun 1969
	Nordhausen	Electric	25 Aug 1900
	Weimar	Electric	4 Jun 1899	30 Jun 1937

[edit] References

• Books, Periodicals and External Links

[edit] See also

• List of town tramway systems in Europe
• List of light-rail transit systems
• List of rapid transit systems
• List of trolleybus systems