Düren transport community

The Dürener Verkehrsgemeinschaft (DVG) was a tariff association between Dürener Kreisbahn (DKB) and Kraftpost Düren. It existed from 1972 to 1978 and on January 1, 1979 it became part of the Aachen Transport Association (AVV).

history

After the Second World War , there were four different transport companies in the Düren traffic area, which essentially means local public transport in the area of the old Düren district , that had concessions for train and bus routes:

All companies each had their own tariffs , so that the passenger had to buy a new ticket when changing trains if the connecting line had a different operator. There were so-called operating bans on parallel lines run by different operators, i.e. boarding or alighting on such lines was partially prohibited. This applied within the city of Düren for all rail bus and motor post lines if DKB or DEAG had the appropriate concession for a parallel line. In this case , it was only possible to get on, but not board, the overland routes inwards at the inner-city stops . In the urban area of Düren, buses driving out of town were only allowed to get on but not off.

The first cooperation between the DKB and Kraftpost began at least in 1957. After the DKB closed its railway line from Zülpich-Stadt to Embken , the replacing bus line 18 was operated jointly with the Kraftpost.

Shortly after DEAG had largely stopped rail traffic on its route from Düren to Inden , joint traffic with the DKB was started on November 3, 1963 . In addition to a collective bargaining agreement between the two companies, this step brought two advantages for the passenger: on the one hand, the DEAG lines , which had previously ended at Düren station , could be extended from Birkesdorf to the city center to Kaiserplatz , and on the other hand, the DKB line via Birkesdorf, which ran parallel, gave way Arnoldsweiler is no longer an operating ban. Finally, on January 1, 1969, buses and concessions were sold by the DKB to DEAG, which ended this joint transport.

In early June 1970, with the Regional Directorate started talks Cologne to unify tariffs and better align the timetables. The Dürener Verkehrsgemeinschaft (DVG) was then founded in 1972 as a tariff and transport association between Düren Kreisbahn and the Deutsche Bundespost , Kraftpoststelle Düren. For the first time, this cooperation encompassed almost the entire traffic area in Düren, with the rail bus routes still being excluded. The following table shows the entire network of DVG lines in 1978.

DVG line network 1978:
line	operator	Line route	Course book number
1	DKB	Düren train station - Kaiserplatz - Kreuzau - Winden - Obermaubach	-
2	DKB	Düren Kaiserplatz - Rölsdorf - Lendersdorf - Berzbuir - Kufferath	-
3	DKB	Düren Allkauf - train station - Kaiserplatz - Rölsdorf - Gürzenich - Gürzenich Wald	-
4th	DKB	Düren Kaiserplatz - Clodwigplatz - Zülpicher Platz - Fordwerke	-
5	DKB	Düren Kaiserplatz - green belt	-
6th	DKB	Düren Kaiserplatz - train station - Lindenbaum / Birkesdorf	-
7th	DKB	Düren Kaiserplatz - Merzenich	-
8th	DKB	Düren Kaiserplatz - Merzenich - Nörvenich - Zülpich	-
9	DKB	Düren Kaiserplatz - train station - Birkesdorf - Arnoldsweiler - Morschenich - Buir / Merzenich	-
11	DKB	Düren train station - Kaiserplatz - Kreuzau - Drove - Berg	-
12	DKB	Nörvenich train station - Pingsheim - Lechenich	-
13	DKB	Düren Kaiserplatz - Gürzenich - Schevenhütte	-
14th	DKB	Düren Kaiserplatz - Oststraße - Zülpicher Platz	-
15th	DKB	Nörvenich train station - air base	-
16	DKB	Düren Kaiserplatz - Train Station - Birkesdorf - Hoven - Memorize - Pier - Inden / Schophoven	-
18th	DKB / Kraftpost	Zülpich - Füssenich - Embken	4435
21st	DKB	Düren train station - Kaiserplatz - Kreuzau - Winden - Nideggen	-
24	DKB	Düren Kaiserplatz - Gneisenaustrasse	-
26th	DKB	Pier - Inden - Lamersdorf - Lucherberg - Pier	-
30th	Kraftpost	Düren Gutenbergstrasse - Kelz - Gladbach - Poll - Pingsheim	4430
31	Kraftpost	Düren Gutenbergstrasse - Stockheim - Soller - Wollersheim - Heimbach / Schwammenauel / Hergarten - Gemünd - Schleiden	4431
32	Kraftpost	Schwammenauel - Heimbach - Mariawald Monastery	4432
33	Kraftpost	Zülpich - Bürvenich - Wollersheim - Nideggen	4433
34	Kraftpost	Düren Gutenbergstrasse - Zehnthofstrasse - Gey (- Horm ) - Obermaubach / Kleinhau - Nideggen / Hürtgen - Vossenack	4434
36	Kraftpost	Düren Gutenbergstraße - Zehnthofstraße - Kreuzau - Drove - Nideggen (- Heimbach) - Schmidt (- Monschau )	4436
37	Kraftpost	Düren Gutenbergstrasse - Mariaweiler - Echtz - Schlich / Langerwehe	4437
38	Kraftpost	Düren Gutenbergstrasse - Arnoldsweiler - Niederzier - Jülich / Titz	4438
39	Kraftpost	Bergheim - Widdendorf - Manheim - Buir - Golzheim - Düren Gutenbergstrasse	4439

Despite the cooperation between DKB and Kraftpost, not all buses on the lines departing from Düren left a central bus station (ZOB). The DKB lines all served Kaiserplatz as the central stop, some touched the Düren train station with a stop on Josef-Schregel-Straße . The DKB lines ending at the station (lines 1/11/21) stopped at the main entrance of the station (driveway), where the train buses also departed. The Kraftpost had its bus station on what was then Gutenbergstrasse, where the Kraftpoststelle was located - today the Haus der Stadt is roughly at this point - and some of them also drove to Kaiserplatz ( Zehnhofstrasse - lines 34 and 36) or the main post office (line 31) on. All Düren power post lines also served the Düren train station at the stop in Josef-Schregel-Straße. The customer therefore had to know exactly from which bus station the bus on his line was leaving. Even after the establishment of the Düren central bus station on the north side of the train station, nothing significant has changed since most of the DKB lines continue to only serve Kaiserplatz, but not the central bus station.

The end of the DVG came on December 31, 1978. On January 1, 1979 the companies DKB and Bundespost, already cooperating in the DVG, joined the Aachen Transport Association (AVV) with all lines of the transport association. Since the bus division of the Deutsche Bundesbahn was also involved, all bus routes in Düren could be used with one ticket for the first time. The time of operating bans in Düren was finally over.

literature

Deutsche Bundesbahn, Deutsche Bundespost (ed.): Pocket timetable Aachen; Summer 1978

Web links

70 years of Düren Kreisbahn

Individual evidence

^ Dürener Kreisbahn Betriebsgesellschaft (ed.): Timetable for the Dürener traffic area ; Summer 1957.
^ Gerd Wolff: German small and private railways, Volume 4: North Rhine-Westphalia - southern part ; EK-Verlag, Freiburg 1997, p. 76.
↑ Bernd Hahne: Always on the move - 100 years of the Düren circular path 1908–2008 . Hahne & Schloemer, Düren 2008, ISBN 978-3-927312-93-7 , p. 129 .
↑ Bernd Hahne: Always on the move - 100 years of the Düren circular path 1908–2008 . Hahne & Schloemer, Düren 2008, ISBN 978-3-927312-93-7 , p. 131 .
^ Dürener Kreisbahn (Ed.): 70 years of Dürener Kreisbahn ; Düren 1978, p. 40.
^ Roots of the AVV - AVV. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 27, 2014 ; Retrieved February 8, 2012 .

[1] Dürener Kreisbahn Betriebsgesellschaft (ed.): Timetable for the Dürener traffic area ; Summer 1957.

[2] Gerd Wolff: German small and private railways, Volume 4: North Rhine-Westphalia - southern part ; EK-Verlag, Freiburg 1997, p. 76.

[3] Bernd Hahne: Always on the move - 100 years of the Düren circular path 1908–2008 . Hahne & Schloemer, Düren 2008, ISBN 978-3-927312-93-7 , p. 129 .

[4] Bernd Hahne: Always on the move - 100 years of the Düren circular path 1908–2008 . Hahne & Schloemer, Düren 2008, ISBN 978-3-927312-93-7 , p. 131 .

[5] Dürener Kreisbahn (Ed.): 70 years of Dürener Kreisbahn ; Düren 1978, p. 40.

[6] Roots of the AVV - AVV. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 27, 2014 ; Retrieved February 8, 2012 .