Stadtwerke Remscheid
| Stadtwerke Remscheid GmbH | |
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| Basic information | |
| Company headquarters | Remscheid |
| Web presence | Web presence |
| Reference year | 2009 |
| owner | City of Remscheid (100%) |
| Transport network | VRR |
| Employee | 503 |
| sales | EUR 12.3 million |
| Lines | |
| bus | 29 |
| number of vehicles | |
| Omnibuses | 90 |
| statistics | |
| Passengers | 18.8 million per year |
| Mileage | 4.0 million km per year |
| Stops | 654 |
| Length of line network | |
| Bus routes | 375.2 km |
| Operating facilities | |
| Depots | 1 |
The Stadtwerke Remscheid GmbH , short SR are a near transport companies of the city of Remscheid and member of the transport association Rhein-Ruhr (VRR).
history
Tram until 1922
On December 31, 1891, the Commerzienrat Robert Böker submitted an application to the city of Remscheid for the construction and operation of a meter-gauge electric tram . The city was ready to take over 300,000 Reichsmarks of the estimated 750,000 Reichsmark construction costs and promised the company to be founded on May 10, 1892 a financing contract. On June 27, 1892, the Remscheider tram company was founded and commissioned the Union-Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft to build a power station, the tracks and the overhead lines.
On July 9, 1893, it went into operation on the sections from Remscheid-Markt to Vieringhausen and Hasten . The section in the old Bismarckstrasse was the steepest tram section in the German Empire at the time with a gradient of 10.8%. On July 13, 1894, the section to the main train station was opened and the line from Vieringhausen was extended to there. At the intersection with the railway in Bismarckstrasse , it was forbidden to cut the rail of the Reichsbahn. This meant that the crossing of the tracks was extremely bumpy and there were frequent derailments. To avoid this, the passengers were allowed to change vehicles at this point. Only after the intersection was rebuilt on December 2nd, continuous journeys took place again. On January 4, 1884, the line to Vieringhausen was extended by 0.6 kilometers.
A special feature of the trams in Remscheid were the derailment switches in front of level crossings and on steep sections of the route. Here the points were derailed by means of springs . During the crossing from above, the conductors had to change the points and keep them open. Then they jumped back on derailments . The aim was to prevent the trains from going uncontrollably over the level crossings or from becoming too fast on the steep sections.
In the years to come, the following sections were opened:
- December 23, 1898: Vieringhausen - Güldenwerth
- November 11, 1899: Hasten, Arthurstraße - Hasten, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Straße
- October 19, 1900: Underpass under the Reichsbahn on Bismarckstrasse
- December 15, 1900: Bliedinghausen - thick oak
- May 29, 1901: Alleestraße - City Park
- August 15, 1901: Hasten - Kaiser-Wilhelm-Strasse - waiting hall
- May 17, 1903: Stadtpark - Stadtparkhalle
- April 8, 1909: Stadtpark - Parkstrasse - Königstrasse
- November 30, 1912: Thick oak - Ehringhausen , hospital
- July 31, 1913: Güldenwerth - Reinshagen
Wermelskirchener-Burger Railway
The Wermelskirchener-Burger Eisenbahngesellschaft Wermelskirchen AG was founded on April 7, 1888. This had been preceded by various disputes, especially in the Burger City Council, about the correct route and the profitability of the route since 1882. There were also disputes with the state railroad about the introduction to the Wermelskirchen station and lease claims for the joint use of their properties. The share capital was 360,000 marks, of which 120,000 marks each went to the towns of Burg and Wermelskirchen, while private individuals raised 120,000 marks. There were also violent disputes in the Burger City Council about this. The construction of the line by the Localbahn-Bau und Betriebs-Gesellschaft Wilhelm Hostmann & Co. from Hanover began on April 20, 1889 and the opening took place on April 1, 1890. Work trains for the construction of the Eschbach dam had already started in September . The railway was licensed as a railway of subordinate importance , so operation was more complex than the small railways introduced from 1892. Even during the construction, the share capital had to be increased by 140,000 marks due to the increased construction costs. The Burger City Council did not vote on an increase in the Burger share due to hopelessness, and so the city of Wermelskirchen took over 60,000 marks, and the district of Lennep 40,000 marks, 40,000 marks came from the Hostmann company, the city of Remscheid and private individuals. The traffic did not develop as planned, it was only satisfactory on the weekends when ten pairs of trains sometimes ran. Freight traffic mostly stayed below 10,000 tons per year. So there were operating losses every year. On November 17 and 18, 1897, the West German Railway Company from Cologne acquired the shares in the railway, paying only 30% of the nominal value. The line was electrified by 1899 and connected to the AG Remscheider tram on Lenneper Straße in Remscheid.
On June 7, 1907, the section from Lenneper Straße via Lennep to Lüttringhausen was opened. On August 14, the line from Bahnhofstrasse to Halbach was put into operation. On May 14, 1908, the section from Burg to Krahenhöhe was added. So you had a connection to the Solingen tram .
The track had a length of 29.2 kilometers. Due to the increased passenger and freight traffic, the track systems were extremely worn. The wage increases in 1918 and the lack of grants from the communities resulted in losses of 500,000 marks. This led to a waning interest of the WeEG in the line and the subsidiary VKA , which had also managed the operation, began demolishing the tracks between Halbach and Lennep in 1921. On April 1, 1922, the AG Remscheider Straßenbahn bought the line. The section between Burg and Krahenhöhe became the property of the Solingen tram.
Until 1945
The Remscheid tram rehabilitated the route of the Wermelskirchener-Burger railway and on May 24, 1922 opened the connection from Lenneper Straße to the lido at the dam in Lennep . This route was discontinued on August 12 for economic reasons. Due to the inflation, only two lines ran in Remscheid from October 12th: from Hasten via Handweiser to the hospital and from Güldenwerth via the market and Handweiser to Lenneper Straße . Between March 10 and April 29, 1923, operations were completely shut down. After the IHK had promised grants, traffic was resumed. When the subsidies failed to materialize, traffic was stopped again from September 24th to November 24th. Regular operations were only resumed on March 16, 1924 after the currency reform.
In 1926 the following lines operated:
- 1: Hasten - Markt - Stachelhausen - District Court - Parkstrasse
- 3: Ehringhausen - Hauptbahnhof - Markt - Alleestraße - District Court - Reinshagen
- 4: Reinshagen - District Court - Market - Central Station - Ehringhausen - Burg
- 5: Markt - Lenneper Straße - dam - Wermelskirchen
- 6: Lennep Nord - Lenneper Straße - hand sign - market - town hall - city park
The following routes were added:
- 1925: Handweiser - Bliedinghausen
- 1926: Handweiser - Lenneper Straße
- 1927: Extension in Alleestraße
In order to be able to carry out the modernizations and the route extensions, bonds of 966,000 guilders and 182,000 US dollars were taken out. The following extensions were made:
- September 10, 1927: Blumenstrasse - Brüderstrasse - Schauspielhaus
- October 2, 1929: Lennep-Nord - Lüttringhausen
- November 26, 1929: Lüttringhausen - Tannenhof and Wermelskirchen train station - Wermelskirchen-Friedrichstrasse
At the end of 1929, seven lines with a length of 56.7 kilometers were operated on 45.29 kilometers of track. The network had thus reached its greatest extent. On October 7, 1930, the section of dam - Preyersmühle was closed.
During the Second World War, the railway initially only suffered from a shortage of materials and personnel. From 1941 onwards, operations were repeatedly interrupted due to bomb damage. In an attack on July 31, 1943, the wagon hall and a large part of the overhead line network were destroyed. Further bombing attacks repeatedly destroyed parts of the network and the fleet of vehicles. On April 15, 1945, operations were stopped when the US troops marched in.
After the Second World War
After the war, the reconstruction of the tram network began and on January 1, 1949 eight lines were again in operation. From July 1, 1950, the network was restructured and seven lines were served. In 1951 there was another change in the offer. By 1955, some sections of the route were closed, so that only six lines were left. On January 5, 1958, three more lines were discontinued after the central transfer point at Friedrich-Ebert-Platz was rebuilt. The last tram line from Stadtwerke Remscheid, from Hasten to Ehringhausen, was closed on April 10, 1969. Since then, Stadtwerke Remscheid has been a pure bus company .
Owners and holdings
The sole owner of Stadtwerke Remscheid is the city of Remscheid. Stadtwerke is the sole owner of the parking lot operator Park Service Remscheid GmbH and the swimming pool operator H 2 O GmbH. In addition, the municipal utilities are involved in the following companies (as of 2017):
- EWR GmbH ( public utility company , 60%)
- AWG Abfallwirtschaftsgesellschaft mbH Wuppertal ( waste disposal company , 24.97%)
- Elba Omnibusreisen GmbH (bus company, 25%)
- Kom9 GmbH & Co. KG (merger of energy supply companies, 4.27%)
- BEG Entsorgungsgesellschaft mbH (waste disposal company, 45%)
- GEWAG Wohnungsaktiengesellschaft Remscheid ( housing company , 33.95%)
Bus routes
The following bus lines are operated in the Remscheid city area by the Remscheid municipal utilities, partly in cooperation with other transport companies, in day and night traffic.
Daytime traffic
The following lines run daily until 9 p.m.:
| line | Line course | Companies | Tact |
|---|---|---|---|
| 615 | W-Elberfeld Mitte - University - Hahnerberg - Cronenfeld - RS-Hasten - Remscheid Mitte | SR and WSW | weekdays 20 min. (10 min. between Hasten and RS-Mitte
zsm. with 653), weekend 30 min. |
| 652 | Remscheid center - central point - Struck - dam - Belten - Wermelskirchen center - on the outskirts (section: Wk-Mitte - on the outskirts of town 2018 taken over by RVK) | SR | weekdays 60 min. (peak hours 30 min.), weekend 60 min. |
| 653 | Hasten - Remscheid center - central point - Mannesmann - Ehringhausen - Solingen-Burg | SR | weekdays 20 min. (10 min. between Hasten and RS-Mitte
zsm. with 615), weekend 30 min. |
| 654 | (Solingen-Burg -) RS-Reinshagen - Güldenwerth - Remscheid center - Neuenkamp - Bökerhöhe - Lennep center - Lüttringhausen center - Klausen | SR | weekdays 20 min., weekend 30 min. (every 60 min. from / to SG-Burg Mon-Sun) |
| 655 | Stadtpark - RS-Mitte - Zentralpunkt - Mixsiepen - Bökerhöhe - Lennep Mitte - Hackenberg (- Alt-Hackenberg [abandoned from 2019]) | SR | weekdays 20 min., weekend 30 min. |
| 657 | Hasten - Stockden - RS-Mitte - Blumental | SR | 30-minute intervals on weekdays,
Weekend 60 min. |
| 658 | Müngsten - Morsbach - Güldenwerth - Stockden - Stadtpark - RS-Mitte - Rosenhügel - Central Point - Falkenberg | SR | Weekdays 20-40 minutes (together with the 673 20-minute cycle Rosenhügel - RS-Mitte; Stadtpark - Müngsten every 60 minutes), weekend 60 minutes (30-minute cycle with 673) |
| 660 | Kremenholl - RS-Mitte - Clarenbach - Goldenberg - Lüttringhausen Mitte | SR | weekdays 20 min., weekend 30 min. |
| 664 | Remscheid Mitte - Fichtenhöhe - Hohenhagen - Bökerhöhe - Hasenberg - Lennep Mitte | SR | weekdays 20 min. (on school days high season every 10 min. RS-Mitte - Hohenhagen), weekend 30 min. |
| 666 | Lüttringhausen Mitte - (Grünenplatz) - Großhülsberg - Grünenplatz - Lüttringhausen Mitte | SR | 20–40 minutes on weekdays (two journeys per hour continuously from 660 during peak hours), 6 journeys on Saturdays |
| 669 | (Grenzwall -) Lennep Mitte - Hackenberg (- Cluse - (Frielinghausen) - Grünental - Wuppertal-Beyenburg) | SR and WSW (only trips to / from Beyenburg) | (60 min. Between Grenzwall and Lennep) on weekdays 20 min. To Hackenberg (60 min. In the NVZ / 20-40 min. In the HVZ to Beyenburg), on Saturdays 30 min. To Hackenberg (60 min. To Beyenburg), on Sundays 60 min. |
| 670 | Honsberg - RS-Mitte - Stenberg - Clarenbach (- W-Ronsdorf) | SR | Weekdays 20 min. Honsberg - Clarenbach (60 min. In the NVZ / 20-40 min. In the HVZ Honsberg - W-Ronsdorf), weekend 30 min. Honsberg - Steinberg (60 min. Honsberg - W-Ronsdorf) |
| 671 | RS-Lennep Mitte - Krebsböge - Rvw-Herbeck - Radevormwald Mitte | SR and OVAG | weekdays 60 min. (peak hours 20-40 min.), weekend 60 min. |
| 672 | Remscheid center - central point - Struck - dam - Ortlinghaus - Wermelskirchen center - Wk-Krankenhaus (section: Wk-Mitte - hospital taken over by RVK in 2018) | SR | weekdays 60 min. (peak hours 30 min.), weekend 60 min. |
| 673 | Nordstraße / TBR - RS-Mitte - Rosenhügel - Mannesmann - Bliedinghausen - dam | SR | every 60 minutes (to Bliedinghausen), every 120 minutes to the dam |
| 675 | Baisiepen - Zentralpunkt - RS-Mitte - (Stadtpark - Königstraße - Hasten - Rath) [from RS Mitte ring line] | SR | weekdays 30 min., weekend 60 min. |
| 680 | Stockden - Königstraße - Hasten - Clarenbach - West / Clemenshammer | SR | 6 trips per day on weekdays, no traffic on weekends |
Night traffic
The following lines operate daily from 9 p.m.:
| line | Line course | Tact |
|---|---|---|
| NE12 | Remscheid center - Rosenhügel - central point - Struck - (if required Baisiepen - Falkenberg) - Mannesmann - Bliedinghausen - Wermelskirchen center - Belten - dam - Struck - central point - Rosenhügel - Remscheid center | hourly |
| NE13 | Remscheid center - Güldenwerth - Reinshagen - SG-Burg - Ehringhausen - Mannesmann - central point - Hohenhagen - Fichtenhöhe - Remscheid center | hourly |
| NE14 | Remscheid center - central point - Mixsiepen - Bökerhöhe - Lennep center - Hasenberg - Hackenberg - Lüttringhausen center - Goldenberg - Clarenbach - Remscheid center | hourly |
| NE15 | W-Elberfeld Mitte - University - Hahnerberg - Cronenfeld - RS-Hasten - Remscheid Mitte | every half hour |
| NE16 | Remscheid middle - Clarenbach - Goldenberg - Lüttringhausen middle - Klausen - W-Ronsdorf - Halbach - Klausen - Lüttringhausen middle - Lennep middle - Bökerhöhe - Neuenkamp - Remscheid middle | hourly |
| NE17 | Remscheid Mitte - Stadtpark - Steinberg ( if necessary Rath) - Hasten - Stockden Koenigstrasse - Hasten - Steinberg Nordstrasse - Remscheid Mitte | hourly |
| NE18 | Remscheid Mitte - Stadtpark - Stockden - Güldenwerth - Reinshagen - Güldenwerth - ( if necessary Müngsten– Morsbach) - Stadtpark - Remscheid Mitte | hourly |
| NE19 | Remscheid middle - Fichtenhöhe - Hohenhagen - Bökerhöhe - Hasenberg - Hackenberg - Lennep middle - Rvw-Herbeck - Radevormwald middle | hourly |
| NE20 | Remscheid Mitte - (if necessary Blumental) - Honsberg - Kremenholl - Remscheid Mitte | hourly |
Vehicle inventory
At the end of December 2014, Stadtwerke Remscheid bought five new Mercedes-Benz Evobus Citaro O 530 C2s. The new special feature of the five new buses is that each of these buses has a third door. The buses have the car numbers 25-29. There is also a Mercedes-Benz Evobus O305 G for special occasions, for example there was a prize game called A Journey into the Good Old Times .
In 2016 the following vehicles are in the Remscheid network (with wagon numbers):
| Manufacturer type | Company numbers | First registration | number |
|---|---|---|---|
| MB Evobus Citaro O 530 | 1 | October 19, 2005 | 32 |
| 2-10 | September 25, 2007 | ||
| 11-13 | September 2, 2008 | ||
| 15-24 | October 10th, 2013 | ||
| 160-168 | October 20, 2010 | ||
| MB Evobus Citaro O 530 C2 | 25-29 | 22nd December 2014 | 5 |
| MB Evobus Citaro O 530 C2 "Hybrid" | 60-64 | December 14, 2018 | 5 |
| MAN Lion's City A 21 | 42-50 | October 30, 2006 | 18th |
| 51-58 | November 10, 2009 | ||
| 59 | January 15, 2007 | ||
| MAN NL 263 A 21 | 38 | October 16, 2003 | 3 |
| 40, 41 | March 31, 2005 | ||
|
Mercedes-Benz Evobus O 530 G |
124-129 | October 7, 2004 | 23 |
| 130-132, 134, 135 |
October 19, 2005 | ||
| 136-138 | September 2, 2008 | ||
| 139-142 | October 5, 2011 | ||
| 143-147 | 3rd September 2012 | ||
| Total number of own buses | 90 | ||
Former vehicles:
| Manufacturer type | Company numbers | First registration | number |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAN NL 263 A 21 | 68-74¹ | September 20, 2000 | |
| 75-77¹ | August 17, 2001 | ||
| 78¹ | January 15, 2002 | ||
| 80-83¹ | September 26, 2002 | ||
| 30-37 / 39 | October 16, 2003 |
¹ Stadtwerke Remscheid retired the solo buses with the operating numbers 68–83 prematurely in 2013 due to the environmental zone that was set up.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Stefan Kubiak: The beginning of rail operations in the Eschbachtal . In: The Museum Railway . No. 1 , 2016, ISSN 0936-4609 , p. 10 .
- ↑ Participation report 2017 City of Remscheid. (PDF; 2.9 MB) In: remscheid.de. City of Remscheid, November 2018, p. 15 , accessed on January 12, 2019 .
- ↑ Current vehicle inventory, at stadtwerke-remscheid.de, accessed on August 30, 2016
- ↑ Active buses from Stadtwerke Remscheid that are currently in regular service. , at remscheider-busse.de, accessed on December 24, 2019
- ↑ Former, that is, discarded public transport buses of the Remscheid municipal utilities , on remscheider-busse.de, accessed on December 24, 2019
Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 43.8 ″ N , 7 ° 12 ′ 59 ″ E