Würzburger supply and transport company

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Würzburger supply and transport company

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legal form GmbH
founding December 23, 1965
Seat Wurzburg , Germany
management Thomas Schäfer
Number of employees 1,536 (2019)
sales 441.8 million euros (2019)
Branch Infrastructure , energy, drinking water, public transport , parking, inland ports, waste disposal, swimming pools, ice rink and commercial real estate
Website www.wvv.de

WVV corporate headquarters in Haugerring
WVV company logo

The Würzburg supply and transport GmbH (Warsaw Transport Authority) is a German infrastructure companies and utilities based in Würzburg . The company is wholly owned by the city of Würzburg and supplies the city and many peripheral communities with electricity, natural gas, district heating and drinking water.

history

The company goes back to the Würzburger Stadtwerke, which had its origins in a project decided by the municipal bodies of Würzburg in 1849 to illuminate the city with gas lanterns. For this purpose, a concession for Würzburg's lighting was to be awarded, but the Würzburg municipal authorities decided to build a ( wood) gasworks themselves . This was inaugurated in 1855 and initially supplied 616 street lamps and 150 households with the gas obtained through wood gasification via a gas pipe system . On October 7, 1855, the first theatrical performance "with fixed lighting by gas" took place.

Also in 1849, the city of Würzburg decided to set up a modern well system with a waterworks and sewer system. Under Mayor Treppner , a waterworks with a more powerful pumping station was built in Bahnhofstrasse, where the first gasworks had been built, using the "station springs" that had been used for central water supply since 1856. The associated water tower went into operation on July 8, 1856. After the gasworks moved to Ständerbühl in 1875, the supply of gas and drinking water as well as the waterworks in Bahnhofstrasse were significantly expanded and further systems, such as an elevated tank for the water supply to Frauenland, were put into operation in 1880. For gas production, instead of the previous wood gasification, hard coal was used from 1876 to the 1980s. A water tank was built in Rottendorferstraße in 1880 to supply water to higher-lying districts.

In 1894 the waterworks in Mergentheimerstraße was put into operation and the reservoir in Rottendorferstraße was expanded. Following a typhus epidemic in 1897, sources in the Zell area were acquired. After the commissioning of the Zeller waterworks, which began in 1899, there was a significant increase in water prices in 1901 and the installation of water meters became mandatory. All Zeller tunnels supplied water into Würzburg's water network from around 1912, which ensured that the city was fully supplied.

In 1874/75 the old gas factory was replaced by a new gas works and wood as a raw material was replaced by coal. The construction of the new (now old) gas works in Ständerbühlstrasse, which began in March 1874, was completed in autumn 1875 and the works were further expanded in 1897. Heidingsfeld received a gas works in 1903, still independently. On June 20, 1923, a new gas works was completed.

Electricity was not generally available until the late 19th century. In 1884 Georg Beer, the owner of a beer garden on the corner of Münzstrasse and Rotlöwengasse, set up generator-operated electrical lighting for it. In the 1890s, planning began for an electricity company that, among other things, made it possible to replace the privately run horse-drawn tram with an electric tram. In 1897, Elektrizitäts-AG (until 1893 Schuckert & Co. , merged with Siemens-Schuckertwerke in 1903 ) built a steam-powered power station on behalf of the city of Würzburg on a city-owned property in Wallgasse, which was opened on April 1, 1899 in the Wallgasse municipal utility area in It went into operation and initially supplied 45 customers with electricity.

In 1900 the Würzburger Straßenbahnen AG , founded on July 10, 1899, began electrifying the horse-drawn tram that had existed since 1892. Soon the local electricity company, which came into the possession of the city in 1909, was no longer able to meet the electricity demand, so the Würzburg power supply network was connected to that of the Überlandwerke Unterfranken AG. From April 1923, Würzburg also received electricity from the Untere Mainmühle hydropower plant , which was owned by Rhein-Main-Donau AG .

In 1927, after modernizing the power supply, a new substation was built at Prymstraße 4. The Stadtwerke Würzburg emerged from the electricity works in Wallgasse, the gas and water works (today's subsidiary Trinkwasserversorgung Würzburg GmbH ). After severe war damage, the infrastructure was quickly rebuilt after the Second World War . On November 11, 1954, the Würzburg district heating network went into operation, which was fed by the newly built thermal power station near the old harbor . On December 23, 1965, the Würzburg municipal utilities were integrated into the newly founded Würzburger Versorgungs- und Verkehrs-GmbH . Parts of the Würzburger Straßenbahn GmbH were also brought into the new company .

On December 10, 1969, the Würzburger Hafen GmbH was founded , in which WVV holds 74% and the city of Würzburg 26%. Since the 1990s, the company has endeavored to open up additional business areas. In this endeavor, Würzburger Recycling GmbH was founded on April 5, 1993 , at which, in addition to the WVV, the Zweckverband Abfallwirtschaft Raum Würzburg (the residual waste has been energetically recycled in the waste-to-energy plant it operates in Gattingerstraße), Balthasar Höhn GmbH & Co. KG , RECON GmbH and Fischer & Söhne GmbH & Co. KG were involved. In addition, Kompostwerke Würzburg GmbH was founded. In addition, the WVV is active in the area of ​​commercial real estate, parking space management and pool operations.

Group structure

The thermal power station at the old harbor

WVV acts as the group parent company . The object of the company is, on the one hand, the acquisition, construction or participation in companies in the areas of energy and drinking water supply, local transport, parking space management, waste treatment and the operation of ports and baths.

  • Electricity and gas supply as well as district heating : Stadtwerke Würzburg AG
  • Drinking water supply : Drinking water supply Würzburg GmbH , a subsidiary of Stadtwerke Würzburg AG
  • Local public transport : Würzburger Straßenbahn GmbH
  • Parking space management : Würzburger Stadtverkehrs-GmbH
  • Waste treatment: Kompostwerk Würzburg GmbH, Würzburger Recycling GmbH
  • Port operations: Würzburger Hafen GmbH
  • Pool company: Würzburger Bäder GmbH
  • Letting of commercial real estate: WVV-Wirtschaftsstandort Würzburg Immobilien Management GmbH

The WVV carries out all central activities for the subsidiaries and for third parties. The WVV is 100% owned by the city of Würzburg.

subsidiary company

Stadtwerke Würzburg AG (STW)

Shareholders: WVV 56.82%, City of Würzburg 20.45%, Thüga AG 22.73%

The WVV's power supply network has a total length of 2750 kilometers. A total of around 51,175 houses are supplied with electricity and the 27,642 street lights in Würzburg are operated. 1,530 houses, mainly in downtown Würzburg, are supplied via the district heating network.

Drinking water supply Würzburg GmbH (TWV)

100% owned by WVV. The TWV is responsible for the extraction and procurement of drinking water and the delivery of the drinking water to third parties as well as the Würzburg-Estenfeld water supply. She is the owner of the Würzburg Dallenbergbad, which opened in 1956.

Würzburger Straßenbahn GmbH (WSB)

Tram on Barbarossaplatz

The WVV share is 74%, the city of Würzburg owns 26% of the shares. The WSB is responsible for local public transport (ÖPNV) in Würzburg. It operates five tram lines with a total length of 42 kilometers on a route network of 19.7 kilometers. It also serves 19 routes with a length of 196 kilometers with 38 buses. Bus traffic is operated by the private bus company NVG, 88% of which is owned by WSB.

Würzburger Hafen GmbH (WHG)

74% of the shares are held by WVV, and the City of Würzburg holds 26%. On an area of ​​86 hectares, which includes the old port, the new port and the river port, 273,000 tons of ship goods and 893,000 tons of rail goods were handled in 2019.

Würzburger Stadtverkehrs-GmbH (SVG)

66.67% owned by WVV and 33.33% owned by Sparkassenstiftung für der Stadt Würzburg. The SVG operates high-performance multi-storey car parks and parking spaces for over 5000 vehicles in Würzburg. SVG offers parking space management services for customers throughout Germany.

Würzburger Bäder GmbH (WBG)

The WBG is 100% owned by the WVV. She is responsible for running the Dallenberg pool, the new Nautiland leisure pool, the ice rink and the Sandermare and Lindleinsmühle indoor pools.

Further investments

  • WVV business location Würzburg Immobilien-Management GmbH: WVV 100%
  • Kompostwerk Würzburg GmbH: WVV 100%
  • Würzburger Recycling GmbH: WVV 50.49%
  • Heizkraftwerk Würzburg GmbH: WVV 16.06%
  • Stadtwerke Merseburg GmbH: WVV 9%
  • Stadtwerke Zittau GmbH: WVV: 5.4%
  • Würzburg AG: WVV 5%

literature

  • Harm-Hinrich Brandt : Würzburg local politics 1869-1918. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes; Volume III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. Theiss, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 ), pp. 64-166 and 1254-1267; here: pp. 125–128 and 139–144.

Web links

Commons : Würzburger Versorgungs- und Verkehrs-GmbH  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Annual Report 2019 (PDF 1.9 MB) WVV, accessed on May 24, 2019 .
  2. ^ Horst-Günter Wagner : The urban development of Würzburg 1814-2000. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. Volume 1, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , p. 402.
  3. ^ Sybille Grübel: Timeline of the history of the city from 1814-2006. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. Volume 2, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 1225-1247; here: p. 1229.
  4. ↑ Winfried Schenk, Rüdiger Glaser , Moritz Nestle: Würzburg's environment in the transformation from the pre-industrial era to the service society. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2 (I: From the beginnings to the outbreak of the Peasant War. 2001, ISBN 3-8062-1465-4 ; II: From the Peasant War 1525 to the transition to the Kingdom of Bavaria 1814. 2004, ISBN 3 -8062-1477-8 ; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 ), Theiss, Stuttgart 2001–2007, Volume III (2007), Pp. 351-368 and 1295 f., Here: p. 358.
  5. ^ Horst-Günter Wagner: The urban development of Würzburg 1814-2000. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. Volume 1, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , p. 402.
  6. ^ Harm-Hinrich Brandt: Würzburg municipal policy 1869-1918. 2007, p. 141.
  7. ^ Horst-Günter Wagner: The urban development of Würzburg 1814-2000. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. Volume 2, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , p. 1300, note 44.
  8. ^ Harm-Hinrich Brandt : Würzburg municipal policy 1869-1918. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes; Volume III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. Theiss, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 ), pp. 64-166 and 1254-1267; here: p. 127 f.
  9. ^ Harm-Hinrich Brandt: Würzburg municipal policy 1869-1918. 2007, pp. 141-144.
  10. ↑ Winfried Schenk, Rüdiger Glaser , Moritz Nestle: Würzburg's environment in the transformation from the pre-industrial era to the service society. 2007, p. 358 f.
  11. ^ Sybille Grübel: Timeline of the history of the city from 1814-2006. 2007, pp. 1231, 1234 and 1237.
  12. ^ Harm-Hinrich Brandt: Würzburg municipal policy 1869-1918. 2007, pp. 125-128.
  13. ^ Sybille Grübel: Timeline of the history of the city from 1814-2006. 2007, p. 1232.
  14. ↑ Harm-Hinrich Brandt (2007), p. 127.
  15. ^ Horst-Günter Wagner: The urban development of Würzburg 1814-2000. 2007, p. 402.
  16. ↑ Harm-Hinrich Brandt (2007), p. 140.
  17. ^ Matthias Stickler : New Beginning and Continuity: Würzburg in the Weimar Republic. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. Volume III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 ), Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007, pp. 177-195 and 1268-1271; here: p. 190.
  18. ↑ Winfried Schenk, Rüdiger Glaser, Moritz Nestle: Würzburg's environment in the transformation from the pre-industrial era to the service society. 2007, p. 361.
  19. ↑ Our profile. In: Annual Report 2019. WVV GmbH, accessed on May 23, 2019 .
  20. ^ WVV holdings. In: Annual Report 2019. WVV GmbH, accessed on May 23, 2019 .
  21. ^ Sybille Grübel: Timeline of the history of the city from 1814-2006. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. Volume 2, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 1225-1247; here: p. 1242.
  22. ^ Website WVV. Retrieved September 4, 2019 .