Görlitz transport company
| Verkehrsgesellschaft Görlitz GmbH | |
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| Basic information | |
| Company headquarters | Goerlitz |
| Web presence | www.vgg-goerlitz.de |
| owner |
Stadtwerke Görlitz 51% Transdev GmbH 49% |
| Managing directors | Frank Mueller |
| Transport network | ZVON |
| Employee | 80 (as of 2014) |
| Lines | |
| Gauge | 1000 mm ( meter gauge ) |
| tram | 2 |
| bus | 6th |
| number of vehicles | |
| Tram cars | 17 KT4D 1 “Hopfenexpress” party car ( Duewag GT 6 type “Mannheim” ) 1 AEG standard car - Steinfurt, Königsberg 1897 1 T 26/28 - WUMAG, Görlitz 1928 1 horse-drawn tram - Herbrand, Ehrenfeld / Cöln 1882 |
| Omnibuses | 4 MB O 530 G (Citaro G) , 5 MB O 530 (Citaro) , |
| statistics | |
| Passengers | 4,455,000 (as of 2014) |
| Mileage | 538,516 km / a (bus) 450,592 km / a (tram) |
| Stops | 85 (80 in urban area + 5 in Zgorzelec ) |
| Operating facilities | |
| Depots | 1 |
| Track length | 17.5 km |
The Verkehrsgesellschaft Görlitz GmbH (VGG) was a municipal transport company based in Görlitz . It was a subsidiary of the French transport service provider Transdev GmbH and operated two tram and six bus lines in the city . The transport company was a partner of the Zweckverband Verkehrsverbund Oberlausitz-Lower Silesia (ZVON) .
On January 1, 2019, the Görlitzer Verkehrsbetriebe (GVB) took over the entire transport of VGG, which was merged with GVB. Since then, local transport has been completely in the hands of the city again.
History of Görlitz city traffic
Urban transport development until 1996
At the end of the 19th century, with the increasing number of inhabitants and the expansion of the populated urban area, the need for public transport increased. On May 25, 1882, the Görlitzer horse-drawn railway started operating on the 3.2 kilometer-long route Nikolaigraben - Hugo-Keller-Straße - Kaisertrutz - Obermarkt - Postplatz - train station . On June 4, 1882, the second line opened between Kaisertrutz and the train station via Klosterplatz - Mühlweg - Moltkestraße - Blockhausstraße. The second line was extended in June 1882 by 1.3 kilometers to a total of 3.7 kilometers to the Schützenhaus. In September 1890, the circular railway line started operating. The 4-kilometer route led from the train station via Blockhausstraße, Moltkestraße to Obermarkt, past Kaisertrutz and back to the train station via Bautzner Straße, Landskronstraße, Leipziger Straße and Salomonstraße. In 1892 the first horse-drawn bus line was opened between the Jewish cemetery and the foot of the Landeskrone in the Görlitz suburb of Klein Biesnitz . Seven years later, the new tram line to the foot of the Landeskrone was completed. In October 1896 the Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft ( AEG ) took over the tram operation.
The AEG switched the trams from normal to meter gauge and electrified the network with 500 volts DC until 1897 . In 1900 the Allgemeine Lokal- und Straßenbahngesellschaft AG (ALOKA) (from 1923: Allgemeine Lokalbahn und Kraftwerke AG ) took over operations from the AEG. However, AEG held the majority of shares in ALOKA. The ALOKA operated the Görlitz tram until the end of the Second World War . The extension of the tram line from Oststadt to the suburb of Moys was also put into operation in 1900. Seven years later, traffic between Grünen Graben and the hospital began. During the First World War , the Ringbahn was shut down and dismantled.
After the First World War, the tram network in the west was expanded to the suburb of Rauschwalde in 1921 . In the 1930s, the suburb of Posottendorf-Leschwitz (from 1936: Weinhübel) was also connected to the tram network. At the end of the 1930s, the first bus routes in the city area to the airfield in the west and to Leopoldshain in the east were built.
After the lost Second World War , the eastern part of the city was placed under Polish administration. The Reichenberger Brücke , which the tram also used on its way to Moys, was blown up by the Wehrmacht on May 7, 1945, thus separating the tram network east of the Neisse from the main network. The tram line in the now Polish eastern part of the city - Zgorzelec - was not put back into operation. After a short-term cessation of rail operations west of the Lusatian Neisse , tram traffic was resumed in June 1945. The tram line that once went to Moys now ended at the Neisse in front of the town hall .
In 1966 the tram line between Postplatz and Stadthalle was taken out of service. During the GDR era, from the 1960s onwards, there were considerations to give up trams in the city in favor of a bus network. Most of the tram systems and vehicles were worn out, and the newly built residential areas in Rauschwalde and Weinhübel were only affected by the tram and could therefore not be optimally accessed. The bus network was expanded from the 1960s, but among other things, the rising oil price in the 1970s prevented the abolition of the tram. In 1982 Weinhübel was temporarily decoupled from the tram network and line 1 was withdrawn to the newly built loop Haus der Jugend south of the depot. Several bus routes connected Weinhübel with the city center and other parts of the city. Another four years later, tram traffic to Rauschwalde was also stopped. For this purpose, tram traffic was started in the new northern Königshufen district in the same year .
After the reunification , the Görlitzer Stadtwerke took over the tram traffic. In December 1991 the one kilometer long, neutrassied section between Erich-Weinert-Straße and the new Wendeschleife Weinhübel was put into operation. The tram now ended in the middle of the new building area.
Since the Görlitz transport company was founded
In 1996 the Verkehrsgesellschaft Görlitz was founded as a subsidiary of Stadtwerke Görlitz. The company took over bus and tram traffic in the city area. On the site of the reconstructed depot on Zittauer Straße, a parking hall for tram cars with an integrated ecological washing facility was built.
The tram network was limited to two lines in 2000. Line 1 ran every 10 minutes from Königshufen to Weinhübel and line 2 ran every 20 minutes from Virchowstraße to the foot of the Landeskrone. With the commissioning of the new section between Alexander-Bolze-Hof and Königshufen / Am Marktkauf in January 2002, three lines emerged again. The new line 3 now runs every 20 minutes from Königshufen / Am Marktkauf to Weinhübel, and with Line 1, which also runs every 20 minutes, the cycle density to Weinhübel is now ten minutes. After previous line changes, tram traffic on the Heilige-Grab-Strasse and Virchowstrasse section was discontinued in 2004. The city bus route B took over the operation after three years of replacement rail traffic on the route. The tracks on Heiligen-Grab-Straße and Girbigsdorfer Straße were removed and the overhead lines dismantled, only the tracks on the turning loop at Virchowstraße remained.
In April 2001, the Görlitz city council decided to sell the majority of the company shares in Stadtwerke Görlitz to Vivendi Environnement (later: Veolia Environnement ). After the city finally transferred its majority stake in the municipal utilities to the group, the transport operation was transferred to its subsidiary Connex (later Veolia Verkehr , now Transdev GmbH ), which operates in the East Saxony u. a. the Connex Sachsen GmbH for operation. With the change of operator on the Neißetalbahn from the Lausitzbahn (Connex) to the East German Railway , what was then Connex Sachsen moved its headquarters to Leipzig. In Görlitz, the control center for Transdev traffic in the Leipzig region remained in the administration building of the VGG.
In 2010, a total of 556,000 timetable kilometers were covered on both tram lines. That was almost 50,000 kilometers more than on all city bus routes combined. In the same year, the city subsidized the Görlitz transport company and thus most of the urban local transport with 150,756.30 euros according to the law on the financing of training transport in local public transport (ÖPNVFinAusG) and 3,067,751.28 euros according to the compensation payments specified in the consortium agreement.
In 2005 the transport company carried 4,217,222 passengers. In the same reference period, this corresponded to 13,916,833 passenger kilometers.
Line network
Most recently, the Görlitz transport company operated two tram lines and six city bus lines, one of which was in late traffic between 7 p.m. and midnight. With the fundamental change of the timetable in 2008, the city bus route D between Rauschwalde and Schlauroth and the city bus route C between Klingewalde and Stadthalle were discontinued or parts of route C were merged with route A.
| Tram / bus line | course | In daily traffic | Clock in late traffic |
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Biesnitz, Landeskrone - train station - Demianiplatz - Alexander-Bolze-Hof - Königshufen, Am Wiesengrund | 20 min | - |
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Weinhübel - Bahnhof - Demianiplatz - Alexander-Bolze-Hof - Königshufen / Am Marktkauf / - Königshufen / Am Wiesengrund (every half hour in late traffic) | 20 min | 30 min |
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Landskronsiedlung - Brautwiesenplatz - Waggonbau - Demianiplatz (- Am Hirschwinkel - Ludwigsdorf junction - Klingewalde) | 20/40 min alternating (60 min to Klingewalde) | - |
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Rauschwalde - Melanchthonstraße - station south exit - Demianiplatz - Virchowstraße | 20 min | - |
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Königshufen Mitte - Königshufen, Am Wiesengrund - Am Hirschwinkel - Demianiplatz | 4 times a day | - |
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Tauchritz - Hagenwerder train station - Weinhübel (- Alfred-Thaer-Straße - Rauschwalde) | 2 hours | - |
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(Rauschwalde -) Biesnitz / Landeskrone - Kunnerwitz - Klein Neundorf - Kunnerwitz - Weinhübel | 2 hours | - |
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Biesnitz / Landeskrone - station south exit - Melanchthonstraße - Rauschwalde | - | 30 min |
Monday to Friday between 5:00 and 19:30 hrs on lines 2, 3 and B three round trips each were in use; on line A two. The tram line 3 was served with KT4D double traction (except during the holidays) and the bus line B with articulated buses. On Saturdays, lines 2, 3 and B were offered every 20 minutes until around 2 p.m. From 2 p.m., the 30-minute cycle applied, which corresponded to two laps. Line A ran until 2 p.m. every 20/40 minutes with two round trips, once every hour to Klingewalde. From 2 p.m. there was an hourly service between Landskronsiedlung and Demianiplatz. From 2 p.m. Klingewalde was only approached with an on-call bus. On Sundays and public holidays, lines 2, 3 and B ran every 30 minutes with two round trips each. On line A, the hourly service (one round trip) with a call bus to Klingewalde applied. Line E connected Weinhübel and Tauchritz twice on Saturdays, while lines C and F did not run on weekends or public holidays. The cross-border line P ran every 30 minutes on weekends and public holidays as well as during the week.
Late traffic began from around 7:30 p.m. until midnight. Lines 3 and N then ran every 30 minutes with two round trips each. At the station south exit there was a possibility to change between these two lines in all directions. Line 3 changed its final stop in Königshufen every half hour in late traffic.
On September 9, 1991, the cross-border bus line P was opened from Postplatz to the neighboring Polish town of Zgorzelec (Görlitzer Ostvorstadt until 1945) and has since connected the two twin towns. Initially, it served as a shuttle service to the so-called Poland markets for numerous Görlitzers. Most recently, it was mainly used by Polish students who go to school in Görlitz, commuters and travelers who want to go to Görlitz station, as there were only three pairs of trains between the two cities. Line P is operated by the company FHU Bielawa (Bieleccybus).
vehicles
Swell:
The Tatra articulated wagons 304 and 307 were scrapped in 2010.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Association of German Transport Companies (publisher): VDV statistics 2014 . Association of German Transport Companies (VDV), Cologne 2015, p. 58 ( vdv.de [accessed on June 3, 2016]).
- ↑ General report of the city of Görlitz according to Art. 7 Paragraph 1 of Regulation (EC) 1370/2007 for the year 2014. (PDF) In: goerlitz.de. Retrieved June 3, 2016 .
- ↑ Better connected
- ↑ a b Andreas Riedel: The Chronicle of the Görlitzer Tram . Schweers + Wall, 1997, ISBN 3-89494-106-5 , pp. 10 ff .
- ^ Andreas Riedel: The chronicle of the Görlitzer tram . Schweers + Wall, 1997, ISBN 3-89494-106-5 , pp. 14th ff., 28 .
- ^ Andreas Riedel: The chronicle of the Görlitzer tram . Schweers + Wall, 1997, ISBN 3-89494-106-5 , pp. 40, 81 .
- ^ Andreas Riedel: The chronicle of the Görlitzer tram . Schweers + Wall, 1997, ISBN 3-89494-106-5 , pp. 40 .
- ^ Andreas Riedel: The chronicle of the Görlitzer tram . Schweers + Wall, 1997, ISBN 3-89494-106-5 , pp. 47 ff .
- ↑ a b c vgg-goerlitz.de: History . Archived from the original on February 16, 2011 ; Retrieved June 5, 2012 .
- ↑ goerlitz.de: General report of the city of Görlitz according to Art. 7 Paragraph 1 of Regulation (EC) 1370/2007 for the year 2010 . Archived from the original on June 20, 2012 ; Retrieved July 9, 2012 .
- ↑ Upper-Central City Association Bautzen-Görlitz-Hoyerswerda (Ed.): Statistical Report 2006. Upper-Central City Association Bautzen-Görlitz-Hoyerswerda . Bautzen June 2006, p. 33 ( Online [PDF; accessed November 13, 2012]).
- ↑ vgg-goerlitz.de: Görlitz city traffic route map ( Memento from June 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 207 kB)
- ↑ Ralph Schermann: City buses have been driving across the Neisse for 20 years . In: Sächsische Zeitung - Görlitzer Nachrichten . September 10, 2011, p. 16 .
- ↑ goerlitzer-strassenbahn.de: Technology - TW. Retrieved December 24, 2010 .
- ↑ Vehicle overview - current data overview. (No longer available online.) In: tram-gr-hobby.repage.de. Formerly in the original ; Retrieved December 24, 2010 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ↑ tram-info.de: Fleet List Verkehrsgesellschaft Görlitz GmbH. Retrieved December 24, 2010 .
- ^ Andreas Riedel: The chronicle of the Görlitzer tram . Schweers + Wall, 1997, ISBN 3-89494-106-5 , pp. 94 ff .
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