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28-613: 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

56-716: A Prussian law of 1892) in the Prussian region of Sigmaringen (part of the Province of Hohenzollern ). Since the Province of Hohenzollern was an elongated territory partly surrounded by the Kingdom of Württemberg , the Royal Württemberg State Railways 's railway at this time only used the shortest route through this "foreign" area and only served the two district towns of Hechingen (from 1869) and Sigmaringen (from 1878). As

84-712: A length of 86 km. With the branches to Kleinengstingen (20 km) and to Sigmaringen (2 km), the HzL network comprised a total length of almost 107.4 km, including 15 km of lines in Württemberg. It was managed by the operations branch, based in Stuttgart, of the Westdeutsche Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (WeEG) of Cologne until 1928 and following the WeEG’s merger with Aktiengesellschaft für Verkehrswesen , it

112-691: A normal ballast bed, and usually by private companies, which nevertheless in many cases involved substantial participation by the state, the province or local communities. The Kleinbahn company with the largest railway network in the whole of the German Empire was the 'Pomeranian state railways' ( Pommerschen Landesbahnen ) founded in 1940. Except in Berlin , the Kleinbahn law has been superseded everywhere by new national railway laws. The former Kleinbahnen are classified today as Nebenbahnen (branch lines). There

140-559: A single municipality. There was further urban growth in the 1980s, when a gap between some industrial parks to the south was closed with the construction of additional commercial zones. The township ( Stadt ) of Schömberg is located in Zollernalbkreis , a district of the German state of Baden-Württemberg . It is physically located in the foothills of the Swabian Jura , specifically in

168-471: Is a list of German Kleinbahnen in the list of former German railway companies . Sch%C3%B6mberg, Zollernalbkreis Schömberg is a town in the Zollernalbkreis district of Baden-Württemberg , Germany . Until 1805, the towns of Schömberg and Schörzingen  [ de ] were in possession of the County of Hohenberg . As part of the process of German mediatization , the two towns were awarded to

196-814: Is also served by the Rad-Wander-Shuttle during the summer. In addition, the HzL operates on behalf of the Ringzug the 2.8 km-long Bräunlingen–Hüfingen section of the Breg Valley Railway , which was originally owned by the Südwestdeutsche Verkehrs-Aktiengesellschaft . The Hohenzollerische Landesbahn owns the following lines: Over the past 20 years, the field of activity of the Hohenzollerischen Landesbahn has significantly expanded. In freight operations, since 1990,

224-664: The Seehäsle service over the Stockach–Radolfzell line from SBB GmbH, the German subsidiary of the Swiss Federal Railways . Its passenger services contracts are as follows (as of 2022): Biberbahn (leisure traffic) Schwarzwälder Ring Ulmer Stern Zollernbahn ZAB 1 Zollernbahn (leisure traffic) Zollernbahn ZAB 2 Zollernbahn (leisure traffic) The HzL also hauls passenger trains for Deutsche Bahn ( DB Regio ) on

252-558: The Kingdom of Württemberg , whose government assigned them in 1810 to Oberamt Rottweil  [ de ] . The towns were reassigned to Landkreis Balingen  [ de ] in 1938. In the 1950s and 1960s, Schömberg enjoyed a period of growth to the south, east, and west. The 1973 Baden-Württemberg district reform  [ de ] merged the district of Balingen into the newly created Zollernalb district in January. The next month, on 1 February, Schömberg and Schörzingen merged into

280-612: The Ringzug in the Schwarzwald-Baar-Heuberg region; this is an S-Bahn-like transport system connecting Blumberg, Tuttlingen , Rottweil , Villingen-Schwenningen and Donaueschingen , for which the Verkehrsbetrieb Ringzug branch was built with its own management and depot. The most recent expansion took place on Lake Constance : in December 2006, it over operations under a new contract of the 17 kilometre-long route of

308-630: The Upper Swabian Jura  [ de ] . The main watercourse in the municipal area is the Schlichem , whose deeply-cut valley forms part of the northern municipal border. The Schlichem is also the location of the lowest elevation above sea level in Schömberg at 640 meters (2,100 ft) Normalnull (NN). The highest elevation, 998 meters (3,274 ft) NN, is found at the top of the Plettenberg, in

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336-637: 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) . The HzL was founded in 1899 as the Actiengesellschaft Hohenzollern’sche Kleinbahngesellschaft ( Hohenzollern light railway company ) in order to build Kleinbahn (light railways as authorised by

364-479: The County of Hohenberg, whose white-red coat of arms appeared on municipal seal as early as 1278, and to Württemberg, whose own coat of arms prominently features stag horns. The addition of the stag horn also distinguished Schömberg's arms from those of other former Hohenberger towns ( Haigerloch , Horb am Neckar , and Rottenburg am Neckar ). This pattern was in use by Schömberg before the 1973 merger with Schörzingen and

392-563: The Gammertingen–Kleinengstingen railway was reactivated for excursion trips of the Rad-Wander-Shuttle , running from May to October, supporting cycling tourism. The 107.5 km long main line of the HzL was extended in January 2001 by the leasing of the 12.9 km-long non-dismantled section of the DB-owned Balingen–Rottweil railway between Balingen and Schomberg . This line is used by HzL freight traffic and

420-422: The HzL brought three more branch lines into operation: After a break of several years, during which the company was renamed Hohenzollerische Landesbahn AG on 18 June 1907, four lines were selected for extension as a connected network. On 6 December 1908, the railway was extended from Burladingen to Gammertingen, which is still the location of the HzL's operating center with its main workshop, and it continued to

448-563: The HzL has taken over the hauling of salt block trains from Stetten (b Haigerloch) on DB lines to Ulm. The HzL also hauls freight on flat wagon between Tübingen , Sigmaringen, Bad Saulgau and Schelklingen in cooperation with Deutsche Bahn ( DB Cargo ). Its passenger operations now operate over a route network of more than 400 kilometres. From 1993, the HzL took over the operation of the Bodensee-Oberschwaben-Bahn , which now runs between Aulendorf and Friedrichshafen Hafen . With

476-513: The HzL, which was completed almost a hundred years ago, is still in operation today. Passenger services are operated between Hechingen and Sigmaringen, continuing to Eyach on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays. The rest of the network was converted to bus operations between 1968 and 1973 section by section: The HzL bus services launched in 1947 today cover an 800-km route network with hubs in Reutlingen, Horb, Sigmaringen and Riedlingen. In 2000,

504-839: The Rottweil–Horb and Tübingen–Herrenberg routes. The railcars and locomotives the HzL are regularly hired out for special trains and work trains throughout Baden-Württemberg and Switzerland. Kleinbahn The term Kleinbahn (literally 'small railway', plural: Kleinbahnen ) was a light railway concept used especially in Prussia for a railway line that "on account of its low importance for general railway transport" had less strict requirements placed on its construction and operation that main lines ( Hauptbahnen, Vollbahnen ) or secondary lines ( Nebenbahnen i.e. normal branch lines). Even public railway lines built for constructional or industrial purposes were counted as Kleinbahnen . The concept

532-400: The east. The Federally-protected Plettenkeller  [ de ] and Schwarzenbach  [ de ] nature reserves are partially located within Schömberg's municipal area. Schömberg's municipal coat of arms is divided party per fess into two halves, the bottom red and the top white . Inside the white field is a black stag's antler. The pattern refers in to firstly

560-679: The electrification of the Ulm–Friedrichshafen railway , this service has been operated by DB Regio since December 2021. In 1997, the HzL received a contract from the State of Baden-Württemberg for the operation of Regionalbahn services on the Tübingen–Sigmaringen railway , Ulm–Sigmaringen railway and Herbertingen–Aulendorf railway , forming the Zollernalb Railway between Tübingen and Aulendorf. Since September 2003, it has operated

588-598: The founder of Hohenzollerischen Landesbahn , the government of Prussia took over 50 percent of the capital, and the Landeskommunalverband der Hohenzollerischen Lande (a collective local government body of the Province of Hohenzollern) and the Westdeutsche Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (West German Railway Company) took about 25 percent each. Since 1972, the majority shareholder has been the state of Baden-Württemberg with 71.934%, while Zollernalbkreis and Sigmaringen district each have 14.033%. The HZL in turn holds 7.5% of

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616-821: The share capital of the Verkehrsverbund Neckar-Alb-Donau (Neckar-Alb-Donau transport association, naldo ). The HzL began to build branches from the lines of the Württemberg State Railways to develop the Prussian territory. The first was opened on 28 March 1900 in the Danube Valley , running upstream of Sigmaringendorf through the Lauchert valley to the Laucherthal goods yard at the Fürstlichen steelworks and continuing to Bingen . The following year

644-476: The southeast via Hanfertal to Bingen, where it connected with the existing line to Sigmaringendorf on the Ulm–Sigmaringen railway . On 5 October 1910, a shortcut was completed from Hanfertal to Sigmaringen state railway station. At Christmas 1912 (24 December) the last gap was closed between Stetten and Hechingen, providing a continuous line from Eyach via Hechingen–Gammertingen–Hanfertal to Sigmaringendorf with

672-402: The term Kleinbahn is widely used as a synonym for narrow gauge lines or garden railways . Despite that, Kleinbahnen may be built in either 1,435 mm ( 4 ft  8 + 1 ⁄ 2  in ) standard gauge as well as in narrow gauge. The construction and operation of Kleinbahnen were carried out to less stringent requirements, e.g. tracks were laid in a gravel rather than

700-490: Was defined in the Prussian Kleinbahn law of 28 July 1892, that was designed to encourage the construction of local railway lines by private companies. The word Kleinbahn was chosen by a majority of MPs in the Prussian parliament instead of a range of other options - Lokalbahn (local line), Bahn unterster Ordnung (line of the lowest order) or Bahn untergeordneter Bedeutung (line of secondary importance) - because it

728-656: Was managed by the Vereinigte Kleinbahnen . From 1 July 1933, the HzL has managed its operation itself. Its seat of administration is Hechingen. On 24 July 2017, a merger between the HzL and Südwestdeutsche Verkehrs-Aktiengesellschaft (SWEG) was approved by the Sigmaringen and Zollernalbkreis district authorities which each hold 14% stakes in HzL. The merger has already been approved by the state of Baden-Württemberg, which owns 100% of SWEG and 72% of HzL. The merger tppk effect on 1 January 2018. The main line network of

756-413: Was neither a foreign word nor had negative overtones. In several former German states such as ( Mecklenburg , Oldenburg and Baden ) the concept Kleinbahn was partially adopted for lines of limited length and light construction. In the other German-speaking states, the terms Lokalbahn (Baden, Bayern, Austria), Sekundärbahn (Saxony) or Vizinalbahn (Bayern) were preferred. In everyday speech

784-627: Was reapproved by the Zollernalb district office on 1 October 1976. On the Tübingen–Sigmaringen railway and the Balingen–Rottweil railway , a tourism Train of the S WEG Südwestdeutsche Landesverkehrs-AG . The railway was reactivated for excursion trips of the Rad-Wander(Bike Hiking)-Shuttle, running from May to October, supporting cycling tourism to Schömberg Stausee(Schömberger Reservoir). Bathing, sunbathing, eating, going for

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