Bus transport in Görlitz

The bus service in Görlitz is operated by the Görlitzer Verkehrsbetriebe . In regional transport buses of the coming road transport company border triangle , the Lower Silesia Transport Company (NVG) and since December 2012 by regional bus Oberlausitz used. The regional buses usually run to the bus station (until 2015 at Kaisertrutz on Demianiplatz ) at Görlitz station . There have been seven city ​​bus routes in the Görlitz route network since the changeover of the route network and complement the two tram routes .

history

On June 5, 1892, the first horse-drawn bus line between the Jewish cemetery and the foot of the Landeskrone in the Görlitz suburb of Klein Biesnitz was put into operation. In 1898 the city ​​tram was linked to the horse-drawn bus line. The newly-built tram route led from the Sattigstraße about the Six Towns Square and the Biesnitzer street to the Jewish cemetery. The horse-drawn bus routes continued to operate until the tram line between the Jewish cemetery and the Landeskrone was opened in May of the following year.

Only in 1938 did the Görlitz network receive a bus route again. It ran from the clinic via the train station and the Reichenberger Brücke in the eastern part of the city to the front-line combatant settlement on the outskirts and on to Leopoldshain . A little later, the bus line was extended from the clinic to the Görlitz airfield . During the war years the line was divided. The L line ran every 30 minutes from the Stadt Prag inn via the front combatants' settlement to Leopoldshain. Line F, in turn, connected the airport with the train station every 40 minutes. Three small Mercedes-Benz buses with a Kässbohrer body were used in regular service . One of the buses stayed in Görlitz until after the war. After the end of the war, according to the Potsdam Agreement, the areas east of the Lusatian Neisse , which crosses the city, fell to Poland . This affected the entire L line between Gasthof Stadt Prag in Oststadt and Leopoldshain. Local traffic in the Polish eastern part of the city, called Zgorzelec , developed completely independently of urban traffic west of the Neisse for the next few decades.

After the war, the Görlitz city administration used an Opel Blitz and the Deutsche Post four buses in city traffic. Around 1948/1949 the tram company also resumed bus services. The vehicle fleet initially consisted of old Wehrmacht and postal vehicles. One of the first bus routes presumably led to Klingewalde, which was incorporated in 1949 .

The actual bus network did not emerge until the 1960s. It consisted of three lines. The city bus routes were marked with capital letters. The route and the designation of the bus routes showed little consistency, however, so there were often changes in the bus network. The city bus network from 1964 shown below was only valid until 1966. This was followed by two new lines, line D to Pfaffendorf via Schlauroth and line E between Weinhübel  Süd and Marienplatz . The city bus route D only ran until 1967. The regional bus service then took over the service of Schlauroth and Pfaffendorf.

Line network 1964
Bus route	Line course
A.	House of Youth (Goethestrasse) - Liberation Square (Postplatz) - Brautwiesenplatz - Reichertstrasse - Rauschwalde
B.	Demianiplatz - Nikolaigraben - Klingewalde
C.	Demianiplatz - Rauschwalde - Schlauroth - Pfaffendorf

With the cessation of the tram service on line 3 between Platz der Befreiung (today: Postplatz) and the town hall in 1966, the course of line B was comprehensively changed. The city bus line B ran from Parsevalstrasse, near the wagon construction, via Cottbuser Strasse, past the train station and the city ​​park and on via Liberation Square (today: Postplatz) to Hirschwinkel.

At the beginning of the 1980s, tram traffic was about to end. There were plans to use buses only for urban public transport and to stop trams. The newly created new building areas in the north of the city were poorly developed by the tram network, as the tram only touched the area. Tram traffic between the new Wendeschleife Goethestraße (House of Youth) and Weinhübel was stopped in 1982. From now on, city buses took over the development of the district south of the vineyard . From 1984 three city bus routes ran from Weinhübel and Weinhübel Süd to Königshufen.

In 1982, the management of the previously communally operated urban transport was transferred to Kraftverkehr Görlitz , which was part of the Dresden Transport Combine. Among other things, the sharp rise in the price of oil saved tram traffic in the Neisse city. A new line was built into the newly emerging Königshufen district (Görlitz North). The tram down the vineyard to Weinhübel was also rebuilt, initially only to Erich-Weinert-Straße. In 1988, in addition to five tram lines, four bus lines opened up the city area. Lines A and E took over the connection to the Rauschwalde district, which lost its tram connection in 1986.

Line network and timing May 1988
Bus route	Line course	Tact
A.	House of Youth (Goethestrasse) - Goethestrasse - Blockhausstrasse - Liberation Square (Postplatz) - Alexei-Stachanow-Strasse (Christoph-Lüders-Strasse) - Waggonbau - Lutherstrasse - Wilhelm-Pieck-Strasse (Reichertstrasse) - Diesterwegplatz
C.	Landskronsiedlung - Wilhelm-Pieck-Strasse (Reichertstrasse) - Lutherstrasse - train station - City Park - Liberation Square (Postplatz) - Jägerkaserne - Hirschwinkel - Klingewalde
E.	Weinhübel - House of Youth (Goethestrasse) - Demianiplatz - Brautwiesenplatz - Rauschwalder Strasse - Diesterwegplatz	20 min
F.	Weinhübel Süd - House of Youth (Goethestrasse) - Train station - Brautwiesenplatz - Wagon construction - Zeppelinstrasse - Nieskyer Strasse - Görlitz Nord (Königshufen, Am Wiesengrund)

After the political change in the GDR and the subsequent German reunification, urban local transport opened up as part of the newly founded Stadtwerke Görlitz . From now on, urban transport operated under the name Verkehrsgesellschaft Görlitz . The fleet was completely renewed in the following period. The one kilometer long new section of the tram across the Weinhübel district was also put into operation, replacing the city bus service. The depot on Zittauer Strasse south of the train station was also renovated. After the reunification, the cross-border city bus line P also connected the Polish and German parts of the city again with a public transport line.

Line network and cycle 1995
Bus route	Line course	Tact
A.	Diesterwegplatz - Reichertstrasse - Lutherstrasse - Waggonbau - Zeppelinstrasse - Königshufen	20/30 min
B.	Landskronsiedlung - Reichertstraße - south exit of the train station - Stadtpark - Demianiplatz - Hildegard-Burjan-Platz	20 min
C.	Diesterwegplatz - Rauschwalder Straße - Demianiplatz - Hirschwinkel (- Klingewalde)	20 min (40 min to Klingewalde)
D.	Bus station - Jakobstrasse - Train station - Reichertstrasse - Diesterwegplatz - Schlauroth	no fixed rhythm
E.	Tauchritz - Hagenwerder - Zittauer Straße - Jakobstraße - Demianiplatz - Jägerkaserne - Hildegard-Burjan-Platz - Zeppelinstraße - Königshufen	no fixed rhythm
N	Night line with different courses in the city area	-
P	Post Square - Zgorzelec	hourly

In 2004 rail replacement services were set up on the section of the tram route between Demianiplatz and Wendeschleife Virchowstraße / Klinikum. Three years later, the section was incorporated into city bus route B. The tram route between Heiliges Grab and Wendeschleife Virchowstraße was dismantled.

Bus route network 2015

Schematic network of the VGG

In addition to two tram lines, seven city bus routes operated in Görlitz in 2012. The city bus routes A, B and C open up the core city area. The bus lines E and F connect the districts of Hagenwerder , Kunnerwitz , Klein Neundorf and Tauchritz as well as the local recreation area Berzdorfer See to the tram network.

Bus line B runs on weekdays (except Saturdays from around 1 p.m.) every 20 minutes with three round trips. Bus line A runs on weekdays (except Saturdays from around 2 p.m.), alternating every 20 or 40 minutes. The hourly extension of line A to Klingewalde and the two buses in circulation lead to the changing frequency. Before the 2008 timetable change, line C ran hourly to Klingewalde and ran a loop through the Königshufen district every two hours. With the line concept, the line was initially discontinued, but after protests by residents of the Königshufen district, it was re-established as an on- call bus line .

Lines E and F serve the incorporated districts of Hagenwerder, Kunnerwitz and Tauchritz and run every two hours. In late-night traffic between 8 p.m. and midnight, line N is only run every half hour with two rounds between Biesnitz (Landeskrone) and Rauschwalde via the train station transfer stop, south exit. At this stop there is always a connection to tram line 3 in both directions. The bus line P also runs every half hour and is operated by the company FHU Bielawa .

Line operation at that time
Bus route	course	In daily traffic	Clock in evening traffic
 A.	Landskronsiedlung - Brautwiesenplatz - Waggonbau - Demianiplatz (- Am Hirschwinkel - Ludwigsdorf junction - Klingewalde)	20/40 min alternating (60 min to Klingewalde)	-
 B.	Rauschwalde - Melanchthonstraße - train station, south exit - Demianiplatz - Virchowstraße	20 min	-
 C.	Königshufen Mitte - Königshufen / Am Wiesengrund - Am Hirschwinkel - Demianiplatz	4 times a day	-
 E.	Tauchritz - Hagenwerder train station - Deutsch Ossig - Weinhübel (- Alfred-Thaer-Straße - Rauschwalde)	2 hours	-
 F.	(Rauschwalde -) Biesnitz / Landeskrone - Kunnerwitz - Klein Neundorf - Kunnerwitz - Weinhübel	2 hours	-
 N	Biesnitz / Landeskrone - train station / south exit - Melanchthonstraße - Rauschwalde	-	30 min
 P	Train station - Demianiplatz - Dom Kultury - Zgorzelec bus station - Zgorzelec Miasto train station - Zgorzelec real, -	30 min	-

Furthermore, several regional bus routes from Regionalbus Oberlausitz and the Kraftverkehrsgesellschaft Dreiländereck operate in the city area . Until 2015, the central bus station was still on the Kaisertrutz on Demianiplatz. The new bus station is located at the Görlitz train station .

Status Quo plus public transport concept

As part of the Status Quo plus public transport concept adopted by the city council on September 29, 2016 , the bus route network was restructured, making the old town and parts of the eastern and western inner city better accessible. The new target network was implemented on January 6, 2019. Line B no longer leads from the clinic via Heilige-Grab-Straße and further parallel to the tram lines, but via Zeppelinstraße, Christoph-Lüders-Straße, Hildegard-Burjan-Platz and Teichstraße to Demianiplatz. The stops Kinderklinik , Waggonbau Ost and Hildegard-Burjan-Platz are served . The Zeppelinstraße and Kummerau stops were no longer operated in the city bus network. Line B runs every hour during the night, while Line N only runs every hour, but it is concentrated between the southern exit of the station and Rauschwalde with Line B every 30 minutes.

Line A from the direction of the Landeskronsiedlung runs from Demianiplatz via Obermarkt, Klosterplatz, Elisabethstrasse, Joliot-Curie-Strasse and Dr Kahlbaum-Allee to Louis-Braille-Strasse and thus better links the university. Around every second trip takes place from here as the new line D via Schillerstraße, Bahnhofstraße, bus station, Krölstraße, Lutherplatz, Luisenstraße to Demianiplatz and from there along the previous route of line A to Klingewalde.

Cross-border city bus route P

On September 9, 1991, the cross-border bus line P was opened from Postplatz to the neighboring Polish town of Zgorzelec (Görlitzer Ostvorstadt until 1945) and still connects the two twin towns . Initially, it served as a shuttle service to the so-called Poland markets for numerous Görlitzers. Today it is mainly used by Polish students who go to school in Görlitz, commuters and travelers who want to go to Görlitz station, as there are only three pairs of trains between the two cities. After the bankruptcy of the transport company PKS Zgorzelec , the company FHU Bielawa took over the operation of the line.

Vehicle fleet

Development of the vehicle fleet

After the horse-drawn omnibuses at the end of the 19th century, the resurgence of bus traffic at the end of the 1930s saw the use of vehicles based on truck models with a front engine. From the 1940s, tram-style buses also came from Büssing to Görlitz. Both designs were in use in Görlitz until the mid-1960s. Some buses were converted to coal gas engines during the war years in 1942 and 1943 . The buses received their own trailers for the gas tank for the fuel. The gas filling stations for line F were on the station forecourt and for line L at the Prague city tram stop in front of Schenkendorfstrasse 2.

Mercedes-Benz bus of the type O 2600

Ikarus 66 on Demianiplatz in overland traffic (1984)

Mercedes-Benz O 405 G car 513 on line B

The Görlitz tram procured in 1939 two Mercedes-Benz O 2600 with Kässbohrer - construction . In 1948 Görlitz took over two Büssing 4500T built in 1944 with makeshift bodies from Chemnitz . The trambuses were refurbished in the tram workshop and were then used with the car numbers 1 and 2 in regular services, some with trailers . The first post-war new build vehicles in the fleet were IFA H6B buses . They were also used in professional and occasional traffic with trailers of the type W701. Two Jelcz 043E , put into service in 1969 and 1970 , were also used for professional and occasional traffic.

In urban traffic, Ikarus 66 buses dominated the cityscape from the 1960s . They were in use until the 1978 summer timetable. The first articulated buses in Görlitz were the Ikarus 180 , which like the 556 were used between 1968 and 1974. From 1972 the delivery of the next generation Ikarus 260 , the articulated bus 280 and the intercity bus 255 began .

The bus fleet of the Görlitzer Verkehrsgesellschaft was strengthened in the early 1990s by several older Mercedes-Benz O 305 and O 305 G from the Hessian twin town Wiesbaden . In spring 1992 the delivery of nine Mercedes-Benz buses of the type O 405 and four articulated buses of the type O 405 G began . Most of the Wiesbaden buses were passed on to the Polish sister city of Zgorzelec. The last Wiesbadener was an articulated bus O 305 G, which left the Neisse city on June 21, 1998 in the direction of Wiesbaden, where it was to be exhibited in a vehicle museum of the Stadtwerke.

The first low-floor bus was a Mercedes-Benz O 405 GN articulated bus and was procured with financial support from the Free State of Saxony . The bus was ceremoniously put into service in 2000. Since 2002 the other Mercedes-Benz buses have also been replaced by Mercedes-Benz Citaro low-floor buses. An Auwärter Teamstar minibus was also in use for a few years . It operated mainly on the less frequented bus routes outside the city center and on rail replacement services. However, it was sold. A Mercedes-Benz Sprinter with a bus body was later added to the fleet as a replacement . In 2011, for example, it was used as a sea ​​bus between Weinhübel and Deutsch-Ossig, and occasionally also runs at night on the N city bus.

Since 2015, only low-floor buses have been used in Görlitz city traffic.

In 2019, Görlitzer Verkehrsbetriebe put two new Mercedes-Benz Citaro C2 low-floor buses from EvoBus into operation. The technology and equipment are state-of-the-art. For the first time buses with information screens, WiFi and USB charging sockets were purchased.

Vehicle fleet 2019

image	Wagon number	Construction year	Manufacturer	Type
	507	2004	EvoBus	O 530 (Citaro)
	516	2005	EvoBus	O 530 (Citaro)
	517	2005	EvoBus	O 530 (Citaro)
	518	2006	EvoBus	O 530 G (Citaro G)
	519	2010	EvoBus	O 530 G (Citaro G)
	521	2014	MAN	NG 363 G (Lion's City G)
	522	2014	MAN	NL 283 (Lion's City)
	523	2015	MAN	NL 283 (Lion's City)
	11	2018	EvoBus	Mercedes-Benz Citaro
	12	2018	EvoBus	Mercedes-Benz Citaro
	216 MS Seebus	1999	Mercedes Benz	Sprinter with bus body

Depot

The buses also use the tram depot on Zittauer Straße at the zoo in Südstadt . Another workshop of the transport company is located on Zittauer Straße between Wiesenstraße and Hugo-Eberle-Straße in Weinhübel.

literature

• Andreas Riedel: The chronicle of the Görlitz tram . Schweers + Wall, 1997, ISBN 3-89494-106-5 .

Web links

Commons : Bus traffic in Görlitz  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Website of the Görlitzer Verkehrsbetriebe

Individual evidence

1. ^ Andreas Riedel: The chronicle of the Görlitzer tram . Schweers + Wall, 1997, ISBN 3-89494-106-5 , pp. 14 .
2. ↑ www.goerlitzer-strassenbahn.de: Chronicle 1897. Retrieved on September 7, 2015 . 
3. ^ Andreas Riedel: The chronicle of the Görlitzer tram . Schweers + Wall, 1997, ISBN 3-89494-106-5 , pp. 81 .
4. ^ Andreas Riedel: The chronicle of the Görlitzer tram . Schweers + Wall, 1997, ISBN 3-89494-106-5 , pp. 82 .
5. ^ Andreas Riedel: The chronicle of the Görlitzer tram . Schweers + Wall, 1997, ISBN 3-89494-106-5 , pp. 84 .
6. ^ Andreas Riedel: The chronicle of the Görlitzer tram . Schweers + Wall, 1997, ISBN 3-89494-106-5 , pp. 50 .
7. ^ Andreas Riedel: The chronicle of the Görlitzer tram . Schweers + Wall, 1997, ISBN 3-89494-106-5 , pp. 87 .
8. ^ Andreas Riedel: The chronicle of the Görlitzer tram . Schweers + Wall, 1997, ISBN 3-89494-106-5 , pp. 62 ff .
9. ↑ Vgg-goerlitz.de → Görlitz city traffic network map (PDF file) , accessed on May 8, 2017
10. ↑ ^{a b} City of Görlitz, Office for Urban Development (ed.): Public transport concept of the city of Görlitz . Görlitz August 2016 ( kin-sachsen.de [PDF; 5.1 MB ; accessed on October 1, 2016]). Public transport concept of the city of Görlitz ( memento of the original from June 12, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
11. ↑ Ralph Schermann: City buses have been driving across the Neisse for 20 years . In: Sächsische Zeitung - Görlitzer Nachrichten . September 10, 2011, p. 16 .
12. ↑ ^{a b c d} www.strassenbahn-stadtbus-goerlitz.de: History - Chronicle of vehicles . (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 5, 2016 ; accessed on September 7, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
13. ↑ www.strassenbahn-stadtbus-goerlitz.de: History - Chronicle of bus routes . (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on September 7, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
14. ↑ vgg-goerlitz.de: traffic Goerlitz - Information on the company . Retrieved September 7, 2015 . 
15. ↑ ^{a b} www.strassenbahn-stadtbus-goerlitz.de: Vehicles - City Bus . (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 5, 2016 ; accessed on September 7, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
16. ↑ Knut-Michael Kunoth: Two new buses for Görlitzer Stadtverkehr , Radio Lausitz, January 11, 2019.