Paderborner Elektrizitätswerke und Straßenbahn AG

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Paderborner Elektrizitätswerke und Straßenbahn AG
legal form Corporation
founding January 9, 1909
resolution Mid 2003
Reason for dissolution Merger with E.ON Westfalen Weser
Seat Paderborn

PESAG administration building in Paderborn
Share of RM 600 in the Paderborner Elektrizitätswerk und Straßenbahn-AG from May 1930

The Paderborn power stations and streetcar AG (PESAG) was a power supply - and transport - companies in the space Paderborn - Blomberg - Detmold in North Rhine-Westphalia . The Company was incorporated on 9 January 1909 with the participation of the city of Paderborn with a share capital of 1,200,000 marks , and it began in mid-2003 as part of a merger in the E.ON Westfalen Weser on.

Operating parts

power supply

In mid-2003, the three regional suppliers, Elektrizitätswerk Minden-Ravensberg (EMR Herford), PESAG (Paderborn) and Elektrizitätswerk Wesertal (Hameln) merged. The receiving legal entity was PESAG Aktiengesellschaft (HRB 6, AG Paderborn), which was renamed E.ON Westfalen Weser AG . E.ON was previously involved as a partner in the individual suppliers.

Local transport

Trams and interurban trams

After it was founded in 1909, the Paderborn tram and regional tram were transferred to PESAG for 900,000 marks. After the network had been converted to 800 volts, the first extension of the network took place on December 1, 1910 under PESAG direction. A three-kilometer stretch between the main train station, town hall and north train station was put into operation. Thanks to the negotiating skills of director Wilhelm August von Tippelskirch , PESAG quickly expanded its network into the surrounding area.

During the First World War , the company bought all the shares in Lippische Elektrizitätswerke AG (LEAG), which operated the Detmold tram network . The official takeover took place on July 1, 1922. Due to the war, the expansion of the route network stalled until 1920. At the same time, the number of passengers carried increased thanks to the military training area in Senne from 578,000 (1911) to 1,160,000 (1917). After LEAG was taken over in 1922, the expansion of the overland network continued.

  • July 23, 1924: Horn - Bad Meinberg, Kurpark
  • September 11, 1926: Bad Meinberg - Blomberg , dairy
  • November 30, 1926: Blomberg, dairy - Blomberg, market

In Horn, the railway met the line from Detmold, which was opened in 1920. This created a continuous overland tram from Paderborn to Detmold. The two networks were then further linked, in 1932 PESAG operated a total of twelve tram lines with a length of 127.9 kilometers on a 79.6 kilometer network. All lines in the Paderborn area ran every 30 minutes, all overland lines every 60 minutes. A planned new line between Paderborn and Salzkotten was not carried out.

As early as February 13, 1936, the Bad Meinberg - Blomberg route was converted to buses . After the Externsteine ​​were designated as a “Völkische Gedenkstätte”, the tram was initially to be replaced by an omnibus. However, since Reichsstraße 1 was relocated, the railway could remain on its own track structure next to the road. As early as 1939 there were plans to convert all tram operations to omnibuses. The Second World War initially prevented this.

In 1951, PESAG made the decision to gradually withdraw from the area completely. The rolling stock and the railway systems were outdated and should have been completely replaced. However, PESAG shied away from such an investment - above all because individual transport, especially on land, took away more and more passengers. Then the railway, which mostly ran alongside the federal highways, became more and more of a traffic obstacle for the increasing car traffic. There were quite a few accidents. The car lobby demanded that the rails be moved further away from the road - enormous costs that PESAG was not prepared to bear.

The first line to be closed was the connection from Horn to Bad Meinberg on September 3, 1951. This was followed by the route from Horn to Schlangen over the Egge Mountains on March 17, 1953 . This separated the railway into a Detmolder and a Paderborn network.

PESAG sold the rights to the Deutsche Bundesbahn and the Deutsche Bundespost . In 1958 the line to Elsen and in 1959 the line from Schlangen to Paderborn Hauptbahnhof were shut down in two sections. The remaining route from Paderborn Hauptbahnhof to Sennelager followed in several sections at the beginning of the 1960s until September 27, 1963.

Serious accident in 1946

On December 10, 1946, what was probably the worst accident occurred at PESAG. Before entering Bad Meinberg, the tram had a compulsory stop because there was a downhill section and a sharp bend to drive through. On that day, the train driver had already pointed out problems with the brakes in the afternoon, but these could not be recognized and rectified. So the compulsory stop could not be kept. The train drove down to Bad Meinberg at a significantly excessive speed, derailed, drove unchecked across the street and hit a chestnut about one meter thick and shattered. This accident left four dead, 15 seriously injured and 30 slightly injured.

Bus companies

As early as 1925, a bus company with the participation of PESAG was founded, Kraftverkehrs-AG Wittekind . This company operated the bus routes Paderborn - Fürstenberg - Wünnenberg and Paderborn - Hakenberg from 1926 . In 1932/1933 PESAG acquired all share and line concessions , and Kraftverkehrs-AG Wittekind was dissolved. From the 1950s, the entire tram network was replaced in sections by buses. In 1961 the first articulated bus was used. The line network was expanded in 1972/74 by connecting Marienloh , Wewer and Borchen .

In 1979 the Paderborner Elektrizitätswerk und Straßenbahn AG was renamed PESAG Aktiengesellschaft , probably to make it clear that the company no longer intended to operate a tram again. In 2000 the PESAG traffic division was renamed " PaderSprinter ". Today it is operated as a division of the Paderborn municipal operations. PaderSprinter operates the public city ​​bus in Paderborn . The intercity bus traffic was handed over to the post office and the railway . Today the Bahnbus Hochstift (BBH) operates the regional bus network.

media

  • Video Lippe ... as it used to be , Blume-Video-Edition, Detmold - with film scenes from trams in Detmold and Horn
  • Video Through beautiful Westphalia , Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe , Münster 2004 - shows the passage of a tram through the Externsteine

literature

  • PESAG (ed.): From the electric to the all-electric. Published on the occasion of its 75th anniversary . Schöningh, Paderborn 1984. ISBN 3-506-72436-3 .
  • Werner Menninghaus: Trams in Lippe-Detmold and in the Paderborn region . Uhle & Kleimann, Lübbecke 1987, ISBN 3-922657-57-5 .
  • Dieter Höltge: Trams and light rail vehicles in Germany. Volume 3: Westphalia. EK-Verlag, Freiburg im Breisgau 1990, ISBN 3-88255-332-4 , pp. 168-195.
  • Wolfgang Klee: Through the Paderborn region. The history of the PESAG trams. In: Straßenbahn Nahverkehr Magazin , year 1999, issue 2, pp. 78–87.
  • Evert Heusinkveld, Ludger Kenning: The PESAG trams between Paderborn, Detmold and Blomberg. Kenning Verlag, Nordhorn 2012, ISBN 978-3-933613-98-1 .
  • Wolfgang R. Reimann , Reiner Bimmermann: The tram from Paderborn to Detmold in the picture. Verlag Wolfgang R. Reimann, Remscheid 2012, ISBN 978-3-9815166-0-9 .

Web links

Commons : PESAG  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Paderborn: My City: 52 years ago today the last tram ran , accessed on August 20, 2018.
  2. ↑ The tram accident left four dead. lz.de, December 10, 2016, accessed on January 7, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Stadtverkehr Paderborn: Historical table , accessed on August 20, 2018.

Coordinates: 51 ° 43 ′ 30.1 "  N , 8 ° 45 ′ 26.7"  E