Local transport in Essen
The transport in food is with buses and light rail and tram lines of the Ruhr railway provided. There are also bus routes in Essen that are operated by transport companies in neighboring cities such as Bogestra , Rheinbahn , STOAG and Vestischen . There are several transfer points , with the main train station and underground station Berliner Platz in the city center, Essen-Steele train station in the east, Essen-Borbeck train station and Helenenstraße in Altendorf in the west being the most important.
history
In the 19th century, passenger traffic in Essen was handled by horse-drawn buses in 1847 . Essen was connected to the railway network in 1847 when the main line of the Cologne-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft was built. In 1895 the electric tram was put into operation by the Süddeutsche Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft . Motorized omnibus traffic began in 1925; In the 1960s, the construction of the partly underground light rail began.
Inner-city traffic
Light rail
The backbone of Essen's local transport network is the standard-gauge and high-floor light rail network. It runs from Altenessen via Essen city center with the main train station to Rüttenscheid and the Messe / Gruga, as well as underground on sections of the route to Mülheim an der Ruhr . With the exception of the north branch between Altenessen and Gelsenkirchen-Horst and the south-west branch between Bismarckplatz and Margarethenhöhe , the light rail network is completely separated from individual traffic. Another special feature between Essen and Mülheim is that the U18 light rail line runs on the median of the 40 federal motorway .
The Essen light rail network has a north branch from the city center to Altenessen, Karnap and Gelsenkirchen-Horst, with options for turning at the Berliner Platz underground station in the city center and at the Karlsplatz underground station in Altenessen. To the south, the Essen light rail network has three branches. These run from Essen Hauptbahnhof underground station to Rüttenscheid and Messe Essen / Gruga (U11), Holsterhausen and Margarethenhöhe (U17), and Mülheim an der Ruhr (U18). All light rail lines serve the underground stations Berliner Platz , Hirschlandplatz and Essen Hbf .
tram
The tram is the second rail-bound mode of transport in Essen. In contrast to the high-floor and standard-gauge light rail network, the tram network is low-floor and meter-gauge and therefore technically incompatible with the light rail network. However, it shares the route to Rüttenscheid in the direction of Bredeney with the Stadtbahn network , which is why the route there has three -rail tracks . High-floor trams from the 1980s with folding steps still run on this route .
In the rest of the tram network there are mostly low-floor trams. The tram network runs mainly in the northern part of the city and, like the light rail, has a tunnel route in the inner city area . The tram network branches in the north and west of Essen in several directions, such as Frohnhausen , to Mülheim an der Ruhr , Frintrop to the city limits of Oberhausen , and two routes to Essen-Borbeck , one of which continues to Gerschede and Dellwig .
The north-east of Essen is only served by a long tram route, which connects the city center with Stoppenberg , Katernberg and neighboring Gelsenkirchen . The culture line 107 runs on this . The junction of all tram lines is the Rathaus Essen underground station . Line 105 is on
the tram route Essen – Oberhausen , the main route going west. This does not run to the neighboring city like the 107 line (here, however, Oberhausen), but ends at the city limits. The Centro and the Oberhausen public transport route , which represent the backbone of local transport in Oberhausen , are two to three kilometers behind this terminal . Line 105 was actually supposed to be extended to Oberhausen by 2018, but these plans were stopped by a decision of the city council. However, the plans were registered in the state's public transport requirement plan in November 2015.
| line | course |
|---|---|
| 105 |
Nature line 105 : |
The tram runs to the east to Huttrop and Steele and to the south the route to Bergerhausen and Rellinghausen , from which the Essen Südtangente branches off, a tram route that connects Moltkestrasse in the southern district with Rüttenscheid , Holsterhausen and Altendorf in the west. The busiest tram crossing in the Ruhr area is on Helenenstrasse in Altendorf . All Essen tram lines cross in the Essen Rathaus underground station .
Bus routes
The remaining public transport is served by bus routes. These often create tangential connections between the districts and the tram lines.
As a special feature, duo and track buses drove or drive on lines 145, 146 and 147 (now only lines 146 and 147) . These were originally used for test purposes. The track bus has not established itself as a transport system.
Even in the big city, there is an hourly public bus every day during the day : from the Alfried Krupp Hospital via Margarethenhöhe to Haarzopf . The VRR tariff does not apply here.
Such an offer is also on the way to three destinations in Kettwig on weekdays.
Daytime traffic
Night traffic
While during the day the bus network creates a straight line connection between the rail lines within the city, the night network runs primarily radially from the main station in a star shape to most parts of the city. The night express lines (NE) are supplemented by taxi bus lines, which allow a fine distribution in the individual parts of the city.
Rail transport
The main train station is the Hauptbahnhof . According to the DB, 123 long-distance trains, 198 local trains and 403 S-Bahn trains serve the station every day (as of 2010). All railway lines, with the exception of the Duisburg – Dortmund line of the Cologne-Minden Railway, run together in the main station. The lines RE3, RB32 and RB35 that run here do not stop at the main station, but instead serve the Essen-Altenessen station , which u. a. is connected to the city center and the main train station by the main line tunnel of the Essen light rail . The Hespertalbahn , a standard-gauge railway with steam locomotive operation , runs as a museum railway between the old station Kupferdreh and Haus Scheppen on the south bank of Lake Baldeney.
Altogether there are currently 26 train stations with passenger traffic in Essen. These are carefully listed in the Essen train stations list. The S-Bahn stations Dellwig and Dellwig Ost , which are located on two different routes that intersect in the area of the two stations, are a particular curiosity .
Long-distance transport
The main train station in Essen is the stop of the long-distance traffic of the Deutsche Bahn and was served by trains of the lines mentioned below in the 2013 timetable year. In addition, since August 29, 2011, there has been a connection with the Thalys high-speed train via Düsseldorf-Cologne-Aachen and Brussels to Paris (listed below as THA 80). Essen Hauptbahnhof is the only long-distance train station in Essen. There are a few long-distance trains that run through the city of Essen on the Duisburg – Dortmund line of the Cologne-Mindener Bahn, but they do not stop in the city of Essen, not even in Essen-Altenessen.
| line | Line course |
|---|---|
| ICE 10 | Berlin Ostbf - Hanover - Dortmund - Essen - Duisburg - Düsseldorf - Cologne / Bonn Airport |
| IC 30 | ( Westerland -) Hamburg-Altona - Münster (Westf) - Dortmund - Essen - Duisburg - Düsseldorf - Cologne - Koblenz - Mannheim - Stuttgart / (- Freiburg (Breisgau) - Switzerland ) |
| IC 32 | ( Berlin Südkreuz - Hanover -) Dortmund - Essen - Duisburg - Düsseldorf - Cologne - Koblenz - Mannheim - Stuttgart (- Lindau / Munich - Austria ) |
| ICE 41 | Dortmund - Essen - Duisburg - Düsseldorf - Cologne - Frankfurt (Main) - Würzburg - Nuremberg - Munich |
| ICE 42 | (Münster (Westf)) - ( Recklinghausen ) - or (Dortmund) - Essen - Duisburg - Düsseldorf - Cologne - Frankfurt (Main) Airport - Mannheim - Stuttgart - Munich |
| IC 51 | Ostseebad Binz - Berlin - Halle (Saale) - Erfurt - Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe - Dortmund - Essen - Duisburg - Düsseldorf - Cologne |
| IC 55 | Leipzig - Magdeburg - Hanover - Dortmund - Essen - Duisburg - Düsseldorf - Cologne |
| THA 80 | Paris-Nord - Bruxelles-Midi / Brussel-Zuid - Liège-Guillemins - Aachen - Cologne - Düsseldorf - (Düsseldorf Airport -) Duisburg - Essen - Dortmund |
| ICE 91 | Hamburg - Hamburg-Harburg - Bremen - Münster - Dortmund - Essen - Duisburg - Wuppertal - Cologne - Bonn - Koblenz - Mainz - Frankfurt (Main) Flughafen Fernbf - Frankfurt (Main) - Würzburg - Nuremberg - Regensburg - Passau - Linz - Vienna Hbf - Vienna Airport |
| FLX 10 | Hamburg - Osnabrück - Münster - Gelsenkirchen - Essen - Duisburg - Düsseldorf - Cologne |
Individual trains that go beyond the usual routes of the lines, as well as reinforcement trains on weekends, are not listed.
With the timetable change in December 2007, Essen Central Station lost the stops of the night trains, City Night Line to Vienna and EuroNight “ Jan Kiepura ” to Warsaw (with through coaches to Minsk and Moscow ).
Regional traffic
Nine Regional Express lines and four regional train lines will operate in Essen in the 2020 timetable . All of these lines with the exception of the RE3, RB32 and RB35 lines serve the main station. The RE3, RB32 and RB35 lines do not stop at Essen main station because they serve the Duisburg – Dortmund line of the Cologne-Mindener Eisenbahn , which is the only line in Essen's urban area that does not reach Essen main station. But all three of them serve the Essen-Altenessen train station , which is the only stop in Essen for the RE3. The lines RB32 and RB35 also stop Essen-Dellwig , Essen-Bergeborbeck and Essen Zollverein Nord . In addition to the main station, the regional trains also serve the stations Essen-Altenessen, Essen-Dellwig, Essen-Bergeborbeck, Essen-Zollverein Nord, Essen-Borbeck , Essen West , Essen-Kray Süd , Essen-Steele and Essen-Kupferdreh . The remaining 16 of the 26 Essen train stations are pure S-Bahn stops.
Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn
Five lines of the Rhein-Ruhr S-Bahn operate in Essen .
Future of local transport
Many goals for the generous expansion of Essen's local transport network, including the new construction of the Bahnhofstangente (a new above-ground tram route from the Krupp district via the Berthold-Beitz-Boulevard to the main station and to Hollestrasse, where there is a connection to the tram route to Steele) are included in the current local transport plan .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wahlen.regioit.de
- ↑ derwasten.de
- ↑ http://www.buergerbus-essen-hmr.de/ timetable and tariff
- ↑ http://www.buergerbus-kettwig.de/index.php?page=291
- ^ DB - The train stations - Facts & Figures - Essen Hbf. Archived from the original on June 5, 2010 ; Retrieved June 11, 2010 .
- ↑ derwesten.de of August 29, 2011: Self-test with the Thalys from Essen to Paris and back - offline
- ↑ Essen local transport plan
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