Cone (traffic concept)

Logo KONUS

The term CONE (abbreviation for: Ko Stenlose Nu estimation of public transport in the S chwarzwald) stands for a traffic concept for environmentally friendly mobility of tourists. It was introduced in the Black Forest in 2006 . The KONUS guest card is also called the Black Forest guest card ; It replaces the local tourist card and enables tourists in currently (February 2017) 146 municipalities to use buses and trains free of charge in the nine transport associations of the Black Forest holiday region . In the Karlsruhe Transport Association, the card is only valid in the districts of Rastatt and Baden-Baden as well as on the trains between Rastatt or Bad Herrenalb and Karlsruhe (all buses and trains in the entire city of Karlsruhe).

Overview

During their stay in the Black Forest in the KONUS area, tourists have the opportunity to have their host issue a KONUS guest card free of charge. This guest card is valid as a ticket for the use of the 2nd class of vehicles of the local public transport of the participating transport associations. Thus, the free use of ICE, IC, EC and mountain railways is not included. However, with the possession of the guest card there are also numerous discounts and price advantages at events and facilities throughout the Black Forest.

financing

The KONUS guest card is financed by a flat-rate surcharge on the visitor's tax , which has been 47 euro cents per night since 2018 , but is passed on to overnight guests in different municipalities. The participating transport associations receive a contribution from the municipalities participating in their area of ​​responsibility.

development

KONUS was developed in 2006 by Schwarzwald Tourismus GmbH (STG) and its managing director Christopher Krull. Driving forces on the political level were the former mayor of Hinterzarten, Hansjörg Eckert, and on the part of the transport associations, the managing director of the Ortenau tariff community (TGO), Johannes Müller. Initially, five transport associations and Deutsche Bahn (DB) took part. After KONUS was introduced in 76 municipalities in the southern and central Black Forest by the end of 2007, the Black Forest has been almost completely accessible with the KONUS guest card since January 2008 thanks to the accession of the Freudenstadt , Calw and Rastatt districts . On January 1, 2012, the KONUS validity area was extended to Karlsruhe. Krull named the project KONUS. The name, initially only intended as a working title, then also became the brand name for the tourism mobility concept, which was unique in its scope in Germany. KONUS is usually called a conical square general key, which was used to unlock railway wagons and bus doors in the past.

List of participating transport associations

• KVV - Karlsruher Verkehrsverbund (only part of the district of Rastatt and Baden-Baden as well as in the railways between Rastatt or Bad Herrenalb and Karlsruhe (entire city area bus + train))
• RVF - Regional Transport Association Freiburg
• RVL - Regio Verkehrsverbund Lörrach
• TGO - tariff association Ortenau
• VGC - Verkehrsgesellschaft Bäderkreis Calw
• VGF - Freudenstadt District Transport Association
• VSB - Verkehrsverbund Schwarzwald-Baar
• VVR - Verkehrsverbund Rottweil
• WTV - Waldshut tariff association

Participating municipalities

Aitern Alpirsbach Bad Bellingen Bad Herrenalb Bad Krozingen Bad Liebenzell Bad Peterstal-Griesbach Bad Rippoldsau-Schapbach Bad Säckingen Bad Teinach / Zavelstein Bad Wildbad Badenweiler Bahlingen am Kaiserstuhl Baiersbronn Ballrechte - Dottingen Berghaupten Bernau in the Black Forest Biberach (Baden) Biederbach Blumberg

Böllen Boetzingen Bollschweil Bonndorf in the Black Forest Bräunlingen Breisach from 2013 Breitnau Buchenbach Bühlertal Dachsberg Chub Donaueschingen Dornstetten Durbach Ehrenkirchen Eichstetten am Kaiserstuhl Eisenbach (Black Forest) Elzach Endingen am Kaiserstuhl Enzklösterle

Feldberg Fischerbach Forbach (Baden) Freiamt Freudenstadt Friedenweiler Happy Furtwangen Gaggenau / Bad Rotenfels Gengenbach Gernsbach Glottertal Gottenheim Grafenhausen Guttenbach Gutach (Black Forest Railway) Gutach im Breisgau Häg-Ehrsberg Houses Haslach in the Kinzigtal Hausach Herrischried Hinterzarten Höchenschwand Höfen on the Enz Hofstetten (Baden) Horben Hornberg Hüfingen

Ibach (Black Forest) Your singing Kandern Kappelrodeck Kirchzarten Small meadow valley Küssaberg Lahr / Black Forest Run (bathing) Lautenbach Lauterbach (Black Forest) Lenzkirch Loeffingen Loerrach Loffenau Lossburg Mühlenbach (Black Forest) Müllheim (Baden) (from February 1, 2018) Münstertal / Black Forest Neubulach Nordrach

Oberharmersbach Oberkirch Oberried Ohlsbach Oppenau Ottenhöfen Pfalzgrafenweiler Rickenbach (Hotzenwald) Sasbach Sasbach am Kaiserstuhl Sasbachwalden Thigh cell Schiltach Schluchsee Schömberg Schönau in the Black Forest Schönenberg (Black Forest) Schönwald in the Black Forest Schonach in the Black Forest Schramberg

Seebach (Baden) Seewald Sexau Simonswald St. Blasien St. Georgen in the Black Forest St. Märgen St. Peter (Black Forest) Staufen im Breisgau Webs Steinach (Ortenau district) Sulzburg Titisee / Neustadt in the Black Forest Dead moss Todtnau Triberg Tunau

Ühlingen-Birkendorf Unterkirnach Utzenfeld Voehrenbach Vogtsburg in the Kaiserstuhl Waldachtal Waldkirch Weir (Baden) Weilheim (Baden) Wembach Wieden (Black Forest) Winden in the Elztal Wittnau (Breisgau) Wolfach Zell am Harmersbach Zell im Wiesental

Status: February 24, 2017

criticism

The current practice of access to the Konus card has been criticized because it leads to unequal treatment of guests: only private spa guests receive the card, it is not given to patients in clinics and rehabilitation facilities.

It is also criticized that the city of Freiburg im Breisgau refuses to join the system. Although it benefits from the fact that tourists from the surrounding area visit the city thanks to Konus, accommodation providers in Freiburg do not issue the card.

See also

Similar traffic concepts are the GUTi in the Bavarian Forest and the guest ticket in the Cochem-Zell district . Likewise the VHB guest ticket in the district of Constance

Web links

• Online information

Individual evidence

1. ↑ schwarzwald-tourismus.info: overview map of the transport associations involved ( memento from October 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (February 20, 2017, PDF, 1.5 MB)
2. ↑ ^{a b} Sigrid Umiger: There are not free trips for everyone . In: badische-zeitung.de, Nachrichten, Badenweiler, February 22, 2011 (February 26, 2012)
3. ↑ badische-zeitung.de , February 25, 2017: Konus will not come until February 2018 (February 24, 2017)
4. ↑ List on Schwarzwald-tourismus.info
5. ↑ Holger Schindler: Freiburg: Tourismus: Freiburg is still not included in the cone map - concrete heads at work? Badische Zeitung, April 6, 2017, accessed on April 6, 2017 . 
6. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: guest ticket of the district of Cochem-Zell )