Düren circular path

Dürener Kreisbahn GmbH
Basic information
Company headquarters	Düren
Web presence	www.dkb-dn.de
Reference year	2016
owner	Beteiligungsgesellschaft Kreis Düren mbH
Supervisory board	Wolfgang Spelthahn (Chairman) and 16 others
Managing directors	Guido Emunds
Transport network	Aachen Transport Association
Employee	50
sales	13.27 million euros
Lines
bus	40
statistics
Passengers	10.77 million per year
Mileage	84.55 million km per year
Length of line network
Bus routes	710 km

The Dürener circular path GmbH ( DKB ) is an in Düren -based transport company . At the end of 2019, when the services were handed over to the winner of the tender, it operated 31 conventional bus routes with a network of around 710 kilometers, four night buses , four dial-a-car buses and one disco bus route , as well as a collective-call taxi offer. A total of 77 vehicles were available for this. In 2004, DKB carried a total of around 10.77 million passengers.

The Dürener Kreisbahn GmbH is 100 percent owned by the investment company Kreis Düren mbH.

history

Network development

The company was founded in 1908. On October 6th of this year, the Kreisbahn started operating on its first tram and railway lines . Tram lines to Düren station, to Kreuzau , Gürzenich , Lendersdorf and Distelrath were set up in quick succession . The common starting point was the market square in Düren. In addition, there were railway lines (at that time referred to as small railroad according to the legal situation ) from Distelrath via Merzenich and Nörvenich to Zülpich city, as well as a route reserved for freight traffic north around the city from Distelrath to Schneidhausen (Güterring). The railway line to Zülpich was extended to Embken in 1911, with a siding to the Astraea lignite briquette factory . It was characteristic of this first rail epoch of the DKB that a mixed operation between trams and small or railways was set up from the beginning. In 1939 the first bus routes started operating .

Between the wars, the DKB electrified further sections of its railway line in the direction of Nörvenich, which was reached by the contact wire in 1928. On the non-electrified routes, it used the first diesel multiple units to replace the expensive steam traction.

The track openings in detail:

date	route
October 6, 1908	Düren train station - Düren market - Niederau
October 6, 1908	Distelrath - Düren Market - Rölsdorf - Gürzenich
October 6, 1908	Rölsdorf triangle - Lendersdorf
October 6, 1908	Distelrath - Zülpich (freight transport)
December 23, 1908	Niederau - Friedenau
March 15, 1909	Friedenau - Kreuzau
May 1, 1909	Distelrath - Zülpich (passenger transport)
June 3, 1911	Zülpich - Embken
July 20, 1912	Ringbahn Distelrath - Rölsdorf (freight transport)
July 20, 1912	Lendersdorf - Schneidhausen rolling mill

Suspension of rail traffic

During the Second World War , Düren was badly destroyed and the DKB lines were so badly damaged that some sections were no longer operational. So the tram traffic to Kreuzau and the train station ended. The Markt stop was relocated to Kaiserplatz . By 1958, all routes in the inner-city tram network except for the connection between Düren Kaiserplatz and Distelrath were closed. In 1958 the following lines were used (all lines except 7 and 8 with buses):

line	course
1	Düren train station - Wirteltorplatz - Kaiserplatz - Oberstrasse / Rütger-von-Scheven-Strasse - Krauthausen - Niederau - Kreuzau  - Winden
2	Düren Nord - train station - Wirteltorplatz - Kaiserplatz - Rölsdorf - Lendersdorf - Krauthausen / Berzbuir
3	Düren Nord - train station - Wirteltorplatz - Kaiserplatz - Goethestraße / Rurstraße - Rölsdorf - Gürzenich - Hubertushof - warehouse
4th	Düren train station - Wirteltorplatz - Kaiserplatz - Oberstraße - Zülpicher Platz
5	Düren train station - Wirteltorplatz - hospital - green belt - Schoellerstraße - Wirteltorplatz - train station
6th	Düren train station - Wirteltorplatz - Kaiserplatz - Ebertplatz - Binsfelder Straße - Zülpicher Platz
7th	Düren Kaiserplatz - New Cemetery - Distelrath - Merzenich
8th	Düren Kaiserplatz - New Cemetery - Distelrath - Merzenich - Girbelsrath - Nörvenich - Müddersheim - Sievernich - Bessenich - Zülpich Kreisbahn - Zülpich Stadt *
9	Düren Kaiserplatz - Wirteltorplatz - Train Station - Birkesdorf - Arnoldsweiler - Morschenich - Buir / Merzenich **
11	Düren train station - Wirteltorplatz - Kaiserplatz - Oberstraße / Rütger-von-Scheven-Straße - Krauthausen - Niederau - Kreuzau - Drove - Thum - Berg
12	Nörvenich - Rath - Wissersheim - Pingsheim - Herrig - Lechenich
13	Düren Nord - train station - Wirteltorplatz - Kaiserplatz - Rölsdorf - Gürzenich - Hubertushof - Schevenhütte
15th	Nörvenich train station - air base
17th	Gladbach - Vettweiß - Froitzheim - Füssenich - Geich
18th	Zülpich train station - Markt - Geich - Füssenich - Juntersdorf - Embken ***
21st	Düren train station - Wirteltorplatz - Kaiserplatz - Oberstrasse / Rütger-von-Scheven-Strasse - Krauthausen - Niederau - Kreuzau - Winden - Rath - Nideggen

* = electrical operation until Sievernich

** = no on-the-go service from Düren train station to Birkesdorf

*** = Community traffic Düren Kreisbahn - Deutsche Bundespost

In 1957 the railway section had Zuelpich city - Embken the lignite opencast Zuelpich soft. In contrast, the DKB began to provide the line from Nörvenich in the direction of Zülpich-Stadt with overhead lines. In 1960, however, the Nörvenich - Zülpich-Stadt section was closed despite these construction measures. The DKB then only operated the Düren Kaiserplatz - Nörvenich route and the freight ring . The traffic to Nörvenich was finally stopped on April 30, 1963, thus ending the rail-bound passenger traffic of the DKB. The DKB then continued to operate goods traffic to Nörvenich and on the goods ring for a few years, but this was also gradually shut down, in 1968 to Nörvenich and in 1970 the goods ring. The route to the transfer station and to the Düren station was served by its own locomotive until January 31, 1971. The operation of the line converted into an industrial main track was taken over from February 1, 1971 by the German Federal Railroad . This ended rail traffic, and from then until the takeover of the Jülich Kreisbahn , the DKB was a pure bus operation.

Further development of bus transport

From 1972 to 1978, the Düren Kreisbahn formed the Dürener Verkehrsgemeinschaft (DVG) together with the Kraftpost Düren . From January 1, 1979 to December 31, 2019, it was part of the Aachener Verkehrsverbund (AVV).

New start of rail traffic

Düren, March 3, 1993: The last DB train before the 3-hour morning break has arrived from Jülich, on the right there are overhauled rail buses waiting for the DKB

DKB opening train on May 23, 1993 at the celebration in Huchem-Stammeln . In the background the former station building of the DB, also known as the “monkey cage” by the population because of its bars.

MdL and District Administrator Adi Retz in 1995 at the presentation of the RegioSprinter

On January 1, 1984, the DKB initially took over the operation of the Jülich Kreisbahn , after the two districts had already been merged in 1972. With this, the DKB operated rail traffic again, even if only the sparse freight traffic on the route of the Jülich Kreisbahn Jülich Nord - Puffendorf , which usually consisted of once or twice a day wagons from the DB transfer station in Kirchberg to the customers along the route and again bring back.

Since the beginning of the 1980s, the Deutsche Bundesbahn (DB) intended to part with the branch lines around Düren. However, the Düren district saw unused potential for rail passenger transport, especially on the two routes along the Rur . After years of negotiations, on September 12, 1992, a contract was signed between DKB and DB on a special train to take over these two routes. From February 1993, the DKB received a number of used and refurbished rail buses in DKB colors from the DB , and test and training runs began on the routes on which the DB continued to operate public transport according to its previous timetable.

On May 23, 1993, operations on the Düren - Jülich and Düren - Heimbach lines were finally transferred from the DB to the DKB with a large festival program . In contrast to the DB's irregular timetable, the DKB ran every hour on weekdays from the start and on weekends also used the Jülich route again, where there has been no traffic on weekends under DB management for more than 20 years. The used rail buses were temporarily used as vehicles, but as early as September 24, 1993, DKB ordered new light railcars of the type RegioSprinter from Siemens-Duewag , which are extremely cost-effective compared to the industry . At the time of the order, these were still in the design stage, but after an unusually short period of 18 months in this area, the first vehicle was completed and on 25/26. March 1995 in Jülich and Düren presented to the public and the media. The vehicles were manufactured in Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia.

On both of its routes, the DKB set up a local transport service under the brand name Rurtalbahn , which was coordinated with the local bus routes and a new call bus or shared call taxi service. On June 7, 2002, the Jülich route was extended to Linnich . On both routes, the DKB had also taken over significant parts of the freight traffic .

The entry into freight transport outside of its own rail network took place in 2000.

On June 26, 2001, the subsidiary Düren Trans GmbH was founded together with Taeter Aachen . This partially took over the transport services of the bus company from the DKB. In April 2008 from the GmbH Düren Trans the Rurtalbus GmbH . In addition to DKB (23.8%), the owners of the company were Veolia Verkehr Rheinland GmbH (25.2%) and, since October 2007, RATH GmbH (51.0%), which was previously the majority shareholder of Rurtalbahn GmbH.

Outsourcing of rail transport

Bicycle trailer on an RVE bus on line SB63 at the Vogelsang IP Walberhof stop (2013)

The operation of the rail traffic was spun off as an independent Rurtalbahn GmbH on January 1, 2003 , in which the DKB held a share of 25.1 percent. The private RATH GmbH took over the remaining 74.9 percent. After that, the DKB was again a pure bus company for the second time in its history, but it continued to hold ownership of the railway lines operated by Rurtalbahn GmbH.

Reorganization of society

On February 20, 2008, DKB-Verkehr GmbH was founded as a 100% subsidiary of Dürener Kreisbahn GmbH. This took over the operational bus business ( road passenger transport ) and the corresponding concessions under the Passenger Transport Act from the DKB on January 1, 2009 . The DKB-Verkehr GmbH was renamed to DKB GmbH on January 7th, 2009 and finally to Dürener Kreisbahn GmbH (DKB) on November 24th, 2009.

Previously, on January 1, 2009, the previous investment company Kreis Düren mbH and DKB Vermögensverwaltung GmbH were integrated into the previous Dürener Kreisbahn GmbH, which was supposed to function as the new holding company. On August 13, 2009 it was renamed to Beteiligungsgesellschaft Kreis Düren mbH . This company, which is 100 percent owned by the Düren district, continues to own the infrastructure of the old DKB and thus the railway lines operated by Rurtalbahn GmbH. It also holds stakes in the subsidiaries Dürener Kreisbahn GmbH (100%), Rurtalbahn GmbH (25.1%) and other companies. Until it was deleted on October 8, 2016, DKB held 23.8% of Rurtalbus GmbH (formerly Düren Trans GmbH).

On August 16, 2013, the supervisory boards of Beteiligungsgesellschaft Kreis Düren mbH (BTG) and Dürener Kreisbahn GmbH transferred the operational management of Dürener Kreisbahn GmbH to RATH GmbH with retroactive effect from August 1, 2013. The main motivation for this decision was the lower income of BTG due to the lower dividend from RWE shares. With this, the managing director of Rurtalbahn GmbH, Hans-Peter Nießen, was appointed as another managing director of DKB with retroactive effect from August 1, 2013. Bernd Böhnke remained managing director of the DKB. As a further cost-saving measure, the supervisory board of Rurtalbus GmbH decided to cease operations and transfer the company's tasks and staff to DKB.

On September 7, 2017, it was published in the press that bus traffic is to be converted to electric drive and fuel cell technology in the future.

In September 2019 it was announced that the bus service will be operated from January 1, 2020 by the newly founded Rurtalbus company on September 18, 2019 . This subsidiary took over bus transport from the DKB on January 1, 2020 and is also replacing it as a partner in the Aachen Transport Association (AVV).

stretch

Düren train station - market - Kreuzau

Düren train station - market - Kreuzau
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	600 V  =
Dual track :	Düren train station - market
Legend Düren Railway from Inden 0.0 Dueren train station Route to Aachen and Rurtalbahn Hortplatz Wirteltorplatz Market route from / to Distelrath Route to Rölsdorf Dreieck Evasion Bonner Strasse Friedrichplatz bypass Jesuitenhof bypass Mühlenweg Weyerhof Schoellershammer Lendersdorf train station Krauthausen dodge Economy Daniels Niederau church siding Niederau end Evasion Friedenau-Schneidhausen Rurtalbahn to Heimbach 8.8 Kreuzau Sources: Düren circular path

Map of the transfer track at the Düren train station

The tram route Düren Bahnhof - Markt - Kreuzau ran roughly in a north-south direction, roughly parallel to the Rur . The northern end point was at the main entrance of the Düren train station in what is now the main railway station street . The route led down the station driveway and then turned left into today's Josef-Schregel-Strasse . From here the route was double-track, with the possibility of repositioning directly after the curve. At Wirteltorplatz , the route turned right into Schenkelstrasse and shortly afterwards into today's Zehnthofstrasse . From the then quite narrow passage between Kaiserplatz and Marktplatz, the line was again single-track.

Track layout of the tram on Düren market square, 1908

Düren market square (model of the state before 1944 by Karl-Heinz Funk, exhibit of the DKB-Zeitreise museum )

The Markt stop consisted of a simple triangular track with connections in the direction of Zehnthofstrasse, Kölnstrasse and Oberstrasse . In addition, the line from Weierstrasse in the direction of Kölnstrasse and in the direction of Zehnthofstrasse merged into the Gleisdreieck, which gave the market a complicated track layout. The railways in the different directions stopped directly in the Gleisdreieck, so that the transfer routes were comparatively short. Additional switches existed on the main tracks in Kölnstrasse and Oberstrasse.

The route to Kreuzau followed Oberstrasse, from Friedrichplatz on Nideggener Strasse , heading south. From the Schoellershammer stop in what is now Düren's Krauthausen district , the route led along Kreuzauer Strasse. Today's Cyriakusstrasse was used in Niederau . The line from Düren station to Niederau Ende was opened for regular traffic on October 6, 1908. Between Niederau and Kreuzau, the route was to the right of the Landstrasse (Kreuzauer Strasse or Dürener Strasse). A viaduct had to be built between Friedenau and Kreuzau to cross the Rur Valley Railway . Therefore the line to Kreuzau was not opened until March 15, 1909. At the end of the line in Kreuzau there was a siding.

After the destruction of Düren on November 16, 1944, the route was no longer used. Contrary to initial plans, the tram to Kreuzau was not rebuilt after the Second World War and instead replaced by a bus line from January 1, 1946.

As a replacement for the section from the train station to the market, the Dürener Eisenbahn (DEAG) tried in 1950 to extend the route that ended at the train station into the city center to Kaiserplatz. The planned route should initially run on a single track through Josef-Schregel-Strasse to just before Wirteltorplatz, then double-track through Schenkelstrasse to Zehnthofstrasse. From here, a large loop was to be driven in a single-track block bypass via Wilhelmstrasse , Kaiserplatz and Zehnthofstrasse in order to serve the new central DKB stop at Kaiserplatz. Due to discrepancies between the city of Düren, the DKB and DEAG, these plans were not implemented.

Distelrath - Market - Gürzenich

Distelrath - Market - Gürzenich
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	600 V  =
Legend of Anst. Brueckenstrasse Route from the transfer station Route from Nörvenich and Ringbahn 0.0 Distelrath station Yorckstrasse New cemetery dodge Scharnhorststrasse (until 1924 Br. Büngeler) Kölnplatz - New Water Tower Old graveyard post Office Evasion Market until 1952, route from / to the train station Route to Kreuzau Kaiserplatz siding, from 1952 Route through Weierstrasse until 1944 Moltkedenkmal - Philippstrasse Holzstrasse - Aachener Strasse Jahnstrasse Evasion Rurtalbahn to Heimbach City park - Rurbrücke Rölsdorf Monschauer Strasse Rölsdorf triangle to the industrial station. Rölsdorf Rölsdorf carriage hall Ringbahn to Lendersdorf Rst Hannemann Ringbahn to Mariaweiler Breuer's house Junction of the Gürzenich-Staatsbhf. to the Gürzenich freight yard Gasthof Fuchs Gürzenich Church Sources: Düren circular path

Plan of the route around the New Water Tower on Kölnplatz

The Distelrath - Markt - Gürzenich tram route ran roughly in an east-west direction through downtown Düren. The route began at Distelrath station , which was the transition to the railway line in the direction of Nörvenich . The tram turned right into Kölner Landstrasse . At what was then Kölnplatz, the water tower was circled to the south until 1944, after the war the route led straight through the Friedrich-Ebert-Platz roundabout . The route continued through Kölnstrasse to the market square.

Shortly before the Markt stop, there was a turnout in Kölnstrasse. At the market, it was possible to turn off towards the train station and towards Oberstraße . The trains of the various lines met at this central stop every 15 minutes. The further course through the eastern Weierstraße was only used until 1944, after the Second World War the route led over Kaiserplatz .

In the further course the route led through the western Weierstraße past the Pleußmühle and then turned right into Aachener Straße . At the level of the Jahnstraße stop (today Rurstraße) it touches the Annakirmesplatz , behind the stop there was another turnout. Shortly before the Johannesbrücke, the Rurtalbahn was crossed to Heimbach . The route continued on Monschauer Straße to Rölsdorf .

First plan of the track triangle in Rölsdorf in 1906 with a branch to Lendersdorf in front of the mill pond

The tram routes to Lendersdorf and Gürzenich branched out at the Rölsdorf Dreieck stop . Originally, the route to Lendersdorf was supposed to branch off at the intersection with today's Kapellenstrasse and then continue on the right side of the mill pond. A bridge for the railway over the Lendersdorf mill pond would have been avoided.

Track plan of the Rölsdorf track triangle, 1909

Instead, a full-fledged track triangle was built at the intersection of Monschauer Strasse and today's Bahnstrasse . The route to Lendersdorf branched off to the left coming from the city, and after crossing the mill pond, the Rölsdorf freight station was reached. There was also a depot for the tram motor vehicles here. Straight ahead in Monschauer Straße there was a short stump track on which the wagons of line 6 ending in Rölsdorf turned. The Gürzenich route turned right into today's Bahnstrasse.

The track arrangement in the Gleisdreieck was changed again in the course of the construction of the Ringbahn . The original track from Gürzenich in the direction of Lendersdorf was added to the Ringbahn, and a new track was built for the tram to the Rölsdorf freight station. The Ringbahn thus crossed the tracks of the tram at the level of the track triangle.

The route to Gürzenich initially ran parallel to the Ringbahn along its track; the tracks of the tram and the ring railway were operated independently. However, there was a freight connection crossing the tram tracks west of the line.

At Breuer's house , the tram and the Ringbahn parted again, the tram line turned left into what is now Valencienner Strasse . Since this section of the tram up to the junction to the Gürzenich state train station was also used by freight trains, there was a track connection between the tram and the ring line shortly before the separation at Breuer's house.

End station Gürzenich Church

At the Gasthof Fuchs the route turned left into today's Schillingsstrasse. The terminus was at the level of the Gürzenich Church. There was a siding there for moving sidecars.

Distelrath - Embken

→ Main article : Distelrath – Embken railway line

The Distelrath - Merzenich - Nörvenich - Zülpich - Embken railway line was the main line of the Düren district railway. It was used by the tram from Distelrath to Merzenich from 1909 and, like the city network, was electrified in this section with 600  volts DC . The rest of the route was initially operated by steam trains for passenger and freight transport.

In 1928 electric traffic was extended to Nörvenich. From 1938 the steam trains were replaced by diesel multiple units in passenger transport.

Although electrical operation was gradually expanded from Nörvenich to Bessenich in the 1950s, passenger traffic on the Neffel valley route between Nörvenich and Zülpich-Stadt ended again in 1960, after passenger traffic between Zülpich-Stadt and Embken had been discontinued in 1957. In 1962, goods and all traffic on the Neffel route ended .

Passenger traffic to Nörvenich was given up in 1963 together with the last Düren tram route to Kaiserplatz, freight traffic ended in 1968. The route was then dismantled.

Distelrath - Schneidhausen

→ Main article : Distelrath – Schneidhausen railway line

The railway line Distelrath - Birkesdorf - Rölsdorf - Lendersdorf (- Schneidhausen) led from Distelrath in an arc via Birkesdorf north around the city of Düren and was therefore called ring line, bypass or freight ring.

The route was primarily used for freight transport to industrial companies in the north of the city of Düren as well as in Mariaweiler , Rölsdorf , Lendersdorf and Schneidhausen . On the section between Distelrath and Mariaweiler, passenger transport was carried out with diesel multiple units.

The Rölsdorf - Lendersdorf Ort section was opened on October 6, 1908 and was used by the DKB tram until 1954 . Like the rest of the city network, it was therefore electrified with 600  V DC .

The Lendersdorf - Schneidhausen section was not put back into operation after the Second World War . All traffic was stopped in 1970 after a compensation for the conversion to trucks had been agreed with the industrial companies connected to the railway.

Düren - Distelrath

→ Main article : Düren – Distelrath railway line

The railway line Düren - Distelrath was the connecting line of the Düren district railway with the Reichsbahn and later the federal railway. It was put into operation in 1908 and was used exclusively for freight traffic.

After the DKB had given up its own rail transport, the line was converted into an industrial main track in 1969/70 and served by the DB from 1972. In the course of the new connection of the Distelrath depot operated by Rurtalbahn GmbH via the Bördebahn , the line was shut down.

Jülich North - Puffendorf

→ Main article : Jülich circular path

The Jülich Nord - Puffendorf railway line was originally the main line of the Jülich district railway. The management of the line was taken over on January 1, 1984 by the DKB. At that time, the route was used exclusively for freight traffic.

After freight traffic had continued to decline over the years and was finally limited to the section to Kirchberg Nord, the route was no longer used from 1999. With the spin-off of Rurtalbahn GmbH, management was transferred to this company; the DKB was still the owner of the route. The shutdown finally took place in 2007 after the tracks had already been removed at the Jülich Nord and Puffendorf endpoints.

Line network

The DKB operated bus routes mainly in the city and in the Düren district. The AVV tariff applied to all lines; the first digit of the three-digit line number has been in the Düren traffic area since May 28, 2000; before the line numbers of the DKB were one or two digits. Some bus routes ran beyond the district boundary into neighboring districts, e.g. B. Lines 208, 212, 215, 217, 218, 228 and 276. Since these lines extend into the network area of ​​the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg (VRS), a so-called AVV / VRS collar tariff was applied here.

The following table shows the DKB line network 2019. Some trips were carried out by subcontractors on behalf of the DKB.

line	course
201	Kreuzau  - Stockheim  - Bergheim  - Langenbroich  - Bogheim  - Untermaubach  - Obermaubach  - Bilstein
202	Düren - Rölsdorf  - Lendersdorf  - Kufferath / Niederau
203	Kaiserplatz  - Municipal Hospital - Green Belt
204	Kaiserplatz - Zülpicher Platz - Henry-Ford-Straße / Weyerfeld
205	Kaiserplatz - train station / central  bus station - Birkesdorf Hospital / Glashüttenstrasse
206	Düren - Birkesdorf  - Mariaweiler / Hoven
207	Düren - Merzenich
208	Düren - Nörvenich  - Zülpich
209	Düren - Birkesdorf - Arnoldsweiler  - Merzenich S-Bhf./ Morschenich
210	Kreuzau - Boich  - Nideggen  - Schmidt
211	Düren - Kreuzau - Drove - Thum - Berg
212	Nörvenich - Wissersheim - Pingsheim - Lechenich
213	Düren - Gürzenich  - Birgel / Derichsweiler / Gürzenich Forest
214	Kaiserplatz - Odenthalstrasse - Zülpicher Platz
215	Nörvenich - Golzheim  - Buir
216	Düren - Birkesdorf - Hoven - Remember (- Schophoven) - Inden / Altdorf - Lamersdorf - Lucherberg
217	Girbelsrath - Golzheim / Morschenich-Neu - Merzenich
218	Zülpich - Geich - Füssenich - Embken
221	Düren - Kreuzau - Nideggen
222	Düren - Lendersdorf - Kufferath
224	Kaiserplatz - Gneisenaustrasse
225	Kaiserplatz - Stadtwerke - Realkauf
228	Sievernich - Müddersheim - Lechenich
234	(Ellen - Niederzier - Hambach) / Huchem-Stammeln - Krauthausen - Remember - Inden
235	Niederzier - Ellen - Merzenich S-Bhf. - Girbelsrath
239	Birgel - Derichsweiler - Echtz - Mariaweiler
276	Düren - Golzheim - Buir / Blatzheim (- Kerpen)
278	Linnich - Ederen - Aldenhoven
281	Jülich - Koslar - Ederen - Freialdenhoven
A.	Kaiserplatz - Rütger-von-Scheven-Straße - Odenthalstraße - Gneisenaustraße - Bismarckstraße - Kaiserplatz (city ring)
B.	Kaiserplatz - Clodwigplatz - Gneisenaustraße - Green Belt - Kaiserplatz (city ring)
City bus	Annakirmesplatz - Kaiserplatz
Disco bus	Jülich - Himmerich (only in the night from Friday to Saturday)
Mäxchen	Heimbach - Mariawald / Schmidt Wildpark - Schwammenauel (only Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays from May to October)

literature

• Dürener Kreisbahn GmbH (Ed.): 75 years of Dürener Kreisbahn . Düren 1983.
• Bernd Hahne: Always on the move - 100 years of the Düren circular path 1908–2008 . Düren 2008, OCLC 317288950 .
• Bernd Franco Hoffmann: Disused railway lines in the Rhineland. Sutton-Verlag, Erfurt 2014, ISBN 978-3-95400-396-9 .
• Dieter Höltge: Trams and light rail vehicles in Germany. Volume 7: Cologne, Düren, Aachen. EK-Verlag, Freiburg i.Br. 2001, ISBN 3-88255-338-3 .

Web links

Commons : Dürener Kreisbahn  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• The Düren Kreisbahn DKB
• The Dürener Kreisbahn (DKB) (The story)
• A company chronicle on the history of the Düren district railway

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Participation report of the district of Düren 2016. (PDF) pp. 325-330 , accessed on October 9, 2019 . 
2. ↑ The Dürener Kreisbahn GmbH makes use of the driving and operating staff available at BTG within the framework of loan and rental agreements.
3. ↑ Imprint. Retrieved August 1, 2017 . 
4. ^ Dürener Kreisbahn GmbH (Ed.): 75 years of Dürener Kreisbahn . Düren 1983, p. 22 .
5. ^ Gerd Wolff: German small and private railways, Volume 4: North Rhine-Westphalia southern part . EK-Verlag, Freiburg 1997, ISBN 3-88255-660-9 .
6. ^ Dürener Kreisbahn operating company, Dürener Eisenbahn AG (ed.): Timetable; Summer 1958.
7. ↑ Gerd Wolff: German small and private railways, Volume 4: North Rhine-Westphalia - southern part . EK-Verlag, Freiburg 1997, p. 45 .
8. ↑ Bernd Hahne: Always on the move - 100 years of the Düren circular path 1908–2008 . Hahne & Schloemer Verlag, Düren 2008, ISBN 978-3-927312-93-7 , p. 49 .
9. ↑ Guido Rademacher: The rail buses of the Dürener Kreisbahn. In: Railway in the Aachen area. Retrieved June 13, 2020 . 
10. ↑ Georg Ringler: (MEs) DKB: reactivation Jülich - Linnich from May 26th. on 07/08/06. postponed. In: Archive (reports from Tuesday, May 14, 2002). Retrieved June 12, 2020 . 
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26. ↑ Wisoveg - Festschrift BKB-MLB. Retrieved February 8, 2012 . 
27. ^ Dürener Kreisbahn GmbH (Ed.): 75 years of Dürener Kreisbahn . Düren 1983, p. 14-15 .
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