District of Ruhrorter tram
The county Ruhrorter streetcar AG was a transport - company of the former district Ruhr place on the territory of the city of Duisburg in North Rhine-Westphalia .
The origins of the Kreis Ruhrorter Straßenbahn AG go back to the company Kampf & Hollender , which received a concession to build and operate a horse-drawn tram from Ruhrort to Duisburg in 1891 . After the Ruhrort district founded the Ruhrorter Straßenbahn AG district on December 27, 1893, the line opened on July 1, 1892, was transferred to the new company. In return, Kampf & Hollender became a shareholder in Kreis Ruhrorter Straßenbahn AG.
The following meter-gauge routes were opened:
| Opening date | route |
| July 3, 1897 | Meiderich - Laar |
| July 3, 1897 | Ruhrort - Bruckhausen |
| May 24, 1900 | Bruckhausen - Hamborn - Marxloh |
The acquired route from Ruhrort to Meiderich could only be electrified on February 24, 1898 after some difficulties . Thus, the company had a route network of around 16 kilometers at that time. Since a colliery railway was not allowed to be crossed on the line opened in 1900 , the entire route from Ruhrort could not be put into operation until 1901 after a road bridge had been built.
From May 1, 1907 to January 1, 1913, the district of Ruhrorter Straßenbahn AG operated a route from Homberg over the Rhine bridge, newly built in 1907, to Ruhrort and on to Hamborn. The Ruhrort – Homberg section was later given to the Moers-Homberg tram .
In 1910, the Ruhrorter Straßenbahn AG district acquired the Neumühl – Dinslaken tram, which was also meter gauge, from the Continentalen Eisenbahn-Bau- und Betriebs-Gesellschaft (CEBBG) in Berlin. On their routes there was also freight traffic to various connections (1909: 51,733 t).
| Opening date | route |
| June 1, 1900 | Neumühl - Dinslaken |
| June 1, 1900 | Aldenrade - Walsum |
| November 11, 1902 | Meiderich - Neumühl (property of the city of Meiderich) |
In order to be able to use the wider wagons of the CEBBG, all double-track sections were rebuilt and the track spacing was widened to 2.50 m. After a new route section was added in the city of Meiderich on December 31, 1911 , the Ruhrorter Straßenbahn AG district operated a route network of 38 kilometers with five lines at the end of 1911.
Despite changes in local politics, the Ruhrorter Straßenbahn AG district remained in existence, although in 1905 the cities of Meiderich and Ruhrort left the Ruhrort district and merged with the city of Duisburg . Five years earlier, the mayor was Hamborn excreted and 1911 1 May Stadtkreis become. Finally, on May 1, 1909, the Ruhrort district was dissolved and merged with the remainder of the Dinslaken district.
The following new routes were opened in the following years:
| Opening date | route |
| 1914 | Dinslaken - Lohberg |
| 1921 | Walsum - Wehofen |
| 1923 | Wehofen - Holten Market |
| 1925 | Holten Markt - Holten train station |
| 1927 | Meiderich - Hamborn |
| 1930 | Dinslaken - Hiesfeld |
| 1930 | Walsum - banks of the Rhine |
In 1930, the Ruhrorter district - as it was called for short - had a total route network of 46 km on which nine lines operated.
On January 1, 1941, the Ruhrorter Straßenbahn AG district was taken over by the Duisburger Verkehrsgesellschaft AG .
literature
- Dieter Höltge: Trams and light rail vehicles in Germany, Volume 4: Ruhr area. EK-Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 1994, ISBN 3-88255-334-0 .
- Dieter Höltge: Trams and light rail vehicles in Germany, Volume 9: Lower Rhine without Duisburg. EK-Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 2004, ISBN 3-88255-390-1 .