Local transport in Bielefeld

The transport in Bielefeld consists of a well-developed rail network with regional and urban rail and bus lines. The regional transport into the countryside is largely through the railway , surrounding cities without rail connection are with buses accessible. There are eleven train stops in the urban area, so the local rail infrastructure is excellent compared to many comparable cities.

The operator of the local public transport is the Stadtwerke subsidiary moBiel , which operates several bus routes in cooperation with Busverkehr Ostwestfalen GmbH (BVO). The regional traffic is carried out by several railway companies as well as u. a. moBiel and BVO.

history

railroad

Bielefeld received its first rail connection in 1847 through the Cologne-Minden Railway . The branch line to what was then the Principality of Lippe ( Bielefeld – Hameln line ) was built in 1903. The branch line to Osnabrück ("Haller Willem") was already running in 1886, and the Sennebahn was added in 1901/02 . These two lines branch off from the main line in the formerly independent Brackwede . Since April 1901, the Bielefelder Kreisbahnen operated in the former district of Bielefeld and served the towns of Theesen , Jöllenbeck , Babenhausen and Dornberg , which were not yet part of the urban area . Even after Heepen led a range of steam small ground , it was used due to low demand, however, only a few years. Passenger traffic on the circular railways ceased in 1954.

Due to the expansion of the urban area up to today's metropolis (especially 1973: Bielefeld law ), the railway lines were given traffic tasks in urban local traffic. However, the railway only gained increasing importance through its inclusion in transport communities, the introduction of regular traffic and modernization.

Railway lines in the Bielefeld area were initially included in the Lippe district . The Verkehrsgemeinschaft Lippe (VGL, founded in 1987) that was created there also gave Bielefeld the opportunity to use trains at the city rate, because the VGL railway line Bielefeld - Lemgo serves the Bielefeld Ost and Ubbedissen stops next to the main station. Only many years later did the VVOWL generally allow the use of regional railways at city rates.

After a long period of decline, local rail transport gained greater importance thanks to better service and a change of operator. The suspension of the Sennebahn and the “Haller Willem” as well as the closure of the Sennestadt, Windelsbleiche and Brackwede Süd stops could be prevented. The service on the branch lines was reintroduced on Sundays. Quelle -Kupferheide was built as a new stop , the Oldentrup stop was reactivated.

Since June 10, 2005 the Osnabrück – Brackwede railway line has been in full operation again after 21 years of inactivity. This means that there are two route connections and around two pairs of trains per hour (alternatively via Bünde-Herford or Oesede-Halle) between the cities of Bielefeld and Osnabrück , which are only fifty kilometers apart , although the first route is around 15 minutes faster.

tram

From 1900 to the Second World War

The Bielefeld tram started operating on December 20, 1900. The first stretch of line 1 led from Schildescher Rettungshaus (today's Johannesstift Hospital ) to Brackwede -Dorf. The trains initially ran every 30 minutes. The remainder to Schildesche was opened in May 1901. On the 7 km long route, 12 railcars and 8 sidecars soon ran every 7½ minutes. Until 1927 the route ran over the old market through the old town.

Due to profitable operation and lively use, construction of the second line began as early as 1902. This was opened on August 28, 1902 and led from the main train station to Sieker over a length of approx. 5 km. In 1912, Line 1 was extended from Brackwede to the Sennefriedhof. The construction of a third line planned for 1914 was prevented by the outbreak of the First World War . It was not put into operation until 1928 from Oststrasse to the Lange Strasse stop . The route from Hauptbahnhof to Walkenweg completed the planning of the network.

A route through today's Stapenhorststrasse, which was also planned in connection with the construction of the Oetkerhalle , could no longer be carried out due to the economic crisis at the end of the 1920s. In parts of the road, however, rails were laid, but they were never put into operation. Instead of this tram later emerged O bus -line.

Destruction, reconstruction, modernization

Tram operations had to be temporarily suspended on March 31, 1945 after heavy bombing raids. The repair of the war damage lasted into 1950, although operations were continued to a limited extent on all lines during the reconstruction .

Duewag open seating car at the main train station in front of the Hotel Bielefelder Hof (1961)

Jahnplatz with GT8 one-way car (August 1985)

M8C light rail car in the corner of Feilen and Bahnhofstrasse before the tunnel goes into operation (August 1989)

After all war damage had been repaired, the route network began to be rebuilt and expanded. From 1955, the network in the inner city area was reorganized and the railway (lines 2 and 3) removed from Bahnhofstraße. The Jahnplatz , central hub of the tram and all city bus lines, has been redesigned. At Berliner Platz, today's Willy-Brandt-Platz , a central transfer point for the three lines was created on the new route of the tram line 3 via Friedrich-Ebert-Straße-Herford Straße (previously Kesselbrink-Wilhelmstraße-Jahnplatz-Bahnhofstraße). In 1957, Lange Straße – Voltmannstraße (then Line 2) was extended, and in 1965 and 1969 the Oststraße – Sieker Mitte (Line 3) and Karolinenstraße ( Schüco ) –Baumheide extensions were added to Line 2 (then Line 3).

In connection with the expansion of Kreuzstrasse, a separate double-track route was created in 1962 between the district court and Adenauerplatz u. a. for transfer trips to the new depot in Sieker (start of construction 1962). Since April 1968 the tram in Schildesche has been running on the former route of the Bielefelder Kreisbahnen to the An der Reegt stop , the center of Schildesche is no longer served. This also created a new transfer hub for bus traffic, although at that time the regional bus routes still served the bus station at Kesselbrink in the city center.

vehicles

Until the mid-1950s, the Bielefeld tram cars were basically two-axle, bidirectional cars . Many cars still had roof structures with skylights, as was common in the 1920s. The newer two-axle vehicles were bandage vehicles . Some sidecars were war tram cars . Depending on the time of day and the route, trains ran with one or two sidecars.

The first two articulated wagons from Stadtwerke Bielefeld were single pieces, four-axle vehicles made up of two two-axle segments and a floating middle section. The external design corresponded to the first aid vehicles , but they already had passenger flow from the back to the front and electrically operated doors. The engines, which only acted on the axles of the front part of the car, were so weak that these articulated cars even without a sidecar had difficulties driving into town at the Apfelstraße stop in rush hour traffic .

From 1956 six-axle Duewag articulated cars ( GT6 ) were procured, as well as several four-axle large-capacity railcars and matching sidecars from the same manufacturer. Since the new car all mover carriage were, they could initially be used on the line 1, the east of the station Senne Cemetery , the Senne Wendeschleife had and Schildesche a braided into the streets of the village center turn triangle. The other two lines ended at at least one end with a simple siding for moving the two-way railcars.

From 1960, the modern four- and six-axle vehicles were also used on what was then Line 2 between Sieker terminus and Voltmannstrasse after the Sieker terminus had been expanded and the terminus in Gellershagen , located south of the junction with Voltmannstrasse, had been converted into a turning triangle, the third of which was a turning triangle Arm protruded on a dam in the wetland south of Jöllenbecker Strasse. In the first half of the 1960s, the four-axle railcars were converted into trailers. It was not until the extensions in 1965 and 1969 that line 3 was given turning loops on Herford Street and Oldentruper Street. After that, the last pre-war tram cars disappeared from the streets of Bielefeld.

From September 1964 conductorless sidecars were used, initially only for passengers with season tickets, validators followed from 1967. Some stops were given mechanical ticket machines with crank handles (similar to the postage stamp machines used at the time ). Since 1968 all cars have been driving without a conductor.

In the second half of the 1960s, some GT6 were expanded to the GT8 type by installing a middle section. This enabled the last two-axle sidecar to be retired. The GT8 operated on Line 3 until the early 1990s .

Timetables

In the 1960s and 1970s, all tram lines ran on weekdays at 10-minute intervals, which were increased to 5-minute intervals during rush hour by emergency vehicles. These emergency vehicle trips were not in the timetable and all only had an "E" as a line display. With the simple structure of the Bielefeld route network, the destination display showed which line an emergency vehicle belonged to. Nevertheless, lines 52, 53 and 54 (predecessors of lines 12, 13, 14) were introduced for these missions at the end of the 1970s. At that time the line numbers 5 to 19 were assigned for bus routes. In 1979 the line numbers were completely restructured; Line numbers 11 to 19 were assigned to tram lines, bus lines were given 100 numbers for the first time (line 16 became 116, for example).

Due to falling numbers of passengers, the tram schedule was thinned out to 12-minute intervals in the 1980s. At times of low traffic (AVZ) there was only a 40-minute cycle. During rush hour, line 11 (Kattenkamp – Jahnplatz – Brackwede, Kehre) condensed line 1 to a 6-minute cycle.

Tunnel sections

In the 1960s the decision was made to build a tram that would pass through the city center. Construction of the first tunnel section began in September 1969 . After two years of construction, it was put into operation on September 21, 1971. At that time, it began with a provisional driveway on Schildescher Strasse and ran for a length of approx. 250 m under Herford Strasse. It includes the Beckhausstraße stop (line 2). The tunnel was the first section of today's light rail network, after which there was a construction stop for the other planned tunnel sections and the light rail construction. In 1978 the Baumheide – Milse line went into operation.

The renovation continued in the mid-1970s. In 1976 the first delivery of type M8S light rail vehicles took place , and in 1982 the first M8C type cars with electronic chopper control were delivered. In March 1980 the first elevated platforms were built on the new Babenhausen Süd turning loop. In 1983 and 1986, the lines in the inner city were merged by relocating lines 1 from Oberntor- to Niederwall and 3 from Kesselbrink to City Hall via Nikolaus-Dürkopp-Straße. By September 1987 the entire vehicle fleet had been renewed with 44 M8C light rail trains.

On April 28, 1991 the tunnel sections in the inner city went into operation, this was the starting point of the Bielefeld Stadtbahn . All previous tram vehicles were sold, scrapped or converted into special vehicles suitable for trams (including the "SparrenExpress Partybahn ").

A former Bielefeld tram car was brought back to Bielefeld in 2009 after a long period of use in Innsbruck and is now part of the moBiel museum collection.

Bus transport and trolleybus

Bielefeld's first horse-drawn bus line was operated by the city in 1881, but was discontinued after only six months due to a lack of profitability. From 1886 onwards, a private horse-drawn bus company had more success with a slightly shorter route between the train station and Bethel, and by 1892 it expanded its range to include additional routes. At the end of the 1930s, the municipal transport company in Bielefeld and the former municipality of Brackwede operated five bus routes:

Line 5	Melanchthonstrasse - Jahnplatz - Ziegelstrasse
Line 6	Martin-Luther-Platz - Ostbahnhof - Town Hall - Obernstraße - Oetkerhalle - Wellensiek (today: South)
Line 7	Sieker - Hillegossen
Line 8	Sieker - Hillegossen - Ubbedissen - Oerlinghausen - Kreuzkrug - Kracks - Buschkamp - Sennefriedhof
Line 10	Jahnplatz - Obernstraße - Langenhagen (–Schildhof) - Lutterquelle - Kupferhammer - Brackwede cemetery - Sennefriedhof - Buschkamp - Kracks - Dalbke

The route to Oerlinghausen was initially intended as an excursion line, but it was soon used regularly. Line number 4 was intended for a planned tram route Wellensiek - city center - Heepen. However, this was later implemented as a trolleybus . The section from Wellensiek to City Hall was opened on May 27, 1944. In 1947 the route to Heepen followed and in 1949 a connection from Heeper Straße (Scherkamp stop) to Sieker. A new maintenance hall was put into operation there at the end of 1949. In 1950 the entire trolleybus network was in operation. The cessation of operations took place in two stages. In June 1964 the sections Stapenhorststraße (turning loop north of the Oetkerhalle) –Wellensiek and Scherkamp – Sieker were shut down, in November 1968 the rest (Stapenhorststraße – Jahnplatz – Heepen).

In the 1960s (1964/66) the following lines operated by the municipal transport company:

Line 4	trolleybus	Jahnplatz - Carl Severing Schools - Scherkamp - Radrennbahn - Heepen
Line 14	trolleybus	Wellensiek - Oetkerhalle - Jahnplatz - Scherkamp - Martin-Luther-Platz - Sieker
Line 5	bus	Rottmannshof - Melanchthonstraße - Jahnplatz - Hakenort - Ziegelstraße / Bleichstraße
Line 6	bus	Sieker - Hillegossen Autobahn
Line 7	bus	7: Sieker - Hillegossen - Ubbedissen - Oerlinghausen 7a Sieker - Oerlinghausen via Wrachtrup - Gräfinghagen 7b Oerlinghausen train station ( Asemissen ) - Dalbke
Line 9	bus	Hohes Feld - Johannesstift - Pauluskirche - Johannistal - Quelle (Line 19: Schildhof)
Line 10	bus	Sennefriedhof - Buschkamp - Kracks - Sennestadt / Dalbke
Line 20	bus	Sieker - Rütli
Line 21	bus	Sieker - Habichtshöhe - Brackwede Church
Line 29	bus	29: Brackwede train station - stadium - Brackwede church - Südwestfeld 29a Brackwede train station - Brackwede church via Sunderweg
Line 31	bus	Horstheider Weg - Schildesche - Viaduct - Walkenweg
Line 34	bus	Walkenweg - Heepen - Oldentrup - Oststraße

On 6 December 1956, the Bethelbus took in what was then the community Gadderbaum belonging Institute Bethel on the operation. The "Halleluja-Express" called round - trip service with minibuses was operated by the institution itself until 1997 and then became a suburban line . The handover to Stadtwerke Bielefeld (today moBiel ), combined with the inclusion in the normal city tariff or network tariff and the use of modern, barrier-free midibuses , brought an immediate increase in the number of passengers. Operations began in 1956 with Mercedes-Benz O 319 D minibuses , which began their rounds at the Bethel-Eck parking lot and alternated between the Saronweg, Bethelweg and the former Friedhofsweg to Neu Salem. The buses had 13 seats; today's midibuses have space for around 70 people, even if the seats are often too tight. Since May 19, 2008, in addition to the “BethelBus” with line number 122, a second city bus line 121 has been running through the village of Bethel.

The former town of Brackwede, which came to Bielefeld as a result of the administrative reform of 1973, was at the end of the 1970s by bus routes 16 (Kirche − Kuhlbrocksiedlung − Quelle), 17 (Kirche − Sunderweg − Cheruskerstraße − Bahnhof) and 19 (Südwestfeld ÷ Kirche − Cheruskerstraße − Bahnhof) served.

Regional bus transport

Historic bus stop from the 1990s with the VOW logo

In the past, intercity buses were much more important for connecting neighboring and more distant towns and cities . There was a dense bus network with continuous connections to Detmold , Paderborn , Bad Rothenfelde , Münster , Lippstadt , Osnabrück , Melle and Bünde . As the last real overland line, bus line 80 to Lippstadt via Verl and Rietberg was discontinued on January 1, 2012.

The bus network of Stadtwerke Bielefeld originally comprised the city area (expansion from 1930) and the formerly independent municipalities or the later city of Brackwede and Heepen . In addition, there was a half-ring line initially set up for excursion traffic to the mountain town of Oerlinghausen . In the former district of Bielefeld and to the neighboring districts, mostly post buses drove . Private entrepreneurs served Steinhagen and Kirchdornberg ( Pahlmeyer & Studier ). The surrounding lines originally had only a few stops within the urban area and use for inner-city journeys was not permitted. Even after the district reform in the mid-1970s (Bielefeld law), i.e. the incorporation of the district into the city, bus service in the outdoor areas remained under the control of the post office and the railway. However, the bus line to Kirchdornberg was quickly taken over by the municipal utilities.

From 1970, one was in many small steps from the widely ramified interurban network regional bus network with short, in heavy clock traffic lines. The central bus station for regional traffic was the Kesselbrink, which was converted for this purpose in 1960 . The Postbus network was transferred to the Federal Railroad and was managed under private law as a division, later called BVO. In the 1990s, the end point of the regional lines was moved to Bielefeld Central Station . Many lines were withdrawn from the urban area to the terminus of the light rail.

From March 1, 1980, city and regional buses could be used within the framework of the Verkehrsgemeinschaft Ostwestfalen-Lippe (VOW) in the city and in the surrounding area at a uniform tariff.

A cooperation between moBiel and BVO resulted in the first continuous city network / surrounding area line between Heepen and Werther (21). This was followed in December 2009 by a general cooperation agreement which provides for the complete handover of the BVO bus lines by moBiel within nine years . Hereby moBiel took over the organization and planning of the bus routes in the Bielefeld region. The cooperation no longer exists since January 2013 after a tendering process by the Lippe district for lines 350/351 in the direction of Bad Salzuflen or Leopoldshöhe.

Today's offer

Inner-city and regional rail traffic

Location of the Bielefeld train stations and stops

Brake train station - one of the eleven stops in the city

There are eleven train stations or stops in the city. The main connection point to the tram and regional bus routes is the main station . In addition to this ICE train station, the Brake , Bielefeld Ost, Sennestadt and Ubbedissen stops are particularly important for urban local transport . Seven regional train lines serve the city area. Since the RB 71 " Ravensberger Bahn " continues as the RB 67 " Der Warendorfer ", there is a continuous connection between Brake - Hauptbahnhof - Brackwede every hour (every two hours on Sundays).

Another connection point between tram line 1 and the regional trains is the Brackwede Bahnhof stop .

Bielefeld is connected to the surrounding area by four railway lines:

Hamm – Minden railway line (main line)
- RE 6 Rhein-Weser-Express Cologne / Bonn Airport - Cologne - Neuss - Düsseldorf - Hamm - Rheda-Wiedenbrück - Bielefeld - Herford - Minden ( DB Regio NRW )
- RE 78 Porta-Express Bielefeld - Herford - Minden - Nienburg (Eurobahn)
- RE 70 Weser-Leine-Express Bielefeld - Herford - Minden - Hanover - Braunschweig (Westfalenbahn)
- RB 69 Ems-Börde-Bahn Münster - Hamm - Bielefeld ( Eurobahn )
- RB 67 The Warendorfer Münster - Warendorf - Rheda-Wiedenbrück - Bielefeld (Eurobahn)
- RB 61 Wiehengebirgs-Bahn Bielefeld - Herford - Bünde - Osnabrück - Hengelo (NL) (Eurobahn)
- RB 71 Ravensberger Bahn Bielefeld - Herford - Bünde - Rahden (Eurobahn)
Paderborn – Bielefeld railway line
- RB 74 Senne-Bahn Bielefeld - Paderborn (NordWestBahn)
Osnabrück – Bielefeld railway line
- RB 75 Haller Willem (NordWestBahn)
Bielefeld – Lemgo railway line
- RB 73 Der Lipperländer Bielefeld - Lage - Lemgo (Eurobahn)
- RE 82 Der Leineweber Bielefeld - Lage - Detmold - Altenbeken (Eurobahn)

railway station	Lines	Access barrier-free	Connecting lines
Central Station	all lines	yes (elevators)	Light rail: 1 to 4, 10, 13 Bus: 48, 59, 61, 62, 80.2, 83, 87, 88, 95, 350, 351, 369
Brackwede	RB 67, 69, 74, 75 The Warendorfer / Ems-Börde- / Senne-Bahn / Haller Willem	No	Light rail: 1; Bus: 48, 80.2, 83, 87, 88, 95 (short walk) [1] Central bus stop for long-distance buses
Brake (near Bielefeld)	RB 61, 71 Wiehengebirgs- / Ravensberger-Bahn	No	Bus: 30, 51
Bielefeld East	RB 73 The Lipperländer	yes (steep ramp)	Bus: 21, 22, 29, 350, 351 (short walk) and 24, 25, 26 (short walk) [1]
Oldentrup	RB 73 The Lipperländer	Yes	Bus: 30, 33, 131, 369
Ubbedissen	RB 73 The Lipperländer	Yes	Bus: 138
Brackwede South [2]
Senne [3]	RB 74 Senne-Bahn	Yes	Bus: 83, 94 and 36 (short walk) [1]
Diaper bleach	RB 74 Senne-Bahn	Yes	Bus: 36 is within walking distance (approx. 8 minutes)
Sennestadt	RB 74 Senne-Bahn	Yes	Bus: 46/47 and 37 (short walk) [1]
Quelle-Kupferheide	RB 75 Haller Willem	Yes	Bus: 22 and 121 (short walk) [1]
source	RB 75 Haller Willem	Yes	Bus: 88

[1] Bus / tram stop not at the train station and / or other stop designation
[2] from December 11, 2011 no train stop [
3] from December 11, 2011, not identical to the Senne stop on tram line 1

No decision has yet been made about the final closure of the Brackwede Süd stop. It is possible to build a new barrier-free platform in a slightly westerly position; this solution was sought by the city or the city district in 2011.

Light rail

Tram stop Rudolf-Oetker-Halle

→ Main article: Bielefeld Stadtbahn

The Stadtbahn serves 63 stops with its four lines.

line 1	Schildesche - Central Station - Jahnplatz - Regional Court - Bethel - Brackwede - Senne
Line 2	Altenhagen - Milse - Baumheide - Central Station - Jahnplatz - Regional Court - Sieker
Line 3	Babenhausen -Süd - Hauptbahnhof - Jahnplatz - Sieker Mitte - Stieghorst Zentrum
Line 4	Lohmannshof - University - Central Station - Jahnplatz - Town Hall - Dürkopp Tor 6

Also supplement lines 10, 12, 13 and 18.

Bus transport

Network map of bus, light rail, regional train

The organization and planning as well as the information and complaint management for the bus traffic from moBiel and the cooperation between moBiel / BVO in Bielefeld and the surrounding areas has been taken over by moBiel since January 2010.

The central transfer point is Jahnplatz . From here buses go in all directions. As of June 2018

City bus

The city bus routes are cross-city routes. You cross the urban area in a west-east direction. They all serve Jahnplatz.

Operator: MoBiel

Geographic network plan

21 Werther - Isingdorf - Großdornberg -Wellensiek- Rudolf Oetker Halle - Kunsthalle - Jahnplatz - Kesselbrink -Ostbahnhof-Lohbreite-Stauteiche- Oldentrup - Heepen

22 Quelle - OWD - Kunsthalle - Jahnplatz - Kesselbrink -Ostbahnhof-Lohbreite-Stauteiche- Oldentrup - Heepen

24 Großdornberg - Kirchdornberg -Westfeld- Hoberge Uerntrup - Gadderbaum - Kunsthalle - Jahnplatz - Kesselbrink -Wiesenbad-Hakenort-Lohbreite-Luther Church- Sieker

25 Gellershagen -Schneiderstraße- Schüco Arena - Jahnplatz - Kesselbrink -Wiesenbad-Hakenort- cycle track -Eckendorfer Straße- Baumheide

26 Gellershagen -Schneiderstraße- Schüco Arena - Jahnplatz - Kesselbrink -Wiesenbad-Hakenort- Radrennbahn - Heepen

27 Siegfridplatz - Kunsthalle - Jahnplatz - Kesselbrink - Pauluskirche - Sudbrack - Schildesche - Baumheide

28/23 Ummeln -Südwestfeld- Brackwede - Gadderbaum - Bethel - Kunsthalle - Jahnplatz - Kesselbrink -Wiesenbad- Lenkwerk-Petrikirche-Radrennbahn

29 Schildhof- Gadderbaum - Bethel - Kunsthalle - Jahnplatz - Kesselbrink -Ostbahnhof-Lohbreite- Radrennbahn -Baderbach

Main bus

The main bus lines connect the so-called junction points, i.e. the tram end points in the outskirts, or the tram end points with the surrounding area. You cross the urban area in a north-south direction, partly also in a west-east direction (lines 38 and 369).

30 Heideblümchen - Sennestadt - Lämmershagen - Hillegossen - Steighorst - Oldentrup - Heepen -Baumheide-Brake

The districts in the outskirts are served by buses following the tram:

from line 3 Babenhausen Süd

to Theesen - Jöllenbeck (line 154) - Enger (line 54) or Spenge (line 56)

from line 1 Schildesche

to Jöllenbeck via Theesen (line 55) or Vilsendorf (line 155) and to Herford via Brake - Stedefreund (line 101) or Spenge (line 156)

Schematic network plan

from line 2 Milse

to Herford via Elverdissen (line 352)

from line 3 Stieghorst

to Ubbedissen (line 138) - Asemissen - Oerlinghausen (line 38) and to Hillegossen, Auf dem Busch - industrial area Oldentrup (line 131)

Citaro (12m) 1st generation in Brackwede Church

from line 1 Senne

to Sennestadt (line 135) and Lipperzeile - Oerlinghausen (connection 135 → 39)

from line 1 Brackwede Church

to Senne / Windelsbleiche - Friedrichsdorf - Gütersloh (line 94), Südwestfeld - Ummeln (line 128 only early and late traffic).

from RB 74 Sennestadt train station

to Sennestadt - Dalbke - Stukenbrock / Schloss Holte (line 46/47)

In addition, city district lines run :

37 Sennestadt - Sennestadt train station - Eckardtsheim
122 Round trip Bethel - Gilead IV
123 Brackwede circular traffic, church - Ikea - Brocker school

There are also several lines for work and school traffic . Central transfer points in Brackwede are the stops Normannenstraße and Brackwede Kirche .

Night and morning traffic

On weekend nights (Fri / Sat, Sat / Sun) and before public holidays, a total of 15 night bus routes operate , which are star-shaped and sometimes as ring routes . These meet every hour at Jahnplatz and after a waiting time of five to eight minutes they continue to their destinations. A special night tariff applies between 1 a.m. and 5 a.m., normal tickets of the “six” or NRW tariff are then not recognized. All buses leave at 1:05, 2:05, 3:05 and 4:05 a.m.

N 1 Jahnplatz - Uni - Dornberg - Babenhausen - Schröttinghausen - Dornberg - Uni - Jahnplatz
N 2 Jahnplatz - Gellershagen - Theesen - Jöllenbeck, eagle monument
N 3 Jahnplatz - Europaplatz / Hbf - Schildesche - Brake - Vilsendorf - Schildesche - Europaplatz / Hbf - Jahnplatz
N 4 Jahnplatz - Heepen - Altenhagen - Milse - Baumheide - Heepen - Jahnplatz
N 5 Jahnplatz - Sieker - Stieghorst - Hillegossen - Ubbedissen, church ( with change - Helpup - Oerlinghausen - Lipperzeile - Dalbke - Ubbedissen, church)
N 6 Jahnplatz - Bethel - Brackwede - Sennestadt
N 7 Jahnplatz - Bethel - Gadderbaum - Brackwede - Windelsbleiche - Ummeln - Quelle - Jahnplatz
N 8 Jahnplatz - Hbf - Vilsendorf - Jöllenbeck - Enger - Spenge - Jöllenbeck - Vilsendorf - Hbf - Jahnplatz
N 9 Jahnplatz - Mitte Hospital - Sieker Mitte - Oldentrup - Heepen

N 11 Jahnplatz - Ummeln - Isselhorst - Gütersloh
N 12 Jahnplatz - Herford - Hiddenhausen - Bünde
N 13 Heepen - Bexterhagen - Leopoldshöhe - Asemissen - Leopoldshöhe - Heepen
N 14 Jahnplatz - source - Amshausen - Steinhagen
N 18 Jahnplatz - Zoo - Dornberg - Werther
N 19 Jahnplatz - OWD / A33 - Künsebeck - Halle

Since the daily lines do not start operating on Saturdays until around 6:30 a.m. and on Sundays and public holidays between 8:30 a.m. and 9:00 a.m., there is a special early morning traffic network. Nine night lines run on partially shortened routes until 6:35 or 8:05 a.m. (Saturdays from 5:00 a.m. every 30 minutes). For example, the line N 1 (line color blue like the tram line 1) replaces the tram line 4 (line color like N2: red) with a different route.

The main station is only served directly by the N 8, but this regional line does not run in the early morning traffic network. After 5 a.m. on weekend nights, rail travelers are dependent on the N 3 (Bahnhofsviertel / Europaplatz) and N 12 (Nahariyastraße) lines, which only run near the train station. From the other night bus lines, the main station is best reached on foot from Jahnplatz at these times, as the necessary change at Jahnplatz together with the travel time of the N 3 line takes approx. 9 to 12 minutes and therefore considerably longer than with the city train (one Minute).

With the exception of Bad Salzuflen, Verl and Schloss Holte-Stukenbrock, all neighboring towns are also served. In contrast to the other night bus routes, the N 19 is served with large taxis (8 seats). The buses of some surrounding lines already run in the evening from 9:05 p.m.

Regional bus transport

There are only a few bus routes that serve two or more cities or municipalities from Bielefeld. A line crosses the state border to Lower Saxony with the option of changing to the Melle city bus in Melle-St. Anne:

Line 59 : Central Station - Babenhausen Süd - Häger - Spenge - Bardüttingdorf - Melle- Neuenkirchen ( limited number of trips).

The lines 62 Borgholzhausen, 61 and 88 Halle (Westphalia) and 350 Bad Salzuflen also serve the direct vicinity of the city. During the night there is a direct bus connection via Herford to Bünde. Since, with the exception of line 59, all regional lines are integrated into the city network, the operation of all stops in the city area results in u. a. relatively long journey times to Bad Salzuflen. There are no acceleration measures (use of express buses , use of fast arterial roads or entry restrictions such as in Osnabrück ).

Rafter mobile

During the summer months, the Sparrenmobil , a pathway , serves the Sparrenburg , the Olderdissen home zoo and the old town on a schedule and outside the tariff .

Tariff

The Westphalian tariff and the NRW tariff apply to all light rail vehicles, regional trains and buses (except night buses) . In regional trains direction Niedersachsen place from Bielefeld the Lower tariff application - but Niedersachsen tickets (day tickets) are valid only from Herford.

A special tariff applies on the night bus routes between 1 a.m. and 5 a.m. all day tickets (Westphalia, NRW, Lower Saxony tariff) are not recognized. The only exception is the Bielefeld semester ticket in the Bielefeld city area; there is also a price reduction with season tickets for the Bielefeld city area (only "price level BI"). In the Herford district, so-called "DiscoBusse" also operate with their own special tariff.

literature

Rainer Kotte u. a .: The Bielefeld tram through the ages . Uhle et al. Kleimann, Lübbecke 1989, ISBN 3-922657-74-5
Reinhard Vogelsang: History of the City of Bielefeld: From the November Revolution 1918 to the End of the 20th Century , Volume III, Gieselmann Druck und Medienhaus, Bielefeld 2005, ISBN 3-923830-11-4