END transport company

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END Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH & Co KG
Logo END.svg
Basic information
Company headquarters Stuttgart - Möhringen
owner Esslingen am Neckar : 37.5%
Ostfildern : 25%
Denkendorf : 12.5%
Neuhausen on the Fildern : 12.5%
Stuttgarter Straßenbahnen AG : 12.5%
Managing directors Dieter Fink
Lines
bus 5
statistics
Passengers 5.0 million per year
Mileage 1.7 million km per year

The END traffic mbH & Co KG , mostly short END called, was a predominantly in the district of Esslingen in Baden-Württemberg acting transport company based in Stuttgart - Möhringen . Each one of the five bus - lines the company operated on the Esslingen district limit the Stuttgart districts Heumaden and Plieningen . The cities of Esslingen am Neckar (37.5 percent) and Ostfildern (25 percent), the Stuttgart trams (SSB) and the communities of Denkendorf and Neuhausen auf den Fildern (each 12.5 percent) were involved in the GmbH & Co. KG . On December 31, 2015, it ceased operations after 90 years.

Lines

line route Operational implementation
119 Esslingen train station - Denkendorf Neuhäuser Strasse SVE
120 Esslingen train station - Wolfschlugen Löwen SVE
121 Oberesslingen train station - Neuhausen Schlossplatz SVE, previously Schefenacker
122 Esslingen train station - airport Fischle
131 Esslingen train station - Scharnhausen Plieninger Strasse (north) Fischle, Ruffner , up to 1994: SSB , 1994-2000: Ruffner

history

On August 19, 1924, the Lord Mayor of Esslingen and the mayors of Berkheim , Denkendorf, Nellingen auf den Fildern and Neuhausen auf den Fildern decided to establish a limited liability company with a view to the planned construction of a tram . This step took place on January 27, 1925, the share capital was 750,000 Reichsmarks and was distributed as follows:

  • City of Esslingen: 375,000 Reichsmarks (50.0 percent)
  • Stuttgarter Straßenbahnen AG: 150,000 Reichsmarks (20.0 percent)
  • Municipality of Nellingen on the Fildern: 113,000 Reichsmarks (~ 15.1 percent)
  • Denkendorf community: 112,000 Reichsmarks (~ 14.9 percent)

The company was originally called Straßenbahn Esslingen – Nellingen – Denkendorf GmbH and on June 24, 1926, it received the concession to build and operate the overland tram from Esslingen via Nellingen to Denkendorf . This was finally opened on December 18, 1926. In view of the expansion of the tram in 1929, the communities of Scharnhausen and Neuhausen auf den Fildern also joined the company on February 17, 1928. The share capital was increased to 1,000,000 Reichsmarks and from then on was distributed among six shareholders:

  • City of Esslingen: 440,000 Reichsmarks (44 percent)
  • Stuttgarter Straßenbahnen AG: 240,000 Reichsmarks (24 percent)
  • Denkendorf community: 120,000 Reichsmarks (12 percent)
  • Municipality of Nellingen on the Fildern: 120,000 Reichsmarks (12 percent)
  • Neuhausen auf den Fildern community: 50,000 Reichsmarks (5 percent)
  • Scharnhausen community: 30,000 Reichsmarks (3 percent)

At the beginning of the 1930s the company ran into economic difficulties, it could only be saved by increasing the share capital once more to now 1,200,000 Reichsmarks and at the same time becoming the main owner of SSB:

  • Stuttgarter Straßenbahnen AG: 450,000 Reichsmarks (~ 37.5 percent)
  • City of Esslingen: 430,000 Reichsmarks (~ 35.8 percent)
  • Denkendorf community: 120,000 Reichsmarks (10.0 percent)
  • Municipality of Nellingen on the Fildern: 120,000 Reichsmarks (10.0 percent)
  • Neuhausen auf den Fildern community: 50,000 Reichsmarks (~ 4.2 percent)
  • Scharnhausen community: 30,000 Reichsmarks (~ 2.5 percent)

On October 1, 1955, the END also started bus and tram traffic, the first line called Fi connected Esslingen via Nellingen and the federal motorway 8 with Echterdingen (today part of bus route 35). She used rented vehicles. In December 1957 this first END bus line was handed over to the SSB and merged with their line E. Instead, the END took a new bus line De from Oberesslingen to Denkendorf into operation, which was finally extended to Neuhausen auf den Fildern in October 1962. This second line was also operated with a rented bus.

In 1958 the new Ru line followed from Esslingen station to Ruit, for which END procured its first bus. In 1961, a depot on Parkstrasse was opened in the park settlement for the now two END buses . The building is still there today and is currently used as a storage facility for a craft business.

In 1969 the END took over the lines Q (Heumaden-Ruit-Scharnhausen, later extended to Nellingen) and R (Heumaden-Ruit-Nellingen via Paracelsus Hospital) from the SSB on a lease basis . Later, Kemnat was also served. The fifth bus line followed on January 1, 1975, the newly established line D , which served the inner-city traffic in Denkendorf and ran between the tram terminus and the Albert-Schweitzer-Schule. Today the community bus in Denkendorf drives here.

A SVE duo bus in use on the END line 120 to Neuhausen

In the course of the conversion of the tram to bus operation on March 1, 1978, the company received its current name. The tram to Denkendorf was replaced by the new line ED , the tram to Neuhausen auf den Fildern by the new line EN . Since then, the END has no longer had its own buses, instead the entire mileage is commissioned from the Esslingen am Neckar municipal transport company (SVE) or the private bus company Esslinger Omnibusverkehr E. Fischle , Ruffner and Schefenacker . Until 1994 the SSB also acted as a subcontractor of the END.

In 1985 the old letter scheme was abandoned, with a view to the full integration into the Verkehrs- und Tarifverbund Stuttgart (VVS) on October 1, 1993, three-digit line numbers were introduced:

  • ED> 119
  • EN> 120
  • De> 121
  • Q and R> 130
  • Ru> 131

At times, lines 119 and 120 were also part of the Esslingen am Neckar trolleybus . From 1990 to 2005 she was by the SVE with duo-buses of the type 405 GTD Mercedes-Benz O served. These operated electrically between Esslingen train station and the city limits in both directions; the traction change took place at the Nellinger Linde stop. The catenary infrastructure , which is now partially orphaned , was always owned by the SVE.

The latest END bus connection was line 122, which from September 9, 2000 initially ran between Esslingen train station and Scharnhausen Plieninger Strasse and was extended to Stuttgart Airport in 2001 . In return, line 130 was also abandoned on September 9, 2000 and replaced by the new line of the Stuttgart Stadtbahn leading to Nellingen .

Cessation of business operations

At the end of 2015, the END Verkehrsgesellschaft was wound up. This was decided by the shareholders in November 2013. SSB's participation in the intermunicipal company was ended at the same time. The reason for this: according to the new legal framework of the European Union (EU) that has been in force since 2007, further participation by SSB in the END after 2018 can no longer be brought into line with the requirements of the EU regulation. Otherwise, the city of Stuttgart could no longer outsource the provision of transport services directly to its subsidiary SSB. The END line concessions expired at the end of 2015 and were transferred to the Esslingen district. The route network remained unchanged. The Esslingen district has put the transport services out to tender and awarded them to the private company GR Omnibus , which has been operating the five routes under the brand name Filderexpress since January 1, 2016 . Previously, the Schlienz bus company from Kernen im Remstal took over the activities of Gerhard Ruffner Omnibusverkehr on January 1, 2015 and founded the new company GR Omnibus.

A supply company was founded for the END employees, which has ensured the additional benefits since the beginning of 2016, but does not act as a transport company.

vehicles

tram

omnibus

The following 13 wagons have been procured for motor transport over the years:

literature

  • 50 years of the Esslingen – Nellingen – Denkendorf tram 1926–1976, official commemorative publication for the 50th anniversary

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ SSB employee magazine Über Berg und Tal , May 2014 edition