Formerly | Actiengesellschaft Hohenzollern’sche Kleinbahngesellschaft |
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Company type | company |
Industry | railways |
Founded | 1899 in Sigmaringen, Province of Hohenzollern, Prussia |
Headquarters | Bahnhofstraße 21, , Germany |
Area served | Baden-Württemberg |
Services | Rail passenger and freight operations |
Revenue | €42.2 million[1] (2012) |
Owner |
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Number of employees | 276 (2012) |
Website | http://www.hzl-online.de/ |
The Hohenzollerische Landesbahn (HzL) was the largest non-federally owned railway company in the German state of Baden-Württemberg after the Albtal-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft and Südwestdeutsche Verkehrs-Aktiengesellschaft. It operated passenger and freight traffic since 1900. Its field of activity latterly extended to large parts of southern Baden-Württemberg.
The focus of its business in 2011, with revenue of €32.4 million (80%), is railway passenger operations, 11% (€4.3 million) of revenues come from road transport bus operations and revenue of €3.6 million (9%) is produced by rail freight operations.
The HzL was a member of the Tarifverband der Bundeseigenen und Nichtbundeseigenen Eisenbahnen in Deutschland ("fare association of federally-owned and non-federally owned railways in Germany", TBNE) and the Verband Deutscher Verkehrsunternehmen ("association of German transport companies").
On 1 January 2018, the HzL merged with the Südwestdeutsche Verkehrs-Aktiengesellschaft (SWEG); the new entity is called Südwestdeutsche Landesverkehrs-AG (SWEG).