Hanau tram

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Hanauer Straßenbahn GmbH

Basic information
Company headquarters	Hanau
Web presence	Web presence
Reference year	Mid 2010
owner	BeteiligungsHolding Hanau GmbH (100%)
Supervisory board	Thomas Morlock (Chairman and Hanau City Council)
Managing directors	Thomas Schulte (since 01.2017)
Transport network	RMV
Employee	160 (including 2 trainees)
Lines
bus	12
number of vehicles
Omnibuses	56
statistics
Passengers	11.87 million
Mileage	2.3 million km per year
Stops	170
Catchment area	96.2 km²
Length of line network
Bus routes	104 km
Operating facilities
Depots	1 (at Daimlerstrasse 5, 63450 Hanau)

The Hanauer streetcar GmbH (HSB) is the transport operation of the Hessian town of Hanau ( Frankfurt Rhine-Main ). Despite the name, there is no longer any tram traffic in Hanau today.

Tram in Nürnberger Strasse

Paradeplatz (today: Freiheitsplatz ) with the authority building ; in front of it on the right a car of the Hanau tram

history

Tram operation

HSB was founded as a stock corporation by the city of Hanau, the city of Groß-Steinheim, the municipality of Klein-Steinheim and four banks. After the cities of Frankfurt , Offenbach , Wiesbaden , Darmstadt , Bad Homburg and Mainz had already put electric trams into operation in the Rhine-Main area , Hanau followed suit in 1908. The company was in the hands of Hecker & Co until 1920 Wiesbaden. The tram had to start ten railcars of MAN 2 × 35 hp.

The Hanau tram network with a track width of 1435 mm comprised three lines:

1 Central Station - Markt - Rosenau (June 15, 1908) - Beethovenplatz (from 1928)
2 Nordbahnhof - Markt - Westbahnhof (August 8, 1908 to September 1, 1928)
3 Markt - Steinheim Obertor ( today: Kardinal-Volk-Platz ) (September 30, 1909 to 1933)

The HSB had to file for bankruptcy on November 5, 1920 . The entire network was temporarily shut down from 1922 to 1924. After the insolvency proceedings were concluded in 1925, it continued driving - initially on a modest basis. When the HSB did not provide the necessary funds for the renovation of the Main Bridge in 1933 , the line to Steinheim had to be discontinued and only one line ran.

In 1940 the company bought sidecars that were no longer needed in Gießen , and in 1942 two more railcars, also from Gießen.

End of tram operation

The last remaining hall of the Hanau tram depot on Kurt-Blaum-Platz , demolished in 2007

In the air raids of December 12, 1944, the overhead lines were largely destroyed and rubble blocked the routes. Since that day the tram has stopped running. In the air raid on January 6, 1945, the depot, most of the vehicles and the administration building were destroyed. Since then, HSB has only operated one bus network.

After the war, the city of Hanau decided - first in 1947, then finally in 1950 - against resuming tram operations, although the tracks were still largely undamaged in the streets. There are two reasons for this: On the one hand, the city pursued a modernization policy in the post-war period, in which motor vehicles, such as omnibuses, fit better than trams. On the other hand, about three-quarters of the city center of Hanau is surrounded by railroad tracks, over which the arterial roads at that time were all led with level crossings . A level crossing with a tram was excluded. The tram tracks were removed from the streets in 1951 (expansion in Nürnberger Str. And Nordstrasse, among others).

A hall of the former tram depot including the last existing track section was preserved on the corner of Kurt-Blaum-Platz and Leipziger Straße until autumn 2007 before it was demolished, as was a second parallel standing a few years earlier.

Relics of the earlier tram are now only to be found in Westerburgstraße and Nordstraße (near Wilhelmsbrücke); There, overhead line rosettes have been preserved on a few historic house walls .

In the Nordbahnhof underpass near the former tram terminus (line 2), a timeline by the Hanau-Radau artist group has also been reminding of the beginning of the HSB era in 1908.

Omnibus operation

Hanauer Straßenbahn AG buses

The first bus line was established in 1928. Except for three vehicles, none of the buses survived the Second World War.

post war period

Since 1944 and the end of tram operations, buses have been the only mode of transport regularly operated by the HSB. With the three vehicles that could still be kept drivable after the air raids, driving was resumed on January 2, 1946, initially as a makeshift line between Kesselstadt and the Freigerichtviertel . Only students and skilled workers were promoted. The route was then extended to Hauptbahnhof - Kesselstadt - Beethovenplatz - Lamboystraße . So he served the most densely populated districts of Hanau after the destruction of the inner city. From December 8, 1947, there was again scheduled bus service for the general public. After a brief, temporary slump as a result of the currency reform in 1948, the number of passengers rose continuously and additional lines were set up. Since 1950 the HSB was part of the Hanauer Stadtwerke .

Today's line network

line	route	Clock frequency (Mon-Fri)	vehicles used	particularities
1	Hohe Tanne - Hanau-Wilhelmsbad - Rosenau - Freiheitsplatz - Market Square - Dunlop - Central Station	20-minute intervals	O 530G	on Sundays only Hohe Tanne - Freiheitsplatz
2	Lärchenweg - Lamboystraße - Nordbahnhof - Freiheitsplatz - Marktplatz - Hauptbahnhof	20-minute intervals	O 530G
2A	Central Station - Dunlop Crossing - Gabelsbergerstr. - Pine path	30-minute intervals	Solaris 8.9	Direct bus Lamboy - HBF Mon-Fri 6 a.m.-8 a.m.
3	August-Schärttner-Halle or Reichenberger Strasse - Bruchköbler Landstrasse - Schloßplatz - Freiheitsplatz - Clinic - - Ehrichstrasse	30-minute intervals	O 530
4th	Klein-Auheim cemetery - Steinheim - Steinheim train station - cinema - West train station - Freiheitsplatz	15-minute intervals	O 530, O 530G
5	Main station - market square - Westbahnhof - Weststadt Königsberger Straße - Kesselstadt cemetery	20-minute intervals	O 530G	on Sundays, Freiheitsplatz - Kesselstadt Cemetery
6th	Klein-Auheim cemetery - Großauheim - forest settlement - Wolfgang - market square - Freiheitsplatz	30-minute intervals	O 530
7th	Waldsiedlung - Großauheim - Central Station / Auheimer Straße - Stadtwerke - Klinikum - Freiheitsplatz	30-minute intervals	O 530
8th	(Divided on line 3,12, which became the diameter line)
9	Mittelbuchen - Hanau-Wilhelmsbad - Rosenau - Freiheitsplatz	60-minute intervals	Solaris 8.9	AST line on Sundays
10	Ulmenweg - Tümpelgarten - Nordbahnhof - Freiheitsplatz - Market Square - Westbahnhof - Weststadt Königsberger Straße	20-minute intervals	O 530G	no traffic on Sundays
11	Siemens - Wolfgang - Hauptbahnhof / Auheimer Straße (- Steinheim Bahnhof - Steinheim Friedhof Süd - RONDO Steinheim)	15-minute intervals (30-minute intervals) 60-minute intervals at lunchtime	O 530	Redesign due to discontinuation of line 13
12	Steinheim Albrecht-Dürer-Strasse - Steinheim Cemetery South - Steinheim Train Station - Westbahnhof - Market Square - Freiheitsplatz - Nordbahnhof - Kinzigbogen - Ikea	30-minute intervals	O 530
13	Rondo bus (round trip in Steinheim) Amerikafeld - South Cemetery - Steinheim Fire Brigade - Doorner Strasse - Berliner Strasse - Amerikafeld	Mon-Fri 9 am-3pm + Sat. 8.00 a.m. - 3.30 p.m. (every 30 minutes)	O 530, Solaris 8, 9	Midi buses (discontinued on June 24, 2018 due to lack of demand)

Reintroduction of tram operations?

In 2001, the reintroduction of the tram as a regional light rail was considered in Hanau. The initiator was the then head of HSB, Ulrich Hoffmann. A line was planned from Hanau main station through the city center (via Marktplatz and Freiheitsplatz ) to the north station. From there, the route should swivel to the Hanau - Friedberg railway line and lead via Bruchköbel to Nidderau - Heldenbergen . The plans, which had already come a long way, were rejected by the city council in March 2004 for reasons of cost. In 2004, HSB tried its hand as a railway company for a few months and operated a MainLinie regional urban railway from Hanau to Rüsselsheim exclusively on the rail network of DB AG with vehicles borrowed from Karlsruhe transport company .

New developments

Citaro on Freiheitsplatz

In December 2002, Verkehrsgesellschaft Frankfurt (VGF) took part in HSB as a “strategic partner”. This participation was given up again in 2005 with the closer integration of VGF with Offenbacher Verkehrsbetriebe (OVB).

In 2006 the corporation was converted into a limited liability company. It is 100% owned by BeteiligungsHolding Hanau GmbH .

On June 15, 2008, HSB celebrated its 100th anniversary with an open day on the Daimlerstrasse site (near the main train station).

With the timetable change on December 13, 2009, a line reform was carried out in Hanau in order to create more connections in the city without changing trains. The bus routes were consecutively renumbered and now differ in color. Among other things, line 1 (light green) runs as it did before 1945 (then as tram line 1) from the main station via Freiheitsplatz in the direction of Beethovenplatz / Hohe Tanne. The new line 5 (orange) replaces the previous line 10 (Kesselstadt via Marktplatz to the main station). Line 7 (blue) also runs on a new route, from Freiheitsplatz via Hauptbahnhof and Rauschsiedlung to Großauheim. Line 10 (dark blue) will be used on the new Weststadt route via Freiheitsplatz to Lamboy. Line 11 (light blue) from Steinheim via the main train station to the Wolfgang industrial park was introduced. Compared to 2006, a quarter fewer buses drive through the pedestrian zones.

With the timetable change on December 9, 2012, line 8 (dark green) got a new route. It now drives from the port via Freiheitsplatz, Lamboystraße and the Kinzigbogen retail park to the north industrial area.

literature

75 years of Hanauer Straßenbahn AG 1908–1983. Commemorative publication on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of Hanauer Straßenbahn AG . Hanau 1983.
Markus Häfner: The reconstruction of German medium-sized cities after the Second World War using the example of the city of Hanau = New Magazine for Hanau History 2009/1.
Dieter Höltge, Günter H. Köhler: Trams and light rail vehicles in Germany . 2nd Edition. 1: Hessen. EK-Verlag , Freiburg 1992, ISBN 3-88255-335-9 .
Marianne Jacoby and Martina Raskop: Hanau and the tram. 100 years of HSB . Ed .: Baugesellschaft Hanau GmbH , City Council of Hanau, Hanauer Geschichtsverein 1844 e. V. Hanau 2008. ISBN 978-3-00-025086-6

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ Häfner, pp. 153f.
↑ Häfner, p. 154f.
↑ ^a ^b Häfner, p. 153.
↑ Häfner, p. 154.
↑ ^a ^{b The} timetable change on June 24th brings changes to lines 10 to 12 and regional traffic / line 13 is not applicable. In: HSB.de. June 14, 2018, accessed July 13, 2018 .

[1] Häfner, pp. 153f.

[2] Häfner, p. 154f.

[hafner153-3] Häfner, p. 153.

[4] Häfner, p. 154.

[:0-5] {b The} timetable change on June 24th brings changes to lines 10 to 12 and regional traffic / line 13 is not applicable. In: HSB.de. June 14, 2018, accessed July 13, 2018 .