Commission for traffic systems in Vienna


The Commission for Transport Systems in Vienna , abbreviated to VA - as a result of the Orthographic Conference of 1901, written in some external publications Commission for Transport Systems in Vienna , was a railway company in Austria and owner of the Wiener Stadtbahn . The public limited company based in Vienna , officially a private railway , also coordinated the further expansion of the Danube Canal and the canalization of the Vienna River around 1900because these measures were carried out in parallel with the construction of the tram.
history
In the course of the more concrete plans for the construction of the Vienna Stadtbahn , the Commission for Transport Systems in Vienna , based on Stubenring 1, was constituted on July 25, 1892, as proposed by the Imperial and Royal Ministry of Commerce in 1891. The ministry was on the committee , and until 1896 also for responsible for the railway sector, representing the municipality of Vienna, the province of Lower Austria and the Danube Regulation Commission on an equal footing, with only unanimous resolutions being envisaged. In detail, the new body had the task of coordinating the following measures as the client :
Planning authority | Jurisdiction | fee distribution |
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Tracing office of the kk general inspection of the Austrian railways | Construction and operation of the light rail |
Main railways : State : 87.5%, municipality: 7.5%, country: 5% Local railways : State : 85%, municipality: 10%, country: 5% |
Danube Regulation Commission | Construction of main collecting canals along the Danube Canal | State: 5%, municipality: 90%, country: 5% |
Conversion of the Danube Canal into a trading and winter port | State: 66.2 / 3%, municipality: 8.1 / 3%, country: 25% | |
City building office of the municipality of Vienna | Vienna river regulation | State and state each with an annual amount that is required to pay interest and repay a loan amount of five million guilders each , whereas the remaining requirement for interest and repayment of the loan amount to be issued for the purpose of raising money for the Vienna flow regulation had to be met exclusively by the municipality of Vienna |
The fundraising took place cumulatively for all three sub-areas. It took place through the issue of the “Wiener Verkehrsanlagen- Anleihe ”, which bears four percent interest . The Commission for Transportation Systems was authorized to take out the bonds required for financing for up to 90 years. In 1898, in the opening year of the Stadtbahn, its nominal investment capital was 104,239,122 Austrian crowns .
Ultimately, the Commission for Transport Systems did not build and operate the light rail, which was inaugurated on May 9, 1898, but instead commissioned the Imperial and Royal State Railways to do it . However, she owned some of the operating resources, namely 62 of 112 light rail locomotives and 372 of 864 light rail vehicles . The narrow light rail network owned by the company had an operating length of 37.918 and an overall length of 38.832 kilometers.
As a result of the extensive cessation of light rail operations after the First World War, the Transport Commission finally leased a large part of its network to the municipality of Vienna in 1924, which then opened its Vienna Electric Light Rail in 1925 . Only the suburban line continued to be operated on behalf of the State Railways , now the Austrian Federal Railways .
By federal law of June 15, 1934, the Commission for Transport Systems in Vienna was finally completely liquidated on July 1, 1934 and its property was divided between the municipality of Vienna, the federal state of Lower Austria and the Republic of Austria. Of the cars that the company had once procured, 328 were still in existence at this point; they were replaced at a book value of 145,922.96 Austrian schillings . In addition, she owned seven other types of cars at the time.
literature
- Alfred Horn: Wiener Stadtbahn. 90 years of light rail, 10 years of underground. Bohmann-Verlag, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-7002-0678-X .
Individual evidence
- ^ Alfred Horn: 75 years of the Vienna light rail. "Between the 30s Bock and the Silver Arrow". Bohmann-Verlag, Vienna 1974, ISBN 3-7002-0415-9 , p. 9.
- ^ Roland Tusch: The Viennese light rail. In: Denkmail. News from the Monument Protection Initiative, number 10, February–
- ^ Commission for transport facilities in Vienna in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
- ↑ The Wiener Stadtbahn since its existence from 1898 to 1908 , edited in the kk Eisenbahnministerium, printing and publishing house of the kk Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1909, p. 6.
- ^ Alfred Horn: 75 years of the Vienna light rail. "Between the 30s Bock and the Silver Arrow". Bohmann-Verlag, Vienna 1974, ISBN 3-7002-0415-9 , p. 92.