Stadtwerke Osnabrück

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Stadtwerke Osnabrück AG

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legal form Corporation
founding 1858
Seat Osnabrück , Germany
management
  • Christoph Hüls (CEO)
  • Stephan Rolfes (Board Member for Transport and Port)
Number of employees 653
sales € 454.4 million
Branch Public utility company
Website www.stadtwerke-osnabrueck.de
Status: 2019

historical logo Stadtwerke Osnabrück

The Stadtwerke Osnabrück AG are since 1858 for the supply of the city of Osnabrück in charge. In addition to supplying gas, water and electricity, they also provide public transport in the city and operate the port and several swimming pools. The company has been a stock corporation since 1964, but all shares are owned by the city.

Operating parts

power supply

Registered office of the Osnabrück municipal utilities
The cloud fountain by Stefan Schwerdtfeger in front of the main administration building

In 1858 the first city gas works was founded in Osnabrück to supply households and street lighting with city gas. After two cholera - epidemic in Osnabrück late 19th century new measures to hygiene safety of drinking water were needed, and in 1890 also assumed the water supply of the city. The city ​​of Osnabrück's gas and waterworks was founded on December 17, 1890, and the first municipal waterworks in Schinkel went into operation one year later . The increasing demand made it necessary to improve the water supply several times in the following decades; the Düstrup waterworks, which opened in 1908, is still in operation today.

In 1900 a power station was built in Osnabrück, but this was initially still operated by AEG and only after five years it was taken over by the city and incorporated into the municipal utility. As early as 1911, however, negotiations were being held with an external company about the supply of electricity, and a few years after the First World War , the company's own electricity generation was stopped again in 1921.

In the following years, the network was expanded further, from 1930 a new attempt was made to take over the electricity supply independently, but this was stopped after five years when the electricity supply was put under the supervision of the government by law.

During the Second World War , Osnabrück was repeatedly the target of heavy attacks, which also severely affected the public utility's network and the gasworks was completely destroyed. In the years of reconstruction, the importance of electricity compared to natural gas slowly increased, and in 1961 the company's own gas production was finally stopped. From this point on, the required gas and electricity were obtained from RWE . From 1967 to 1969 street lighting was converted to electricity, and since then natural gas has been used almost exclusively for heating.

In 1993, the first block-type thermal power station was opened to supply the city administration, two schools and a swimming pool with heat.

In 2004 Stadtwerke Osnabrück supplied 34,263 connections with electricity via a 2000 km long network, the total output per year is a little over a billion kilowatt hours . 30,563 customers purchased a total of 10.7 million m³ of drinking water per year from the municipal utilities, gas is supplied to 27,043 connections. In addition, there has also been a direct heat supply for a number of years; over 7 km of lines, 222 connections are supplied with over 40 gigawatt hours per year.

Local transport

Large parts of the city ​​bus network in Osnabrück are operated by the municipal utilities.

port

Port railway in the Hafen district

As early as 1882, plans began to build a port in Osnabrück for the local industry. However, since only the hare was available as a waterway , which could not accommodate larger ships, this plan was initially dropped. About 25 years later, however, the Mittelland Canal was built, which however ran about 15 kilometers past Osnabrück. A connection to the waterway network was finally within reach and from 1910 the branch canal Osnabrück was built, which was supposed to connect the city with the Mittelland Canal.

The first contracts to operate the port were signed in 1913, and operations on the city's port railway began just two years later. On April 3, 1916, the first ship finally entered the port. From then on, the port was continuously expanded, and in 1960 the approximately 30 hectare site was finally  leased out completely. As a result, the port was expanded to the east and today covers an area of ​​almost 100 hectares in the Osnabrück Hafen district of the same name . In 2010 a total of around 629,000 t were handled from or onto ships. The urban port railway even transported around 980,000 t of goods with three locomotives on a 20 km long track network. Rising tonnages and an expected further increase in journeys on the port railway led to the purchase of more powerful locomotives until 2013.

Baths

Stadtwerke Osnabrück AG operates the public swimming pools Moskaubad , Nettebad and Schinkelbad in Osnabrück with around 1.2 million visitors a year. An e-kart track has also been operated by the Stadtwerke at the Nettebad since 2017.

Holdings

Stadtwerke Osnabrück have a stake in their own operations as well as in a number of other companies in various industries:

Osnabus GmbH

The Osnabus GmbH was founded in 2001, since then will this 100-percent subsidiary of the bus drivers hired the public utilities and used in the driving mode of the parent company.

SWO Netz GmbH

The SWO Netz GmbH was 1 January 2013 as a 100 percent subsidiary of the Stadtwerke Osnabrück AG spun off. It is a network operating company that maintains and operates the network and systems for electricity, gas, water, lighting, telecommunications, local and district heating and drainage for the municipal utilities.

PlaNOS Planungsgesellschaft Nahverkehr Osnabrück GbR

Logo of the PlaNOs GbR

The planning company Nahverkehr Osnabrück GbR (PlaNOS) is a management company of the city ​​of Osnabrück and the district of Osnabrück . The company is a subsidiary of Stadtwerke Osnabrück (50%) and Beteiligungs- und Vermögensverwaltungsgesellschaft mbH (BEVOS) of the Osnabrück district (50%).

The PlaNOS creates the local transport plans for the region and develops local transport concepts and tariff structures for the Osnabrück region. The managing director of the company is Stephan Rolfes.

Osnabrücker Parkstätten-Betriebsgesellschaft mbH

The Osnabrücker Parkstätten-Betriebsgesellschaft (OPG) is 94% owned by the Stadtwerke (the remaining 6% are held directly by the City of Osnabrück) and operates parking lots and multi-storey car parks in Osnabrück with a total of over 5,000 spaces. It was founded in 1967, the first multi-storey car park was the Neumarkt multi-storey car park opened in 1971 (today Kollegienwall-Garage ). Until 2018, the operating company held a 25% stake in its former subsidiary, the parking space manager OPG Center-Parking GmbH , which operates across Germany . The company also operates several parking garages in Osnabrück. The operational separation of the two companies and the sale of the 25 percent stake to the Bielefeld construction and service company Goldbeck took place by 2018 .

District car OS GmbH

The district car OS GmbH , in which Stadtwerke Osnabrück has a 75% stake, operates a local car sharing service in Osnabrück. This is a combination of station-based and "free-floating" car sharing.

Living in Osnabrück GmbH

The Living in Osnabrück GmbH (WiO) was established in July 2020 as a municipal housing company established under the umbrella of public utilities after the city to do so by a 2019 referendum had been awarded the contract. The aim of the company is to build apartments and rent them, taking into account the level of income, in order to relieve the Osnabrück housing market.

Further investments

Other holdings also include several other municipal utilities as well as energy generation and water supply companies from the Osnabrück area.

former holdings:

literature

  • Alfred Spühr and Claude Jeanmaire: The Osnabrück tram. The history of the electric tram, its predecessor and successor . Verlag Eisenbahn, Villigen 1980

Web links

Commons : Stadtwerke Osnabrück  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Almost 1.25 million visitors in the three public utility baths , stadtwerke-osnabrueck.de, February 15, 2016, accessed on January 24, 2018.
  2. ↑ Stadtwerke Osnabrück: Nettedrom - the e-kart track at Nettebad - Nettebad Osnabrück. Retrieved September 24, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Major holdings and subsidiaries , stadtwerke-osnabrueck.de, accessed on January 28, 2018.
  4. ↑ 50 years of the Parkgesellschaft OPG - When the people of Osnabrück learned to park cars on top of each other , noz.de, October 12, 2017, accessed on December 23, 2018.
  5. ↑ OPG focuses on Osnabrück , Osnabrücker Parkstätten-Betriebsgesellschaft, parken-osnabrueck.de, May 11, 2017, accessed on December 23, 2018.
  6. ↑ Clear separation: after the sale of shares, OPG stands for parking in Osnabrück , hasepost.de, August 15, 2018, accessed on December 23, 2018.
  7. ↑ Housing company WiO is launched , stadtwerke-osnabrueck.de, July 8, 2020, accessed on July 11, 2020.

Coordinates: 52 ° 16 ′ 38.3 "  N , 8 ° 3 ′ 16.6"  E