Tram route Essen – Oberhausen

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Essen section 105
Tram line 105 at the terminus Unterstraße in Essen-Frintrop.
Route length:	21 km
Gauge :	1000 mm ( meter gauge )
Power system :	750 V  =
former / planned route from Oberhausen 105 City limit Oberhausen / Essen Frintrop Unterstrasse terminus105 former tram to Dellwig Wertstraße 103 In the Neerfeld Reversible loop Frintroper height Frintropic height At Kreyenkrop Francis House Tram from Mülheim an der Ruhr 104 Aktienstraße junction ( Sweeping track in central position; end point104) Hot street Tram from Borbeck-Mitte , Gerschede , Dellwig Wertstrasse 103 Fly bush S-Bahn route Essen ↔ Bottrop Essen-Borbeck Süd S9 Post mill Roentgenstrasse Helenenstrasse Holsterhausen , Rüttenscheid ↔ Bergeborbeck , Borbeck-Mitte 101/106 Tram from Borbeck-Mitte 101/106 Kronenberg Tram from Frohnhausen 109 ThyssenKrupp Altendorfer Strasse ramp Berliner Platz U11, U17, U18 Rheinischer Platz Tram from Gelsenkirchen ( cultural line )107, Altenessen 108 Essen Town Hall Tram to Essen-Steele train station 103 109 Main line Mülheim ↔ Bochum Essen Central Station Tram to Bredeney ( cultural line )107 108 Gutenbergstrasse ramp Aalto Theater Kronprinzenstrasse Moltkestrasse Tram to Rüttenscheid , Holsterhausen , Helenenstr 106/101 Essen Südbahnhof S6 S-Bahn route Düsseldorf ↔ Essen Pottery Street Ludwig mine East Street Schnabelstrasse Rellinghausen Town Hall Rellinghausen, Finefraustraße Wendeschleife Finefraustraße, terminus 105

The Essen – Oberhausen tram route is a former tram route that connected Essen and Oberhausen in the Ruhr area . It was used by line 5 of the old Oberhausen and Essen trams . Since the closure of the Oberhausen tram in 1974, the Essen section of this route has ended at the Essen / Oberhausen city limits in Unter- Frintrop . It became route 105 when the Rhein-Ruhr transport association was founded and is now known as the natural route 105 .

There is also a project to re-establish a route between the two cities.

History (the old line 5)

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Tram operation on the first joint line between Oberhausen and Essen, Line 5, began on December 8, 1924. For this purpose, a new connection route between the blast furnaces and Essener Strasse along the B 231 had to be built. This tram line was electrified from the start.
In 1965 the city of Oberhausen decided to shut down its entire tram network and replace it with the omnibus. As a result, the section of line 5 within the city limits was closed in 1967; Since then, the line has ended on Unterstrasse and only runs within Essen to Rellinghausen . After the establishment of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr and the associated renumbering of the lines, line 5 was changed from line 5 to line 105 in 1980, as the lines in the Essen / Mülheim area ( timetable area 1 ) were numbered by 100.

Natural line 105

On the occasion of Essen's application to be the green capital of Europe in 2016 , tram line 105 was given the nickname Naturlinie 105 , because it connects many natural destinations along its 21 km long route through Essen, starting from the green corners of Frintroper Höhe via Borbeck Castle Park and Krupp Park up to the Ruhrufer in Rellinghausen. This makes it the second tram line in Essen to be nicknamed after the cultural line 107 .

Reactivation of the Oberhausen section

In 1996 the tram was reintroduced in Oberhausen as part of the new construction of the New Center ; for this purpose, the tram line 112 coming from Mülheim was extended beyond the city limits on the local public transport route . The public transport route and the Neue Mitte Oberhausen are just 2 km as the crow flies north-west of the Unterstraße terminus. Since the opening of the Neue Mitte, the city of Oberhausen has also planned to extend line 105 into its urban area. The tram line 105 would then be built on the B 231 to the Mellinghofer Straße junction, then the former Oberhausen steelworks site and with it the Oberhausen site of Fraunhofer UMSICHT and the CentrO, and at the Oberhausen Gasometer , the existing public transport route would be developed in the direction of Oberhausen Hauptbahnhof and Oberhausen-Sterkrade Bahnhof .

In the Essen city area, line 105 runs straight across the B 231 via Essen-Frintrop , - Bedingrade , - Schönebeck and - Altendorf to Essen city center and further southwest via the Südviertel and Bergerhausen to Rellinghausen . It forms a 21 km long axis through Essen.

Since the Oberhausen public transport route is the backbone of the Oberhausen local transport network and the 105 simultaneously runs a 21 km long axis through Essen, it is a real asset to the transport links between Essen and Oberhausen if you close the gap between the city limits and the public transport route. The only way to travel from Oberhausen to Essen by public transport today is by taking S-Bahn line 3 . The journey from the main station Oberhausen to Essen Central Station is 17 minutes and is now 24 minutes less than the travel time with the 105. The S3 however, Oberhausen will only be used from the main station, so you at this first time must go, and makes via railway line Duisburg Essen takes a detour via Mülheim, so that the S3 and the 105 are mostly several kilometers apart and the districts along the B231 cannot be reached by S-Bahn. In addition, the railway line in Essen also leads over a kilometer south to the B231 to the destinations mentioned above. The S3 serves the interesting destinations of Essen, which are interesting for the Oberhausen resident, too remote, so that one always has to change while the line 105 connects them directly. In addition, the 105 in Essen has more bus feeder lines than the S3 - the same applies to the public transport route in Oberhausen - so that there are better connections between the cities for more passengers, as the 105 can be boarded or changed directly and it reaches its destination in the neighboring city directly or with a maximum of one or two changes.

According to a survey by Radio Essen, 59% of Essen residents want line 105 to be extended to Oberhausen.

Alignment

planned gap closure 105 between ÖPNV-Trasse Oberhausen and Unterstraße
Tram line 105 at the terminus Unterstraße in Essen-Frintrop.
Route length:	3.3 km
Gauge :	1000 mm ( meter gauge )
Power system :	750 V  =
↔ 112 Main route public transport route Oberhausen , planned ←105 → Centro Osterfelder Strasse Steel mill ( UMSICHT ) Oberhausen West-Essen-Altenessen Oberhausen steel mill site (planned) Oberhausen Hbf – Essen-Altenessen Mellinghofer Strasse End of public transport route, from here grass track on the side of the B 231 Hausmannsfeld ( sweeping track on both sides in the middle position) City limit Oberhausen / Essen Essen-Unterstrasse Tram to Essen 105 (see above)
↑ Alternative planning name: Marina / Sea-Life ↑ Alternative planning name: Metronom Theater

In earlier plans, it was planned not to merge with the Oberhausen public transport route, but instead the new stretch of line 105 four kilometers further via Duisburger, Concordia-, Friedrich-Karl- and Poststraße to Oberhausen main station and on to Wörthstraße, in order to also lead to better develop the Alt-Oberhausen city ​​center by tram.

In 2001, in connection with the “Zukunftspark O.Vision” project, an extension of line 105 to the former steelworks site on Osterfelder Strasse was announced and the plan was approved a little later . In this context, the disused production hall of an electric steelworks was to be transformed into a “breathtaking public transport station”. However, these plans could not be realized because the O.Vision project was no longer supported by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and could therefore not be implemented. According to the last plans, line 105 should continue to about Mellinghofer Straße on the B 231 and a new public transport route to be built in an elevated position at the UMSICHT over the former steelworks and at the Metronom Theater , the marina and the Sea-Life-Aquarium be threaded through the eastern New Center into the existing public transport route from Sterkrade and Oberhausen Hauptbahnhof . In doing so, Osterfelder Strasse, the main feeder road with heavy traffic, should be crossed from the Neue Mitte and the B 231 to the A 42 without any elevation. This new line should cost a total of € 80 million (as of early 2015), but most of it would have been paid out of state subsidies.

The recently planned extension of the tram line was presented as an important investment project for the western Ruhr area. An action alliance “Say yes to line 105” was founded, which was supposed to convince the citizens of the city of Oberhausen with sole voting rights to vote in favor of closing the gap.

Political complications

The route through the steelworks, favored by the city, is associated with high costs due to the large number of engineering structures. All Oberhausen parties, with the exception of the CDU, nevertheless favored this plan. The CDU Oberhausen considered the urban route variant to be too expensive, especially since a bus (line 185) already connects the public transport route with the Essen / Oberhausen city limits. She did not speak out against closing the gap, but against the route favored by the city and suggested a different route, which shortly after crossing the Cologne-Mindener railway line was flush with the street with narrow radii and a level crossing of Osterfelder Straße to the stop Neue Mitte should be guided where it should thread itself into the route on a single track. Osterfelder Straße is the main connection between Neuer Mitte and A 42 . The CDU route would have saved 30 million euros, but could not prevail due to its numerous shortcomings, in particular the lack of traffic jams caused by the single track when merging into the local public transport route and crossing Osterfelder Straße at the same level. The board members of STOAG, as well as the SPD, FDP, Greens and ProBahn were of this opinion.

Council citizens' decision

Due to political inconsistency and the upcoming mayoral elections, the city of Oberhausen decided on December 15, 2014 that the citizens of Oberhausen should vote on the extension in a council decision on March 8, 2015. On January 19, 2015, the advantages and disadvantages were explained in a town talk. With a result of 43% yes to 57% no, this extension was rejected. The tram line 105 thus continues to end in Essen-Frintrop.

New attempt

The result of the council citizens' decision prohibits the city of Oberhausen from pursuing the project until at least 2017. A resumption of planning for an extension of line 105 from Frintrop to Oberhausen in the requirement plan of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, which applies from 2017 to 2030, is already at the end of November 2015 by the cities of Essen and Oberhausen. In addition, the extension of line 105 was continued in the 2017 local transport plan. This means that from 2017 it will be possible to establish the tram connection between Essen and Oberhausen in the period up to 2030. In addition, the state has already applied for a draft to extend the Municipal Transport Financing Act, which should then secure the financing of further transport projects of this type after 2020.

Web links

• Oberhausen.de
• STOAG.de history
• Urbanrail.net
• stadtmagazin.de Line 105 is an opportunity for Oberhausen
• derwesten.de line 105 is supposed to accelerate Frintrop
• derwesten.de Extension of 105 is more concrete
• Line 105 is an important investment
• Regional Association Ruhr is in favor of line 105
• STOAG - line 105
• Information page on the project line 105
• VRR advocates closing the gap on line 105
• VRR sees closing the gap as worthwhile

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Private page about the Oberhausen tram: http://www.strab-ob.de/SOB02-01.html
2. ↑ Essener Verkehrs-AG starts with the natural route 105
3. ↑ Official website of Naturlinie 105
4. ↑ WAZ: EVAG makes the 105 a natural line
5. ↑ Route network map Oberhausen Tag ( Memento from October 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ Route network map Essen Tag
7. ↑ Radio Essen Large Radio Survey ( Memento of the original from June 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ↑ STOAG information page ( Memento of the original dated February 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
9. ↑ Planning for line 105. on: strab-ob.de 2004.
10. ^ Rainer Suhr: Visions for 8000 new jobs. Oberhausen plans for the future on the former steelworks site. In: Oberhausen '02 - a yearbook. Pp. 27-31.
11. ↑ Announcement of the construction planning as well as mention of the construction costs of the new line in the local press , accessed on December 27, 2013.
12. ↑ Interview with the STOAG bosses in the local press: That's how sensible 80 million euros are
13. ↑ Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung: Ruhr area economy fights for Oberhausener Bahn
14. ↑ http://www.sag-ja-zur-linie-105.de/
15. ↑ CDU suggests another 105 route
16. ↑ 105 route in Oberhausen closed to buses
17. ↑ That's how sensible 80 million euros are for three kilometers of rail
18. ↑ The schedule for the decision on line 105 has been set
19. ^ WAZ Oberhausen invites you to the tram debate
20. ↑ http://wahlen.regioit.de/GT/be2015ob/05119000/html5/Buergerentscheid_Gemeinde_Gesamterresult.html
21. ↑ http://www.derwesten.de/staedte/oberhausen/oberhausener-lehnen-neue-strassenbahn-105-ab-id10433705.html
22. ↑ A single pile of broken glass
23. ↑ New local transport plan from 2017
24. ^ Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung: Line 105: Second attempt for the expansion
25. ↑ Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung: STOAG continues to rely on line 105
26. ↑ Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung: I believe that 105 will come in Oberhausen
27. ^ Draft of a law for the continuation of the GVFG federal program . Printed matter 312/13. April 24, 2013 ( bundesrat.de ).