Former railway station Frenz
Where today only a bumper on the right-hand side indicates the end of a railway line, there was still a railway connection to the left via Jülich to Mönchengladbach and to the other side via Eschweiler to Aachen until the early 1980s.
The first contacts for a railway station were made by Pastor Josef Kaulen and factory owner Baum on 22 February 1907.
The opening of the stop in Frenz on 1 November 1908 is primarily due to the notary Drummen (Oberstraße, house no. 11), who lived in Frenz, and who successfully put forward the wishes of the people of Frenz for a stop in the Berlin Ministry.
The Second World War brought traffic on the line to a complete standstill. At the end of 1944, it was completely shut down due to war damage. At the beginning of 1945, the entire operation came to a standstill.
After the end of the war, the necessary repair work was started immediately. And so the first journeys on the line could already be resumed in August 1945, from the Frenz stop, however, not until May 1946.
In 1949, the management of the line was transferred to the newly founded Deutsche Bundesbahn.
On 28 May 1983, passenger traffic between Stolberg and Jülich, as well as freight traffic between Jülich and the Frenz junction, was finally discontinued and the tracks were subsequently dismantled.
To cater for the needs of rail travellers, but also as a celebration and meeting place for clubs, there was a station restaurant in the Villa Claßen from around 1906, as two newspaper advertisements from 1913 prove.
