Hohenzollerische Landesbahn

Hohenzollerische Landesbahn AG
FormerlyActiengesellschaft Hohenzollern’sche Kleinbahngesellschaft
Company typecompany
Industryrailways
Founded1899 in Sigmaringen, Province of Hohenzollern, Prussia
HeadquartersBahnhofstraße 21, ,
Germany
Area served
Baden-Württemberg
ServicesRail passenger and freight operations
Revenue€42.2 million[1] (2012)
Owner
Number of employees
276 (2012)
Websitehttp://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).

  1. ^ Annual financial statements for fiscal year from 1 January 2012 to 31 December 2012. 20 February 2014.