Heidenheim Transport Company
| Heidenheimer Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH | |
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| Basic information | |
| Company headquarters | Heidenheim |
| Web presence | www.hvg-bus.de |
| Reference year | 2010 |
| owner | 74.8% Transdev GmbH , 25.2% district Heidenheim |
| Transport network | HTV |
| Employee | 92, of which 2 are trainees |
| Lines | |
| bus | 20th |
| number of vehicles | |
| Omnibuses | 58 |
| statistics | |
| Passengers | 6.0 million per year |
| Mileage | 2.4 million km per year |
| Catchment area | 627 km² |
| Residents in the catchment area |
0.137 million |
The Heidenheim traffic mbH (HVG) is a subsidiary of Veolia Verkehr and the Heidenheim district . With its 59 buses, it serves local transport, especially in the Heidenheim district, only two lines lead outside the district. In Heidenheim she is responsible for the city bus operation with its seven lines, most of the eleven intercity and regional lines start here. 70% of the local transport services in the Heidenheim district are provided by HVG.
history
The predecessor of the Heidenheimer Verkehrsgesellschaft was the company Wahl & Söhne , once the largest private European bus company. Wahl began its first trips with an 18-seater Ford bus on August 6, 1926 along the railway line to Schnaitheim , today the city bus route 1. Wahl procured a second bus two months after starting operations, the number of which increased with more and more lines Passenger numbers continue.
Further lines were put into operation to the Voith settlement, to Oggenhausen and again along the railway line to Mergelstetten . Thanks to the rush-hour traffic that became prevalent from 1930 and the skillful creation of timetables, the company was able to expand its leading position. Wahl arranged his trips, for example, in such a way that he left shortly before the post buses and thus brought the passengers onto his buses, while the post buses still had to wait for the mail to be sent by the train and left for their destinations only weakly manned.
At the beginning of the Third Reich, Wahl tried not only to compete with the railway in the Brenz Valley , but also offered direct trips from Heidenheim via Weißenstein and Göppingen to Stuttgart at significantly cheaper prices than the Deutsche Reichsbahn at the time. The buses were accordingly well filled, but the company was forbidden to travel. As a circumvention of the ban, trips to neighboring cities such as Cannstatt or Untertürkheim were offered, from where travelers could then take the tram to their destination. But even this evasion of the ban was forbidden to vote, the buses between Göppingen and Stuttgart were confiscated, the travelers and prisoners were interrogated. Wahl gave up the rides. During the war, the company's vehicles and employees were called up for military service and some of them had to provide transport services for the post office.
After the war, the population of the city of Heidenheim and the district increased sharply due to numerous refugees, and a local transport system had become necessary. The Wahl company recognized the situation and built an inner-city line network and some overland lines. In 1987, however, the Wahl company had to file for bankruptcy. The Heidenheimer Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH was founded on May 1, 1987 by the Württembergische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft and the Heidenheim district from the company's bankruptcy assets . Before that, the liner transports had been put out to tender by the district in order to find a partner who would give him a far-reaching say. HVG has been generating annual surpluses since the mid-1990s.
traffic
In the district of Heidenheim, the HVG operates eleven intercity and regional lines and in the city of Heidenheim seven city bus routes. Another, much smaller city bus system is operated in Giengen . The city bus system in Heidenheim was officially put into operation on May 23, 2003. The heart of the seven city bus routes is the central bus stop, or ZOH for short.
Lines
| line | Line route |
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| 1 | ZOH - Heckental - Zanger Berg - Heckental - ZOH - Schnaitheim - Wehrenfeld - Schnaitheim - ZOH |
| 2 | ZOH - Reute - Zanger Berg - Galgenberg - ZOH - Haintal - Hansegisreute - Haintal - ZOH |
| 3 | ZOH - Haintal - Altheim - Haintal - ZOH - Galgenberg - Zanger Berg - Reute - ZOH |
| 4th | ZOH - Mergelstetten - Erbisberg - ZOH - Oststadt - Osterholz - Oststadt - ZOH |
| 5 | ZOH - Reutenen - ZOH - Mittelrain - ZOH (direct line, only at peak times ) |
| 6th | ZOH - Mergelstetten - Reutenen - Clinic - ZOH - Galgenberg - Mittelrain - Ziegeläcker - ZOH |
| 7th | ZOH - Ziegeläcker - Mittelrain - Galgenberg - ZOH - Clinic - Schloßhau - Reutenen - Mergelstetten - ZOH |
| 30th | Heidenheim - Steinheim |
| 40 | Heidenheim - Itzelberg - Königsbronn - Ochsenberg |
| 41 | Heidenheim - Itzelberg - Königsbronn - Zang / Heidenheim - Zang (- Königsbronn) |
| 42 | Heidenheim - Itzelberg - Königsbronn - Oberkochen (HVZ amplifier; section Königsbronn - Oberkochen only for employees from Zeiss) |
| 50 | Heidenheim - Nattheim |
| 51 | Heidenheim - Nattheim - Steinweiler - Auernheim - Neresheim - Ohmenheim - Kösingen - Schweindorf |
| 52 | Heidenheim (- Nietheim) - Großkuchen - Kleinkuchen - Steinweiler - Auernheim - Neresheim (from Neresheim also continues as line 51 to Schweindorf) |
| 60 | Heidenheim - Mergelstetten - Bolheim - Herbrechtingen |
| 61 | Heidenheim - Mergelstetten (- Bolheim - Herbrechtingen) - Giengen |
| 62 | Giengen - Hohenmemmingen (- Sachsenhausen) - Bachhagel - Landhausen - Ballhausen - Altenberg - Staufen |
| 65 | City traffic Giengen station - Südstadt loop - station - Schießberg / Rechbergwanne loop - station - Memminger Wanne loop - station |
| 68 | Heidenheim - Oggenhausen - Nattheim / Staufen (Ostertag company on behalf of HVG) |
| 70 | Heidenheim - Bolheim - Dettingen - Heuchlingen - Heldenfingen - Gerstetten |
vehicles
The current vehicle fleet includes 58 buses from almost all major manufacturers. Around two thirds of the vehicle fleet consists of low-floor buses of the types Mercedes-Benz Citaro and Citaro G, MAN A20, A21 and A23, Setra S 319 NF, Neoplan N 4411, N 4516 and N 4522 as well as Solaris Urbino 12 and Urbino 18. There are high-floor vehicles the types Mercedes-Benz O 405 G, Setra S 315 UL, SG 321 UL, S 415 GT and S 415 UL are in stock. In recent years, the fleet has been expanded to include MAN Lion's City and Lion's City G vehicles. A hybrid bus from the Swiss manufacturer Hess has recently been added to the fleet.
swell
- Uwe Siedentop: The Brenz Valley Railway. Publishing house Uwe Siedentop, Heidenheim (Brenz) 1984.