Moselbahn GmbH

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MB Moselbahn Verkehrsbetriebsgesellschaft mbH
Logo of the Moselbahn GmbH
Basic information
Company headquarters Bernkastel-Andel
Web presence www.moselbahn.de
Reference year 2010
owner Rhenus Veniro 100%
Board Henrik Behrens and Rolf Tödtmann
Transport network VRT
Employee 100
Lines
bus 15th
number of vehicles
Omnibuses 71 (including minibuses)
statistics
Passengers 7.3 million per year
Mileage 4.6 million km per year
Stops about 150
Residents in the
catchment area 		0.2 million
Length of line network
Bus routes 592 km
Operating facilities
Depots Andel , Longuich

The Moselbahn Transport Co Ltd is a regional transport company owned by Rhenus Veniro group that passenger transport services with buses in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate provides. The company is based in Bernkastel-Andel .

history

The Moselbahn Verkehrsbetriebsgesellschaft mbH emerged in 1964 from the omnibus operation of the Moselbahn AG railway company founded in 1899 .

The latter opened in sections a 102 km long, standard gauge small railway line , which ran without exception on the right bank of the Moselle . It was also Moseltalbahn called while the majority left the Mosel river and the Deutsche Bahn AG powered connection from Koblenz to Trier as Mosel route is called.

The Moselle route operated by Deutsche Bahn did not run through the Moselle valley between Trier and Bullay , but on a shorter route through the Vordereifel . Two branch lines branched off from here to Bernkastel-Kues and Traben-Trarbach in the Moselle valley.

Moselbahn AG was founded in 1899 by a number of banks and the West German Railway Company in Cologne . These and their successors - Vereinigte Kleinbahnen AG and Deutsche Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft - took over the management.

In the 1920s, the AG for Transport obtained the majority of the shares, in 1940 it was almost 95%. AGV sold these shares to the State of Rhineland-Palatinate in 1962 .

Although the state of Rhineland-Palatinate had become almost one hundred percent shareholder in Moselbahn AG, the line was gradually shut down between 1961 and 1968 . It began on September 30, 1961 with the suspension of passenger traffic on the section from Bullay to Traben-Trarbach, which was then followed on December 31, 1962 by the subsequent route to Niederemmel-Piesport , on which freight traffic from Bullay also ceased.

On May 22, 1966 all traffic between Niederemmel-Piesport and Neumagen- Neumagen-Dhron ended . The multiple units on the remaining route to Trier have now been brought into the main train station there. But since February 1, 1968, traffic was still here too; only the freight traffic between Ruwer West and Trier was maintained for a few years. In Bullay Süd, too, the siding to the Raiffeisen warehouse was still served - albeit by the Deutsche Bundesbahn.

At the end of 1964, the state of Rhineland-Palatinate converted Moselbahn AG into a GmbH, which initially continued to operate bus services along the Moselle. This has now been transferred to Moselbahn Verkehrsbetriebsgesellschaft mbH, which has been part of the Rhenus Veniro Group since 2002 .

On July 1, 2012, the Moselbahn stopped its services due to a lack of profitability in the Saargau and gave up its services. At the same time, the depot in Saarburg was closed and the company headquarters relocated to Bernkastel-Andel. Part of the vehicle fleet was sold and the staff was taken over by the successor company.

Traffic performance

The Moselbahn Verkehrsbetriebsgesellschaft mbH provides 4.6 million kilometers on the 592 kilometers of bus routes. These are (as of 2010 ) experienced by 40 buses , 15 articulated buses and 41 minibuses on behalf of the transport associations Verkehrsverbund Region Trier (VRT) and Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Mosel (VRM).

Lines today

line route
22nd Trier - Ruwer - Mertesdorf - Fell - Fastrau - Riol - Longuich - Schweich
27 Ehrang - Quint - Rodt - Zemmer - Schleidweiler - Daufenbach
220 Trier - Kenn - Schweich - Mehring - Thörnich - Leiwen - Trittenheim - Neumagen
221 Trier - Kenn - Schweich - Bekond - Klüsserath - Köwerich - Leiwen
227 Waldrach - Kasel - Mertesdorf - Ruwer - Kenn - Schweich
228 Longen - Lörsch - Mehring
229 Longen - Ensch - Thörnich - Detzem - Leiwen
271 Naurath - Bekond - Föhren - Schweich - Ehrang
272 Daufenbach - Schweich - Rodt - Schleidweiler

literature

  • Gerd Wolff: German small and private railways - Volume 1 Rhineland-Palatinate / Saarland - Freiburg 1989
  • Moselbahn-Gesellschaft mbH, Trier: Moselle Valley Railway Trier-Bullay: 1905 - 1980. Festschrift on the occasion of the 75th anniversary. Trier 1980.
  • Hoppstädter, Kurt: The railways in the Moselle valley according to the files of the Koblenz State Archives. Publisher: Bundesbahndirektion. Saarbrücken 1973.
  • Moselbahn-Gesellschaft mbH, Trier: lifeline of a landscape; Review and present report on the 70th anniversary. Trier 1972.
  • Moselle Valley Railway. From Trier to Bullay. Travel Guide. Published by Schaar & Dathe. Trier 1925.
  • Moselle Valley Railway Trier-Bernkastel-Bullay. Trier, 1907.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ RHENUS VENIRO GmbH & Co. KG (ed.): Companies of the Rhenus Veniro Group . ( HTML [accessed August 28, 2010]).
  2. ↑ Imprint. (No longer available online.) Moselbahn Verkehrsbetriebsgesellschaft mbH, archived from the original ; Retrieved August 28, 2010 .
  3. ↑ a b company. (No longer available online.) Moselbahn Verkehrsbetriebsgesellschaft mbH, archived from the original ; Retrieved August 28, 2010 .
  4. ↑ Links / partners. (No longer available online.) Moselbahn Verkehrsbetriebsgesellschaft mbH, archived from the original ; Retrieved August 28, 2010 .
  5. ↑ Verkehrsverbund Region Trier: Roman Wine Route. Retrieved September 3, 2019 .