Ruhrort Ruhrort Ruhrort is a district within the German city of Duisburg situated north of the confluence of the Ruhr and the Rhine, in the western part of the Ruhr area. Ruhrort has the largest river harbour in the World, with quays extending nearly 40 kilometres along the river, and it is the principal inland shipping port in Germany. Ruhrort was founded in 1371 as a customs site and was granted town status in 1551. Due to its convenient position on the junction of two important waterways a shipping guild and a harbour had been created by 1665, mainly for trading
S13 (Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn) to Troisdorf by the Rhenish Railway in 1870, with an extension to Cologne opened in 1874) and the Cologne Airport loop (opened in 2004) The western section of the S 13 service from Düren to Köln Messe/Deutz was opened on 15 December 2002. It was extended to Troisdorf on 13 June 2004. It is proposed to extend the line to Bonn-Oberkassel. S13 (Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn) Line S 13 is a S-Bahn line of the Rhine-Ruhr network. It is operated by DB Regio with class 423 electric multiple units. At peak times, the S13 services begin or end at Düren and run