Regional traffic west Saxony

Regionalverkehr Westsachsen GmbH

Basic information
Company headquarters	Zwickau
Web presence	nahverkehr-zwickau.de
Reference year	2019
owner	Transdev SE & Co. KG 100%
Managing directors	Uwe Rößler André Jalowy
Transport network	VMS
Lines
bus	4 City traffic 59 Regional traffic 24 school routes
number of vehicles
Omnibuses	125
Length of line network
Bus routes	1 375 km
Operating facilities
Depots	4th

MAN SG 322 of RVW at the depot in Reinholdshain

Historic Ikarus 263 .01 of the RVW at the depot in Zwickau

Facade design at the RVW headquarters in Zwickau

Historic vehicle lettering on a tow truck from VEB Kraftverkehr Zwickau

The regional transport Westsachsen GmbH (RVW) operates bus routes in the district of Zwickau . All RVW lines are integrated into the Central Saxony transport association . Individual lines leave the district of Zwickau and thus reach the Vogtland district as well as the districts of Greiz and Altenburger Land in Thuringia .

history

The Autoomnibus-Gesellschaft mbH Zwickau opened the bus routes Zwickau - Planitz and Zwickau - Reinsdorf - Wildenfels on October 18, 1912 . This laid the foundation for regional transport in the Zwickau region. On December 23, 1919 the Freistaat Sachsen (KVG) was founded in Dresden, which took over the existing bus operation in Zwickau on January 1, 1920 as "Kraftverkehrsgesellschaft Freistaat Sachsen (KVG) GmbH, Headquarters Dresden, Operations Management Zwickau". The site on Crimmitschauer Strasse in Zwickau has been used as the company's headquarters since September 15, 1923. Between May 1925 and March 1930, the lines to Oelsnitz , Hartenstein , Rothenkirchen , Lengenfeld , Friedrichsgrün , Glauchau , Reichenbach , Aue , Chemnitz , Leipzig and Annaberg were set up. Almost the entire area around Zwickau was included in public transport. The line length was now 375 km.

After the Second World War , the Zwickau - Planitz and Zwickau - Friedrichsgrün lines were reopened with wood-gas powered buses on May 20, 1945 . On January 1, 1949, the VVB Land Sachsen Kraftverkehr was founded as a state-owned motor transport association of 23 Saxon motor transport companies. In 1951 the first new LOWA buses from Werdau were put into operation. The VVB Land Sachsen was dissolved again on July 1, 1952 and the administration of state-owned motor transport and repair companies (VVK) was established at the district level . On January 1, 1954, the District Directorate for Motor Transport (BDK) was founded. In 1955 the Ikarus buses from Hungary were put into operation. New mechanical ticket printers of the type Setright were installed in the vehicles in 1966.

The VEB haulage Glauchau and the VEB road Zwickau joined forces on January 1, 1970th On July 1, 1970, the Karl-Marx-Stadt Kraftverkehrskombinat was formed, to which VEB Kraftverkehr Zwickau now also belonged. The passenger transport division of VEB Kraftverkehr Zwickau operated 99 bus routes with a line length of 1930 kilometers in the Zwickau , Glauchau , Werdau , Hohenstein-Ernstthal and Stollberg districts between 1983 and 1989 . 320 buses were used for this.

On June 15, 1990 VEB Kraftverkehr Zwickau was taken over into the trust assets and Kraftverkehr GmbH Zwickau was formed. The Zwickau transport association was constituted on November 5, 1991. On October 1, 1991, the passenger transport division was spun off as an independent subsidiary of Kraftomnibus-Verkehrsgesellschaft Zwickau (KOV).

Historical logo of RVW GmbH

The Regionalverkehrsbetriebe Westsachsen GmbH (RVW) began its economic activity on April 1, 1992. To this end, the KOV's assets were taken over by the shareholders in the district of Zwickau, district of Werdau, district of Glauchau and by the city of Zwickau from the Treuhandanstalt .

The Regionalverkehrsbetriebe Westsachsen GmbH was privatized on April 1st, 2003. Since then, Rhenus Keolis GmbH & Co. KG, based in Mainz, has been the sole shareholder. A customer office was opened on October 10, 2003 at the Zwickau central stop (Bahnhofstrasse 2 f / Markthalle), later moved to Georgenplatz and on June 27, 2016 to Neumarkt. Rhenus Keolis GmbH & Co. KG was split up in December 2007. In the course of this split, Rhenus Veniro GmbH & Co. KG became the sole shareholder of RVW.

Since January 1, 2008, RVW has been the operator of the Zwickau municipal transport company (SVZ). A corresponding management contract was concluded with the city of Zwickau for this purpose.

On March 14, 2014, the name of Regionalverkehrsbetriebe Westsachsen GmbH was changed to Regionalverkehr Westsachsen GmbH.

Since October 2018, Transdev GmbH has held a 34% stake in Rhenus Veniro GmbH & Co. KG, which means that it is co-owner of Regionalverkehr Westsachsen. Since June 2019, Transdev's co-ownership has been made clear on the Zwickau local transport website with the Transdev logo.

Since January 1, 2019, Regionalverkehr Westsachsen has taken over the transport services in the Zwickau North-East service area of the Zwickau district for 10 years.

Line network in the district of Zwickau

city traffic

1: Hohenstein-Ernstthal train station - Hüttengrund - train station - Sonnenstrasse - Wüstenbrand - train station
2: Hohenstein-Ernstthal train station - E.-Thälmann-Siedlung - F. Heckert-Siedlung - train station
128: Crimmitschau : Train station - Karl-Liebknecht-Siedlung - Langenbahn-Center and back
137: Wilkau-Haßlau : city center - Cainsdorf - city center - Haara - Rosenthal - Am Penny-Markt and back (since August 17, 2019 as a regular bus )