HVB Wiest + Schürmann
| HVB Wiest + Schürmann | |
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| Basic information | |
| Company headquarters | 72379 Hechingen |
| Web presence |
www.hvb-hechingen.de www.vgvs.de |
| owner | Frank Wiest Manfred Schürmann |
| Managing directors | Frank Wiest Manfred Schürmann Jörg Schürmann |
| Transport network | naldo , VSB , VVR |
| Employee | 200 |
| Operating facilities | |
| Depots | Hechingen , Rottweil , Villingen , |
The HVB Wiest + Schürmann Traffic mbH based in Hechingen is a bus company in regular service operates, travel and bus charter.
history
Johann Wiest founded a regional transport and taxi company in Hechingen in 1928. In the 1930s, his son Friedrich Wiest expanded the business area to include passenger transport and relocated the company from Löwenstraße to Heiligkreuzstraße. During the Second World War , the then head of the company, Friedrich Wiest, fell at the front. His wife Selma continued the business, but the Wehrmacht gradually withdrew all vehicles for war purposes. The family managed to hide a bus in their own garden. This formed the start-up capital in the post-war period. In 1948 Selma Wiest married the high voltage system specialist Wilhelm Schürmann. At the beginning, truck transports were offered.
A first urban transport line was introduced in Hechingen, and the first trips across the Alps to Italy were organized. The fleet comprised twelve vehicles in 1957. Initially with a Mercedes fleet, a Neoplan tradition began in 1958 , which was continued for a long time through the constant renewal of the vehicle fleet. The company has been operating the Hechingen city transport routes 1a and 1b with a low-floor bus since 1972 . In 1974 a new headquarters with a depot was built in the then newly developed industrial area Etzental with funds from a state funding program . In the same year, the name was added Hechinger Verkehrsbetriebsgesellschaft (HVB). The fleet was soon expanded to include articulated buses that were unfamiliar at the time. The travel agency Wiest + Schürmann opened on the Hechinger Marktplatz in 1978 . The company bosses at the time got involved in the bus operator associations early on, which led to two of the ten Neoplan Ü80 prototypes being tested by HVB in Hechingen in the 1980s . The two vehicles were inaugurated by the then Federal Research Minister Andreas von Bülow .
In 1989, the company bought Bova Futura coaches for the first time, which with their future-oriented design shaped the image of the HVB Wiest + Schürmann coach fleet for many years. In 1990 the travel agency on the market square was closed. In 1999, HVB took over Stadtverkehr GmbH in Villingen-Schwenningen . In 2008 the bus company Rau + Munzinger from Sulgen was taken over, which was sold again after almost six years.
In 2018, HVB Wiest + Schürmann received a line contract for the Tübingen-Gomaringen region. In September 2019, the company took over the Rottweiler public transport companies Stadtbus Rottweil GmbH , Omnibus Fischinger GmbH and City Taxi GmbH .
Web links
- Website of the Hechinger Verkehrsbetriebe
- Website of the Rottweiler companies Stadtbus Rottweil GmbH, Omnibus Fischinger GmbH and City Taxi GmbH
- Website of the Villingen-Schwenningen Transport Association