ESWE Verkehrsgesellschaft
| ESWE Verkehrs GmbH | |
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| Basic information | |
| Company headquarters | Wiesbaden |
| Web presence | www.eswe-verkehr.de |
| owner | City of Wiesbaden |
| Seat | Wiesbaden |
| Supervisory board | City Councilor Andreas Kowol (Chairman),
Wolfgang Klumb (Deputy Chairman), Thomas Baldering, Andrea Baum, Claus-Peter Große, Hans-Joachim Hasemann-Trutzel, Marcus Maus, Petra Schabel, Michael Schiebel, Denis Seldenreich, Gerhard Uebersohn, Alexander Winkelmann |
| Managing directors | Jörg Gerhard, Hermann Zemlin |
| Operations management | Nerobergbahn Sabine Füll |
| Transport network |
Mainz-Wiesbaden (VMW), Rhine-Main (RMV), Rhine-Nahe (RNN) |
| Employee | over 1000 |
| sales | 41.7 million |
| Lines | |
| bus | 42 |
| Other lines | Nerobergbahn |
| number of vehicles | |
| Omnibuses | 284 |
| statistics | |
| Passengers | 59.4 million |
| Stops | about 800 |
| Length of line network | |
| Bus routes | over 660 |
| Operating facilities | |
| Depots | 1 |
The public transport company ESWE shortly ESWE traffic , is the traditional Wiesbaden public transport company . The abbreviation goes back to the municipal utilities that were dissolved in 2000. Since an advertising campaign to modernize the company in 1970, the letters S and W have been spelled out in phonetic spelling , i.e. Es and We , and in capital letters. The company transports over 59 million passengers a year on 42 lines with around 800 stops and a line length of over 660 kilometers (as of 2018). In addition to the city bus service in Wiesbaden, ESWE Verkehr also operates the Nerobergbahn . ESWE Verkehrsgesellschaft and Mainzer Verkehrsgesellschaft are the two shareholders of Verkehrsverbund Mainz-Wiesbaden (VMW) GmbH . In addition, the Wiesbaden transport company is a member of the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund .
history
The history of local public transport in Wiesbaden began in 1875 with the opening of the first city horse-drawn tram line , which was replaced by a steam train in 1889 . The route was Nerotal (at that time the terminus was still called Beau Site ) - Wilhelmstrasse - train stations - Adolphshöhe - Biebrich Rheinufer.
In the Year of Three Emperors in 1888 which was Nerobergbahn opened, a water-powered ballast funicular .
In 1894 the first electric tram went into operation. After eleven years of controversial operation, the steam train was also replaced by the "electric" one in 1900.
In 1929, Wiesbaden became the first major city in the world to switch a tram line to omnibuses . However, the trams of the Süddeutsche Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (SEG) still existed at the same time and only later became the property of the city.
In 1954 the first articulated buses were opened and only one year later the last remaining tram line 8 was finally closed. The two trolleybus routes A and B suffered the same fate in 1961. In the 1960s, the city planner Ernst May planned the introduction of an underground train, but that never happened.
The first bus lanes were introduced in 1968.
The blue ESWE logo appeared for the first time in the mid-1970s and the vehicles were painted orange below and white above, based on the national colors of Nassau . In February 1985, with the acquisition of the first Mercedes-Benz O 405 buses, the current blue-orange-white vehicle paint scheme was introduced.
In 1990 ESWE established a passenger advisory board as the second city in Germany (after Cologne ) . This met quarterly and was supposed to bundle and represent the interests of the passengers vis-à-vis the transport company. If there were only sporadic appearances in public in the beginning, ESWE Verkehr and the Passenger Advisory Board have been selling the new timetables together on the Saturday before the timetable change since 2004, whereby the sales proceeds are donated to a "good cause". The successor institution of the FahrgastForum, which meets every two months, has also been in existence since 2011, as well as an online forum and a so-called expert chat around every two months. However, the FahrgastForum suffered from a lack of demand and fell asleep after a year, and an expert chat only came about in the first year. In the meantime, there is only one forum left with, at best, mediocre feedback.
In 2000 the transport company was spun off from ESWE and converted into an independent GmbH. Since then, ESWE Vertriebs AG has existed as a municipal energy supply company and ESWE Verkehrsgesellschaft as a local transport company.
On October 1, 2004, the Wiesbadener Busgesellschaft mbH (WiBus) founded by the Wiesbadener Versorgungs- und Verkehrsholding (WVV) and the Hamburger Hochbahn (HHA ) began . When it was founded, WVV held 51 percent of the company shares, the remaining 49 percent was held by HHA. The aim was to strengthen the competitiveness of ESWE Verkehr on the market, since WiBus is subject to a different collective agreement and pays its employees significantly lower salaries. This measure was considered necessary as a consequence of the changed legal framework for the allocation of transport services. The commissioning of the external subcontractors Autobus Sippel , Papproth and Mester ended when WiBus began operating . As a result of differing views and the planning of the Hochbahn to outsource its third-party holdings to BeNex and again to sell 49 percent of BeNex, the Wiesbaden municipal bodies decided at the end of 2007 to acquire the WiBus shares of Hamburger Hochbahn, so that all WiBus shares are owned the WVV had found. Another sister company, the WTI (Wiesbaden Tours International), formerly the operator of the blue spa buses and later worked as a subcontractor alongside other private companies for many years, went bankrupt in autumn 2009.
On June 25, 2014, Wiesbadener Busgesellschaft mbH (WiBus) was renamed ESWE Verkehr Fahrbetrieb GmbH and all shares were transferred from WVV to ESWE Verkehr.
On April 28, 2015, the city council of Wiesbaden decided to completely merge ESWE Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH with its previous subsidiaries ESWE Verkehr Fahrbetrieb GmbH (EVFB, formerly WiBus) and ESWE Verkehr Service GmbH (EVS) , which was carried out accordingly. Since then, all employees have been employed by the parent company again.
In 2016, the state capital Wiesbaden again granted ESWE Verkehr the concession to operate the local bus network. The granting of the license began in October 2017 and will run for ten years.
Line bus traffic
All bus routes operated by ESWE Verkehrsgesellschaft are listed below (timetable as of December 15, 2019).
Day lines
(Partly only Monday to Saturday or Monday to Friday): The letters have been abolished for better legibility.
| line | course | Period Mon-Fri (HVZ) | Cycle Sa (HVZ) | Cycle Sun (HVZ) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nerotal (Nerobergbahn) - Central Station - Dürerplatz | 10 mins | 15 minutes | 15 minutes |
| 2 | Klarenthal - Wilhelmstraße - Sonnenberg (school only) | single trips | no operation | no operation |
| 3 | Nordfriedhof - Hauptbahnhof - Biebrich , in off-peak times and on Sundays and public holidays also via Brunhildenstraße | 20 minutes | 30 minutes | 30 minutes |
| 4th | (Kohlheck Simeonhaus / Langendellschlag -) Police Academy - Central Station - Biebrich, banks of the Rhine | 10 mins | 12 minutes | 15 minutes |
| 5 | Eltville-Rauenthal / Schierstein , Oderstrasse - Wiesbaden-Schierstein | Schierstein - WI Center - Erbenheim , Karl-Drebert-Str. | 10 mins | 15 minutes | 15 minutes |
| 6th | Nordfriedhof - Place of German Unity - Mainz-Kastel bridgehead - Mainz main station - Hartenberg - Münchfeld (- Gonsenheim - Wildlife Park ) | 10 mins | 15 minutes | 15 minutes |
| 8th | Steinberger Straße - Central Station - Dambachtal, Schuhmannstr./Idsteiner Str. - Home / Bahnholz | 10 mins | 15 minutes | 15 minutes |
| 9 | Schierstein - Biebrich - Mainz Central Station (- Uni Campus - Jakob-Heinz-Straße Arena) | 30 minutes | 30 minutes | 30 minutes |
| 14th | (Carl-von-Linde-Straße) - Klarenthal - Hauptbahnhof - Biebrich, Äppelallee-Center | 10 mins | 12 minutes | 15 minutes |
| 15th | Gräselberg - WI Center - Erbenheim - Nordenstadt (- Wallau - Delkenheim ) | 10 mins | 15 minutes | 15 minutes |
| 16 | Südfriedhof - Central Station - WI Center - Sonnenberg - Rambach (- Naurod ) | 10 mins | 15 minutes | 15 minutes |
| 17th | Klarenthal Anne-Frank-Str./Graf-von-Galen-Str. - Dotzheimer Straße - WI-Zentrum - Bierstadter Straße - Bierstadt Wolfsfeld , (in the evening from Kirchgasse continue as line 27 in the direction of August-Bebel-Str.) | 10 mins | 15 minutes | 15 minutes |
| 18th | (Schierstein / Hafen) - Sauerland - Europaviertel - WI-Zentrum - Wilhelmstraße (- Thermal baths / health clinics - Sonnenberg) | 10 mins | 15 minutes | 30 minutes |
| 20 / AST 20 | Naurod - Bremthal - Niederjosbach | 30 minutes | 60 minutes | no operation |
| 21st | Place of German Unity - Naurod - Medenbach Am Wald (- Wildsachsen ), partly via Tannenring and / or Wildsachsen Str. | 20 minutes | 30 minutes | 30 minutes |
| 22nd | German Unity Square / Vocational School Center - Naurod (- Niedernhausen - Oberjosbach ) | 60 minutes | 60 minutes | 60 minutes |
| 23 | Schierstein - Helios Dr. Horst Schmidt Clinics Wiesbaden - WI Center - Bierstadt - Igstadt - Breckenheim | 20 minutes | 30 minutes | 30 minutes |
| 24 | Frauenstein - Helios Dr. Horst Schmidt Clinics Wiesbaden - WI Center - Bierstadt - Kloppenheim - Heßloch (- Hockenberger Mühle) | 20 minutes | 15/30 minutes | 15/30 minutes |
| AST 24 | Frauenstein Mayor-Schneider-Strasse - Terra Levis funeral forest | 4 trips on Wednesdays | 4 trips | no operation |
| AST 24 | Heßloch - Hockenberger Mill - Auringen | no operation | no operation | 60 minutes |
| 26 / AST 26 | Bremthal - Wildsachsen - Medenbach | irregular clock | 120 minutes | no operation |
| 27 | Dotzheim Schelmengraben / August-Bebel-Straße / Waldfriedhof - WI center - main train station - vocational school center - leisure pool (in the evenings from Luisenplatz continue as line 17 towards Wolfsfeld) | 10 mins | 15 minutes | 15 minutes |
| 28 | (Place of German Unity - Central Station -) Erbenheim Egerstraße - Mainz-Kastel - Schusterstraße (- Goetheplatz) | 30 minutes | 30 minutes | 60 minutes |
| 33 | (Tierpark Fasanerie -) Fasaneriestraße - Platz der Deutschen Einheit - Hauptbahnhof - Mainz-Kastel - Mainz-Kostheim , in off-day times and on Sundays and public holidays also via Brunhildenstraße and herb gardens | 20 minutes | 30 minutes | 30/60 minutes |
| 34 | (Place of German Unity -) Central Station - Leisure Pool - Mainz-Amöneburg / Unterer Zwerchweg | irregular clock | 1 ride | no operation |
| AST 35 | Medenbach - Breckenheim - Wallau - Nordenstadt | Mon / Thu
60 minutes |
no operation | no operation |
| AST 36 | Sonnenberg - Bierstadt - Kloppenheim - Igstadt - Nordenstadt | Tuesday / Friday
60 minutes |
no operation | no operation |
| 37 | (Nordenstadt - Igstadt - Erbenheim -) Bierstadt - Central Station - Wielandstraße (/ High School Mosbacher Berg) | 15 minutes | 60 minutes | 60 minutes |
| 38 | (High school Mosbacher Berg-) Diesterwegschule - Waldstrasse - Biebrich | irregular clock | no operation | no operation |
| 39 | Helios Dr. Horst Schmidt Clinics Wiesbaden - Dotzheim - Biebrich - Wiesbaden Ost train station , individual trips also to the Biebrich cemetery | 30 minutes | 30 minutes | 60 minutes |
| 43 | Main station - Mainzer Straße - A 66 - Nordenstadt - Wallau - Breckenheim | irregular clock | 2 trips | 2 trips |
| 45 | (Raiffeisenplatz -) Central Station - WI Center - Freudenberg - Biebrich | 30 minutes | 30 minutes | no operation |
| 46 | Wiesbaden main station - Nordenstadt - Wallau - Massenheim - Hochheim station | 60 minutes | no operation | no operation |
| AST 46 | Wallau - Massenheim - Hochheim / Wicker | irregular clock | 60 minutes | 120 minutes |
| 47 | (Frauenstein - Dotzheim - WI center -) Dernsches area - Central station - Biebrich Carl-Bosch-Straße - Schierstein, Zeilstraße; Trips from Frauenstein via Luisenplatz instead of Dernsche's area | 30 minutes | 60 minutes | no operation |
| 48 | German Unity Square - Nordenstadt - Wallau - Delkenheim (- Hochheim train station) | 15 minutes | 30 minutes | 60 minutes |
| 49 | Central Station - Kahle Mühle P + R - Helios Dr. Horst Schmidt Clinics Wiesbaden | 30 minutes | no operation | no operation |
Excursion line on weekends in seasonal operation (winter):
| line | course |
|---|---|
| 30th | Hauptbahnhof - Platz der Deutschen Einheit - Platte (Ski-Express), only operates after publication if winter sports are possible on the Platte |
Nightliner
| line | course | Sun - Thu | Fri + Sat |
|---|---|---|---|
| N2 | German Unity Square - Erbenheim - Nordenstadt - Wallau - Delkenheim | 1 ride | 3 trips |
| N3 | German Unity Square - Central Station - Biebrich - Schierstein | 1 ride | 3 trips |
| N4 | Dernsches area - Elsässer Platz - Dotzheim - Schelmengraben - Frauenstein | 1 ride | 3 trips |
| N5 | Central station - Platz der Deutschen Einheit - Dürerplatz - Klarenthal - Kohlheck | 1 ride | 3 trips |
| N7 | German Unity Square - Central Station - Südfriedhof - Erbenheim - Kastel - Kostheim | 1 ride | 3 trips |
| N9 | Dernsches area - Place of German Unity - Waldstrasse - Gräselberg - Schierstein | 1 ride | 3 trips |
| N10 | Slaughterhouse - Central Station - Sonnenberg - Rambach - Naurod - Auringen - Medenbach | 1 ride | 3 trips |
| N11 | German Unity Square - Bierstadt - Hessloch - Kloppenheim - Igstadt - Breckenheim | 1 ride | 3 trips |
| N12 | Dernsches area - German Unity Square - Loreleiring - Europaviertel - Sauerland - Dotzheim - Schierstein | 1 ride | 3 trips |
| N13 | Central Station - Dernsche Grounds - Square of German Unity - Bismarckring - Schiersteiner Strasse - Central Station (one-sided circuit) | 15 minutes | 15 minutes |
Line 6 also operates nightliner traffic.
Lines 6, 9, 28, 33 and N7 are joint lines with the Mainzer Verkehrsgesellschaft (MVG) under licensing law. The joint concession also applies to lines 45 and 47, which until further notice, due to the construction work on the Schiersteiner Bridge, only operate in Wiesbaden's urban area.
Special
Nerobergbahn
With water ballast moved historic funicular up to the Neroberg that Nerobergbahn 1888, will also entertain the ESWE transport company and operated. The operating time begins annually in Holy Week and ends in October.
Vintage buses
The oldtimer bus Mercedes-Benz O 317 (chassis, body: Vetter), built in 1961, which has been completely restored in the workshops of ESWE Verkehr , is used for special trips and was also offered for rent for a long time until this offer was discontinued for technical reasons had to become. However, another vintage bus of the type O 305 (built in 1983) is available for rent . The vehicles are looked after by the Oldiebus Club Wiesbaden.
ESWE driving school
The ESWE traffic Company has a driving school and forms in the classes B, C, CE and D from. In the long term, only employees of ESWE Verkehr are currently admitted to the driving school to train for their own driving service.
Aartalbahn
In the run-up to the planned construction of a Wiesbaden Stadtbahn , part of the Aartalbahn (Wiesbaden-Dotzheim - Hohenstein) was leased from Deutsche Bahn. This route is operated by ESWE Verkehr as a public railway infrastructure company and the Nassau Tourist Railway operates as a museum .
Innovative projects & electromobility
ESWE Verkehr has been pursuing a new corporate strategy since 2017: In future, the entire fleet of the local transport provider is to be operated emission-free. In addition, the Wiesbadener Verkehrsgesellschaft wants to try out alternative public transport concepts.
Battery electric buses
At the beginning of 2019, ESWE Verkehr ordered a total of 56 Mercedes-Benz eCitaro battery buses. The first vehicles have been in use since the end of 2019. As part of a longer test phase, the solo cars are initially on the Wiesbaden lines 1 and 8. Since the vehicles are loaded centrally on the premises of the transport company, ESWE Verkehr is currently revising its entire depot management.
Hydrogen filling station
Together with the project partners Mainz Mobility and traffiQ, ESWE Verkehr initiated the H2 Bus Rhein-Main project in 2018 . The scope of the project includes the construction of a shared hydrogen filling station at the ESWE Verkehr depot, which went into operation in February 2020. The fueling to hydrogen is under exclusive use of wind energy in the energy Park Mainz produced .
Autonomous minibus "Wilma"
In February 2020 ESWE Verkehr started the first test field for testing autonomously driving minibuses. The vehicle used, which was christened “Wilma”, is a Navya Arma DL 3 minibus from 2017.
"MeinRad" bike rental system
Since August 2018 ESWE Verkehr has been operating its own bike rental system for Wiesbaden with "meinRad". This is a further development of the MVG meinRad bicycle rental offer from the Mainz transport company, which also acts as a project partner. ESWE Verkehr operates numerous rental stations that are spread across the entire city. Due to the project partnership, the app-based bike rental systems of Wiesbaden, Mainz and Ingelheim are compatible with each other.
Further modules (on-demand traffic, parking management, CityBahn)
The CityBahn for Wiesbaden (with connections to Mainz and the Taunus) and on-demand shuttle services are among the other components of the alternative public transport concepts and emission-free local transport. ESWE Verkehr has also been commissioned by the city to realign the parking space management for Wiesbaden.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Portrait of Sabine Füll , Frankfurter Neue Presse, accessed on November 21, 2019.
- ↑ Via ESWE Verkehr , www.eswe-verkehr.de, accessed on April 24, 2018.
- ↑ History, Chapter 26, “How to make local transport more attractive” ( Memento from March 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Wiesbaden's local public transport: Success story since 1875 ( Memento from March 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Source: Wiesbadener Kurier
- ↑ Joint works council elections at ESWE Verkehr, source: Wiesbadener Kurier
- ^ "Ten more years with Eswe buses", source: Wiesbadener Kurier
- ↑ ESWE Verkehr: Apprenticeship as a bus driver (f / m). In: www.eswe-verkehr.de. August 26, 2016. Retrieved September 14, 2016 .
- ^ Nassauische Touristikbahn eV: Status report from July 17, 2014 . In: Nassauische Touristikbahn eV (Hrsg.): The revival of the Aartalbahn .
- ↑ VRM GmbH & Co KG: Wiesbaden as a pioneer: Eswe presents the vision of "completely emission-free traffic" - Wiesbadener Kurier. Retrieved March 4, 2020 .
- ↑ VRM GmbH & Co KG: First battery buses on Wiesbaden's streets - Wiesbadener Kurier. Retrieved March 4, 2020 .
- ↑ hessenschau de, Frankfurt Germany: hydrogen filling station opened - there are no customers. February 27, 2020, accessed on March 4, 2020 (German).
- ↑ Hydrogen production in Mainz: No energy transition without hydrogen | SWR1 Rhineland-Palatinate. November 30, 2018, accessed March 4, 2020 .
- ↑ VRM GmbH & Co KG: Eswe tests autonomous driving with the “Wilma” minibus - Wiesbadener Kurier. Retrieved March 4, 2020 .
- ↑ VRM GmbH & Co KG: Friday will give the go-ahead for Wiesbaden bike rental system from Eswe Verkehr - Wiesbadener Kurier. Retrieved March 4, 2020 .
- ↑ VRM GmbH & Co KG: Mainz and Wiesbaden bike rental systems merged - Wiesbadener Kurier. Retrieved March 4, 2020 .
- ↑ Smart parking - clean air. Retrieved March 4, 2020 .