Municipal works Überlandwerke Coburg
| Municipal Works Überlandwerke Coburg GmbH (SÜC)
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1999 |
| Seat | Coburg |
| management | Wilhelm Austen |
| Number of employees | 418 (as of 2015) |
| sales | 117.2 million euros (as of 2015) |
| Website | www.suec.de |
The Urban works Überlandwerke Coburg GmbH (SÜC) is the power company of the city of Coburg , which is primarily the city and partly to Coburg supplied with electricity, natural gas, district heating, water and telecommunications, but the public pools and public transport also operates in Coburg . The company is based in Coburg.
Corporate structure
The SÜC group of companies consists of the leading holding company Städtische Werke Überlandwerke Coburg GmbH and its two operationally independent subsidiaries SÜC Energie and H 2 O GmbH as well as SÜC Bus and Aquaria GmbH . The company also holds around 55 percent of süc // dacor GmbH, an IT service provider . The city of Coburg is the sole owner of the SÜC Group. The company emerged in 1998 from the municipal own operation of the same name. In 1999 the two subsidiaries were founded. 418 employees are employed in the SÜC Group.
The company emerged from the municipal gas, water and electricity works, which were combined under a single plant management in 1912. In 1933 the temporarily split off, independent overland plants were reintegrated. Holding SÜC GmbH employs 157 people.
SÜC Energie and H 2 O GmbH
SÜC Energie und H 2 O GmbH supplies the population with electricity, gas, drinking water and district heating. The electricity supply generates around 64 percent of total sales, followed by the gas supply with 20 percent. The company employs 176 people. The district communities of Niederfüllbach, Weidhausen and Weitramsdorf hold around 3.6% of the share capital of SÜC Energie & H 2 O GmbH through contributions in kind from their drinking water network .
power grid
In 1902, the Körting brothers began building a power station , which started producing direct current with gas engines on April 16, 1903 . On January 1, 1909, the factory passed into municipal ownership. In the decades that followed, the municipal power plants expanded their own generation of direct current, using diesel engines and hydroelectric power plants . In 1934 around 2.3 million kilowatt hours were consumed in the urban area, in 1944 it was 7.9 million. In 1938, the conversion to three-phase power supply began in the outskirts , which was completed in 1955. Central points of the municipal power supply are the switchhouses south near Ketschendorf and north in Rodacher Straße.
To supply the neighboring communities of Coburg, an overland plant was founded in 1911, which one year later supplied 14 places via a three-phase network, initially with an operating voltage of 6 kilovolts. In 1919 third-party electricity was fed in by the Bayerische Elektrizitäts-Lieferungsgesellschaft from Bayreuth , which was replaced in 1923 by a power purchase contract with the North Franconian overland center from Bamberg (later the overland plant in Upper Franconia ). In 1931, the municipal plant took over the management of the overland plant. In 1934, the Hausen am Main run-of-river power station went into operation. In 1953, the Städtische Werke Coburg was renamed Städtische Werke Überlandwerke Coburg, which sold 34 million kilowatt hours to customers. The connection to the 110 kilovolt high voltage network was established in 1956 with a substation in Coburg-Neuses.
The network area of the SÜC today includes the city of Coburg, a large part of the district of Coburg and some cities and communities in the districts of Hildburghausen , Kronach , Lichtenfels and Rhön-Grabfeld . It is connected to the Bayernwerk AG transmission network via four substations. In addition, hydropower plants, solar plants, combined heat and power plants, a wind farm, biogas plants and combined heat and power plants feed into the network. Within the network area, two municipal utilities and one municipality maintain their own distribution networks (redistributors). In 2015, around 598 gigawatt hours were sold to around 58,300 customers.
Gas supply
On October 22nd, 1854, a factory for wood gas production was opened in front of the Ketschentor , which the entrepreneur Ludwig August Riedinger from Augsburg built and leased to the Heilbronn company Gustav Schaeuffelen . The conversion to coal gasification followed in 1865, and in 1885 the city of Coburg acquired the gasworks . Due to the rapidly growing consumption of 1.2 million cubic meters of town gas , the first major renovation and expansion of the town gas works took place in 1907, and the next construction work followed in the early 1930s and 1950s. In 1953, when a new gas tank with a capacity of 20,000 cubic meters (expandable to 30,000) and a frame height of 30 meters was put into operation, 6.1 million cubic meters were produced. After the connection to the long-distance gas network with refinery and coke oven gas in 1965, the gas works was shut down and dismantled. In 1971 the switch to natural gas followed and in 1993 the gas tanks were demolished.
The supply area includes the city of Coburg with all districts (except Glend and Neu- and Neershof), as well as the communities Dörfles-Esbach and Lautertal , the core communities Ahorn and Großheirath with the district Rossach and the district Weidach of the community Weitramsdorf . In 2015 around 472 million kWh were sold to around 12,100 customers (metering points) via the SÜC natural gas network.
Drinking water supply
In 1890, work began on a central water supply for Coburg, which was completed in 1894. For this purpose, seven springs were collected near Fischbach, below today's Froschgrundsee , and via a 13-kilometer-long cast iron pipeline with a diameter of 325 millimeters and a natural gradient of around 40 meters with a 1,300 cubic meter elevated tank on the north arm and a pumping station at Heiligkreuz with a 400 cubic meter large elevated reservoir connected to the upper fortress mountain. Increasing water consumption with around 600 thousand cubic meters of water consumption resulted in the construction of the 1,000 cubic meter elevated tank Plattenäcker and a 400 cubic meter elevated tank on the Himmelsacker, as well as four additional wells in the 1910s. In the mid-1930s, the water supply was expanded to include a deep well near Mönchröden . The rapid population growth after World War II caused water consumption to rise to around 1.7 million cubic meters. This required the construction of a pressure booster system and a new deep well in Mittelberg near Fischbach. In addition, an elevated tank with a capacity of 1,500 cubic meters was built on Eckartsberg, the tank on the Himmelsacker was enlarged and another deep well was drilled near Mönchröden, which was followed by more. In 1978 the connection to the pipeline network of the long-distance water supply of Upper Franconia came, in 1985 the municipal waterworks in Cortendorf inaugurated a new waterworks.
In addition to the city of Coburg, the supply area now includes the communities Dörfles-Esbach , Lautertal , Grub am Forst , Niederfüllbach , Weidhausen and Weitramsdorf . In addition, SÜC supplies the community of Meeder with drinking water for the districts of Beuerfeld and Moggenbrunn . For Coburg , Dörfles-Esbach and Lautertal , the SÜC annually pumps approx. 3 million m³ of drinking water from 13 deep wells in the Mönchröden and Mittelberg extraction areas . For Grub am Forst , Niederfüllbach , Weidhausen and Weitramsdorf , SÜC receives around 1.1 million m³ per year from Fernwasserversorgung Oberfranken (FWO).
District heating supply
In 1957, the city's coal-based district heating power station was completed. From 1959 onwards, it mainly supplied nearby public buildings such as schools, the public baths and the slaughterhouse with district heating. Since the end of 1988, Coburg's district heating network has been supplied by the waste incineration plant in the Coburg district of Neuses. The district heating supply area mainly includes downtown Coburg. In 2007, around 72 gigawatt hours were sold.
SÜC Bus and Aquaria GmbH
The SÜC bus and Aquaria GmbH operates in Coburg and neighboring communities Niederfüllbach , lower and upper Lauter (municipality Lauter ), Dörfles-Esbach and maple public transport, particularly buses, and in Coburg, the indoor and outdoor pools. The company employs 85 people.
Since December 15, 1948, the city bus was operated by the municipal transport company. In 2009, local transport in Coburg will be operated with nine bus routes that carry around 5 million passengers. Since mid-June 2001, the transport company and its depot have been housed in a new building on the SÜC site at Schillerplatz.
The outdoor pool on Rosenauer Straße was opened in 1926, the indoor pool next to it in 1973. The baths were christened "Aquaria" in 1998 and transferred from the city of Coburg to the SÜC. The last renovation and new building was completed at the end of 2004.
literature
- Städtische Werke · Überlandwerke · Coburg: 100 years of gas, 60 years of water, 50 years of electricity . Coburg 1954, DNB 790586800 .
- Harald Sandner: Coburg in the 20th century. The chronicle of the city of Coburg and the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha from January 1, 1900 to December 31, 1999 - from the "good old days" to the dawn of the 21st century. Coburg 2000, ISBN 3-00-006732-9 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 15 ′ 12.7 ″ N , 10 ° 57 ′ 40.3 ″ E