General Flensburg bus company

General Flensburger Autobusgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG

Basic information
Company headquarters	Flensburg
Web presence	Web presence
Reference year	2016
Managing directors	Thomas Bauer Götz Becker Johann Friedrichsen Jan Kruse Uwe Möser
Transport network	VGSF
Employee	48
Lines
bus	10,11,12,13 (until 2008), 14,15
number of vehicles
Omnibuses	17 MB Citaro and MB Citaro G 1 Scania Citywide
Operating facilities
Depots	Westerallee 164 (moved in 1978)

The General Flensburger Autobus Gesellschaft mbH & Co. KG (AFAG) was a transport company , which until 2017 a part of the bus lines of local public transport in the city of Flensburg has operated. The company was founded in 1925 through the merger of several drivers on a cooperative basis.

history

In the first few years, the cooperative established and expanded the overland lines between Flensburg , Kappeln , Husum , Bredstedt and Niebüll . From 1926 to 1928, regular services were also extended to cities in northern Germany such as Wismar , Wittenberge , Delmenhorst , Eckernförde and Neumünster , and additional overland lines were set up in the fishing area.

In 1932 the cooperative went bankrupt. Georg Zimmermann and Nis Bögh formed the new AFAG from the bankruptcy estate. The bus tourism division was expanded with the takeover of another Wagner bus company.

After the end of the Second World War in 1945, the regular service with two city lines, seven overland lines in fishing and four more overland lines to the west was resumed. In 1952, AFAG set up the first bus routes in Nordangeln to compensate for the discontinued Flensburg circular railway , and from 1953 expanded them to the entire area. The old Flensburg Central Bus Station (ZOB), which was mainly used by AFAG, was demolished in 1954 and replaced by a new building. From this time on, this was used as the central hub for all AFAG lines.

From 1961 the company was divided into separate areas for overland and city traffic . The overland lines were taken over by the Deutsche Bundespost and continued as Kraftpost . The regular city traffic continued to be operated by AFAG. A new central administration building was moved into in 1962 and the previous offices at the ZOB were given up. 1971 was a partnership with the transportation company Stadtwerke Flensburg received and there was the traffic community Flensburg , which carried out jointly tariff harmonization and line adjustments and introduced in 1976 a new common line concept.

AFAG depot from 1978

In 1978 AFAG moved into its current depot in the West industrial area of Flensburg.

In 1988, together with regular services companies in Schleswig-Flensburg , the transport association Schleswig-Flensburg founded (VGSF), which was founded in 1989, supplemented by common tariffs for the entire district area after completion of a cooperation agreement. In 1996 the new and modern Flensburg bus station went into operation.

In 1997, AFAG GmbH & Co KG was named "Transport Company of the Year 1997" by the International Association of Professional Drivers (IUCR).

From the beginning of 1998 talks about a merger of the company with the Flensburger Verkehrsbetriebe were held, but these were broken off in the course of the year without result. The Flensburger Verkehrsbetriebe was then temporarily taken over on November 10, 1998 by the Förde Reederei Seetouristik (FRS). In May 1999, AFAG took over the entire bus operation of the Förde shipping company and completely outsourced the travel department. From this she founded the subsidiary Förde Bus GmbH & Co KG and continued the partnership within the scope of the Schleswig-Flensburg Transport Association for local public transport . The Förde-Bus as the operator of the regional bus route 21 from the Flensburg central bus station to Glücksburg was taken over by the companies Hansen-Borg and Gorzelniaski in September 2014 .

In May 2000 AFAG celebrated the company's 75th anniversary.

With the entry into force of the EU regulation 1370/2007 there was a change in the legal situation, which resulted in local transport lines not being operated independently. d. Are usually to be tendered throughout Europe. From 2007 onwards, AFAG was once again entrusted with the operation of its lines. In 2015, the line concessions for the Flensburg city transport lines were completely transferred to the municipal Aktivbus Flensburg GmbH and AFAG was commissioned as a subcontractor to operate its previous bus lines until December 2017. AFAG was unable to prevail in the subsequent invitation to tender for the active bus services and was defeated by the Hansen-Borg bus company and the railway subsidiary Autokraft .

In August 2016, Managing Director Thomas Bauer announced that the company would be processed without city lines in 2018 due to the low order situation.

Appearance

Color scheme up to 1986 (here MB O 305 ) around 1980

The AFAG buses have been recognizable by their light ivory base color with blue advertising stripes since the 1950s. The last vehicle (model O 405 ) with these colors was retired in 1991.

Since approx. 1987/88 the buses have been delivered in a white lacquered base color and covered with large advertising.

Lines

As of June 24, 2016

10: Twedter Plack - Engelsby - Fruerlund - Südermarkt - Marienallee - Timm-Kröger-Weg - Raiffeisenstraße
11: Twedter Plack - Engelsby - Fruerlund - Südermarkt - Marienallee - Westerallee / CITTI-Park - Gartenstadt Weiche - Nikolaus-Matthiesen-Straße
12: ZOB - Neumarkt - Rude - Sophienhof - Weiche train station - Gartenstadt Weiche
13: ZOB - Campus / FH - Sandberg - Adelby - Tarup, Norderlück
14: ZOB - Neumarkt - Rude - St. Pauli - Förde Park (occasionally via industrial area Süd / TGZ - Valentiner Allee - St. Pauli back to the ZOB)

Annotation:

Line 13 was handed over to Autokraft in 2008 , but AFAG still drove individual courses on this line on behalf of the company.

Line 15 was integrated into line 14 in 2016.

Lines 11 and 12 were separated and no longer merged.

Vehicle fleet

The AFAG fleet last consisted exclusively of Mercedes-Benz regular-service buses of the Citaro (since 1998) and Citaro G (articulated bus, since 2000). A hybrid version of the Scania Citywide has also been in use since the beginning of 2016 .

In the past, AFAG u. a. the following vehicle types: