Kettwig Stausee is a
railway station
Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a prep ...
in the city of
Essen in western Germany on the
Ruhr Valley line. It serves the southern part of the
Kettwig
Kettwig is the southernmost borough of the city of Essen in western Germany and, until 1975, was a town in its own right. Kettwig is situated next to the Ruhr river, at a median height of 53 metres above sea level. It is the most recently incor ...
borough, ''Kettwig vor der Brücke'', and is situated right next to the river
Ruhr.
History
The station was opened in 1945 as ''Kettwig-Pusch'' after the German army had destroyed the Ruhr bridges in Kettwig during the last days of
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...
. It was used to connect the railway lines to
Mülheim an der Ruhr,
Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf ( , , ; often in English sources; Low Franconian and Ripuarian language, Ripuarian: ''Düsseldörp'' ; archaic nl, Dusseldorp ) is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany. It is the second- ...
and
Velbert
Velbert ( Low Rhenish: ''Vèlbed'') is a town in the district of Mettmann, in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The town is renowned worldwide for the production of locks and fittings.
Geography
Velbert is located on the hills of 'Niede ...
with each other. After a single Ruhr bridge was rebuilt, the station was renamed ''Kettwig Stausee'' in 1953. In 1960,
services to Velbert and in 1968
services to Mülheim ended. The station building was torn down in 1981, and the station was downgraded to a mere S-Bahn stop.
The station today sees regular service by
Rhein-Ruhr S-Bahn
The Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn (german: S-Bahn Rhein-Ruhr) is a polycentric and electrically driven S-train network covering the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Region in the German federated state of North Rhine-Westphalia. This includes most of the Ruhr (and ci ...
trains on the
S6 line.
References
S6 (Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn)
Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn stations
Railway stations in Germany opened in 1945
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