Gera trolleybus
The Gera trolleybus was, in addition to the tram and bus lines, a means of public transport in the eastern Thuringian city of Gera .
On November 2, 1939, the trolleybus started operating as the eighth trolleybus in Germany and the first in Thuringia. The route initially led from today's Platz der Republik (then Roßplatz) via Markt and Leumnitz to the Reussische Kaserne (Dornaer Straße). An omnibus has been running on the route since 1935. Initially, the construction of a tram was planned, the plans for this go back to the 1920s. Due to the incline of up to six percent on the Nicolaiberg, it was decided after a few tests to make it a trolleybus. In 1956, an intermediate turning loop went into operation in Leumnitz , which was used in the more frequent traffic during rush hour. In 1964 the line was extended to the west to the miners' hospital (today the forest clinic). In 1973, the turning loop in the city center was relocated to Flanzstrasse during renovation work. The following year, the Wendeschleife in Leumnitz was dismantled again, as the residential areas had developed not to the east but to the west. On September 14, 1977 the trolleybus operation in Gera ended. On the one hand, the maintenance of the vehicles was complicated and time-consuming, on the other hand, the city center was redesigned, so that larger route relocations would have been necessary, whereupon the operation with buses was given preference.
literature
- Georg Bührle: The trolleybus operation in Gera. In: Verkehrstechnik , Volume 21, Issue 3 (February 3, 1940), pp. 33–37.