Transport company Ennepe-Ruhr

Verkehrsgesellschaft Ennepe-Ruhr mbH

Basic information
Company headquarters	Ennepetal
Web presence	www.ver-kehr.de
Reference year	2019
owner	64% Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis 30% Bogestra 6% City of Ennepetal
Transport network	Rhein-Ruhr transport association
Lines
bus	50
number of vehicles
Omnibuses	116
statistics
Passengers	18.5 million per year
Mileage	5.5 million wagon kilometers per year
Stops	1087

The transport company Ennepe-Ruhr mbH , shortly VER is a near transport companies in Ennepe-Ruhr district in North Rhine-Westphalia . It is a member of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr (VRR).

history

Beginnings

The history of the tram in today's Ennepe-Ruhr district began on May 10, 1895, when the mayor of the city of Gevelsberg and representatives of the communities in the Schwelm district met with representatives from Schuckert & Co. and decided to switch between the tram networks in Hagen and Barmen to found his own tram company. On October 28, 1895, it was decided that the communities should proceed independently, as the business from the two places had already penetrated into the area of the district. On May 7, 1897, the city of Gevelsberg negotiated with Siemens & Halske about the construction of a tram between Gevelsberg and Milspe . Finally, on August 5, 1897 , the Hagener Straßenbahn AG received the concession to build and operate the line from Hagen via Gevelsberg and Milspe to Schwelm . Until April 1900, however, only the section to Haspe went into operation. At the same time, the Barmer tram built a line to Milspe and opened it on August 24, 1897.

On July 13, 1906, representatives of the communities of Gevelsberg, Mühlinghausen and Voerde met and decided to found the Gevelsberg-Milspe-Voerde tram company. In accordance with the share of the planned route in their urban area, the municipalities received shares in the company. The distribution was as follows: Gevelsberg 46.6%, Milspe 22.6% and Voerde 30.8%.

The first section with a length of 9.31 kilometers was opened on February 24, 1907. Another section of 2.58 kilometers was added on May 19, 1909. Due to the difficult topography, the route had numerous steep sections.

From the First World War

During the First World War , like other companies, the company suffered from the withdrawal of personnel and a lack of material. New construction and expansion measures, such as the takeover and electrification of the Haspe – Voerde – Breckerfeld railway , were canceled. In return, goods and food were transported.

After the war, passenger performance fell from 2.9 million passengers to 1.2 million in 1923. After increasing the number of passengers back to 2½ million in 1929, they fell back to 1.22 million by 1933 due to the high unemployment during the global economic crisis . Because of these difficulties, an operating company was founded on September 1, 1933.

From the Second World War

After the railway suffered only minor damage in the Second World War , operations were stopped on April 13, 1945 shortly before the Allied invasion. On June 4, 1945, operations began again. Since the railway was more and more exposed to the growing road traffic due to numerous tracks in the lateral position of the streets, there were repeated incidents. Running boards and handles were torn off by trucks , especially on federal highway 7 . After the concession was only to be extended with the condition that the railway was to be relocated to its own track structure, it was decided on February 3 and June 8, 1955 to shut down tram operations.

From 1956

On March 31, 1956, the operation of the last tram route was switched to omnibus operation. In 1965 the VER got its current name. Today the company serves four cities and two counties. In 2002, over five million bus kilometers were covered.

From 2000

In 2015, the district council decided to counter the increasing deficit of the VER through closer cooperation with neighboring transport companies. Negotiations have been started with the Bogestra to explore the possibilities. As a result, it was announced in 2016 that Bogestra and VER wanted to set up a joint subsidiary . The VER would have remained in place for further use of the tax cross-link , but would have been reduced to an empty shell. However, this plan could not be implemented, so that the Bogestra should now become a minority shareholder of the VER. The aim is to avoid that costs incurred in the Ennepe-Ruhr district are taken over by the Bogestra owners Gelsenkirchen and Bochum . Central tasks can and should be taken over by the Bogestra. The joint purchase of fuel was the beginning of the cooperation.

VER has been a member of the Eastern Ruhr Area Cooperation (KÖR) since November 2017 and works with the neighboring companies Bogestra (Bochum-Gelsenkirchener Straßenbahnen AG), Vestische , DSW21 (Dortmunder Stadtwerke AG), HCR (Tram Herne-Castrop-Rauxel GmbH) and Hagener Straßenbahn AG together.

Bus routes

VER Irisbus Citelis 100

Mercedes-Benz bus with old paintwork at the depot in Ennepetal-Milspe

line	Line route
SB 37	Ennepetal bus station. - Bochum Hbf (together with the Bogestra )
SB 38	Ennepetal bus station. - Hattingen Mitte (together with BVR Busverkehr Rheinland )
SB 67	Wuppertal Hbf - Bochum Ruhr University
141	Hattingen Mitte - Essen -Kupferdreh (together with Ruhrbahn ex EVAG)
330	Hattingen Mitte - Sprockhövel -Haßlinghausen
331	Hattingen Mitte - Velbert - Leberhof bus station.
332	Wuppertal - Barmen Bahnhof - Hattingen Mitte (together with WSW mobil )
371	Witten Hbf - Dortmund -Oespel
373	Witten-Annen - Stockumer Bruch
511	Ennepetal bus station. - Hagen city center
523	Hagen-Dahl, Ribbertstraße - Breckerfeld bus station.
529	Hagen-Haspe center - Breckerfeld bus station.
550	Breckerfeld-Wengeberg / Heider Kopf - Schwelm Bf
551	Ennepetal-Voerde - Sprockhövel-Hiddinghausen
552	Gevelsberg , town hall - Wetter-Loh
553	Hagen- Westerbauer - Herdecke men's table
554	Hattingen Mitte - Welper - Commercial u. Landscape park - Hattingen center
555	Hagen-Westerbauer - Herdecke men's table
556	Gevelsberg-Knapp - Schwelm, Blücherstraße
557	Schwelm, Blücherstraße - Sprockhövel-Haßlinghausen
558	Niedersprockhövel, church - Hattingen center - Hattingen school center
559	Niedersprockhövel, church - Hattingen center
560	Ennepetal bus station. - Heilenbeckertal - Ennepetal-Rüggeberg
561	Ennepetal bus station. - Homberge - Ennepetal-Rüggeberg
562	Ennepetal bus station. - Ennepetal, Kämpershausweg
563	Ennepetal bus station. - Gevelsberg, Elsternstrasse
564	Herdecke-Schanze - Herdecke city quarter
565	Schwelm Bf - Ennepetal turnpike
566	Ennepetal-Oelkinghausen - Schwelm-Göckinghof
568	Schwelm, Realschule - Schwelm, Oberloh
570	Breckerfeld, school - Ennepetal-Burg
571	Breckerfeld, School - Breckerfeld-Kalthausen
572	Ennepetal-Altenvoerde - Ennepetal, Heinrich-Heine-Str.
573	Breckerfeld - Ennepetal-Büttenberg
574	Ennepetal-Oberbauer - Ennepetal, Harkort School
575	Hagen-Westerbauer - Ennepetal bus station.
576	Ennepetal-Friedfeld - Ennepetal Realschule
577	Ennepetal, Neißestraße - Ennepetal, Rüggeberg school
578	Ennepetal, Rüggeberg School - Ennepetal, Harkort School
579	Ennepetal-Friedfeld - Ennepetal bus station.
581	Herdecke , Friedr.-Harkort-Gymnasium - Wittbräucke Bf.
582	Herdecke, Friedr.-Harkort-Gymnasium - Herdecke-Nacken
583	Sprockhövel-Gennebreck - Sprockhövel-Haßlinghausen
584	Spockhövel-Haßlinghausen - Wetter-Wengern, Esborn
585	Gevelsberg-Silschede Mitte - Weather station
586	Schwelm, Blücherplatz - Schwelm, Dahlhausen
608	Ennepetal bus station. - Wuppertal-Barmen Bf (together with WSW mobil )
NE1	Gevelsberg Hbf - Ennepetal Voerde center
NE4	Schwelm train station - Bochum main train station

The companies Killer City-Bus from Wetter, Schiwy from Hattingen and Mesenhohl from Essen drive on behalf of VER .

literature

Dieter Höltge: Trams and light rail vehicles in Germany, Volume 4 Ruhrgebiet EK-Verlag, Freiburg i.Br. 1994, ISBN 3-88255-334-0 .

Web links

Commons : Verkehrsgesellschaft Ennepe-Ruhr - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Press release , VER signs cooperation agreement

[1] Press release , VER signs cooperation agreement