Freiburg
Freiburg im Breisgau, Jason’s home city in the Black Forest. Travel note: Freiburg. (File named “(Literary)” to avoid clashing with the Travel note’s name.)
At a glance
| Source | Author | Role | In one line |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Tram Network in Transition: Dismantling, Expansion, Future Plans | VAG Freiburg | subject | 125 years of Freiburg trams: built, bombed, cut back in the 1960s, then expanded district by district since 1983. |
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The Tram Network in Transition: Dismantling, Expansion, Future Plans — VAG Freiburg (2026)
Source: Readwise highlight
For 125 years, trams have shaped the cityscape of Freiburg.
- Role: subject
- In the article: A VAG blog history of the city’s tram network in phases. Construction (1901–1928) brought the city’s first power plant, built to run the trams. Crisis and war followed, with repairs after the bombing raid of 27 November. In the 1960s routes were dismantled; the single-track “Blue 5” to Haslach closed in 1961. From the 1980s came the light rail: the line to Paduaallee opened on 9 December 1983, and new districts were connected one after another (Landwasser 1985, Weingarten and Haid 1994, Rieselfeld 1997, Vauban 2006, Rotteckring 2019, the former freight yard 2023). It opens with places where track once ran and doesn’t now, such as the Wiwili Bridge and Goethestraße. It ends with planned lines to Dietenbach, the Kappler Knoten and Fahnenbergplatz–Robert-Koch-Straße.
- Why it matters: The city is the subject: the article argues that Freiburg’s growth can be read straight off its tram map, because of the rule that every new district gets a tram. It’s also Jason’s home network; his own highlight on the piece reads “Yes! We enjoy the benefits to this day.”