Hagener Straßenbahn AG

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Hagener Straßenbahn AG
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Basic information
Company headquarters Hagen
Web presence www.strassenbahn-hagen.de/
Reference year 2018
owner City of Hagen 100% (held directly and indirectly)
Board Christoph Köther
Transport network Rhein-Ruhr transport association
Lines
bus 29 day lines
1 express bus line
11 night express lines
3 taxi bus lines
(2019)
number of vehicles
Omnibuses 138
statistics
Passengers 32 million per year
Mileage 8.6 million km per year
Stops 525
Length of line network
Bus routes 309.6 km
A Hagen tram car preserved in the Bergisches Tram Museum on a special trip in Bochum

The Hagener streetcar AG , shortly HST is the public transport company of the city of Hagen in North Rhine-Westphalia . It is a member of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr , in the transition to the Märkisches Kreis (south and east of the Hagen city area) the Hagen tram also sells tickets for the Verkehrsgemeinschaft Ruhr-Lippe . Since 2019 she has been part of the KÖR - Cooperation Eastern Ruhr Area

history

Route map of the tram system from 1884 to 1976

Hagen Tram Company

On July 29, 1884, the Hagen tram company was founded in the city of Hagen , which wanted to operate a horse-drawn tram in the city . On August 2nd of that year, a contract was signed with the city for the construction and operation of such a railway. After the test drives on November 5 and 6, the horse-drawn tram was put into operation on November 13, 1884. Due to the level crossings, which caused delays, and the lack of a direct connection to the first line, it was not accepted by the people of Hagen and was closed again. Since the expenses soon exceeded the income of the railway, the company had to file for bankruptcy on July 30, 1889 .

Hammacher & Co

The bankruptcy administrator initially continued to run the company at the expense of the bankruptcy estate. In the meantime, an underpass had been built under the railway line and the line to Kückelhausen had been connected at the city's expense. 1891 the railway was by the Cologne company Hammacher & Co acquired.

Eckeseyer tram

The still independent municipality of Eckesey founded its own tram company on June 8, 1894. On July 7, 1895, it opened a 2,550-meter-long route from Eckesey to Altenhagen, where it joined the Hagen tram company .

Battery train

The entrepreneur Adolph Müller from Hagen founded the accumulator factory Hagen AG in 1888 . Since he wanted a reference route for his products, he offered the horse-drawn tramway to provide electric trams with batteries free of charge . From January 7, 1895, these battery-powered railroads ran in the city.

Siemens

On July 1, 1896, Siemens & Halske acquired the horse-drawn tram. It was intended to expand the railway into an electric tram . Together with the accumulator factory Hagen AG, she founded the Hagener Straßenbahn AG . Since the city did not want any overhead lines within the urban area, the line from Haspe to Gevelsberg, which was opened on April 12, 1900, began operating over overhead lines .

On October 20, 1900, the Eckeseyer tram was acquired by Hagener Straßenbahn AG.

On October 22, 1901, a decree was issued by the district president that allowed overhead lines in the city center of Hagen. An objection by the city was rejected by the Ministry of Public Works on March 11, 1902. On December 20, 1902, the overhead lines were installed in the city and the battery railway was obsolete.

On February 6, 1906, the city bought the shares of the tram from Siemens at 105% of the market value.

Hagen suburban railway

Due to economic difficulties, the "Kleinbahn Voerde-Haspe Ges. Mb H." had to stop passenger traffic on the Kleinbahn Haspe – Voerde – Breckerfeld . In 1927, the shares of the companies involved in the operation and construction were taken over, the line switched to electricity and operated by the wholly owned subsidiary "Hagener Vorortbahn GmbH". One reason for the takeover was a hoped-for expansion of the area of ​​influence of the city of Hagen to the surrounding communities, in view of the discussed incorporation of the city of Haspe . After the incorporation in 1929, the “Hagener Vorortbahn GmbH”, which was in debt with 3 million marks, went bankrupt due to the debt service that was no longer financeable. After its liquidation , the railway went directly into the possession of "Hagener Straßenbahn AG" on May 29, 1931, which had to cover the deficits with surpluses from other areas.

Until the tram stopped

Car 65 in Innsbruck, 1976

From August 15, 1949, the tram began to be replaced more and more by the omnibus . On May 29, 1976 the last tram ran between Markt and Kabel. Since that day, Hagener Straßenbahn AG has been a pure bus company. Eight six-axle, two-way railcars (62–69) were sold to the Innsbrucker Verkehrsbetriebe after they were discontinued and, converted to eight-axle vehicles, were used on the Stubaitalbahn until 2009 . The six-axle vehicles 70-81 went to the Würzburg tram and six other six-axle vehicles (60, 61, 82-85) and all four-axle large-capacity cars (50-56) went to the Belgrade tram .

Line network

Most of the Hagen bus routes (lines 510-547) are operated by Hagener Straßenbahn AG, but some lines leading to neighboring towns are operated by DB Rheinlandbus ,  Verkehrsgesellschaft Ennepe-Ruhr , Märkische Verkehrsgesellschaft and Bogestra . During rush hour (school and commuter traffic), she uses electric cars (line letter "E" with numbers 7 to 133), two early morning staff cars (E1 and E2) are also released for regular passengers.

vehicles

The Hagener Straßenbahn AG operates

  • 73 articulated buses,
  • 60 solo buses and
  • 6 midibuses.

62 of them are air-conditioned, 9 are hybrid. (As of November 2016)

In 2010, another eleven solo and two articulated buses, mostly of the Mercedes-Benz Citaro type, were purchased, including a hybrid solo car from MAN and a hybrid articulated car from the Swiss bus manufacturer Hess / Vossloh as part of a hybrid project of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr (VRR) Box. Today the Hagen tram has 4 MAN Lion's City Hybrids in use, as well as five hybrid articulated vehicles.

The Hagen tram also owns 20 buses of the type Solaris Urbino 12 and 5 Solaris Urbino 18.75 of the 3rd and 4th generation.

subsidiary company

Hagener Straßenbahn AG founded HABUS Verkehrsbetriebe GmbH in 1999 with Veolia Verkehr , today Transdev GmbH , and currently holds 49% of the company. Sander Reisen is 100% part of the company. As part of the restructuring, Hagener Service GmbH was founded on October 1, 2005 , to which 55 employees, 5 workers and 3 trainees had already been transferred at the end of 2005, but which no longer belongs to Hagener Straßenbahn AG.

Trivia

The Hagener Straßenbahn AG has the number 1 in the commercial register of the local court of Hagen , so it has not been renamed to Verkehrsbetriebe Hagen or similar so far .

literature

  • Dirk Göbel, Jörg Rudat: PLEASE ENTER - Take the tram across Hagen. ardenkuverlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-932070-95-2 .
  • Dirk Göbel, Jörg Rudat: PLEASE CHANGE - With line 11 to the green. ardenkuverlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-942184-08-3 .
  • Dirk Göbel, Jörg Rudat: 30 years ago: In the last 1 1/2 decker through Hagen. in: HagenBuch 2010, pp. 67–75, ardenkuverlag, ISBN 978-3-932070-95-2 .
  • Dieter Höltge: Trams and light rail vehicles in Germany, Volume 4 Ruhrgebiet EK-Verlag, Freiburg i.Br. 1994, ISBN 3-88255-334-0 .

Web links

Commons : Hagener Straßenbahn AG  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 51 ° 22 ′ 44.1 ″  N , 7 ° 28 ′ 29.5 ″  E