Stadtwerke Neumünster
| Stadtwerke Neumünster
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1899 |
| Seat | Neumunster |
| management | Michael Böddeker |
| Number of employees | 757 |
| sales | 239 million euros |
| Branch | Infrastructure ( energy supply , waste disposal , telecommunications and transport ) |
| Website | www.swn.net |
| As of May 3, 2019 | |
The Stadtwerke Neumünster (SWN) are a regional energy supply - and service company in Neumünster .
They go back to the Baltische AG Licht-, Kraft- und Wasserwerke Neumünster , founded in 1899 . In 2008 the company was awarded the “Environmentally friendly company” prize, among other things.
Business areas
The SWN supply Neumünster and the surrounding communities with electricity , gas , district heating and water , and since 1997 they have also operated the nationally known sports and leisure pool with the “Bad am Stadtwald”. At the beginning of 2015, they also took over the operation of the city bus in Neumünster, which had previously been carried out by Verkehrsbetriebe Hamburg-Holstein (VHH), since 1981 on behalf of the Stadtwerke.
In 2009 the range of services expanded to include telecommunications services . Under the name SWN-NetT, cable TV, telephony and internet are offered in Neumünster and in southern Holstein via fiber optics in cooperation with wilhelm.tel . SWN maintains its own fiber optic network in the core area . In some expansion areas, the company plans or builds networks for broadband special-purpose associations and operates them after their completion.
Furthermore entertain the Stadtwerke a waste incineration plant , the TEV ( T hermal E rsatzbrennstoff V erwertungsanlage) in the city center and the corresponding MBA Neumünster ( M echanical B iological A bfallbehandlungsanlage), one of the largest in Germany, in the district Wittorf also, on whose property the 2014 disused landfill . The methane produced on the landfill is used in a combined heat and power plant to generate electricity. In addition to the TEV, the municipal utilities maintain a thermal power station on the Bismarckstrasse site, which is operated with hard coal.
Stadtwerke Neumünster was restructured at the beginning of 2002 and the various service divisions were spun off into separate GmbHs :
- SWN Stadtwerke Neumünster GmbH , supply company for electricity, gas, water, district heating and telecommunications
- SWN Verkehr GmbH , transport company for city bus traffic
- SWN Bäder und Freizeit GmbH
- SWN Disposal GmbH
These independent companies are 100% subsidiaries of the parent company SWN Stadtwerke Neumünster Beteiligungen GmbH , of which the city of Neumünster is the sole shareholder.
city traffic
Since January 2015, the city bus traffic has been carried out independently by SWN Verkehr GmbH . A total of 75 stops are served on 21 bus routes with 35 low-floor buses. Around 2.6 million passengers annually use the service. The Schleswig-Holstein tariff applies .
history
In August 1920, the first bus line from Neumünster to Bordesholm was licensed by the Kraftverkehrs-Gesellschaft Union . The city bus service in Neumünster took over on September 10, 1920 . Power, water and transport works with two accumulator buses. Operations were interrupted several times during the inflationary period and finally stopped in 1926. The city bus traffic was now carried out by the Flensburger Automobil-Betriebs-Genossenschaft . In 1928 it was renamed General Flensburger Automobil-Betriebs-Gesellschaft (AFAG) and in 1930 General Motor Vehicle Operating Company (AKB). The AKB went bankrupt in 1932, the bus transport was now taken over by the company M. Peters . In 1945, after bombing in the Second World War, operations were completely shut down. In October 1945, the British occupying forces commissioned Glau & Habild to manage the city traffic.
After a legal dispute about the granting of a concession before the Higher Administrative Court, the Minister of Economics and Transport ordered that the intercity bus routes from Neumünster to the Peters company and the city bus routes to the city of Neumünster by 1959 at the latest. The city sold the rights on June 29, 1956 to the VHH, which started bus traffic in Neumünster on July 5, 1956, initially with the old buses from Glau & Habild . Very soon new buses in the red / black livery of the VHH ( Mercedes-Benz O 321 ) came to Neumünster. There was one-man operation, 30-minute intervals on the main lines and changed or new lines with line numbers between 51 and 61. The VHH took over Bordesholm local traffic from the Werner Gram company for the summer timetable in 1957 , but gave it up again in 1958. In March 1958, a new tariff with transfer authorization and payment limits for the outer line sections was introduced. In June 1958 the VHH had 25 new buses and another six from Glau & Habild in Neumünster in operation. The depot in Rosenstrasse was modernized in 1961 and received a new social building and an automatic car washing system. A new line from the Böcklersiedlung via the new housing area and the cemetery was established in 1962. In 1962, new air-sprung buses ( Magirus-Deutz Saturn II ) with radio equipment came. From 1969 new standard public service buses were procured, initially Mercedes-Benz O 305 , from the mid-1970s also Ikarus 190 from Hungary.
The company, which was carried out under its own management and for its own account, initially generated profits. Due to the increasing spread of the motorized vehicle after the economic boom, the number of journeys fell considerably in the 1970s, so that no more profits could be made. By way of comparison: 5.867 million people were transported in 1957, 6.291 million in 1963, 7.718 million in 1966, 6.407 million in 1975 and only 3.73 million in 1983. Finally, the VHH terminated the contract with the city on December 31, 1979 because of increasing inefficiency. Before that, the VHH only received compensation payments for school traffic ; the VHH had to bear the constantly increasing other deficit itself. In 1980, the VHH continued to run city traffic as the city promised to take over the deficit for that year.
From January 1, 1981, the city bus operation in Neumünster was carried out by the VHH on behalf of Stadtwerke Neumünster. This had the advantage that the profits from electricity, district heating and water could be offset against the losses from local public transport within the municipal utility budget. From 1983 the SWN procured the buses itself. From 2001 VHH's own buses came to Neumünster again. In 2004, the first ten buses with engines for natural gas operation ( MAN Lion's City NL 243 CNG) were purchased, but again from the SWN. They were followed by three more MAN natural gas buses in 2006, nine in 2007, three in 2009 and another MAN natural gas bus in 2010. The ten oldest natural gas buses from 2004 were sold at the end of 2014 and replaced by Mercedes-Benz Citaro diesel buses. From January 1, 2008, the buses again belonged to VHH, which carried out the city traffic in Neumünster until December 31, 2014 on behalf of SWN-Beteiligungen GmbH outside the HVV . At the turn of the year, the city bus service was taken over by the city, which handed over the operation - including the former VHH depot at Rendsburger Straße 87, the employees and the buses - to the new municipal utility subsidiary SWN Verkehr GmbH .
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Bad am Stadtwald
The Bad am Stadtwald is one of the largest baths in the southern part of Schleswig-Holstein. It was extensively modernized and expanded from 2016. In the hall area, it consists of a 50 m sports swimming pool with starting blocks, which was newly opened in December 2017, and one half of the roof can be pulled over the rest of the roof when the weather permits (“convertible” roof). The indoor pool has a 25-meter swimming pool with diving towers and boards at heights of 5, 3 and 1 meters. There is also a heated outdoor pool, a relaxation pool and a toddler pool, as well as a 90-meter water slide. The sauna area has also been modernized. A newly built outdoor pool for non-swimmers is due to open in 2018, and the toddler pools and diving pools are to be renewed.
In 2016, 437,851 people visited the bath.
Data
Stadtwerke Neumünster had 757 employees, including 44 trainees, and generated sales of 239 million euros in the 2016 financial year.
On May 14, 2013, the first public drinking fountain in Neumünster was put into operation by the SWN.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c [1] , accessed on January 16, 2017
- ↑ General information on SWN Verkehr at www.stadtwerke-neumünster.de, accessed on August 26, 2018
- ↑ The Chronicle of Local Transport in Neumünster , in the VHH blog guest post on vhhbus.de from December 15, 2014, accessed on August 11, 2018
- ↑ Harald von Carnap, Rolf Westphalen, Karsten Peper: 75 years of bus operation · 1926–2001 · BGE VHH . Verkehrsbetriebe Hamburg-Holstein, Hamburg 2001
- ^ Hans-Jürgen Kielmann: 40 years of VHH bus operation in Neumünster . In: VHH-Kurier 2/96 , VHH company newspaper , p. 18
- ↑ Lutz Bartoschek: And the tram almost drove · The development of urban traffic in Neumünster . Verkehrsbetriebe Hamburg-Holstein, Hamburg 2006
- ↑ Bad am Stadtwald: Renovation starts in September. Retrieved January 18, 2018 .
- ^ Stadtwerke Neumünster, sales and customer numbers 2016. Accessed on January 16, 2017 .
- ↑ [2] HC from May 15, 2013 - page 15 "Drinking fountain opened"
Coordinates: 54 ° 4 ′ 55.5 ″ N , 9 ° 59 ′ 16.8 ″ E