Kraftverkehr Gebr. Wiedenhoff
| Kraftverkehr Gebr. Wiedenhoff | |
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| Basic information | |
| Company headquarters | Solingen , Germany |
| Web presence | www.wiedenhoff.com |
| Reference year | 2015 |
| Transport network | VRS |
| Lines | |
| bus | 7th |
| statistics | |
| Stops | 286 |
| Operating facilities | |
| Depots | 2 |
The road transport Gebr. Wiedenhoff GmbH & Co. KG is a private transport company , based in the city of Solingen . It currently operates the regular bus services in parts of Solingen and the surrounding districts and cities with seven bus routes . The company's activities also include school and travel trips.
history
The company's history began in the formerly independent municipality of Witzhelden , when private individuals tried in vain to operate a bus route to Solingen. The then mayor of Witzhelden, Gustav Marquardt, approached the brothers Leo and Otto Wiedenhoff in 1924, who at the time only operated butter transports. At the behest of the mayor, from the mid-1920s they also carried out a passenger transport for joke heroes. This first bus line ran from Hilgen via Witzhelden to Solingen ; one trip even led beyond Solingen to Widdert . Despite some problems, the company developed quite well and in the early 1930s, bus routes from the Rheinische Bahngesellschaft AG were taken over. Further bus routes were served in Solingen and the surrounding area before the company was entered in the commercial register on February 26, 1936.
The Second World War did not leave Wiedenhoff unaffected. Lines had to be closed, omnibuses were misused for war purposes and destroyed or left badly damaged. It was only towards the end of the 1940s that regular service could gradually be restored. In 1950 the company started to travel by bus, initially with a bus trip to Austria . When both brothers died in 1953, their children continued the company. The company has been a member of the Rhein-Sieg transport association since the 1990s .
At the end of October 2015 it was announced that the Rheinisch-Bergische Kreis wanted to have six of the bus routes previously operated by Wiedenhoff sold to the municipal subsidiary Kraftverkehr Wupper-Sieg from Leverkusen by direct award after the contracts with the company had expired in December 2016 . Wiedenhoff announced that it would have this procedure reviewed by a court. At the beginning of December 2015, Wiedenhoff applied to the district government to operate the lines independently after 2016, so direct allocation is no longer possible.
Lines
Former lines
- Witzhelden - Solingen - Aries
- 9 Solingen - Witzhelden - Burscheid
- Joke Heroes - Hilgen
- Solingen - Forest - Haan
- Solingen - Löhdorf - Ohligs
- Solingen - Katternberg
Solingen bus network in the 1930s
From April 1, 1931 until the termination by the city of Solingen on April 1, 1938, the following bus routes were operated by the Wiedenhoff brothers.
- A Graf-Wilhelm-Platz - Mangenberg - Ohligs - Schützenplatz
- B Katternberg - Graf-Wilhelm-Platz - Mangenberg - Wald - Haan
- C Haan - Ohligs - Aufderhöhe, Siebels
- D Aufderhöhe, Siebels - Mangenberg - Graf-Wilhelm-Platz
- E Graf-Wilhelm-Platz - hospitals - water tower
Current lines
| Line number | Line route | comment |
|---|---|---|
| 239/240 | LEV-Opladen - Burscheid-Hilgen (- Wermelskirchen-Dabringhausen as TaxiBus ) | Line 240 Wiedenhoff, line 239 Kraftverkehr Wupper-Sieg |
| 240 | Wermelskirchen Bf - Bergisch Born - Remscheid-Lennep | Together with Stadtwerke Remscheid |
| 249 | Burscheid citizen bus | Voluntary minibus transport , vehicle provision by Wiedenhoff |
| 250 | Cologne, Breslauer Platz / Hbf. - Leverkusen Mitte - Opladen bus station - Leichlingen bus station - Solingen Graf-Wilhelm-Platz | |
| 252 | Burscheid bus station - Paffenlöh - Witzhelden - Wupperhof / Glüder - Solingen Graf-Wilhelm-Platz | |
| 255 | K.-Flittard, Chempark (S) - Leverkusen center - Opladen bus station - Stoss / Leichlingen bus station - Leichlingen station - Stöcken / Oberschmitte - Witzhelden bus station | |
| N 8 | Leichlingen night bus |
Wiedenhoff travel division
At the end of 2018, the Wiedenhoff company ceased its travel operations and closed the travel agencies in Solingen (Bismarckstrasse) and Witzhelden. According to the managing director Ralf Weltersbach "there was hardly anything going on" in the travel agencies (Das Solinger vom Sonntag 71734).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bus routes: Does the Wupsi Wiedenhoff boot out? , Rheinische Post from October 19, 2015, accessed on December 21, 2015
- ↑ Bus routes: It's about more than a million , Rheinische Post from October 30, 2015, accessed on December 21, 2015
- ↑ Wiedenhoff will not receive any subsidies in the future ( memento of the original from December 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Bergischer Volksbote dated December 11, 2015, accessed on December 21, 2015
- ↑ Photo: Line 9 to Burscheid
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Coordinates: 51 ° 9 '45 " N , 7 ° 5' 23.4" E