KVG Stade
| KVG Stade GmbH & Co. KG | |
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| Basic information | |
| Company headquarters | Stade |
| Web presence | www.kvg-bus.de |
| Reference year | 2018 |
| owner |
VOG 60%, EVB Elbe-Weser 40% |
| Managing directors | Jan Behrendt, Michael Fastert |
| Operations management | Richard Peters (Stade company, Cuxhaven), Tilman Peiper (Buxtehude company), Nils Radtke (Hittfeld company), Hartmut Müller (Lüneburg company) |
| Transport network |
HVV , VBN , VNN , VH
ROW / VNN (Rotenburg / Wümme tariff) |
| Employee | 876 (including 94 trainees) |
| sales | 66.9 million euros |
| Lines | |
| bus | 287 |
| Other lines | Rail replacement services for S-Bahn Hamburg , metronom , erixx , enno start unterelbe |
| number of vehicles | |
| Omnibuses | 495 own (+ rented) |
| other vehicles | 1 VW Polo (administrative purposes) 1 VW Sprinter (bus stop service) 1 Suzuki Jimny (winter service, etc.) |
| statistics | |
| Passengers | 38.9 million |
| Mileage | 17.9 million km / year |
| Stops | ~ 2900 |
| Catchment area | 6th 766 km² |
| Length of line network | |
| Bus routes | 6th 541 km |
| Operating facilities | |
| Depots | 6, including 5 with a workshop |
The KVG Stade GmbH & Co. KG is a regional transport company for local transport in the north of Lower Saxony , based in Stade . KVG is part of the Osthannoversche Eisenbahnen OHE group and achieved sales of 66.9 million euros in the 2018 financial year. The KVG employs over 800 people and maintains almost 500 of its own buses (and other leased buses are also used on behalf of the company), making the KVG one of the largest bus companies in Lower Saxony.
Traffic area
The KVG operates city traffic in the cities of Buxtehude , Buchholz idN , Bremervörde , Cuxhaven , Lüneburg , Stade and Winsen (Luhe) . KVG also operates regional bus services in the districts of Cuxhaven , Harburg , Lüneburg , Lüchow-Dannenberg , Rotenburg (Wümme) (partially), Heidekreis and Stade . The traffic area extends to the cities of Hamburg and Bremerhaven . The entire traffic area covers approximately 6766 km². The KVG operates on a total of 6292 kilometers of route network and controls around 2900 stops.
At the beginning of 2019, the Hittfeld plant in the Harburg district won the first Europe-wide tender, so that KVG will continue to operate most of the lines for the next ten years.
Locations
The company headquarters / administration is located in Stade at Harburger Straße 96.
Depots
The KVG operates six depots:
- Stade, Feuerwehrstrasse 5
- Buxtehude , Konrad-Adenauer-Allee 7
- Cuxhaven , Meyerstraße 26
- Seevetal-Hittfeld , Bosteler Feld 10
- Lueneburg , Dahlenburger Landstrasse 37
- Soltau , Breidingstrasse 1b
Transport associations
The KVG lines are part of the following transport associations :
- Hamburger Verkehrsverbund HVV
- Transport association Bremen / Lower Saxony VBN
- Verkehrsgemeinschaft Nordost-Niedersachsen VNN
- Transport community Heidekreis
history
The road GmbH & Co. KG (CCG) was born from the bus company Alex & Henry Peill oHG that April 1 was founded in 1928 and initially the city-bus transport operation in Stade with three buses. In the early 1930s, the replacement bus service for the Kehdinger Kreisbahn (Stade − Freiburg − Itzwörden) was added, the passenger service of which was stopped on May 22, 1932. After interruptions due to the war , the company was converted into a GmbH in 1947 . In 1951, the Deutsche Bundespost took over the company with two overland routes and the Stade city traffic as well as 17 buses and 11 bus trailers .
On May 9, 1966, the Peill Verkehrsgesellschaft GmbH was renamed Kraftverkehr Stade GmbH –KVG– and moved into a new company building on Harburger Strasse in Stade. On April 1, 1967, there was an extensive expansion of the route network, as the postal bus routes that had previously been operated from the Stade post office were transferred to the KVG .
In the following years the KVG continued to expand and took over the bus lines of several smaller private companies one after the other:
- July 1, 1970: Ketterle in Hamburg-Harburg
- October 1, 1970: Schmidt with the company premises in Buxtehude and five buses for city traffic in Buxtehude
- July 1, 1971: Line concessions from Gerlach in Drochtersen for professional and occasional traffic
- January 1, 1974: Cuxhaven Omnibus Company (COG) with city, overland, school and commuter traffic routes in the Cuxhaven area
- May 22, 1977: Johannsen in Hollenstedt with a bus line each from here to Buxtehude and to Hamburg-Neugraben as well as several school bus lines in the Neu Wulmstorf area , takeover of a Magirus-Deutz StÜLB bus ( L 117 )
- August 3, 1978: some school bus routes from the Apens company Glowalla , takeover of five buses, two of which are coaches
- January 1, 1979: Weigel in Seevetal- Hittfeld , operations center with five buses
- December 12, 1979: Takeover of the name "Hanseat-Reisen" from Plöner Verkehrsgesellschaft and their contracts for company transport of the MBB and for school transport in the Lower Elbe area, takeover of seven buses
- January 1, 1980: some school bus routes in the Kehdingen area from the von Holten company in Großenwöhrden with two buses
On June 3, 1973, a branch of the KVG was set up in Munich . Between June 1973 and June 1976 the Postbus routes in the Munich region were operated as regional bus routes within the MVV . Then they were continued as Regionalverkehr Oberbayern (RVO).
On January 1, 1982, the KVG became a regional transport company of the Federal Railroad (DB) and Federal Post Office (DBP), the DB took over 51% of the company shares. In the course of 1982, the KVG's service area was expanded considerably, as all previous rail and post bus routes in the north-east of Lower Saxony were transferred to it:
- September 1, 1982: Postal travel service of the Otterndorf post office with seven regional bus routes and seven buses ( MAN SÜ 240 )
- October 1, 1982: Postal travel service of the Hamburg-Harburg post office
- November 1, 1982: Rail bus services from Bvst Hamburg and partly from Rotenburg
- December 1, 1982: Postal travel service of the post office and the Bvst Lüneburg
These included three Postbus routes in the area of the Hamburg transport association HVV:
- 149 Hmb-Harburg - Neuland - Over
- 157 Hmb-Harburg - Moorburg - Neuenfelde - Jork
- 257 Hmb-Neugraben - Neuenfelde - Cranz
The KVG therefore joined the HVV on January 1, 1983 in place of the Deutsche Bundespost. Some of the former rail bus routes have been discontinued over the years (Hamburg – Soltau, Hamburg – Munster, Hamburg – Verden, Hamburg – Amelinghausen). These often only showed one trip a day.
In addition, on December 31, 1982, the KVG took over city bus transport in Lüneburg from the Ernst Röhlsberger company with numerous MAN buses.
In 1984 the HANSEAT travel agency was opened in Hamburg-Harburg. For the entire traffic area of the KVG lines, an alignment of the tariffs took place in 1987 with the introduction of a regional tariff. A tariff community for the use of season tickets was created with the DB and the HVV.
In January 1996, Kraftverkehr GmbH received ten Mercedes-Benz O 405 N2 CNG low-floor buses with natural gas drives and catalytic converters that emit fewer pollutants for the Lüneburg city bus service .
In 1988 the KVG took over the Karpinski bus company and its premises in Soltau.
In 1996 the KVG was sold by the railways and post offices to the railways and transport companies Elbe-Weser GmbH (EVB) Zeven and the Osthannoversche Eisenbahnen AG (OHE) Celle . After the shares of the State of Lower Saxony and the federal government in the OHE Group were sold in 2011, KVG has also been part of the Italian Netinera Group since mid-2006 . The bus companies in which the OHE is involved founded a bus division within the OHE in 2014. The VOG entered the corporate role of the OHE and took over 60% of the shares in the KVG.
For some time now, city traffic in Harburg has emerged as a new field of activity for the KVG. The lines Sinstorf – Harburg – Finkenwerder (line 146) and Ringverkehr Harburg – Neuland were newly established. In contrast, there were individual cuts in the regional area. The town of Eddelsen was cut off from bus traffic and the line to Bispingen disappeared with the HVV expansion. There was an improvement in regional traffic between Over and Winsen: Here the former Marquardt bus line was taken over, consolidated and connected to Harburg.
Today's operation
The KVG mostly uses modern low-floor buses in city traffic .
The service quality of the lines is very different. The lines departing from Harburg have a dense series of trips and also late and weekend traffic. In Lüneburg, on the other hand, there are no more buses after 8:30 p.m. - neither in city nor in intercity traffic. This is certainly unusual for a university town with many pubs and is also in contrast to the smaller Stade, where the KVG operates an evening ring line in city traffic and an evening overland connection to Freiburg / Elbe . During the day, the KVG city lines have a high quality of service - there are regular timetables . The most heavily traveled section is in Lüneburg between Am Sande and Kaltenmoor.
Volvo 7700 Hybrid
As of December 2010, the KVG in Lüneburg had three Volvo 7700 hybrids. In June 2012, these three vehicles were followed by another ten copies, one of which burned out and was replaced by a new vehicle in November 2013. At the end of 2015, the buses were retired due to the high breakdown rate and replaced with new vehicles.
special offers
In addition to the normal regular service, the KVG also offers scheduled trips to discos and leisure facilities (such as Heide-Park , Snow Dome Bispingen and Universum Bremen ). You can also book trips in a “vintage bus” (Setra S8 coach from 1953) and a VW T1 Samba from 1962.
In the season from April to October, the KVG offers various leisure activities such as B. the Elberadwanderbus. The bus travels with a bicycle trailer through the old country to Freiburg an der Niederelbe.
literature
- Kraftverkehr GmbH - KVG . In: Hamburger Nahverkehrs-Nachrichten , No. 4/1984, pp. 8–15, Association of Traffic Amateurs and Museum Railways eV (VVM), Hamburg 1984
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Figures 2018 , KVG website, accessed on October 22, 2019
- ↑ Pilot project with natural gas buses at KVG . In: HVV Express , Volume 19, No. 2/1996, p. 5