Hoyerswerda trolleybus

Hoyerswerda trolleybus
Route length:	10.83 km
Legend Seidewinkel residential area Käthe-Kollwitz-Strasse Fritz-Kube-Heim Apprentice dormitory GSP Bold heather Forest cemetery Kühnicht Forsthaus Clinic House of Institutions Käthe-Niederkirchener-Strasse Restaurant meeting 8 Guest house At the grove of honor Albert-Einstein-Strasse Department store center Restaurant tune Rosarium Neustadt stop Ziolkowskistraße Concrete plant Robotron Scaffolding Motor transport network ever traveled as planned network never used as planned Name of the stops at the time of electrification

The Hoyerswerda trolleybus is a former trolleybus operator in the Saxon city ​​of Hoyerswerda . The system existed from 1989 to 1994, it was the last newly created trolleybus operation in Germany. Besides Greiz , Königstein and Ludwigsburg , Hoyerswerda is also one of the few German cities in which a trolleybus, but never a tram , drove.

The operating company was originally the then VEB Kraftverkehr Schwarze Pump , which in turn was integrated into the VE Transport Kombat Cottbus . After the fall of the Berlin Wall , responsibility for the Hoyerswerda trolleybus was transferred to the Kraftverkehr Schwarze Pump GmbH that resulted from it . From this the Verkehrsgesellschaft Spree-Elster ( VSE ) emerged in 1992 , later trading as the Verkehrsgesellschaft Schwarze Elster , and since 2003 as the Verkehrsgesellschaft Hoyerswerda (VGH).

prehistory

In the 1980s, the German Democratic Republic had to save expensive imported oil and instead promote the use of domestic lignite . In addition to the cities of Neubrandenburg , Stendal , Stralsund , Suhl and Wismar , it was decided to introduce a trolleybus system in Hoyerswerda. Ultimately, the network discussed here was the only one that actually went into operation. On the other hand, construction work on the Suhl trolleybus was canceled shortly before completion, the other four companies did not get beyond the planning stage.

history

The interest group territorial rationalization, to which 25 companies and the council of the city of Hoyerswerda belonged, carried out the construction work. The opening ceremony of the Hoyerswerda trolleybus took place on October 6, 1989, the day before the 40th anniversary of the GDR . The general director of the gas combine "Fritz Selbmann" Dr. Herbert Richter, head of the interest group, the deputy chairman of the Cottbus district council Rainer Bonkaß and the chairman of the Hoyerswerda district council Heinz Auerswald.

Scheduled operations finally began on October 8, 1989. Initially, only part of the line A (later line 11) was operated electrically; it connected the station with the transport companies. Line A was only operated as a trolleybus line between the public transport company and Am Ehrenhain - this stop is now only served by regional buses for schoolchildren, but not by the city bus. The remaining section to the station, however, remained a diesel bus route. The direct connection between the two parts of line A was ensured.

In 1990 line D (later line 14) was also switched to electrical operation, connecting the Seidewinkel residential area with the public transport company. Line C (station - industrial site) could have been split up at the Am Ehrenhain stop, just like line A, but this was never carried out.

Shortly before German reunification , the move away from the trolleybus began. On September 6, 1990, the Hoyerswerda city ​​council decided to cancel the plans to electrify the route through the old town to the train station. In the spring of 1991, the decision was finally made not to pursue the further expansion of the route network in Neustadt. The declining population and passenger numbers in the post-reunification years proved to be problematic for the trolleybus, making the complex operation of trolleybuses in a comparatively small town like Hoyerswerda increasingly unprofitable.

In mid-1992, the section of bus line B to the forest cemetery in the Kühnicht district was electrified, and at the same time an additional intermediate turning loop went into operation at the Hoyerswerda Neustadt stop. However, both were never driven electrically as planned. The operation thus reached its maximum route length of 10.83 kilometers, the total length of the contact line was 20.58 kilometers. A total of 526 concrete masts, 56 steel hexagonal masts and 59 steel lattice masts were installed.

As early as 1993, route 11 was completely converted to conventional diesel buses for the reasons mentioned above, so that there was no need to change trains. On April 26, 1994, the city council finally decided to completely stop the remaining trolleybus operations on line 14 on December 31, 1994.

The last day of operation of the trolleybus on line 14 was December 30, 1994. Parts of the catenary system were sold to the Barnimer bus company after it was closed . There they were used on the Eberswalde trolleybus, which still exists today. At the former terminus or transfer point Am Ehrenhain a relief "Hoyerswerda - Trolleybus 1989" reminds of the trolleybus to this day. It was set up there on the occasion of the opening. A substation was preserved in Kühnicht .

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  The former terminus or transfer point Am Ehrenhain (2009)

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  Relief "HOYERSWERDA - OBUS 1989", in the middle the city arms (2009)

vehicles

The 720 (now 431) cars ...

and 722 (now 430) later operated in Tallinn

In Hoyerswerda, only articulated trolleybuses from the Hungarian manufacturer Ikarus were used. Their type designation was 280.93, and there were a total of twelve cars. Five of them, with road numbers 570 to 574 and later 711 to 715, were already available when the company opened. Seven more cars with the road numbers 575 to 581 and later 716 to 722 were purchased on the occasion of the changeover of line D to electrical operation; their delivery was completed in May 1990.

Six of these vehicles were deregistered on October 13, 1993 after line 11 was no longer operated electrically. They were finally handed over to the Tallinn trolleybus in 1994 , where they were removed from the inventory in 2003. After the final cessation of operations, the remaining six cars went to the Russian city of Chelyabinsk via two intermediaries , where they were in use until 2009.

literature

• Uwe Jordan: About the disappearance of a legend. An anniversary that is not one: ten years ago today, the last trolleybus drove in Hoyerswerda. Saxon newspaper from December 30, 2004

Web links

• Trolleybus 715 in 1991

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Lausitzer Rundschau of October 9, 1989 p. 12
2. ↑ Lausitzer Rundschau: The short life of trolleybus traffic ( Memento from October 9, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Jürgen Lehmann: Reports from the trolleybus companies in and around Germany (PDF; 397 KiB)