Kassel trolleybus

Kassel trolleybus
Route length:	6.007 km
Power system :	620 volts  =
Dual track :	Teichstrasse – Rasenallee
Legend Alley of lawn Seebergstrasse Lerchenfeldstrasse Wilhelmshöher way Harleshausen town center Harleshausen School Ahnatalstrasse Riedelstrasse Harleshausen Street Kirchditmold Church School Kirchditmold Zentgrafenstrasse depot Teichstrasse Mergellstrasse Kirchditmolder Strasse Drusel Wilhelmshöhe station Rolandstrasse Kunoldstrasse Baunsbergstrasse Drusel Wilhelmshöhe depot

Wilhelmshöher Allee at the Wilhelmshöhe train station with a view out of town towards Herkules

The trolleybus Kassel was a trolleybus system in the northwestern district of Kassel , which existed between July 12, 1944 and May 28, 1962. The operator was the Kasseler Verkehrs-Gesellschaft (KVG), which today still operates an extensive bus network in Kassel in addition to the Kassel tram . It was one of six trolleybus companies in Hesse , there were more in Frankfurt am Main , Giessen , Marburg , Offenbach am Main and Wiesbaden .

history

Trolleybus traffic in Kassel began on July 12, 1944 and temporarily ended in February 1945. At that time, an aerial bomb hit the trolleybus depot in Zentgrafenstrasse (today Riehm printing company) on the Harleshausen curve during an attack on the nearby marshalling yard . The depot was completely destroyed, including two of three trolleybuses, so that operations between Harleshausen and Kirchditmold had to be stopped after just under a year. Operations could be resumed on October 1, 1947, but the destroyed Zentgrafenstrasse depot was replaced by a new depot on Wilhelmshöher Allee , diagonally across from the existing Wilhelmshöhe tram depot.

On November 1, 1949, operations between Kirchditmold and Wilhelmshöhe could begin. The catenary through Mergellstrasse, Kirchditmolder Strasse and Kunoldstrasse was single-lane, because every second journey only ran between the stops at Rasenallee and Kirchditmold Church . From Wilhelmshöher Allee, the trolleybuses served a block loop via Baunsbergstrasse, Friedrich-Naumann-Strasse and Kunoldstrasse back to Wilhelmshöher Allee. In 1953 the section from Kunoldstrasse via Wilhelmshöher Allee to Wilhelmshöhe station was opened and from December 1, 1953, the trolleybuses returned to the confluence with Wilhelmshöher Allee via Wilhelmshöhe station, Landgraf-Karl-Strasse and Friedrich-Naumann-Strasse to Kunoldstrasse. The catenary of the old line over the Baunsbergstrasse was not dismantled and could therefore continue to be used for journeys to the Wilhelmshöhe depot, the route network from then on had a length of 6.007 kilometers .

The initially numberless trolleybus line was assigned line number 10 in 1954. In December 1960 the board of directors of the KVG decided to discontinue the trolleybus operation for the next two years. Finally, the trolleybus was discontinued for the timetable change on May 28, 1962. The reasons were, among other things, the age and wear and tear of the vehicles and the overhead contact line.

See also

• List of former trolleybus systems

Web links

• The trolleybus line of the Kasseler Verkehrs-Gesellschaft 1944–1962 by Holger Werner, private documentation about the Kassel trolleybus.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Chronicle of the years 1900–1944. In: City portal kassel.de. December 23, 2013, accessed January 6, 2015 . 
2. ↑ Farewell to the trolleybus . In: The tram (KVG) . June 1962.
3. ↑ KVG is abolishing the trolleybuses . In: Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine . December 10, 1960.
4. ↑ Two new bus routes for Harleshausen . In: Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine . May 23, 1962.