Stadtwerke Oranienburg
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | June 27, 1991 |
| Seat | Oranienburg |
| management | Ralph Bujok (Chairman of the Supervisory Board) Alireza Assadi (Managing Director) |
| Branch | Energy supply (electricity, gas, water, district heating) |
| Website | stadtwerke-oranienburg.de |
The Stadtwerke Oranienburg are a company of the city of Oranienburg .
history
18th century
1702–1713 the first water supply systems were built. Architect and court builder Johann Friedrich von Eosander built a 25 meter high water tower on the castle grounds, near the Havel . It is used for the "water arts" in the castle and in the castle park. The tower is demolished in 1822. In 1835 the first gas lanterns were erected in the Oranienburg urban area . 17 gas light dispensers were mainly in front of the houses of well-off citizens who pay two thaler per lantern to the city treasury every six months for this luxury.
19th century
In 1866–1868, Oranienburg's public streets and squares were illuminated by gas lanterns. On February 18, 1866, the Oranienburg magistrate, under Mayor Wilhelm Kahlbaum, signed a gas supply contract with the Potsdam gas works , represented by Carl Blume, the gas works, according to which the gas works undertook to supply public roads and privately and commercially used buildings with gas light.
On June 10, 1868, the Oranienburger Wochenblatt announced that a gas station was to be built in the Lehnitzfeld area, operated by the Potsdam gas station director, Blume. This is to ensure the supply of gas light in the following streets: Berliner Straße to Berliner Tor - Bernauer Straße - Lehnitzstraße - Mühlenstraße - Cremmener Vorstadt. In 1895 a contract for the introduction of electric light was signed. The magistrate signs a power supply contract with Gustav Ebell & Co. In the spring of the same year, the construction of the electricity and waterworks on Heidelberger Strasse began and was completed after a year. In 1896 electric lights were on for the first time in Oranienburg. On August 1st, the works director Karl Weinberg put the first turbines into operation. In 1898, electrification in the city was completed. Oranienburg had about 7000 inhabitants at that time.
20th century
In 1906 the existing power generation plant was expanded. As part of the conclusion of a contract for the supply of electricity for the Berlin Railway Administration , which is building a rapid-transit railway test route in the north of the city, the electricity supply system will be expanded within three months for 350,000 marks. In 1908 the facilities for the production of drinking water were expanded because the water consumption had increased significantly as a result of the industrialization of Oranienburg.
In 1908, the private supply company Gas- und Wasserwerke Birkenwerder R. & A. Hengstenberg built the Sachsenhausen gasworks . The institute supplies gas to the communities Friedrichsthal, Fichtengrund and Sachsenhausen. In 1910 the Märkische Elektrizitätswerk acquired the Oranienburg electricity and waterworks. Annual consumption in Oranienburg was 800,000 kilowatt hours. The electrical network extended over a length of 231 kilometers, the water pipe network over 30 kilometers. In 1911, the municipality of Oranienburg acquired the gas works from the Birkenwerder gas and water works for 250,000 marks, and the city received a 30-year gas concession. From 1912 to 1936 the gas supply in the western Niederbarnim was gradually centralized. The Sachsenhausen gasworks was sold to GmbH Gasversorgung Niederbarnim West. The company subsequently also supplied the communities in the southern outskirts of the city. In 1925 the output of the gas works was reduced because the company concluded a concession and supply agreement with the Berlin municipal gas works. In 1936 the Sachsenhausen gasworks was liquidated.
In the years 1916–1928 the electrical supply went into public hands. The Brandenburg Provincial Administration initially acquired the majority of shares in Märkische Elektrizitätswerk AG. In 1920 MEW AG is completely publicly owned. The Oranienburger Elektrizitätswerk had to continue to reduce its electricity output because more and more electricity is being drawn from the new large Finkenherd power station. In 1928, Oranienburg's electricity production is stopped.
In 1944/1945 the public supply system was destroyed. Oranienburg as one of the largest armaments locations with the Heinkel works , and Auer works was the target of American aerial bombs. Of 3872 buildings and facilities in the city area, 1079 were slightly destroyed by the end of the war, 324 severely and 609 totally destroyed. From May 1945 until August 18, 1945 the power supply was restored. 1945–1989 the nationalization of the energy supply and water management of the GDR took place . In the last years of the GDR, the supply of electrical energy and gas was taken over by the Potsdam Energy Combine . The water supply and disposal was the task of the VEB WAB, the water and wastewater treatment companies.
In 1969/1970 the planning and construction of a heating plant began. Oranienburg new housing estates were to be supplied with district heating from up to six boilers via a pipeline network. The Oranienburg heating plant was founded as a heating plant department at the City Council of Oranienburg. This laid the first cornerstone for today's Stadtwerke. In 1972, on August 1st, the first apartments in Oranienburg were heated with district heating. In 1976 the VEB heat supply was established. The heating plant departments at the council of the city of Hennigsdorf and the council of the city of Oranienburg are forcibly merged into VEB heat supply on January 1st. The governing body for the new state-owned company was the council of the district of Oranienburg.
The political upheaval in the GDR was followed on June 1, 1990 by the transformation and division of VEB Wärmeversorgung into Fernwärme GmbH Oranienburg and Stadtwärme Hennigsdorf GmbH as trust operations. On June 27, 1991, the district heating company was renamed Stadtwerke Oranienburg GmbH. The object of the company expanded through the assumption of further municipal economic tasks. The city of Oranienburg became a 100 percent shareholder of the Stadtwerke. In 1992 Erdgasversorgung Oranienburg GmbH was founded. The independence of the gas supply was made possible by the conclusion of a consortium agreement between Stadtwerke Oranienburg GmbH, the municipality of Lehnitz , the United Electricity Works Westphalia (VEW), Westfälische Ferngas-AG (WFG) and Gaz de France Deutschland GmbH on the establishment of Erdgasversorgung Oranienburg GmbH (EVO) secured. In 1993 the company moved into the new administration building on Klagenfurter Straße. In 1994 a new combined heat and power plant went into operation.
In 1994 the Stadtwerke took over the Oranienburger water supply and wastewater disposal. Previously, the Potsdamer Wasserversorgung und Abwasserverarbeitung GmbH was entrusted with this task. The wastewater disposal was transferred to the city's own drainage company Oranienburg. The management is carried out by the Stadtwerke.
In 1995, EVO took over the city's natural gas supply. The share of the municipalities of Oranienburg and Lehnitz in the company is 51 percent, the remaining shares are held by Westfälische Ferngas-AG (replaced by Westfälische Gasversorgung AG & Co. KG in 1998) and Gaz de France Deutschland GmbH. In 1996 the Stadtwerke also took over the municipal power supply after long negotiations with Märkische Energieversorgung AG (MEVAG).
On January 27, 1998, the fuel cell CHP pilot project supported by the State of Brandenburg went into operation. The product of the reaction process is water. The electricity and heat generated are fed into the local networks. On April 9, 1998, the Stadtwerke founded another subsidiary. Stadtservice Oranienburg GmbH offers sporting and cultural services and plans and operates a leisure pool with sports facilities. On May 15, 1998, the new Sachsenhausen waterworks in Schmachtenhagener Strasse went into operation. In the plant, groundwater from the extraction area to the north is treated for the supply area. The Stadtwerke subsidiary Stadtservice Oranienburg GmbH founded enuTEC GmbH together with Artec GmbH Leegebruch and Ralf Sepke, a company that offers services in the areas of energy management, energy management and environmental management.
The inner-city sewage treatment plant on Lehnitzstrasse was shut down in 1999. The Oranienburg wastewater is transferred to the Wansdorf sewage treatment plant, a joint project between various municipalities and Berliner Wasserbetriebe .
21st century
On January 1, 2000, the municipal utilities founded local energy GmbH together with 17 other municipal utilities in the federal states of Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and e.dis AG . The company markets alternative electricity offers. In June 2001 a new customer center was inaugurated.
The leisure center TURM ErlebnisCity Oranienburg on André-Pican-Strasse was the largest project of the Stadtwerke subsidiary Stadtservice Oranienburg GmbH and was handed over in February 2002. Stadtwerke has been offering natural gas as a fuel since 2005.
On February 4, 2005, the Stadtwerke subsidiary Erdgasversorgung Oranienburg GmbH put the first natural gas column in the Oberhavel district into operation at the Total petrol station in Saarlandstrasse.
In 2006, the sole shareholder of Stadtwerke, the city of Oranienburg, transferred 49.9% of the shares to H / H Stadtwerkefonds KGaA. This fund is based on a concept by HSH Nordbank and Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen (Helaba). At the same time the municipal utility subsidiary Stadtservice Oranienburg GmbH was sold to the city of Oranienburg.
A capital increase by H / H Stadtwerkefonds KGaA in 2007 increased their stake in Stadtwerke Oranienburg to 64.9%.
In November 2010, Gelsenwasser AG, the North Rhine-Westphalian service provider for water, wastewater and energy, acquired a majority stake in the municipal utilities of 64.9% from H / H Stadtwerkefonds KGaA.
The 20th anniversary of the Stadtwerke was celebrated on August 19 and 20, 2011 with customers, employees and guests of Stadtwerke Oranienburg in the city's palace gardens.
On January 1, 2012, Gelsenwasser AG sold the 64.9% share it held to the City of Oranienburg. The Oranienburg public utilities were completely remunicipalised. The city of Oranienburg is wholly owned by the Stadtwerke.
In 2013, the Stadtwerke took over all parts of the natural gas supply Oranienburg (EVO). This enabled the two companies to be merged. The merger took place on June 27, 2014 retrospectively to January 1, 2014.
In 2017, Stadtwerke Oranienburg started selling electricity nationwide under the ORIGINAL ENERGIE brand with the website www.originalenergie.de. In 2018, ORIGINAL ENERGIE will also start offering natural gas. In a study entitled “Heizstrombieter” by the German Institute for Service Quality, Stadtwerke Oranienburg became the test winner with the quality rating “very good” in 2018 with the ORIGINAL ENERGIE brand of heating current.
As a 100 percent subsidiary of the city of Oranienburg, the newly founded Oranienburg Holding GmbH will take over the shares of the city of Oranienburg in Stadtwerke Oranienburg GmbH at the end of 2018. The task of the municipal holding company is to bundle all of the activities of the City of Oranienburg organized under private law.
Individual evidence
- ^ Website of Stadtwerke Oranienburg GmbH: Press release: Electricity the way consumers really want it. November 9, 2017. Retrieved June 28, 2019 .
- ↑ Study heating electricity provider. German Institute for Service Quality, accessed on April 28, 2020 .
- ^ Website of the city of Oranienburg: Stadtwerke Oranienburg GmbH. Retrieved April 29, 2020 .
- ^ Oranienburg Holding GmbH: Press release: Start of Oranienburg Holding GmbH. December 17, 2018, accessed June 28, 2019 .