The Regionalverkehr Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge (RVSOE}) is a company that operates public transport services in the
German
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state of
Saxony
Saxony, officially the Free State of Saxony, is a landlocked state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, and Bavaria, as well as the countries of Poland and the Czech Republic. Its capital is Dresden, and ...
. It is a member of the ''
Verkehrsverbund Oberelbe
The Verkehrsverbund Oberelbe (Upper Elbe Transport Association or VVO) is a transport association run by public transport providers in the Saxon Elbeland area of the German state of Saxony. The VVO area comprises the city of Dresden, togeth ...
'' (Upper Elbe Transport Association), a transport association that manages a common public transport structure for Dresden and its surrounding areas.
The company operates around 240
bus
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es on 19 urban bus routes and 72 regional bus routes, 10
ferries
A ferry is a boat or ship that transports passengers, and occasionally vehicles and cargo, across a body of water. A small passenger ferry with multiple stops, like those in Venice, Italy, is sometimes referred to as a water taxi or water bus.
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on 8 ferry routes, and 16
tram
A tram (also known as a streetcar or trolley in Canada and the United States) is an urban rail transit in which Rolling stock, vehicles, whether individual railcars or multiple-unit trains, run on tramway tracks on urban public streets; some ...
s on one tram route. It carries around 18,000,000 passengers, and its vehicles cover approximately per year.
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The services of the VSOE include:
* Urban bus services in the town of ]Dippoldiswalde
Dippoldiswalde (; Saxon: ''Dipps'') is a town in Saxony, Germany, part of the Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge district. It is situated 23 km east of Freiberg, and 18 km south of Dresden.
The town is situated on the Weisseritz railway ...
* Urban bus services in the town of Freital
Freital is a town in the district of Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge in Saxony, Germany. The town is situated on a small river, the Weißeritz, and is southwest of Dresden.
Geography
Freital is located southwest of Dresden in the Döhlen Ba ...
* Urban bus services in the town of Heidenau
Heidenau is a town in the Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge district, in Saxony, Germany. The town is situated on the left bank of the Elbe, 13 km southeast of Dresden
Dresden (; ; Upper Saxon German, Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; , ) is ...
* Urban bus services in the town of Neustadt in Sachsen
Neustadt in Sachsen is a town in the Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge district, in Saxony, Germany. It is situated near the border with the Czech Republic, 35 km east of Dresden (centre), and 23 km southwest of Bautzen. At Neustadt, the ...
* Urban bus services in the town of Pirna
Pirna (; , ) is a town in Saxony, Germany and capital of the administrative district Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge. The town's population is over 37,000. Pirna is located near Dresden and is an important district town as well as a ''Große ...
* Urban bus services in the town of Sebnitz
Sebnitz (; , ) is a town in the Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge district, in Saxony, Germany.
Geography
The town of Sebnitz lies in the valley of the river Sebnitz (river), Sebnitz and its side valleys between 251 and 460 m above Normalnull ...
* Regional bus services in Saxon Switzerland
Saxon Switzerland (, ) is a hilly climbing area and national park in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains. It is located around the Elbe valley south-east of Dresden in Saxony, Germany, adjoining Bohemian Switzerland in the Czech Republic. Toge ...
* Regional bus services in the Eastern Ore Mountains
The Eastern Ore Mountains () form a natural region of Saxony that covers the eastern part (in area almost the eastern half) of the Saxon Ore Mountains range. Together with the Western and Central Ore Mountains, it is part of the larger Saxon Hi ...
* Ferry services on the River Elbe
The Elbe ( ; ; or ''Elv''; Upper Sorbian, Upper and , ) is one of the major rivers of Central Europe. It rises in the Giant Mountains of the northern Czech Republic before traversing much of Bohemia (western half of the Czech Republic), then Ge ...
* The Kirnitzschtal Tramway
The Kirnitzschtal tramway, also known as the ''Kirnitzschtalbahn'', is an electric tramway in Saxony, Germany. The line runs through the valley of the Kirnitzsch river in Saxon Switzerland, from the town of Bad Schandau up to the Lichtenhain Wate ...
, a tourist oriented rural tram service
The company was created on January 1, 2019, when the Oberelbische Verkehrsgesellschaft Pirna-Sebnitz was merged with to create the new company. The new company is owned by the Landkreis Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge
In 13 German states, the primary administrative subdivision higher than a '' Gemeinde'' (municipality) is the () or (). Most major cities in Germany are not part of any ''Kreis'', but instead combine the functions of a municipality and a ''Kr ...
.
Gallery
File:Busbahnhof Sebnitz - Bus der Verkehrsbetriebe.jpg, RVSOE bus
File:Elbe Ferry Pirna - Heidenau 124423966.jpg, RVSOE ferry
File:OVPS KTB 2.jpg, RVSOE tram
References
External links
''Regionalverkehr Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge''
Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge
Transport in Saxony
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