Dessau transport company

Dessauer Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH

Basic information
Company headquarters	Dessau-Rosslau
Web presence	www.dvv-dessau.de
Reference year	2015
owner	100% DVV
Managing directors	Torsten Ceglarek
Employee	103
sales	4.753dep1
Lines
Gauge	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
tram	2
bus	10 + 6 late traffic
number of vehicles
Tram cars	10 NGT6DE 1 GT8
Omnibuses	15 Lion's City CNG , 4 Lion's City , 3 MB Sprinter City 35
buses	1 coach
other vehicles	2 historic tram cars
statistics
Passengers	4.859
Stops	139
Catchment area	Dessaudep1
Residents in the catchment area	77 thousand
Tram lines	18 km
Operating facilities
Depots	1
Other operating facilities	Ticket office in the main train station

The Dessauer Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH (DVG) operates two tram and 10 city bus routes in Dessau-Roßlau . It was created in 1990 from the VEB Verkehrsbetriebe Dessau in the VE Verkehrskombinat Halle and has been a subsidiary of the Dessau transport and supply company - DVV Stadtwerke since 1993 .

history

tram

A tram has been running in Dessau since November 15, 1894. Until March 24, 1901, it was operated with gas engines , and on March 26, 1901, the tram was electrified. From 1907 to 1945 the railway also ran to neighboring Roßlau.

After the destruction in World War II , the tram was equipped with new vehicles. In the 1970s, the decommissioning and conversion was on trolleybus decided revised ten years later again and the expansion of the new plate - residential areas decided.

In 2002 the Dessau tram reached its largest network extension with a length of 12.5 kilometers.

omnibus

In 1926 an omnibus that ran continuously was put into operation because tram routes to the suburbs would not have been financially viable. In 1930 there were already nine bus routes in addition to the three tram lines. The first buses had bodies from the Dessau wagon factory on truck chassis . Before the war they experimented with town gas as a fuel.

In the 1950s, new cars could be procured for the first time, but a number of Berlin double-decker buses were also bought used.

Typical Ikarus buses were used in GDR times . As a result of the tram route adjustments, more and more bus routes were opened. In 1992 the first MAN buses of the type SL 202 and from 1994 the type NL 202 went into operation. With the opening of the tram route to Dessau-West, the lines were optimized and reduced to the bare essentials.

Since August 2002 Dessau has been operating its city bus network with twenty modern MAN A21 CNG natural gas buses . In 2009, four Mercedes-Benz Sprinter City 35 minibuses were purchased for late -night traffic , which were used on four ring lines in so-called "night traffic".

In July 2009 the previous regional bus network of Otto Müller Omnibusbetrieb GmbH in and around Roßlau was combined with the Dessau DVG city network to form a common timetable and tariff area. The five Roßlauer lines were declared as city lines with the 20 number range. On July 1, 2017, the Dessauer Verkehrsgesellschaft was entrusted directly with the entire tram and bus network within the city limits. The company Müller in Roßlau, Heinrich Reisen from Oranienbaum and Vetter GmbH from Salzfurtkapelle now act as subcontractors, the lines in Dessau-Roßlau have been reorganized. The subcontractor services were put out to tender in May 2018, and all three lots in bus transport went to Vetter GmbH. The Müller bus company went bankrupt, Heinrich Reisen is concentrating on travel again.

Lines and timetable

tram

Mondays to Saturdays there is a 15-minute cycle during the day, in the off-peak hours, as well as on Sundays and public holidays, every 30 minutes.

line	Driving distance
1	Central Station - Wasserwerkstrasse - Dessau-Süd
3	Central station - vocational school center - Junkerspark

omnibus

In daytime traffic, there is usually half an hourly service on weekdays, and lines to suburbs also every hour. At the weekend, the hourly rate applies, on Sundays and public holidays some lines are only operated in the on-call bus system.

line	Driving distance
10	Bauhaus line: Kornhaus - Central Station - Town Hall - arcade houses (Törten settlement)
11	Tempelhofer Straße - Törten - Central Station - Ziebigk, Ebertallee
12	Tempelhofer Straße - Törten - Central Station - Kühnau - Ziebigk, Ebertallee
13	Main station - town hall - Waldersee
14th	Main station - town hall - Mildensee
15th	Main station - town hall - Mildensee - Kleutsch - Sollnitz
16	Junkerspark - Mosigkau - Kochstedt - Wasserwerkstraße - Town Hall - Central Station - Roßlau - Meinsdorf
17th	Central station - Ziebigk - Kühnau - Alten - Kochstedt, mill
21st	Rietzmeck - Roßlau, station - Roßlau, Waldesruh - Roßlau, station - Rietzmeck
22nd	Roßlau, train station - Meinsdorf - Mühlstedt - Natho / Thießen

Late traffic ("night lines")

Every day from around 8:00 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. there is a special late- night traffic network known as "night traffic". Line N4 operates in the on- call bus system, the other five lines, four of which are ring routes, run every hour. In the early morning hours from 2 a.m. until the daytime lines start operating, lines N2 to N5 operate as an on-call bus.

line	Driving distance
N1	Hauptbahnhof - Kühnau - Ziebigk - Hauptbahnhof - South - Haideburg - Törten - Hauptbahnhof
N2	Hauptbahnhof - Junkerspark - Mosigkau - Kochstedt - Wasserwerkstr. - Central Station
N3	Central Station - Wasserwerkstr. - Kochstedt - Mosigkau - Junkerspark - main station
N4	Main station - Waldersee - Mildensee - Sollnitz (call bus)
N5	Main station - Ziebigk - Kühnau - main station - Törten - Haideburg - south - main station
N6	Central station - Roßlau - Meinsdorf

Fleet

There are 10 modern low-floor railcars of type NGT6DE available for the tram . In addition to the historic two-axle HTw 28 and HTW 30, there is also a GT8 bistro tram car and a parked DÜWAG GT8.

The DVG currently (December 2019) has 25 buses for bus operation :

1 MAN Lion's City A21 NL 313 (year of construction 2008, 2014 ex Dr. Richard, Vienna )
1 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter City 35 (built in 2009)
4 MAN Lion's City A21 NL 243 CNG (years of construction 2009 and 2010, 2019 ex SWN Verkehr Neumünster )
14 MAN Lion's City A21 NL 273 CNG (years of construction 2014 and 2016)
2 MAN Lion's City A21 NÜ 283 (year of construction 2015)
2 MAN Lion's City A23 NG323 (year of construction 2017)
1 MAN Lions Coach (built in 2017)

Vetter GmbH from Salzfurtkapelle serves as a subcontractor for the operation of all lines.