List of town tramway systems in Germany

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

Baden-Württemberg

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

Bayern (Bavaria)

Name of System	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Augsburg	Horse	8 May 1881	31 August 1898
		Steam	12 September 1886	15 June 1887
		Electric	1 September 1898
	Bamberg	Electric	1 November 1897	10 June 1922
	Hof (an der Saale)	Electric	5 August 1901	14 November 1922
	Ingolstadt (an der Donau)	Horse	10 November 1878	3 March 1921
		(Electric)			Construction started, not completed (ca. 1914).
	Landshut (in Bayern)	Horse	1 July 1902	1913
		Electric	15 January 1913	18 March 1945	Closed because of war damage.
Straßenbahn München (owned by MVG)	München /Munich	Horse	21 October 1876	1 November 1900
		Steam	9 June 1883	15 July 1900
		Accumulator (storage battery)	1 July 1886	17 July 1895
		Electric	23 June 1895		See also Trams in Munich.
	Nürnberg /Nuremberg	Horse	25 August 1881	20 July 1898
		Electric	7 May 1896		See also Trams in Nuremberg.
	♦ Nürnberg - Fürth	Steam	7 December 1835	31 October 1922	Bayerische Ludwigsbahn, Nürnberg - Fürth, first railway in Germany.
		Electric	?	21 June 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 April 1903	1 August 1964
	Schweinfurt	Horse	5 May 1895	31 January 1921
	Würzburg	Horse	8 April 1892	4 October 1900
		Electric	30 June 1900 18 September 1924	20 April 1920 -	Reopened by a new undertaking. See also Trams in Würzburg.

Berlin and Brandenburg

Name of System	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
Straßenbahn Berlin (Owned by BVG)	Berlin	Horse	22 June 1865	8 December 1907
		Steam	5 May 1886	1919
		Accumulator (storage battery)	8 February 1895	1902
		Electric	16 May 1881
	♦ Buchholz	Horse	9 July 1904	8 December 1907
		Electric	8 December 1907		Separate undertaking to 22 July 1907.
	♦ Heiligensee an der Havel	Electric	29 May 1913	1 June 1958	Separate undertaking to 3 December 1920.
	♦ Köpenick (Cöpenick)	Horse	18 October 1882	11 August 1903
		Electric	11 August 1903		Separate undertaking to 1 October 1920.
	♦ Spandau	Horse	5 June 1892	17 March 1896
		Electric	18 March 1896	2 October 1967	Separate undertaking to 1 August 1920.
	♦♦ Spandau - Nonnendamm	Electric	30 September 1908	2 October 1967
	♦♦ Spandau West - Hennigsdorf	Petrol (gasoline)	1 August 1923	11 November 1929
		Electric	11 November 1929	April 1945
Grunewaldbahn	♦ Steglitz	Electric	3 December 1905	2 May 1963
	♦ Teltow				Separate undertaking to 16 April 1921.
	♦♦ Berlin-Lichterfelde - Steglitz - Südende-Mariendorf line	Electric	16 May 1881	14 February 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 July 1888	30 March 1907
		Electric	30 March 1907	2 May 1966
Straßenbahn Potsdam (Owned by ViP)	♦♦ Potsdam	Horse	11 May 1880	1 September 1907
		Electric	2 September 1907
	♦♦ Schöneiche (bei Berlin)	Petrol (gasoline)	28 August 1910	30 May 1914
		Electric	30 May 1914
Strausberger Eisenbahn	♦♦ Strausberg	Steam	17 August 1893	15 March 1921
		Electric	18 March 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 October 1897	20 April 1911
		Electric	1 April 1911
	♦ Plaue (an der Havel)	Electric	24 December 1912	28 September 2002	Separate undertaking to 1 October 1952.
	Cottbus (Chóśebuz)	Electric	8 July 1903
	Eberswalde	Electric	1 September 1910	3 November 1940
	Frankfurt an der Oder	Electric	23 January 1898		see also Słubice, Poland.
	Guben	Electric	24 February 1904	8 June 1938	see also Gubin, Poland.
	Jüterbog	Horse	21 March 1897	29 July 1928
	Küstrin	Electric	16 May 1927	30 January 1945	see also Kostrzyn nad Odrą;, Poland.
	Werder (an der Havel)	Horse	27 July 1895	7 August 1926

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

Bremen

Name of System	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
'Bremen Tramway	Bremen	Horse	4 June 1876	31 October 1911
		Electric	22 June 1890
	Bremerhaven	Horse	26 June 1881	28 August 1908
		Accumulator (storage battery)	21 August 1898	31 July 1908
		Electric	4 June 1908	30 July 1982

Hamburg

Name of System	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Hamburg	Horse	16 August 1866	18 December 1922
		Steam	13 May 1878	22 June 1897
		Electric	5 March 1894	1 October 1978
	♦ Harburg	Electric	30 September 1899	24 September 1975
	♦ Alt-Rahlstedt - Volksdorf	Electric	30 October 1906	15 April 1923	Town tramway service on local railway (kleinbahn).
	♦ Altona - Blankenese	Electric	26 August 1899	9 November 1921

Hessen

Name of System	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Bad Homburg (vor der Höhe)	Electric	26 July 1899	31 July 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 August 1886	31 March 1922
		Electric	24 November 1897
	Eltville - Schlangenbad	Steam	20 June 1895	17 March 1933
	Frankfurt am Main	Horse	19 May 1872	17 June 1904
		Steam	1 September 1888	13 July 1929
		Accumulator (storage battery)	1 January 1897	9 September 1900
		Electric	18 February 1884		(see: Trams in Frankfurt am Main)
	♦ Offenbach am Main	Horse	10 April 1884	28 October 1906
		Electric	27 October 1906	3 November 1963.	Worked by Frankfurt tramway system, 31 March 1907 – 3 November 1963. Offenbach am Main served by line of Frankfurt am Main tramway system to 1 June 1996.
	Gießen	Electric	20 November 1909	31 March 1953
	Hanau	Electric	15 June 1908	18 March 1945	Closed because of war damage.
	Kassel	Steam	9 July 1877	10 May 1899
		Horse	27 April 1884	28 February 1899
		Electric	14 December 1898
	♦ Kassel - Wolfsanger	Horse	24 September 1897	20 October 1911
		Electric	20 October 1911
Herkulesbahn	♦ Kassel - Palmenbad, Brasselsberg, Herkules, Hohes Gras	Electric	27 April 1903	12 April 1966
	Marburg (an der Lahn)	Horse	1 October 1903	10 October 1911
		Electric	28 November 1911	17 May 1951
	Wiesbaden	Horse	16 August 1875	14 August 1900
		Steam	18 May 1889	27 August 1900
		Electric	16 May 1896	30 April 1955	See also Mainz (Rheinland-Pfalz).

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)

Name of System	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Rostock	Electric	16 October 1888
	Schwerin	Electric	1 December 1908
	Stralsund	Electric	25 March 1900	7 April 1966
	Warnemünde	Electric	1 July 1910	30 April 1945	Closed because of war damage.

Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony)

Name of System	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Bad Pyrmont	Horse	1 June 1879	12 March 1925
	Bückeburg - Bad Eilsen	Electric	1918	21 May 1966
	Braunschweig	Horse	11 October 1879	24 September 1904
		Electric	28 October 1897		1,100-mm gauge
	Celle	Electric	1 November 1907	2 June 1956
	Cuxhaven	Petrol-electric (Benzolelektrisch)	6 July 1914	2 August 1914
	Emden	Electric	23 February 1902	30 April 1953
	Göttingen	(Electric)			Construction started, not completed (ca. 1914).
	Hannover	Horse	16 September 1872	1897
		Accumulator (storage battery)	10 September 1895	20 November 1903
		Electric	19 May 1893
	♦ Hannover - Hildesheim	Electric	22 March 1899	16 August 1959
	Hildesheim	Electric	7 August 1905	22 March 1945	Closed because of war damage.
	Osnabrück	Electric	31 January 1906	29 May 1960
	Wilhelmshaven	Electric	17 March 1913	30 March 1945	Closed because of war damage.

Nordrhein-Westfalen (North Rhine-Westphalia)

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

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 October 1908	25 September 1954
	♦ Homberg	Electric	1 April 1909	25 September 1954	Separate undertaking to 1 January 1925.
Homberg lines extended to:	♦♦ Ruhrort		1913	March 1945
Homberg also served by:	♦♦ Düsseldorf (Rheinbahn) system		1911	20 October 1958
	♦♦ Krefeld system		1918	2 November 1962
	♦ Moers - Kamp - Rheinberg	Electric	12 February 1915	11 October 1952
	Duisburg	Horse	24 December 1881	31 July 1898
		Steam	22 July 1882	25 December 1897
		Electric	3 August 1897		First Stadtbahn tunnel segment opened 11 July 1992.
Duisburg lines extend to:	♦ Ruhrort		24 December 1881
	♦ Hamborn		24 February 1898
	♦ Dinslaken		1 May 1900
	♦ Mülheim an der Ruhr		1912
	Oberhausen (im Rheinland)	Electric	4 April 1897 1 June 1996	13 October 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 April 1971
	Mülheim an der Ruhr	Electric	8 July 1897		First Stadtbahn tunnel opened 3 November 1979 (served by Essen system). First tunnel segment for Mülheim system opened 27 April 1985.
Mülheim an der Ruhr lines connect with:	♦ Essen system
	♦ Oberhausen system
	Essen	Electric	23 August 1893		First tunnel segment opened 5 October 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 November 1894		First tunnel segment (Bochum) opened 26 May 1979. First Stadtbahn tunnel segment (Bochum - Herne) opened 2 September 1989. First tunnel segment (Gelsenkirchen) opened 1 September 1984.
Bochum - Gelsenkirchen lines extend to:	♦ Herne		23 November 1894
	♦ Wanne-Eickel		20 October 1896
	♦ Gelsenkirchen		3 November 1895
	♦ Buer		24 June 1901
	♦ Horst		24 June 1901	18 October 1955	Now closed.
	♦ Hattingen		1 October 1902
	♦ Witten		21 December 1900
	♦ Castrop-Rauxel		20 December 1909	8 May 1967
	♦ Hattingen	Electric	12 March 1914	30 June 1969	Operation suspended 24 October 1923 – 31 May 1924 because of Occupation of the Ruhr. Separate undertaking to 1 October 1932.
	Herne	Electric	20 December 1906	30 September 1959	Lines extended to Castrop-Rauxel, 15 July 1910 – 1 January 1952.
	Castrop-Rauxel
Served by:	♦ Bochum - Gelsenkirchen system		1909	8 May 1967
	♦ Herne system		15 July 1910	30 September 1959
	♦ Dortmund system		1 November 1910	1 July 1962
	Dortmund	Horse	1 June 1881	1897
		Steam	February 1892	1896
		Electric	1 March 1894		First tunnel segment opened 1983.
Dortmund lines extended to:	♦ Recklinghausen (Henrichenburg)		1 November 1910	1 July 1958	Now closed.
	♦ Castrop-Rauxel		1 November 1910	1 July 1962	Now closed.
	♦ Unna		1906	31 March 1965	Now closed.
	Unna - Kamen - Werne	Electric	1 August 1909	15 December 1950	See also Dortmund.
	Hamm (im Westfalen	Electric	20 October 1898	2 April 1961

Name of System	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
Vestische Straßenbahn	Recklinghausen	Electric	26 February 1898	30 December 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 November 1975
	♦ Buer		1907	1 October 1980
	♦ Gladbeck		1909	31 October 1978
	♦ Horst		1909	31 October 1978
	♦ Bottrop		1910	27 November 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 August 1881	14 February 1900
		Electric	15 February 1900	15 March 1969	Lines extended to Rheydt (10 August 1881 – 5 October 1968). Connected with Krefeld system.
	♦ Rheydt	Horse	10 August 1881	14 February 1900
		Electric	15 February 1900	31 January 1959
	Krefeld	Steam	3 May 1883	18 September 1901
		Horse	11 May 1883	6 April 1901
		Electric	30 October 1901
Krefeld lines extended to:	♦ Mönchengladbach (Neuwerk		1910	8 March 1954	Now closed.
	♦ Moers		1918	2 November 1962	Now closed.
Rheinbahn	Düsseldorf	Horse	6 February 1876	21 June 1900
		Steam	5 August 1901	30 April 1902
		Electric	27 January 1896		Lines extend to Neuss (27 December 1901 – ). First tunnel segment opened 4 October 1981. See also Rheinbahn; link to English-language page.
	♦ Düsseldorf - Duisburg	Electric	31 October 1899		New alignment opened 1 May 1926.
	♦ Düsseldorf - Moers	Electric	1911	20 October 1958
	♦ Düsseldorf - Krefeld	Electric	15 December 1898
	♦ Mettmann	Electric	19 July 1909	17 May 1952
	♦ Düsseldorf (Benrath) - Solingen (Ohligs)	Electric	1899	15 April 1962
	♦ Düsseldorf (Benrath) - Wuppertal (Vohwinkel)	Steam	1899	1900
		Electric	1900	7 May 1961
	♦ Neuss	Electric	24 December 1910	7 August 1971	Served by Düsseldorf system (21 December 1901 – ).
	Solingen	Electric	1 July 1897	15 November 1959
Solingen lines extended to:	♦ Wuppertal (Vohwinkel)		1899	1 October 1958	Now closed.
	♦ Solingen (Ohligs)		19 November 1898	1 August 1953	Now closed.
	♦ Burg am der Wupper		1908	12 October 1959	Now closed.
	Remscheid	Electric	9 July 1893	10 April 1969
Remscheid lines extended to:	♦ Burg am der Wupper		12 July 1900	31 July 1960	Now closed.
	♦ Wuppertal (Cronenfeld)		1901	30 April 1965	Worked jointly with Wuppertal system, now closed.
	Wuppertal	Horse	10 April 1874	5 February 1896
		Steam	28 May 1891	3 April 1903
		Electric	16 April 1894	30 May 1987	Towns of Barmen, Eberfeld and several neighboring towns were amalgamated at 1929 as Wuppertal.
Barmer Bergbahn	♦ Rack tramway (zahnradbahn), Barmen - Toelleturm	Electric	16 April 1894	4 July 1959
Wuppertal lines extended to:	♦ Velbert - Essen (Werden)		15 March 1899	1 February 1952	Now closed.
	♦ Essen (Steele)		24 November 1907	16 April 1954	Now closed.
	♦ Sprockhövel - Hattingen		1907	30 November 1953	Now closed.
	♦ Schwelm - Milspe		7 August 1896	3 May 1969	Schwelm - Milpse segment, 18 January 1907 – 28 September 1964. Now closed.
	♦ Remscheid		15 August 1901	16 June 1954	Now closed.
	♦ Solingen		4 August 1914	3 May 1969	Now closed.
	♦ Wülfrath		19 July 1909	1 June 1952	Now closed.
	♦ Mettmann		19 July 1909	17 May 1952	Now closed.
	Ennepetal (in Westfalen)	Electric	24 February 1907	31 March 1956
Ennepetal lines extended:	♦ Gevelsberg - Milspe - Voerde		24 February 1907	31 March 1956	Now closed.
	♦ Gevelsberg - Haßlinghausen		19 May 1909	31 March 1956	Now closed.
	Hagen	Horse	13 November 1884	1 July 1898
		Accumulator (storage battery)	7 January 1895	20 December 1902
		Electric	18 November 1896	29 May 1976
Hagen lines extended to:	♦ Gevelsberg		12 April 1900	26 July 1953	Now closed.
	♦ Hagen (Hohenlimburg)		8 May 1900	15 September 1968	Now closed.
	♦ Eckesey	Horse	7 July 1895	189_
		Accumulator (storage battery)	1 July 1898	20 October 1900
		Electric	21 October 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 December 1927	2 November 1963	Separate undertaking to 1926.
	Iserlohn	Electric	4 March 1901	31 December 1959

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

Note for Mettmann: Line extended Düsseldorf (Auf der Hardt) - Mettmann (closed 9 December 1936) - Wülfrath (closed 14 May 1938) - Tönisheide (closed 14 May 1938), and Mettmann - Wieden (closed 17 May 1952). Separate undertaking to 1 April 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 April 1914	11 July 1955
	♦ Köln - Opladen - Solingen (Ohligs) / Solingen (Höhscheid)	Electric	22 July 1911	10 July 1955
	Köln	Horse	28 April 1877	22 May 1907
		Steam	13 November 1893	1914
		Electric	15 October 1901		First tunnel segment opened 1968.
	Wahn	Electric	6 May 1917	1 October 1961
	Zündorf - Troisdorf - Siegburg	Electric	19 March 1914	31 August 1965	Opened in stages, completed 1 October 1921. Closed in stages from 14 October 1963.
Rheinuferbahn	Köln - Wesseling - Bonn	Electric	September 1905
Vorgebirgsbahn	♦ Köln - Brühl - Bonn	Electric	1 August 1897		Opened in stages, (Köln - Brühl) completed 20 January 1898.
	Bonn	Horse	19 April 1891	24 September 1909
		Steam	22 May 1892	12 October 1911
		Electric	21 May 1902		First tunnel segment opened 22 March 1975.
	♦ Bonn - Bad Godesberg	Steam	22 May 1892	1911
		Electric	27 March 1911		Tunnel segment in Bad Godesberg opened September 1994.
	♦ Bad Godesberg - Mehlem	Electric	3 October 1911	23 December 1976
	♦ Bonn - Siegburg	Electric	21 September 1911
	♦ Bonn - Königswinter - Bad Honnef	Electric	18 March 1913		Königswinter - Bad Honnef segment opened 27 September 1925.

Rheinland-Pfalz (Rhineland-Palatinate)

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

Saarland

Name of System	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Neunkirchen (im Saarland)	Electric	13 September 1907	10 June 1978
	Saarbrücken	Steam	4 November 1890	26 September 1899
		Electric	8 February 1899	22 May 1965
		Electric	24 October 1997	-	International line to Sarreguemines in France.
	♦ Rastpfuhl - Heusweiler	Electric	27 January 1907	1948	Separate undertaking to 1 July 1937.
	Saarlouis	Electric	20 May 1913	28 February 1961
	♦ Saarlouis - Dillingen (an der Saar)			31 May 1957
	Völklingen (an der Saar)	Electric	3 September 1909	18 April 1959

Sachsen (Saxony)

Name of System	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
Kirnitzschtalbahn	Bad Schandau	Electric	28 May 1898		Operation suspended from 21 July 1969 following an accident. Operation restored from 24 July 1972.
	Chemnitz	Horse	22 April 1880	5 February 1894
		Electric	19 December 1893		First standard-gauge line opened 8 May 1960. Last 925-mm gauge line closed 6 November 1988.
	♦ Chemnitz - Altchemnitz - Stollberg	Electric	15 December 2002		Operates over DB railway line (Würschnitztalbahn) between Altchemnitz and Stollberg,
Döbelner Straßenbahn	Döbeln	Horse	10 July 1892		Closed 20 December 1926; reopened 9 June 2007
Dresdner Verkehrsbetriebe	Dresden	Horse	26 September 1872	25 August 1900
		Gas	28 July 1894	31 December 1895
		Electric	6 July 1893		1,450-mm gauge
	♦ Dresden - Bühlau	Electric	22 August 1899		Separate undertaking to 1926.
	♦ Dresden-Cotta - Cossebaude	Electric	27 September 1906	2 December 1990	Separate undertaking to 1926.
Lößnitzbahn	♦ Dresden-Mickten - Zitzschewig	Electric	21 August 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 September 1929 – May 1930. Coswig - Weinböhla reopened 14 November 1931.
Lockwitztalbahn	♦ Dresden-Niedersedlitz - Kreischa	Electric	3 March 1906	18 October 1977
	Freiberg in Sachsen	Electric	11 August 1902	31 December 1919
	Görlitz	Horse	25 May 1882	30 November 1897
		Electric	1 December 1897		See also Zgorzelec, Poland.
	Hohenstein-Ernstthal - Oelsnitz (Erzgebirge)	Electric	15 February 1913	26 March 1960
	Klingenthal (Sachsen)	Electric	27 May 1917	4 April 1964
	Leipzig	Horse	18 May 1872	16 April 1897
		Electric	17 April 1896		See Leipziger Verkehrsbetriebe, Leipzig Tramway Network History.
	Meißen	Electric	13 December 1899	1 March 1936
	Plauen (im Vogtland)	Electric	17 November 1894
	Zittau	Accumulator (storage battery)	29 June	22 September 1902
		Electric	14 December 1904	19 November 1919
	Zwickau	Electric	6 May 1894

Sachsen-Anhalt (Saxony-Anhalt)

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

Schleswig-Holstein

Name of System	Location	Traction Type	Date (From)	Date (To)	Notes
	Wittdün - Norddorf (Amrum island, North Frisian Islands)	Steam	1893	1 November 1939
		Electric	10 July 1909	August 1910	Use of electric traction ended because generating station was destroyed by fire. Overhead contact system removed 1920. Operation suspended 17 October 1918 – 1920.
	Flensburg	Horse	8 May 1881	30 December 1906
		Electric	6 July 1907	2 June 1973
	Kiel	Horse	9 July 1881	11 April 1896
		Electric	12 May 1896	4 May 1985
	Lübeck	Horse	1 May 1881	19 June 1894
		Electric	12 May 1894	15 November 1959
	Schleswig	Horse	1 July 1890	31 December 1909
		Electric	1 January 1910	26 August 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 July 1888	29 December 1970
♦ Südbahn	Westerland - Hörnum		1 July 1901	30 May 1970

Thüringen (Thuringia)

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

References

• Books, Periodicals and External Links

See also

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

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