Stadtwerke Konstanz

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Stadtwerke Konstanz GmbH

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legal form GmbH
founding August 2000
Seat Constance , Germany
management Kuno Werner, Norbert Reuter
Number of employees 802
sales EUR 175.50 million
Branch Public utilities
Website stadtwerke-konstanz.de
As of December 31, 2017

The Stadtwerke Konstanz GmbH ( SWK ) is a group of companies owned by the city of Konstanz in Konstanz district in Baden-Württemberg . The core business of Stadtwerke Konstanz GmbH has included gas, drinking water and electricity supply from the start. Later came the transport of people in the city bus (ÖPNV) and the ferry connection Konstanz-Meersburg ; In 2003, through the purchase of Bodensee-Schiffsbetriebe GmbH (BSB), shipping on Lake Constance ( White Fleet ) and the Friedrichshafen – Romanshorn ferry connection . The company is one of the largest energy supply, transport and tourism companies in the Lake Constance region.

Stadtwerke Konstanz GmbH was founded in 2000. Up until this point in time, they were still owned by the city of Konstanz. In August 2000, the Stadtwerke Konstanz company was spun off from municipal management and transformed into the legal form of a GmbH . The company's share capital is three million euros, which was taken over by a capital contribution from the city of Konstanz.

In addition, telecommunications / information and the operation of swimming pools in the communal area of ​​the city of Konstanz are the subject of the company. The company pursues public purposes within the meaning of the municipal code of Baden-Württemberg. Furthermore, culture, sport, environmental protection, youth and social issues in the region are supported and promoted by the municipal utilities.

history

On October 31, 1861, the Constance gasworks went into operation. Initially, the gas was generated from coal, then from liquid feedstocks such as B. butane. On March 21, 1905 the lake water works was put into operation. From April 9, 1908, the city's electricity company supplied electricity to the city for the first time: on May 16 of the same year, electrical street lighting was introduced.

From August 1919, the SPD politician Fritz Arnold (1883–1950) was the second mayor of Konstanz and was responsible for the city's technology, energy and transport. As head of the “Technischen Werke Konstanz”, he also succeeded in a comprehensive expansion of the energy supply and the transport services: During his tenure in 1924, a telescopic gas container with a capacity of 10,000 m³ and on September 4, 1929 a chamber furnace (not only for Constance, the city limits and the Swiss submarine communities as far as Stein am Rhein ) and on August 1, 1931 an imposing water tower (with an attached youth hostel) was built in Konstanz-Allmannsdorf, which finally secured the water supply of Konstanz. The idea of ​​connecting the city of Konstanz with Meersburg across Lake Constance came up as early as 1914, and planning began in 1924 for a ferry connection across Lake Constance , which ended in the first urban "motor vehicle ferry". This ship, christened Konstanz , took up scheduled traffic to Meersburg on September 30, 1928 ; on June 1, 1930 the second ferry went into operation. A year earlier, on March 5, 1927, the municipal vehicle company in Konstanz-Staad was opened. With the expansion of the urban bus network, the network extended beyond the city limits to Kreuzlingen and the island of Mainau - the red buses were soon popularly known as "Red Arnold".

1965 was a year of renewal for the Stadtwerke. Today's administration building was built on Max-Stromeyer-Strasse. In 1979 the city of Konstanz was connected to the European natural gas network, and the public utility's cracked gas system was scrapped. In the 1980s and 1990s, the municipal utilities took over the power supply of the incorporated districts. The municipal utilities countered the liberalization of the electricity market in 1998 with far-reaching modernization measures and the constant expansion of the inner-city network.

In August 2000, the self-operated Stadtwerke Konstanz was spun off from municipal management and transformed into the legal form of a GmbH and in December 2000 an electricity museum was opened. In the same year the Ergatshausen substation and the transfer station in Wollmatingen were renewed, in 2005 the Tägerwilen substation. The new Stadtwerke customer center "Energiewürfel" was opened in July 2011 in Max-Stromeyer-Strasse.

On May 15, 2003 "BSB GmbH" was acquired by Deutsche Bahn AG and integrated into the group of companies as wholly owned subsidiaries Bodensee-Schiffsbetriebe GmbH (BSB) and Bodensee-Hafen-Gesellschaft mbH (BHG) . On July 1, 2003, by a resolution of the Constance City Council, the Bädergesellschaft Konstanz mbH (BGK) was founded as the successor to the Sports and Baths Office. The BGK is responsible for the operation of the Bodensee-Therme Konstanz, the two indoor swimming pools (Schwaketenbad and indoor swimming pool on the Seerhein) and the five beach baths (Rheinstrandbad, Dingelsdorf beach, Horn beach, Litzelstetten beach and Wallhausen beach). These integrations have made the group one of the largest tourism providers in the region since 2003.

Since 1998 Stadtwerke Konstanz has held a 50 percent stake in the boat building sector in the group with the catamaran shipping company Bodensee GmbH & Co. KG . The joint subsidiary of Technischen Werke Friedrichshafen GmbH (TWF) and Stadtwerke Konstanz GmbH has been operating a direct ship connection on Lake Constance since July 2005. The ships operate hourly all year round between the two largest Lake Constance cities, Friedrichshafen and Konstanz. She has three catamarans named Constanze and Fridolin as well as Ferdinand , which were built at the Bodan shipyard in Kressbronn . In addition to regular services, “Ferdinand” is also used in charter and excursion services.

KONRad rental bikes from Stadtwerke Konstanz

Stadtwerke Konstanz has been operating a rental system for bicycles (KONRad) and cargo bikes (TINK) with 15 stations in the city since 2018 .

Shareholdings and Subsidiaries

Products

energy

The residents of Konstanz have been supplied with electricity by the municipal utilities since 1908. In addition to the urban area, the suburbs and the island of Mainau are supplied. Since the liberalization of the electricity market, Stadtwerke Konstanz has also acted as a Germany-wide provider. The Konstanzer Strom comes from the Swiss energy trading company AXPO and the German wholesale market. Electricity is generated in-house from a landfill power plant and a photovoltaic power plant and fed into the city's grid.

From 1861, the Konstanz municipal utilities supplied the city on Lake Constance with gas, initially with town gas and butane gas, and since 1979 with natural gas. This year Konstanz was connected to the European natural gas network. Our own liquefied gas mixing plant guarantees the necessary capacities for gas delivery at all times. The municipal utilities obtain biogas from a stake, which is also delivered to households in a biogas-natural gas mixture. Kreuzlingen has been purchasing gas from Konstanz since 1869, including during the First World War, and only interrupted from 1937–1982. There is a contract between the Stadtwerke Konstanz and the Technischen Betriebe Kreuzlingen (TBK).

Stadtwerke Konstanz operates over 165 heating centers to supply their customers with district heating. Condensing boilers and renewable energy sources, refrigeration systems and combined heat and power units provide the necessary energy. Stadtwerke Konstanz's supply networks are being expanded as needed and regularly maintained. The requirements arising from the purchase of electricity from Switzerland and the supply of natural gas to Swiss customers are also taken into account.

Stadtwerke Konstanz also operates more than 115 solar systems.

Stadtwerke Konstanz has other investments in the fields of biogas, gas and electricity trading and climate protection.

Drinking water

Stadtwerke Konstanz supplies Konstanz and its suburbs, Reichenau and the island of Mainau with drinking water from the Konstanz sea power station. The water has been coming from Lake Constance since 1905. In 1967 a drinking water treatment plant was added. Due to the good quality of the water, only mechanical filtering and disinfection using an ozone system is necessary in order to obtain the best drinking water for the people of Constance from the water from the Überlingersee.

mobility

Bus operation

Stadtwerke Konstanz GmbH
Logo of the Stadtwerke Konstanz GmbH
Basic information
Company headquarters Constancy
Web presence Web presence
owner City of Constance 100%
Managing directors Dr. Norbert Reuter
Transport network VHB
Employee 722
sales EUR 10.65 million
Lines
bus 14th
Other lines 2 ferry lines
number of vehicles
Omnibuses 59
statistics
Passengers 12.1 million per year
Mileage 3.1 million km per year

On March 5, 1927, the first two buses of the newly founded "Stadtomnibuslinie" started operating on two lines. This development can be traced back to the initiative of the then incumbent social democratic mayor and head of the technical works Fritz Arnold, who considered the implementation of an urban and transport development program to be a main local political task. The road construction, the establishment of the ferry connection (1928) between Konstanz and Meersburg and the establishment of the municipal bus company were the three decisive traffic policy decisions to win new customers and tourists, to transport goods and thus the position of the city of Konstanz in the region to back up. In 2010 the bus operator operated 14 routes and carried around 12.1 million passengers a year.

In addition to the district of Konstanz and seven other transport companies, Stadtwerke Konstanz is an association partner in the Verkehrsverbund Hegau-Bodensee (VHB), which has been coordinating local public transport by bus and train in the district of Konstanz since 1996.

Konstanz-Meersburg ferry service

In 1928, Stadtwerke Konstanz GmbH set up a car and passenger ferry across Lake Constance on the 4.8 km stretch between Konstanz and Meersburg. Since this ferry line runs along the federal highway 33, it also bears the title “floating bridge”. Every year the six ferries cross Lake Constance over 61,000 times and in 2013 carried 4.14 million passengers, 1.43 million cars and 89,000 commercial vehicles.

Lake Constance shipping operations

literature

  • Hubert Henning: 125 years of gas for Constance: 1861 - 1986; Anniversary publication on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the Konstanz gas supply . ed. from Stadtwerke Konstanz, 1986
  • Krister Hennige, Jürgen Klöckler, Franz Leinweber: Floating Bridge: The ferry on Lake Constance . Stadler Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, 2003. ISBN 3-7977-0496-8
  • Horst Frank, Lothar Burchardt, Kathrin Harms: 1905 2005: 100 years of the Konstanz lake waterworks; 100 years of urban drinking water supply in Constance; historical review, inventory, outlook . ed. from Stadtwerke Konstanz, 2005
  • Franz Leinweber: Insights, Stadtwerke Konstanz GmbH . ed. from Stadtwerke Konstanz, 2006
  • Motorboat operation of the Stadtwerke Konstanz: 1911 - 1991; the interesting story of the first public transport company in the city of Constance . ed. from Stadtwerke Konstanz, 1991
  • Werner Schenkendorf: 25 years Lake Constance ferry, Konstanz / Staad-Meersburg: Completion of the second expansion phase . ed. from the public transport company of the city of Konstanz, Stadtwerke Konstanz, 1953
  • Berthold Schlegel: Konstanz-Meersburg car ferry: the floating bridge over Lake Constance . ed. from Stadtwerke Konstanz, 1989
  • 100 years of the Constance gasworks . ed. from Gaswerk Konstanz, Stadtwerke Konstanz, 1961
  • Stefan Limburg: 90 years of "Roter Arnold" - the bus company of the city of Constance. In: Stadtverkehr 9/2017, pp. 14-18.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ On July 22, 2007, the project, which cost more than 25 million euros, was opened.
  2. ↑ Refurbished in 2004, destroyed by fire on July 4th, 2015
  3. ↑ built in 1937
  4. ↑ Built in the characteristic architecture of the 1930s, the complex is a listed building.
  5. ↑ since July 2005
  6. ↑ since February 2007
  7. ↑ 100% participation, as of December 31, 2013
  8. ↑ 100% participation, as of December 31, 2013
  9. ↑ 100% participation, as of December 31, 2013
  10. ↑ Participation rate 50%, as of December 31, 2013
  11. ↑ Participation rate 50%, as of December 31, 2013
  12. ↑ Participation rate 22.6%, as of December 31, 2013
  13. ↑ Participation rate 20%, as of December 31, 2013
  14. ↑ Participation rate 11.2%, as of December 31, 2013
  15. ↑ Participation rate 4.3%, as of December 31, 2013
  16. ↑ With 50,000 shares, stake 1.33%, as of December 31, 2013
  17. ↑ Participation rate 0.09%, as of December 31, 2013

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Consolidated Financial Statements as of December 31, 2017 in the electronic Federal Gazette
  2. ↑ Ferry traffic since 1928 . In: Südkurier from October 15, 2009
  3. ↑ Stadtwerke Konstanz . In: Südkurier from January 12, 2010
  4. ^ Ralf Seuffert: Constance. 2000 years of history . UVK, May 2003, ISBN 978-3-89669-922-0
  5. ^ Josef Siebler: Everything about electricity . In: Südkurier from June 4, 2008
  6. ↑ Josef Siebler: Power failure in the municipal utility network noticeable . In: Südkurier of November 7, 2006
  7. ↑ catamaran . In: Südkurier from January 9, 2010
  8. ↑ KONRad Stadtwerke Konstanz: [1]
  9. ↑ Participation rate 1.85%, as of December 31, 2013
  10. ↑ The payment was made in milk. In: Konstanzer Anzeiger, June 26, 2019, p. 7.
  11. ↑ Numbers and facts Stadtwerke Konstanz GmbH 2013 (as of June 2014), publisher: Stadtwerke Konstanz GmbH, press office
  12. ↑ Press office Stadtwerke Konstanz: Facts and figures Stadtwerke Konstanz GmbH 2013 (as of June 2014) . In: stadtwerke-konstanz.de . Retrieved January 18, 2016.