Stadtwerke Neuss

Stadtwerke Neuss GmbH
Basic information
Company headquarters	Neuss
Web presence	www.stadtwerke-neuss.de
Reference year	2014
owner	100% city of Neuss
Transport network	Rhein-Ruhr transport association
Employee	491
sales	207.7 (2014)
Lines
bus	12
number of vehicles
Omnibuses	83
statistics
Passengers	26.068 million per year
Stops	300
Length of line network
Bus routes	158 km

The Stadtwerke Neuss GmbH , shortly swn is a services company in the city of Neuss supplies, the citizens and businesses of energy, water and transport and leisure services. The municipal utilities operate, among other things, public transport , three pools and an ice rink in the city. The transport company is a member of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr (VRR).

The Stadtwerke were founded on June 19, 1923. In the 1980s, they were spun off as a company owned by the city and converted into a GmbH on July 8, 1991 . It currently has around 491 employees.

care

Stadtwerke Neuss supplies the city and the surrounding area with electricity, natural gas , district heating and drinking water. The supply areas differ from one another.

The holding company Stadtwerke Neuss Energie und Wasser GmbH (EuW) is responsible for supply services. Stadtwerke Neuss owns 60.1%, RWE 24.9% and Thüga AG 15%.

electricity

The EuW is the concession holder of the electricity networks in Neuss. The power grids have been leased to RWE Deutschland AG since January 1, 2014 . Electricity deliveries in 2012 amounted to 260 GWh to private and commercial customers and 53 GWh to business customers.

Stadtwerke Neuss deliver RECS certified electricity to their end customers.

natural gas

The municipal utilities operate a gas network with a total length of 496 kilometers with 32,788 meters installed. The sales volumes in 2012 were 775 GWh for tariff customers and 1,051 GWh for special contract customers.

District heating

A district heating supply exists for the Neuss district of Allerheiligen . The heat that is used for space heating and hot water is extracted from the largest aluminum rolling mill in the world, Aluminum Norf GmbH . The partnership project between industrial companies and suppliers is of the highest innovation and was particularly recognized by the lead project “State Initiative Future Energies NRW”.

In 2012, grid feed-in was around 22 GWh with sales of 15.4 GWh. The network has a length of 15 kilometers with 789 house stations.

water

In the Neuss city area, more than 114,000 residents are supplied with drinking water. About half of the water is obtained in the Broichhof waterworks - the rest is sourced externally. The total grid feed-in in 2012 was around 6.7 million m³.

traffic

tram

The first tram connection in Neuss existed since December 21, 1901 through the B line of Rheinbahn AG . Since this route was quite successful with around one million passengers per year, the city of Neuss decided in 1903 to set up its own tram. In 1904 a power station was built for this purpose and after the tracks of the Prussian State Railway at the main station had been raised in early 1909 , the city decided to build a tram on January 12th. On December 24, 1910, the 4.7 km long route from the Neusserfurth depot via Venloer Strasse , Further Strasse , the train station , Krefelder Strasse , Niederstrasse , Oberstrasse and Augustinusstrasse to Alexianerplatz was opened.

It wasn't until 14 years later that the route began to be extended. In August 1924, construction work began on an extension to Kaarst in the northwest and Grimlinghausen in the southeast of Neuss. The 3.5 km long section to Kaarst was opened on February 7, 1925 and had its own railway body next to the road. On June 19, the 2.8 km long section to Leuchtenberg, today's sports harbor, was opened to traffic. Two months later, on August 29, the necessary bridge over the Erft was completed and the last 0.75 km long section to Grimlinghausen could go into operation. In addition, a short butt track is being set up in front of the main building at the main train station, which was used by line 3 as the terminal. Thus at the end of 1925 there were three lines in the city of Neuss:

line	Line route
1	Neusserfurth - Venloer Straße - Further Straße - Niederstraße - Alexianerplatz
2	Kaarst - Neusser Straße - Kaarster Straße - Neusserfurth - Venloer Straße - Further Straße - Niederstraße - Alexianerplatz
3	Train station - Niederstrasse - Alexianerplatz - Kölner Strasse - Bonner Strasse - Grimlinghausen

Among other things, the extension from Kaarst to Schiefbahn was planned for the next few years , but this was not implemented. In 1926, the line between Neusserfurth and the train station and between Obertor and Alexianerplatz was expanded to two tracks. Further routes should run south and west. One should lead via Reuschenberg , Glehn and Liedberg and another via Holzheim , Hülchrath , Grevenbroich , Schelsen and Giesenkirchen to Rheydt . Of these two routes, only a short section was implemented via Bergheimer Strasse to Eichendorffstrasse. After the opening on December 6, 1928, line 3 ran here. Its end point was also moved from the train station to Neusserfurth. Another plan that was never realized was an extension from Grimlinghausen via Uedesheim and Dormagen to Cologne .

On October 12, 1925, the Rhine bridge in the south of Neuss was opened to traffic. The Rheinbahn now operated line 16 as a ring line between Düsseldorf and Neuss. Since the city of Neuss had secured a stake in the Rheinbahn, line 16 now operated as a joint line.

Until 1957, nothing changed in public transport in the city. It was not until August 20, 1957 that new tracks were laid for a final loop in Eichendorffstrasse. The route was lengthened by a few meters and should later be built to Schillerstraße / Weberstraße, but this never happened. On November 22nd of that year, line 3 was discontinued instead. After considerable protests by citizens, they had to be reactivated on August 11, 1959.

As early as 1957, plans provided for the emerging Vogelsang residential area to be connected with a tram. For this purpose, the tram route should be extended by 600 meters through Furtherhofstraße and end in a turning loop . But nothing came of it.

After the citizens of Kaarst turned against the tram and the operating license was only extended to 1964 in 1961, lines 2 and 3 were finally closed after a resolution of March 24, 1963. As a result, only line 1 ran and ended at a newly built final loop with a washing facility next to the depot on Neusserfurth. In addition, the clock on line 1 was changed. Previously it only ran every 30 minutes and thus added Line 2, which also runs every 30 minutes, and Line 3, which also runs every 10 minutes, now Line 1 has become the main artery of Neuss' local transport and now runs between Neusserfurth and Stadthalle every 7½ minutes and from there City hall to Grimlinghausen every 15 minutes. Little has changed in this basic cycle until today and is achieved by the overlapping of today's bus routes 843/844 and 851/852, which branch out at the customs gate.

On March 4, 1970, the Rheinbahn agreed to take over the route used by line 16, and line 1 was closed on August 7, 1971. The modern large-capacity railcars and articulated railcars were sold to the Rheinbahn, while some two- and three-axle railcars went to the Hanover Tram Museum , which, however, in the course of bankruptcy and restructuring, except for railcar 17 (which is now operated by the Arbeitsgemeinschaft historical Nahverkehr Düsseldorf (line D) is kept operational and is gladly rented by Stadtwerke Neuss for special trips) have been scrapped. It was a similar experience for the sidecar, but the four DüWag light sidecars found a home in Duisburg and were only scrapped there in 1981.

After the tram was discontinued, the Rheinbahn was again the sole operator of the tram in Neuss, as in the years 1901–1910. In the course of a line change, the Community circular line 16/26 became line 5, which was renamed to 705 after the establishment of the VRR in January 1980. A little later, the Rheinbahn converted the entire tram line network in Neuss with the reconstruction of the track loops at the town hall and at Theodor-Heuss-Platz. Line 709, which had previously ended at Düsseldorf's Südfriedhof, was extended to Theodor-Heuss-Platz and HVZ line 719 to Neuss Hbf , which, however, was withdrawn there after the renovations at the city ​​hall . Line 705 now ended at the town hall .

When the Düsseldorf subway tunnel between Düsseldorf Hbf and Lierenfeld was ready for operation in 1993 , the line designation 705 was changed to U 75 . Another change came into force in 1997, when the city of Neuss no longer approved the U 75 line to continue through the city center to the city hall . The reasons given were that the city center should be made traffic-calmer. As a result, two new parking and turning tracks were built at the main station and the terminus was moved from the town hall to the main station . The only exception was tram line 709, which was disputed until May 13, 2007. In a council decision, the citizens decided to stay with tram line 709. In order to do justice to both, line 709 will now run on a single track after the renovation of the city center from the town hall to the level of Krefelder Str .

From 1994 to the end of 2013, instead of line 719, line 704 ran over the south bridge in the HVZ to the town hall in Neuss. At the beginning of 2014, line 704 was then quietly and secretly closed on the Südfriedhof - Neuss Stadthalle section , which led to violent protests that went unheard.

The Rheinbahn is planning a second light rail line (U 81), which will lead to Düsseldorf Airport over a new bridge over the Rhine over Lörick and Heerdt to Neuss in the Hammfeld I industrial area. At the moment, the state of North Rhine-Westphalia does not provide enough funding to implement this line. Furthermore, it is considered to extend the line to the S-Bahn stop NE-Rheinpark-Center.

line	Line route
709	(D-Gerresheim, hospital -) Grafenberg, Staufenplatz - Düsseldorf main station - Graf-Adolf-Platz - NE-Stadthalle - Neuss main station - Theodor-Heuss-Platz
U 75	D-Eller, Vennhauser Allee - Eller Mitte - Düsseldorf Hbf - Heinr.-Heine-Allee - D-Oberkassel - D-Heerdt, Handweiser - NE-Am Kaiser  - Neuss Hbf
U 81	Ratingen - D-Airport - Messe - Lörick - Heerdt - Neuss Hbf - Hammfelddamm (Rheinpark-Center  )

• On April 6, 2009, the Rheinbahn resumed regular operations on line 709 through Neuss city center.

trolleybus

In 1948 they wanted to extend the tram line 3, which ended at Eichendorffstraße, to Reuschenberg. However, at that time there were no rails, tram cars or buses to buy. In the ruins of the Henschel -factory almost completed were trolleybuses salvaged and the market catenary systems were to have favorable, the city of Neuss is that quickly decided to build a Obusstrecke. On August 23, 1948, a double-track trolleybus route and an O-bus depot in Reuschenberg on Aurinstrasse were set up on the route between Zollstrasse and Reuschenberg (Schlagbaum) . Neuss was one of the few cities in Germany with less than 100,000 inhabitants to have a third mode of transport in addition to the omnibus and tram. Over the next six years, the network was extended, starting with the section from Reuschenberg to Weckhoven .

Opening date	route	length
August 23, 1948	Zollstrasse - Reuschenberg	4 km
December 23, 1948	Reuschenberg - Weckhoven	1 km
January 23, 1950	Reuschenberg - Holzheim	1.5 km
March 30, 1953	Weckhoven - Hoisten	1 km
May 2, 1954	Zollstrasse - Danziger Strasse	1 km

The sections Reuschenberg - Holzheim and Reuschenberg - Weckhoven - Hoisten had only been laid out as single lanes and in Holzheim the trolleybuses turned in a turning triangle .

The trolleybus network had thus reached its greatest expansion in 1954 and had a route length of 9.5 km and a line length of 17.8 km. Thus three trolleybus lines now operate:

line	Line route
21st	Bus station - Reuschenberg
22nd	Danziger Straße - bus station - Reuschenberg - Weckhoven - Hoisten
23	Danziger Straße - bus station - Reuschenberg - Holzheim

On the main route Zollstraße - Schlagbaum the trolleybuses run every 20 minutes. During peak hours, every 10 minutes was driven to Danziger Straße (today's DEHOGA stop ) . From Schlagbaum every second car drove on to Holzheim, while Weckhoven and Hoisten were only served every 90 to 120 minutes.

From 1954 the first two articulated trolleybuses (car 106 and 107) in Germany ran in Neuss. These were 17.2 m long buses with a two-axle trailer, giving the vehicle four axles. The chassis was manufactured by the Henschel company , the Kässbohrer company took care of the body and the Kiepe company from Düsseldorf provided the electrical equipment . After the unexpected cessation of trolleybus operations on December 31, 1959, the two articulated trolleybuses were sold to Pforzheim , where they were in service for another ten years.

The five solo cars were scrapped in 1960. They had chassis from the Henschel company, simple superstructures from the companies Kässbohrer (car 101-104) and Drauz (car 105) with two large sliding doors and electrical equipment from SSW .

At times, trailers were also carried, but they were borrowed from the bus company and therefore were not specially made for the trolleybus service.

omnibus

As early as 1913, a city guide said that buses ran five times a day from Drusushof in Neuss to Lüttenglehn via Kreitz and Grefrath .

Until the tram was discontinued in 1971, the bus played a rather subordinate role in city traffic. After the closure of tram line 2 to Kaarst in 1963, there was bus line 2, which started at the former Neusserfurth depot in the direction of Kaarst . There was also a round bus line in Neuss with the number 8, which led from the bus station via Markt , Kapitelstraße , Rheydter Straße , Hauptfriedhof , Görresstraße , Preußenstraße (municipal hospitals) , Schorlemerstraße , Schillerstraße , Obererft and Selikumer Straße back to the bus station and into both Directions was served.

After the end of the trolleybus operation at the end of 1959, lines 21, 22 and 23 were replaced by bus lines 9, 10, 11 and 19 and some of them were extended to the surrounding towns. There were also other bus lines from the Neusserfurth depot to the Handweiser in Düsseldorf-Heerdt (line 6), as well as from the bus station to Weckhoven via Gnadental (line 7) and a bus line each to Norf (line 12) and Üdesheim (line 5), which ran parallel to the tram to lead.

Neuss was also connected to the long-distance bus line 72 of the Rheinbahn , which ran from Düsseldorf via Neuss to Jülich and was served for some time by one -and-a-half-decker buses. Numerous post bus and train bus routes also had their starting point in Neuss and opened up the surrounding villages.

As of April 2015, Stadtwerke Neuss operated twelve bus routes with more than 300 stops in Neuss, Düsseldorf, Grevenbroich and Kaarst. The total of 83 buses transport almost 26 million passengers a year on a network of around 158 kilometers.

line	Line route
841	Dusseldorf-Handweiser - Neusserfurth - central station - City Hall - Alexianerplatz - Gnadental - Norf - Saints - Rosellen - Rosellerheide, senior center (a ride at night from Rosellerheide until Neuss-Helpenstein; 3 rides on Sunday morning as taxi bus 841T)
842	Rheinpark-Center - State Theaters - Central Station - Jülicher Landstr. - Lukas Hospital (temporarily as Taxibus 842T)
843	( HVZ : Kaarst, Hoferhof -) Neusserfurth - Hbf - Friedr.-Ebert-Platz - Reuschenberg - Holzheim - indoor ski area - Grefrath, Stephanusstr. (One journey Monday to morning from Hoferhof to Kaarst, Maubisstrasse; three journeys on Sunday morning as the 843T taxi bus)
844	( HVZ : Kaarst, Hoferhof -) Neusserfurth - Hbf - Friedr.-Ebert-Platz - Reuschenberg - Weckhoven - Hoisten Loop (3 rides on Sunday morning as taxi bus 844T)
848	Joh.-Etienne-Krankenhaus - Hbf - Friedr.-Ebert-Platz - Pomona - Lukaskrankenhaus (3 journeys on Sunday morning as taxi bus 848T)
849	Lukaskrankenhaus - Hauptfriedhof - Hbf - Stadthalle - Alexianerplatz - Gnadental - Erfttal, Blankenheimer Str. (3 journeys on Sunday morning as taxi bus 849T)
850	Uedesheim - Elvekum - Allerheiligen (- Norf) (at times as a 850T taxi bus; 2 trips in the morning for school traffic to Norf Südstrasse, 4 trips in the opposite direction in the afternoon)
851	Kaarst, Elchstr., Loop - Neusserfurth - Hbf - Stadthalle - Alexianerplatz - Gnadental - Grimlinghausen - Taubental - Uedesheim, Deichstr.
852	Kaarst, Lange Hecke - Neusserfurth - Hbf - Stadthalle - Alexianerplatz - Gnadental - Grimlinghausen - Derikum - Norf, Ulmenallee
854	Vogelsang, Böhmerstr. - Römerstrasse - Hbf - Stadthalle - Alexianerplatz - Gnadental - Selikum - Reuschenberg - Weckhoven, Bernh.-Letterhaus-Str.
857T	(Taxibus) Hbf - Klever Str. - Alter Friedhof - Bauerbahn
858	Grevenbroich-Elsen, Auf dem Griessen - Wevelinghoven - Kapellen - Autobahn (A46) - Friedr.-Ebert-Platz - Neuss, town hall

The plan is to change the route of bus lines 848 and 849, with line 848 now functioning as a ring line between the Lukaskrankenhaus and the main train station. Since the citizens of Erfttal have repeatedly expressed the wish to establish a direct connection to Neusserfurth, the current 849 bus route will not end at the Lukaskrankenhaus as before, but at the Johanna Etienne Hospital. This would guarantee the connection of the Johanna Etienne Hospital to the local public transport system and the citizens of the Erfttal district could now travel to Neusserfurth without having to change trains.

It is also planned to extend today's line 844 to the Norf S-Bahn stop, so that the accessibility of the Norf grammar school and the Norf S-Bahn stop from the Weckhoven / Hoisten area would be improved and the citizens' request would be met.

Two new bus routes are planned to improve the connection between the industrial areas in the Taubental and Hammfeld and public transport. There is to be a bus line from the current final stop of the 852 in Norf via the industrial park Im Taubental, Grimlinghausen, Gnadental along the port basin I to the main station. The second line is to follow the course from the school center, Friedr.-Ebert-Platz, Alexianerplatz, Hammfeld to the Rheinpark-Center S-Bahn station. This would mean an additional connection to the Hammfeld apart from the tram line. However, this request has already been partially taken into account in the change in the route of the BVR line 874, so that since the timetable change at the beginning of January 2013, the newly established bus stops Langemarckstr., Finanzamt and Anton-Kux-Str. served in Hammfeld, even if mostly only every hour. However, the swn did not determine any further connection requirements for the Hammfeld, referring to the bus line introduced in 1991:

845 Klever Str. - Center - Hammfelddamm - Rheinpark-Center (every 60 minutes)

This was given up in 1993 due to a lack of passenger demand. Up to now there has been no greater demand for new public transport offers in this area.

Night bus routes

Stadtwerke Neuss introduced six night bus routes for the first time in January 2012 in order to offer the citizens of Neuss an extended range of services on weekends and before public holidays.

line	Line route
NE1	Central station - ZOLLTOR - town hall - Alexianerplatz - Gnadental - Derikum - Norf - Rosellen - Rosellerheide - GV Pfannenschuppen - Neuss Speck / Helpenstein
NE2	Main station - ZOLLTOR - Friedr.-Ebert-Platz - Südbahnhof - Pomona - Reuschenberg - Holzheim Bf. - Ski hall - Grefrath, Stephanusstr.
NE3	Grefrath - Ski hall - Holzheim Bf. - Reuschenberg - Pomona - School center - Friedr.-Ebert-Platz - ZOLLTOR - Central Station - Vogelsang, Böhmerstr.
NE4	Stadthalle - ZOLLTOR - Central Station - Neusserfurth - Kaarst Hoferhof - Kaarst, Maubisstr.
NE5	Central Station - ZOLLTOR - City Hall - Alexianerplatz - Gnadental - Grimlinghausen - Taubental - Uedesheim, Deichstr.
NE6	Central station - ZOLLTOR - City Hall - Alexianerplatz - Gnadental - Selikum - Reuschenberg - Weckhoven - Hoisten Loop

The overnight express lines arrive at the Zolltor collective stop at 1:05 a.m., 2:05 a.m. and 3:05 a.m. From there, the journey continues after a waiting time of 5 minutes.

Since the summer timetable change in 2017, it has been possible to drive into the city again with the night express trains NE1 and NE3 - NE6. This takes place with a direct journey from the final stop to the main train station or the town hall. This service is not available on line NE2, as this service is provided by line NE3.

Vehicle fleet

After the utility Neuss long time mainly on models of the bus manufacturer Kässbohrer Setra had set (SG 180 S, S 215 SL, SG 219 SL, S 300 NC, ...), were the first low-floor - articulated buses of the type Mercedes-Benz O 405 GN2 ; at the same time (from 1997) the first Mercedes-Benz O 405 N2 were also in the fleet. With these, the paintwork changed from yellow / white to the red / white “StadtLinie” design, which the SWN still uses.

At the beginning of the 2000s, MAN made a comeback at Stadtwerke Neuss: After the MAN SL 200 in the 1980s, buses of the MAN NL 223 and MAN NG 263 types were now introduced at SWN.

The Mercedes-Benz Citaro G made its debut in Neuss in the summer of 2003 . It is worth mentioning that the articulated buses were briefly painted white in the beginning. They will later replace the last Setra high-floor buses in the fleet. In a second order, Citaro solo buses were also purchased.

The swn only procured a few solo copies of the MAN Lion's City type, so that their use is limited to lines 842, 850 and 858.

In August 2008 and 2009, two orders for the Mercedes-Benz Citaro G were delivered; the last bus of these two orders was handed over to Stadtwerke Neuss as the 66th Mercedes-Benz bus since 1997.

Since the beginning of August 2011, Stadtwerke Neuss has been the first transport company on the Lower Rhine to have seven Solaris hybrid articulated buses in operation. There are also 19 all-diesel articulated buses of the type Urbino 18 from Solaris in the fleet.

Stadtwerke Neuss has received 18 Mercedes-Benz Citaro 2 articulated buses since mid-2013. In return, the last MAN NG 263 were parked. Four Citaro 2 solo buses replaced the last MAN NL 223.

Pools and ice rink

Swimming pools

The Neuss baths and ice rink GmbH (NBE), a subsidiary of Stadtwerke Neuss, currently operating three swimming pools . In the north of Neuss there is the Nordbad , which offers an indoor pool as well as an outdoor pool and a sauna and has been under construction since May 13, 2007. The reopening was planned for the second half of 2009. The Stadtbad , which was modernized in 2006, is operated in the city center .

The Südbad in the south of Neuss was renovated. The non-swimmer area and the slide of the Südbad outdoor pool were demolished. The new opening took place on January 20, 2007 after around two years of construction. The südbad indoor pool has a combination pool with a retractable roof and an outdoor pool that can be used all year round.

Ice rink

The ice rink in the Südpark has a 30 by 60 meter long ice rink that can be used by anyone during the 14 ice skating times. The Neuss ice hockey club also plays here in the winter season .

Economic indicators

The current economic indicators result from the consolidated balance sheets:

Parameter	2014	2013	2012	unit
Total assets	293.200	299,344	294,418	Thousand euro
Capital assets	186,100	187,588	176.122	Thousand euro
Total sales	207,877	220.696	216.020	Thousand euro
- of which energy	167.718	178.935	172,554	Thousand euro
- of which leasing the power grid	13,279	16,086	16,342	Thousand euro
- of which baths, ice rink	5,846	5,526	5,310	Thousand euro
- of which bus operation	19,017	18.192	17,620	Thousand euro
Profit of common business operation	19,158	21,192	20,976	Thousand euro
Workers	491	476	473	people

Web links

• Official website
• Verkehrsverbund Rhein Ruhr VRR

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Participation diagram of Stadtwerke Neuss. (PDF) Stadtwerke Neuss GmbH, July 19, 2017, p. 1 , accessed on November 30, 2019 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} SWN Annual Report 2014. (PDF) Stadtwerke Neuss GmbH, p. 54 , accessed on March 21, 2016 . 
3. ^ Stadt, swn and RWE secure the future of the "Stromnetz Neuss" press archive of the city of Neuss from December 9, 2013
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Consolidated financial statements of Stadtwerke Neuss for the 2012 financial year. In: Bundesanzeiger .
5. ^ Günter-J. Dörner: Trams in Neuss 1910 to 1971 , Volume I. Neuss 1983
6. ^ Günter-J. Dörner: Trams in Neuss 1910 to 1971 , Volume I. Neuss 1983
7. ^ Günter-J. Dörner: Trams in Neuss 1910 to 1971 , Volume I. Neuss 1983
8. ↑ Axel sign Dieter Waltking: Rheinbahn . 3rd revised edition. Alba, Düsseldorf 1996

Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 56.7 "  N , 6 ° 40 ′ 44.5"  E