# 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 |
| | Baden-Baden | 26 June 1949 | 31 July 1971 | |
| | Esslingen am Neckar | 1 April 1944 | | See also 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 |
| Gleislose Bahn Heilbronn–Böckingen | Heilbronn am Neckar | 23 September 1951 | 30 December 1960 | See also Gleislose Bahn Heilbronn–Böckingen (in German) for the old system |
| 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

| 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

| Name of System | Location | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
| | 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 also Trolleybuses in Eberswalde, see also Gleislose Bahn Eberswalde (in German) for the old system |
| Gleislose Bahn Eberswalde | Eberswalde | 3 November 1940 | | See also Trolleybuses in Eberswalde, see also Gleislose Bahn Eberswalde (in German) for the old system |
| | Potsdam | 1 October 1949 | 2 February 1995 | |

## Bremen

| Name of System | Location | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
| 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 |
| Bremen-Arster Gleislose Bahn for the old system | Bremen | 1 November 1949 | 5 November 1961 | See also Bremen-Arster Gleislose Bahn (in German), for the old system |
| | Bremerhaven | 20 November 1947 | 30 June 1958 | |

## Hamburg

| Name of System | Location | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
| 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

| 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 | Feb 1945 |
| Kassel | 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

| 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

| Name of System | Location | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
| | Aachen | 2 January 1944 | 13 September 1944 | |
| | Aachen | 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 | |
| | Essen | 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 also 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 |
| 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 | 27 May 1970 | |

## 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

| Name of System | Location | Date (From) | Date (To) | Notes |
| 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 |
| Dresdner Haide-Bahn for the first system | Dresden | 5 November 1947 | 28 November 1975 | See also Dresdner Haide-Bahn (in German) for the first system |
| | 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 | |
| | Leipzig | 29 July 1938 | 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