City bus Nuremberg

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The city ​​buses in Nuremberg are operated by the Verkehrs-Aktiengesellschaft Nürnberg (VAG) and ensure the basic supply of Nuremberg with local public transport . Your tasks are the development of the urban area, the feeder function to trams , S-Bahn and U-Bahn as well as the connection of some surrounding areas to the city. In 2008, 270 of its own buses and buses from various companies operating on behalf of VAG operated on a route network of 784 km on 70 routes, carrying 46.493 million passengers.

Route network

Daily network

The Nuremberg city bus network (including lines of Fürth , Stein , Fürth district , the district of Roth and Nuremberg County )
Line network and structure 2018

The bus network currently consists of 55 lines (as of December 2019). The line groups can be roughly assigned to a certain part of the urban area: the 2x numbers serve the northern and northeastern, the 3x numbers the western and northern, the 4x numbers the eastern, the 5x numbers the southeast and southern, the 6x- Numbers the southern and the 7x numbers the southwestern urban area with Zirndorf and Oberasbach. The currently only 8x number lines serve various small areas. Line 82 goes to the Reichelsdorf district in the south and line 84 to the Rosenau district in the city center. The 9x numbers and, since 2020, line 89 are intended for school trips organized by the VAG . There are bus stations on Frankenstrasse , in Langwasser Mitte , on Maximilianstrasse , in Mögeldorf , at the Nordostbahnhof , in Röthenbach and at Am Wegfeld .

Lines 36, 37, 43, 44, 46 and 47 connect the districts of St. Peter , Gleißhammer , Zerzabelshof , gardens behind the fortress , Großreuth behind the fortress , Thon , Schniegling , Wetzendorf and Wöhrd directly to the old town, whereas all the others Nuremberg districts are only indirectly connected by feeder lines to one of the three types of rail transport (underground, suburban railway and tram) or via which rail transport is directly connected.

Ring lines

The tangential lines 35 and 65 connect the two bus stations, Nordostbahnhof and Röthenbach, and are referred to as " ring lines " due to their route along the Ringstrasse ( B 4 R ) .

Line 35 begins at the bus station in Röthenbach and initially leads over Schweinauer Hauptstrasse to the Hohe Marter Nord stop at the intersection with Nopitschstrasse (Südring). From there it goes via Gustav-Adolf-Straße (Südwestring) to the subway station of the same name and via Von-der-Tann-Straße (Westring) to the underground stations Maximilianstraße (U1) and Nordwestring (U3 ) and then via the Nordring to the Nordostbahnhof underground and regional station (U2). The line number changes to 65 at the Nordostbahnhof and vice versa.

Line 65 starts at the Nordostbahnhof and runs past the Ostring S-Bahn station via Regensburger Straße and then runs along Jitzchak-Rabin-Straße, Bayernstraße (Südring) and Frankenstraße (Südring). In doing so, she passes the Dutzendteich , the Documentation Center and the Volksfestplatz. From the Frankenstrasse bus station , line 65 reaches the Hohe Marter Nord stop via Ulmenstrasse and Nopitschstrasse , turns into Schweinauer Hauptstrasse and, after crossing the Main-Danube Canal, reaches the final stop at Röthenbach , where it meets line 35.

The former third ring line 45 has been running since the network was reorganized in the north as a north-east-east-south-east tangential line from Ziegelstein via Nordostbahnhof and St. Jobst to Mögeldorf . Here it takes up the former route of line 65 and runs via the Tiergarten and Zerzabelshof to Regensburger Strasse, from where it divides the course with the current route 65 to Frankenstrasse .

Surrounding lines

Of the 55 city bus routes, 16 leave the city and drive to neighboring cities and communities. Lines 20, 30 and 290 go from Am Wegfeld to Erlangen, or line 199 to Herzogenaurach and line 33 to Fürth . The Fürth bus route 179 also took over the operation of the former route 29 in December 2018 and since then has offered a new direct connection between Fürth Südstadt and Knoblauchsland . Lines 37 and 39 also serve Fürth districts. In addition, the lines 38 and 73 at the city ​​limits also touch Fürth Boden and the line 40 leads from the Heinemannbrücke to Schwaig and Behringersdorf . Lines 51 and 89, both of which begin on Frankenstrasse , leave the Nuremberg urban area after Kornburg and go to Schwand near Nuremberg or Wendelstein . From Röthenbach , line 61 goes to Schwabach and lines 63 and 64 to Stein . Line 67 runs from Frankenstrasse via Röthenbach to Fürth. Lines 70 and 72 towards Altenberg - Zirndorf and line 71 towards Altenberg - Oberasbach begin at Gustav Adolf-Straße .

In addition, regional bus routes from other providers to the surrounding area start at several bus stations in Nuremberg .

Lines

As of March 11, 2020

line Current route Cycle in min driving
plan
Peak hours NVZ SVZ
2x Bus line 20 Am Wegfeld tram- Buch Nord - Boxdorf - Tennenlohe - Technical Faculty - Sebaldussiedlung - Röthelheimbad Ost - Siemens Med - Langemarckplatz - Arcaden 20th 40 - [1]
Bus route 21 Brick Subway- Buchenbühl 20th 20th 40 [2]
3x Bus route 30 Nordostbahnhof - Herrnhütte - Nordostpark - Ziegelstein - Airport - Am Wegfeld - Buch - Boxdorf - Erlangen Süd - Gebbertstraße - Neuer Markt - Arcaden - Erlangen Bahnhof - HugenottenplatzR train SubwaySubwaySubwaySubwaytramLong-distance transport R train Train 20th 40 40 [3]
Bus route 31 Herrnhütte Subway- Nordostpark - Ziegelstein Subway- Lohe - Bamberger Straße tram- Schnepfenreuth - Am Wegfeld tram- Buch - Kraftshof - Neunhof - Boxdorf - Großgründlach 20th 40 40 [4]
Bus route 32 Herrnhütte Subway- Klingenhof - Paul Moor School - Schafhofstrasse - Sieboldstrasse loop 20th - - [5]
Bus route 33 Airport Subway- Lohe - Almoshof - Buch - Höfles - Ronhof - Fürth Town Hall Subway- Fürth Central StationLong-distance transport R train Train Subway 20th 40 40 [6]
Bus route 34 Plärrer - Gostenhof - Großweidenmühlstraße - St. Johannisfriedhof - North Hospital - Friedrich-Ebert-PlatzSubway tramSubwaytramSubway tram 10 10 20th [7]
Bus route 35 Röthenbach Subway- Hohe Marter Subway- Gustav-Adolf-Straße Subway- Maximilianstraße Subway- Westfriedhof tram- Nordwestring Subway- Bucher Straße / Nordring tram- NordostbahnhofR train Subway 10 10/20 20th [8th]
Bus route 36 Plärrer Subway- main market - town hall - Rathenauplatz - Wöhrd - Dürrenhof - Meistersingerhalle - documentary centerSubway tramTrain tramtramtram 10 10 20th [9]
Bus route 37 Heilig-Geist-Spital Subway- City Hall - Maxfeld Subway- Kilianstrasse - Schleswiger Strasse tram- Vocational Promotion Agency - War victims' settlement - City limits Subway- Fürth Jakobinenstrasse Subway- Fürth Central StationLong-distance transport R train Train Subway 20th 40 40 [10]
Bus route 38 Höfen / Virnsberger Straße - Leyh - Maximilianstraße Subway- Westfriedhof tram- Schniegling - city limitsSubway 10 20th 40 [11]
Bus route 39 Fürth main station - Fürth town hall - Poppenreuth - Espan - Hans-Böckler-StraßeLong-distance transport R train Train SubwaySubway - Schniegling - war victims' settlement - Wetzendorf - Nordwestring Subway- MaximilianstraßeSubway 20th 20th 40 [12]
4x Bus route 40 Heinemannbrücke - Mögeldorf - Laufamholz - Malmsbach - Schwaig Am Bahnhof - Max-Reger-Straße or Behringersdorf Bahnhof - Behringersdorf Am NeubruchTrain tramTrainR train 10 20th 40 [13]
Bus route 43 Main station - Stephanstraße - Gleißhammer Bahnhof - Zerzabelshof Mitte - Passauer Straße - Ostring - Business Tower - Heinemannbrücke Long-distance transport R train Train Subway tramTrainTraintram 10 20th 20th [14]
Bus route 44 Main station - Stephanstraße - Gleißhammer Bahnhof - Zerzabelshof Mitte - Valznerweiher - August-Meier-Heim - Zerzabelshof Ost Long-distance transport R train Train Subway tramTrain 10 20th 20th [15]
Bus route 45 Frankenstraße - Documentation Center - Dutzendteich - Zerzabelshof - Tiergarten - Mögeldorf - Thumenberger Weg - Nordostbahnhof - ZiegelsteinSubway tramtramTrain tramtramTrain tramtramR train SubwaySubway 20th 20th 40 [16]
Bus route 46 Heilig-Geist-Spital Subway- City Hall - Maxfeld Subway- Rollnerstrasse / Nordring - Großreuth hdV - Nordostbahnhof - Theresienkrankenhaus - Martha-Maria-Krankenhaus R train Subway 20th 20th 40 [17]
Bus route 47 Heilig-Geist-Spital Subway- City Hall - Maxfeld Subway- Schopenhauerstraße - Kilianstraße - Thon tram- Forchheimer Straße 20th 40 40 [18]
Bus route 49 Nordostbahnhof - Spitalhof - Tattersall - Martha Maria Hospital R train Subway 20th - - [19]
5x Bus route 50 Langwasser Mitte Subway- Gleiwitzer / Liegnitzer Straße - Moorenbrunnfeld - Nbg./Feucht - Feucht train station Train- Feucht / Am Reichswald 40 40 - [20]
Bus route 51 Frankenstrasse - Finkenbrunn - Weiherhaus - Herpersdorf - Worzeldorf - Kornburg - Kleinschwarzenlohe - Kleinschwarzenlohe - Leerstetten - SchwandSubway tramtram 10 20th 20th [21]
Bus route 52 Langwasser middle Subway- Harnischschlag - Worzeldorf - Herpersdorf - Gaulnhofen - Katzwang Süd 20th 20th 40 [22]
Bus route 54 Langwasser Süd Subway- Altenfurt - Fischbach train station Train- Fischbach - Brunn 20th 40 80 [23]
Bus route 55 Meistersingerhalle tram- Documentation Center tram- Dutzendteich - Frankenstadion - Max-Grundig-Platz - Scharfreiterring - Langwasser Mitte Train tramTrainSubwaySubway 10 20th 40 [24]
Bus route 56 Langwasser Mitte Subway- Langwasser Bad - Klinikum Süd - Altenfurt - Fischbach train station Train- Fischbach - Flachsröste 10 12½ 20th [25]
Bus route 57 Langwasser Mitte Subway- Langwasser Bad - Gleiwitzer / Liegnitzer Strasse - Moorenbrunn - Altenfurt - Fischbach Wende stationTrain 10 20th 40 [26]
Bus route 58 Frankenstrasse - Vogelweiherstrasse - Gibitzenhof - Dianaplatz - Werderau / Wacholderweg Subway tramtram 20th 40 40 [27]
Bus route 59 Langwasser Süd Subway- Altenfurt - Fischbach train station Train- Fischbach - Holzstatt - Birnthon 40 40 80 [28]
6x Bus route 60 Röthenbach Subway- Prager Str. - Southwest School Center - Wertachstr. - Donaustr. - Maiach - Triester Str. - Bremer Str. Wende 60 - - [29]
Bus route 61 Röthenbach Subway- Eibach - Koppenhof - Reichelsdorf Train- Mühlhof - Holzheim - Wolkersdorf - Nasbach - Schwabach train station or bus station southR train Train 10 20th 40 [30]
Bus route 62 Röthenbach Subway- Eibach - Koppenhof - Reichelsdorf Train- Katzwang - Greuth - Kornburg 10 20th 40 [31]
Bus route 63 Röthenbach Subway- Stone Castle - Stone Church - Albertus-Magnus-Straße - Goethering ( SVZ: - Palm Beach - Fabergut) 10 20th 20th [32]
Bus route 64 Röthenbach Subway- Stone Castle - Stone Church - Albertus-Magnus-Strasse - Palm Beach - Fabergut 20th 20th - [33]
Bus route 65 Röthenbach Subway- Hohe Marter Nord Subway- Dianaplatz tram- Frankenstraße - Documentation Center - Dutzendteich - Ostring - Tauroggenstraße - Schoppershof - NordostbahnhofSubway tramtramTrain tramTraintramSubwayR train Subway 10 10/20 20th [34]
Bus route 66 Röthenbach Subway- Röthenbach Ost - Southwest School Center - Eibach Bahnhof Train- Hamburger Straße - Hafen - Königshof - Pillenreuth 20th 20th 40 [35]
Bus route 67 Frankenstrasse - Finkenbrunn - Maiach - Eibach train station / Hafenstrasse - Röthenbach - Stein Schloß - Fürth Süd - Fürth main stationSubway tramtramTrainSubwayLong-distance transport R train Train Subway 10 20th 40 [36]
Bus route 68 Gustav-Adolf-Straße Subway- Tillypark - Schweinau - Dianaplatz - Finkenbrunn - Südfriedhof - Langwasser MitteTrain SubwaytramtramtramSubway 20th 20th 40 [37]
Bus route 69 Gustav-Adolf-Strasse Subway- Tillystrasse - Alte Wallensteinstrasse - Südwestpark - Gebersdorf - RöthenbachSubway 10 20th 40 [38]
7x Bus route 70 Gustav-Adolf-Straße Subway- Fürth Süd - Altenberg - Zirndorf train station R train- District Office - KneippalleeR train 20th 40 40 [39]
Bus route 71 Gustav-Adolf-Strasse Subway- Fürth south - Altenberg - Kreutles - Oberasbach Linder settlement 20th 40 40 [40]
Bus route 72 Gustav-Adolf-Straße Subway- Fürth Süd - Altenberg - Zirndorf train station R train- District Office - Pinderpark - Realschule 20th 40 - [41]
Bus route 73 Gustav-Adolf-Strasse Subway- Kleinreuth b. Schweinau - Höfen / Virnsberger Straße - Leyh - city limitsSubway 20th 40 40 [42]
8x Bus route 82 Koppenhof Wende - Lohhof - Krottenbach - Mühlhof - Reichelsdorf - Reichelsdorf train station Trainor Eichstätter Platz 20/40 40 - [43]
Bus route 84 Plärrer Subway- Dr. Erler clinics 20th 20th 20th [44]
Bus route 89 Frankenstrasse - Finkenbrunn - Weiherhaus - Herpersdorf - Worzeldorf - Kornburg - Wendelstein high school Subway tramtram SV - - [45]
9x Bus route 90 Rothenburger Strasse - Regelsbacher Strasse (without intermediate stops) Train Subway SV - - [46]
Bus route 91 (Röthenbach Subway-) School Center Southwest - Eibach train station / Hafenstrasse Train- Harbor - Königshof - Herpersdorf - Worzeldorf - Kornburg SV - - [47]
Bus route 92 Meistersingerhalle tram- Bauernfeindstrasse Subway- Langwasser Mitte Subway- Worzeldorf - Herpersdorf - Katzwang Süd SV - - [48]
Bus route 93 Meistersingerhalle tram- Bauernfeindstrasse Subway- Scharfreiterring Subway- Langwasser Mitte Subway- Worzeldorf - Kornburg SV - - [49]
Bus route 94 Sports facility FCN or Eckenstraße - Dürrenhof - Rathenauplatz - Town Hall Train tramSubway tram SV - - [50]
Bus route 95 Mögeldorf - Weißer Weg - Heinemannbrücke - Tauroggenstraße - Schoppershof - NordostbahnhofTrain tramtramSubwayR train Subway SV - - [51]
Bus route 96 Meistersingerhalle tram- Frankenstadion Train- Langwasser Bad - Moorenbrunn - Altenfurt - Fischbach train station Train- Fischbach - Birnthon SV - - [52]
Bus route 97 Frankenstrasse - Dianaplatz - Hohe Marter Nord - Gustav-Adolf-Strasse - Rothenburger / Von-der-Tann-Strasse - Regelsbacher Strasse Subway tramtramSubwaySubway SV - - [53]
Bus route 98 Röthenbach Subway- Southwest School Center - Eibach Bahnhof / Hafenstraße Train- Hamburger Straße - Finkenbrunn tram- Südfriedhof tram- Langwasser MitteSubway SV - - [54]
Bus route 99 Höfles - Buch - Schnepfenreuth - Bamberger Straße tram- Lohe - Almoshof - Am Wegfeld tram- Buch SV - - [55]

Notes: stations shown in italics are outside the Nuremberg city area.
HVZ stands for rush hour ( Mon – Fri: 5:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.)
NVZ stands for low traffic time ( Mon – Fri: 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.) : 30 p.m., Sa: 8:00 a.m. - 8:30 p.m.)
SVZ stands for off - peak hours ( Mo-Fr: 8:30 p.m. - 0:30 a.m., Sa: 5:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. and 8:30 p.m. - 1:00 a.m.: 00 a.m., Sun: 5 a.m. - 1 a.m.)
SV stands for school traffic.

Night network

Night bus symbol in Nuremberg

The 16 night bus lines operated by VAG , known as NightLiner, run on the nights from Friday to Saturday and from Saturday to Sunday as well as in the days before a public holiday, at the turn of the year and on special occasions (e.g. Blue Night , Lange Night of the Sciences ). You start at Nuremberg main station and drive in a star shape towards Buchenbühl , Hersbruck , to Erhardstraße, to Brunn , Worzeldorf , Kornburg , Stein, Zirndorf, Fürth Burgfarrnbach , Erlangen, to the city limits, to the airport , to Simmelsdorf-Hüttenbach , Ezelsdorf and from Koppenhof to Schwabach, as well as from Langwasser Mitte via Wendelstein to Kornburg. Another twelve lines are operated by infra , ESTW and DB-Frankenbus , some in cooperation with VAG.

Lines

As of December 9, 2018

line Current route Cycle in min
N S.
Night bus line 1 Central station - Rathenauplatz - northeast station - Herrnhütte - Ziegelstein - Buchenbühl 60 20th
Night bus line 2 Main station - Mögeldorf - Schwaig - Rückersdorf - Lauf - Ottensoos - Reichenschwand - Hersbruck 60 20th
Night bus route 3 Main station - Stephanstraße - Gleißhammer Bahnhof - Regensburger Straße - Zerzabelshof Mitte - Ostring - Heinemannbrücke 60 20th
Night bus line 4 Main station - Schweiggerstraße - Bayernstraße - Bauernfeindstraße - Langwasser Middle - Langwasser South - Moorenbrunn - Altenfurt - Fischbach - Brunn 60 20th
Night bus route 5 Main station - Maffeiplatz - Frankenstrasse - Südfriedhof - Weiherhaus - Herpersdorf - Worzeldorf 60 20th
Night bus line 6 Central station - Plärrer - Dianaplatz - Finkenbrunn - Maiach - Eibach - Reichelsdorf - Katzwang - Kornburg 60 20th
Night bus line 7 Main station - Plärrer - Schweinau - Röthenbach - Stein - Deutenbach - Unter- / Oberweihersbuch - Bertelsdorf - Eckershof - Gutzberg - Großweismannsdorf - Roßtal - Buttendorf - Ammerndorf - Vincenzenbronn - Großhabersdorf 60 20th
Night bus line 8 Main station - Aufseßplatz - Rothenburger Straße - Gebersdorf - Fürth Süd - Altenberg - Kreutles - Oberasbach - Zirndorf - Banderbach - Bronnamberg 60 20th
Night bus route 9 Main station - Plärrer - Maximilianstraße - Leyh - city ​​limits - Fürth town hall - Hardhöhe - Unterfarrnbach - Burgfarrnbach 60 20th
Night bus route 10 Central station - Plärrer - Friedrich-Ebert-Platz - Thon - Am Wegfeld - Buch Nord - Boxdorf - Großgründlach - Tennenlohe - Erlangen Hugenottenplatz 60 20th
Night bus route 11 Central station - Rathenauplatz - town hall - Westfriedhof - Wetzendorf - war victims' settlement - city ​​limits 60 20th
Night bus route 12 Main station - Rathenauplatz - town hall - Maxfeld - Kleinreuth hdV - Lohe - airport 60 20th
Night bus line 13 Nuremberg main station - Rathenauplatz - Erlenstegen - Schwaig - Röthenbach an der Pegnitz - Lauf - Schnaittach - Simmelsdorf / Hüttenbach train station 60 20th
Night bus route 15 Nuremberg main station - Feucht - Schwarzenbruck - Ochenbruck - Burgthann - Ezelsdorf 60 20th
Night bus route 60 Langwasser middle - Röthenbach St. W. - Wendelstein - Groß- / Kleinschwarzenlohe - Kornburg 60 20th
Night bus route 61 Koppenhof - Reichelsdorf train station - Wolkersdorf - Nasbach - Schwabach Schillerplatz 60 30th

Notes: stations shown in italics are outside the Nuremberg city area.
N stands for normal operation.
S stands for special operation (e.g. New Year's Eve or Blue Night ).

vehicles

Current fleet

MAN NL 243 CNG (car 553)
MAN NG 313 CNG (car 713)

199 buses (March 2020) are currently in use by MAN , EvoBus and Solaris , which are stationed at the Hohe Marter home depot or the Fürth or Erlangen depots, depending on the area of ​​use.

MAN

The VAG house supplier provides most of the buses in the VAG vehicle fleet. The oldest buses from MAN are from the year 2002 of the type NG 313 of the fleet with the commissioning of the second low-floor bus generation by the vehicle types MAN NL 273 (1 vehicle) NL 283 (formerly 15 vehicles) and NG 313 (formerly 8 vehicles). 2006 and 2007, four solo buses of the type were NL 243 CNG LC and 30 articulated buses of the type NG 313 CNG LC procured, all with natural gas to operate. Since the summer of 2008, eight diesel-powered NL 263 LC solo buses have been in service in regular service. In March 2009, a series of diesel powered solo buses NL 283 LC (8 vehicles) and diesel powered articulated buses NG 323 LC (2 vehicles) were purchased. At the beginning of 2010 the fleet was supplemented by five articulated buses of the type NG 320 LC . At the end of 2010 another 9 solo buses of the type NL 290 LC were acquired. With the 35 buses of the type NL 273 CNG LC , the fleet was rejuvenated from 2011 to 2015. At the beginning of 2012, 2 hybrid buses of the type NL 253 LC Hybrid were put into service. With the 5 new vehicles of the type NG 313 CNG LC , the new VAG design was presented in 2013, which all new vehicles received from this point in time. The NG 323 LC vehicles produced in 2015 and 2016 also have the new interior and exterior design. In addition, 6 buses of the type NL 293 LC were built in 2016 . An NL 280 solo bus and an NG 360 articulated bus have been operating in Nuremberg since the beginning of 2018 . Externally, both vehicles stand out clearly from the rest of the buses thanks to the new MAN design. Following the test phase, eleven new NG360s have been in use since the end of 2019 and six new NL280s since the beginning of 2020 .

EvoBus

Fifteen years after the delivery of a series of five Mercedes-Benz articulated buses, VAG acquired twelve Mercedes-Benz Citaro (O 530) solo buses from EvoBus in 2002 , one of which is still in regular service, and eight O 530 G articulated buses in 2005 . At the end of April 2008, the fleet was expanded to include six O 530 G II CNG buses, followed by eight O 530 II solo buses in early 2010 . In December 2012, VAG bought 4 articulated buses of the type O 530 G C2 .

Solaris

Eight Solaris New Urbino 18 buses have been in the VAG fleet since April 2017 . At the beginning of 2018, VAG purchased a New Urbino 12 electric , which is unique in Nuremberg with its electric drive . Two copies of the New Urbino 18 electric articulated bus variant have also been in use since 2020 .

Former fleet

MAN MP (car 507)

Procurements up to 1945

Between 1922 and 1929 , the Nuremberg-Fürth tram procured a total of 70 buses and 30 trailers for the first motor vehicle lines . The bus types built on MAN chassis were ordered

  • 3TC (17 vehicles; high-frame construction from Estelmann or N. Trutz ; elastic tires, later pneumatic tires; 40 seats ; 1922/1923 / 1924-1932)
  • NOB (38 vehicles; MAN low-frame body; 40 seats; 1925 / 1927-1940)
  • NON 6 (5 vehicles; MAN low-frame body; 50 seats; 1928–1943)
  • FAUN O35 N (3 vehicles; low-frame body from FAUN ; 50 seats; 1929–1943)
  • NON 4 (7 vehicles; MAN low-frame body; 50 seats; 1929-1940)

as well as followers of

  • MAGIRUS (3 vehicles, high-frame body by Magirus ; 40 seats; 1923–1928)
  • FAUN (6 vehicles, high-frame body from FAUN; 40 seats; 1924–1932)
  • FAUN (21 vehicles, low-frame body from FAUN; 40 seats; 1924–1935)

The next expansion of the vehicle fleet did not take place until the mid-1930s after overcoming the global economic crisis . Between 1936 and 1941 there were 66 MAN buses of the types

  • F2N (22 vehicles; low-frame body from MAN or Trutz; 50 seats; 1936–1955)
  • D1 (5 vehicles; low-frame body by Kässbohrer ; 46 seats; 1936–1940)
  • MP (39 vehicles; low-frame body by N. Trutz or Kässbohrer; 46 to 50 seats; 1938/1939 / 1941-1960)

and 22 trailers (all in low-frame design) from

  • Bleichert (10 vehicles; chassis by Adolf Bleichert & Co. , body by N. Trutz; 50 seats; 1937–1959)
  • Uerdingen (6 vehicles; chassis and superstructure from the A.-G. Uerdingen wagon factory ; 50 seats; 1938 / 1939-1960)
  • Schumann (6 vehicles; chassis and body by Schumann ; 50 seats; 1939–1960)

put into service.

Procurements until 1970

Only after the currency reform could new vehicles be procured again. Among them were the buses of the type required for the O-bus operation

  • MAN MKE (8 vehicles; 70 seats; 1948–1962),
Büssing Prefect 12D (car 768)

various series of MAN and Büssing buses of the type

the first articulated type buses

as well as the last followers of

  • Kässbohrer (1 vehicle; 64 seats; 1949–1960) and
  • Schenk (9 vehicles; 65 or 70 seats; 1953 / 1954–1962)
MAN SL 192 (car 833)
MAN SL 202 (car 135)

Procurements until 1990

With the introduction of the first-generation standard bus (VÖV-I), VAG procured a total of 172 of these vehicles from 1970. These were the types MAN 750 HO-SL (25 vehicles; 1970–1984), MAN SL 192 (34 vehicles; 1972–1986), MAN SL 200 (72 vehicles; 1974–2003), MAN SG 192 (22 vehicles ; 1974–1989), MAN SG 220 (10 vehicles; 1979–1993), MAN SR 240 (1 vehicle; 1980–1992) and MAN SG 240 H (33 vehicles; 1981–1994).

In the early 1980s, the second generation standard bus (VÖV-II) was introduced as the successor to the VÖV-I bus. From 1985, VAG produced a total of 54 vehicles of the types MAN SL 202 (45 vehicles; 1985–2003), Mercedes-Benz O 405 G (5 vehicles; 1987–2003) and MAN SG 242 (4 vehicles; 1988–2003) in Service provided. From 1990, when the low-floor technology in the bus sector was ready for series production, the first MAN NL 202 (8 vehicles; 1990–2008) and the successor series MAN NL 202 (2) (1992–2008) were procured.

Operating facilities

Depot

Schweinau

The Schweinau bus repair shop was opened on May 4, 1926 and was located on an area between Nopitschstrasse and Ambergerstrasse north of the tram subsidiary (Nw) Schweinau. It had five halls for repairing and parking the cars as well as an office building. In an air raid on October 3, 1944, the entire site was almost completely destroyed with the exception of three car halls, so that the vehicle repairs had to be carried out outdoors and the buses had to be parked unprotected. Since December 1, 1948, the newly built workshop building could be used again. One last major renovation took place in 1948 and 1951 with the extension of the halls for the larger buses.

For the steadily growing bus network in the 1970s and the increasing number of vehicles, the new Schweinau workshop was built between 1982 and 1984 on a site between Jaeckel- / Robert-Bosch-Strasse and the Treuchtlingen – Nuremberg railway line . It consisted of an inspection and carriage hall, a car wash, a storage hall for 160 buses and an office building. After the shutdown of the new Schweinau for the tram on January 29, 1984, the old halls were demolished and the Schweinau repair shop for 350 vehicles with all the necessary facilities was built and put into operation in 1988. With the progressive procurement of natural gas buses since 1992, a natural gas filling station was set up in 1996 .

Northeast

In addition to the main workshop in Schweinau, between October 20, 1963 and February 28, 2001 there was another base in the northeast tram plant . This had a locksmith's workshop, a maintenance and storage hall as well as a car wash.

Bus acceleration

Since the beginning of the 1990s, the "Steering Committee Transport" has been using measures to accelerate buses. Is a component while the influence of light systems (LSA) on the beacon / radio system by means of an infrared signal , which now LSAs 98 are fitted. Furthermore, 15 kilometers of bus lanes have been set up over the years .

As a pilot project in 1991, the section of Rothenburger Strasse used by lines 39 and 69 to 71 was equipped with the beacon / radio system. After successful testing, the acceleration of lines 36, 43/44, 61/62 and 65, designated as "Stage 1", was achieved between 1996 and 1999.

Stops

The bus routes serve over 800 stops , which are designed as a bus bay, bus cape or island. Depending on the available space and the frequency of use, a bus stop house will be set up; at newer or converted bus stops, guide strips for the blind are let into the sidewalk. Since 2006, a dynamic passenger information system (DFIS) has been installed at important stops to provide passenger information .

Control center

The VAG buses are equipped with on-board devices that report their location to the headquarters via radio. This is used to calculate how the vehicle is driving in comparison to the timetable and reports its timetable deviation back to the vehicle. The common control center of the Nuremberg tram is located together with the subway and bus control center in the VAG building complex on Fürther Straße . In it, the train operation is monitored and the organization of replacement traffic in the event of operational disruptions is organized and the passenger information for the DFIS is controlled.

history

From the beginning to the Second World War

The first bus line was opened on January 15, 1923 by the Nuremberg-Fürth tram and ran from the tram terminus in Schweinau via Röthenbach , Eibach and Reichelsdorf to Mühlhof . It was originally only intended as a temporary solution, as the suburbs incorporated in 1922 were still too sparsely populated for a connection to the tram network. A year later, two more lines were added from Gärtnerstraße via Thon, Kleinreuth behind the Veste , Lohe and Almoshof to Buch (since August 14) and from Gustav-Adolf-Straße via Kleinreuth near Schweinau and Altenberg to Zirndorf (since August 31). August). For the operation of the three lines a total of 17 buses and 9 trailers were procured, which were initially parked and serviced in the Schweinau tram workshop until the Schweinau motor vehicle workshop on a site north of the tram workshop went into operation on May 4, 1926. By 1929 13 more lines were created, including a. to Erlangen and Stein as well as Fürth, for which a total of 70 buses and 30 trailers were held after further purchases.

The effects of the global economic crisis also made themselves felt in the bus network from 1930 onwards, as individual lines had to be discontinued due to the shrinking traffic volume. Only towards the end of the 1930s, the situation improved again, which also at the since 1934-annual Reich Party Congresses was. Between 1936 and 1941, a total of 66 buses of the types F2N, D1 and MP were procured from MAN to cope with the increased volume of traffic; some vehicles from other transport companies were also borrowed during the party congresses. By 1938 the network grew again to 15 lines. The next restriction was brought about by the outbreak of World War II on September 1, 1939, when a large part of the personnel was drafted into military service and parts of the vehicle fleet had to be handed over to the Wehrmacht. The remaining operations were made more difficult by the rationalization of fuel and spare parts, but could initially be maintained by increasing the number of times, switching buses to town gas and discontinuing unprofitable lines. The cessation of the remaining operations took place on February 21, 1945, after the motor vehicle workshop was destroyed on October 3, 1944 and the gas works in early 1945.

Reconstruction and trolleybus

As a result of the war, the fleet was reduced to almost half of its original strength and the vehicles that were still in existence were mostly not drivable due to damage or a lack of spare parts. Nevertheless, on June 11, 1945, bus operations were resumed, initially to Erlangen. Later there were five overland lines to Altdorf (until September 29, 1946), Ansbach (until September 8, 1946), Hersbruck (until November 26, 1945), Schwabach (until June 23, 1946) and Zirndorf as rail replacement services, as the railway network around Nuremberg was largely destroyed. The overall situation only improved with the currency reform of June 21, 1948, so that from 1950 new vehicles and a. the bus types MKN and MKH from MAN and trailers from Kässbohrer and Schenk could be procured. The inner-city network was also gradually rebuilt.

In 1946 the introduction of the trolleybus was considered, after a test facility parallel to the stadium line of the tram in the Alte Allersberger Straße (today: Brunecker Straße) already existed at the end of the 1920s and the conversion of the tram routes in the city center in the 1930s was planned for trolleybus operation. The opening of the first trolleybus line from Schweinau to Mühlhof (line 73) took place on November 15, 1948, the second line from Schweinau to Stein (line 93) followed on September 3, 1949. Eight buses were added for the new branch of the type MAN MKE procured which were used together with eight specially converted sidecars. The network was expanded on January 29, 1951 with the extension of line 73 from Mühlhof to Wolkersdorf and on October 16, 1955 with the opening of the Leonerstraße loop (today: Holzheim Wende stop). The end of the trolleybus operation was heralded by the ban on carrying sidecars that came into force on January 1, 1960 and the poor technical condition of the operating facilities between 1961 and 1962. First of all, the trolleybus line from Schweinau to Wolkersdorf was switched to diesel buses on December 26, 1961, and trolleybus operations were limited to the Schweinau – Eibach section. Half a year later, on May 2, 1962, the trolleybus service from Schweinau to Stein was discontinued and the line was operated from then on with diesel buses. The remaining trolleybus route from Schweinau to Eibach existed until it was discontinued on December 12, 1962. Remains of the trolleybus systems are still the street lighting masts in Reichelsdorfer Hauptstrasse.

The first articulated and standard buses

On December 29, 1959, all operating facilities, vehicles and staff previously owned by the “Städtische Werke Nürnberg - Verkehrsbetriebe” were taken over by the newly founded “VAG Verkehrs-Aktiengesellschaft”. Due to the ban on trailers for buses and coaches that had been in place since 1960, the company procured a total of 22 articulated buses of the type GBS 165 U11 from Büssing between 1961 and 1962 for heavily frequented routes . From 1971 the VÖV-I buses of the type 750 HO-SL or SL 192 and SG 192 from the Nuremberg house supplier MAN followed.

As a result of the municipal reform carried out on July 1, 1972, the Nuremberg urban area expanded in the north, east and south. The new districts Fischbach , Neunhof and Großgründlach were connected to the inner-city bus network just a few days later, Gaulnhofen , Herpersdorf , Katzwang and Kornburg were only connected to the inner-city bus network through a cooperation agreement with the OVG Bahn / Post on September 30, 1973. On July 9, 1973, the passenger flow introduced in 1958 was abolished. On June 18, 1974, the line network was reorganized with the commissioning of the Thon junction. With the opening of the first section of the U2-Süd, all bus lines ending on Gustav-Adolf-Straße were drawn in to the underground and bus station on Rothenburger Straße. In 1986, the bus network in the southwest of Nuremberg was aligned with the Röthenbach underground station. From 1985 the VÖV II buses came into use.

Low-floor and natural gas buses for Nuremberg

In April 1990, after the design was ready for series production, MAN delivered the first NL 202 low-floor buses to VAG. This new generation of city buses replaced the last VÖV-II buses by 2003. In 1992, car 135 (type MAN SL 202) was converted to run on natural gas, making it the first natural gas-powered bus in Germany. Building on the experience gained with the bus, MAN developed the natural gas drive with the type NL 202 CNG for series production. Between 1994 and 1998, VAG procured a total of 40 vehicles of the type NL 232 CNG, of which one vehicle (Wagen 514) has since been taken out of service after a fire. In 2007, following further vehicle purchases, VAG has a total of 83 natural gas buses. The next big change after the extension of the U2 to Röthenbach in 1986, was the opening of the U2 to Herrnhütte in 1996. The bus network in the northeast of Nuremberg was now aligned with the Herrnhütte underground station. In 2008 all bus routes that ended at Rothenburger Strasse were withdrawn to Gustav-Adolf-Strasse. Only bus line 34 was taken to Plärrer. With the opening of the new Thon-Am Wegfeld tram line, a third of the entire bus network was re-sorted and the long-awaited and planned ring bus routes were created at the same time.

NightLiner - The bus for the night

On January 31, 1998, the night bus network known as the " NightLiner " was put into operation. It initially consisted of twelve lines that opened up almost the entire Nuremberg city area and the most important leisure facilities (discos) from the Nuremberg main station. Due to the increased demand, it was expanded several times and today also includes the urban area of Fürth and Erlangen , the district of Fürth and large parts of the district of Nürnberger Land , where a total of 28 lines operate.

BVG bus 3543 on loan on bus route 30E in Erlangen

double-decker bus

From June 29, 2012 to August 2, 2012, a Berlin double-decker bus from MAN (Car 3543) was in use on line 30 / 30E between Nuremberg- Thon and Erlangen Hugenottenplatz. Due to the high number of seats that an articulated bus cannot offer, VAG tested this type of vehicle.

digitalization

In 2017 all buses began to be equipped with free WiFi . This has been available in all vehicles since January 2018. Since autumn 2019, the vehicle fleet has had additional USB charging plugs in the seats of the newly purchased vehicles.

See also

literature

  • Jürgen Heussner (Ed.): Local traffic in Nuremberg and Fürth from 1982 to 2008 . 1st edition. Nuremberg 2009.
  • VAG Nürnberg (Ed.): 125 years of local transport in Nuremberg . 1st edition. VAG press and public relations office, Nuremberg 2006, ISBN 3-00-018689-1 .
  • Friends of the Nürnberg-Fürther Tram e. V. (Hrsg.): The Nuremberg-Fürth tram through the ages . 3. Edition. Nuremberg 2005.
  • Robert Binder et al. a .: City traffic in Nuremberg and Fürth from 1881 to 1981 . VAG press and public relations office, Nuremberg 1986.
  • Robert Binder: 70 years of urban omnibuses in Nuremberg 1923-1993 . In: Torque series of the German Society for Truck and Bus History (DGLO) . No. 2 . Klaus Rabe publishing house, Cologne 1993.

Web links

Commons : Stadtbus Nürnberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ City of Nuremberg: Statistical Yearbook 2008 ( Memento of the original from February 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / archiv.statistik.nuernberg.de archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 739 kB) . P. 191.
  2. ↑ nordbayern.de, Nürnberg, Germany: VAG relies on hybrid buses in road traffic . ( nordbayern.de [accessed on March 15, 2018]).
  3. ↑ nordbayern.de, Nuremberg, Germany: VAG: 15 buses with a new design for over four million euros . ( nordbayern.de [accessed on March 15, 2018]).
  4. ^ Nordbayern.de, Nürnberg, Germany: More space, new look: These are the new buses from VAG . ( nordbayern.de [accessed on March 15, 2018]).
  5. ↑ Good for the environment: New buses for VAG. Retrieved on March 19, 2020 (German).
  6. ↑ Modern vehicle fleet: VAG uses eight new articulated buses vag.de from May 4, 2017
  7. ↑ VAG puts first e-bus into operation in Nuremberg - electrive.com . In: electrive.net . February 5, 2018 ( electrive.net [accessed March 15, 2018]).
  8. ↑ Good for the environment: New buses for VAG. Retrieved on March 19, 2020 (German).
  9. ^ VAG Nürnberg: Acceleration measures - Free travel for buses and trains (accessed on December 6, 2007)
  10. ^ Peter Pickl: 10 years steering committee of the acceleration commission . In: Friends of the Nuremberg-Fürth tram eV (ed.): The Straßaboh . No. 2, 1999, pp. 46-48.
  11. ↑ Press report Nordbayern.de from 12/2017