Schweers + Wall
The publisher Schweers + Wall GmbH is an on railway issues, especially railway atlases , specialized publishing.
history
Originally founded in Aachen by Hanns Schweers and Henning Wall, the company is now based in Cologne . Schweers died on December 26, 2011 at the age of 59.
Publishing program
The publishing program includes - in addition to illustrated books on historical and contemporary railways and trams - in particular railway atlases: Germany (1st edition 1994, 11th edition 2020), Austria (1st edition 2005, 2nd edition 2010), Switzerland (1st edition 2004, 2nd edition 2012), Italy and Slovenia (February 2010), EU (2013, 3rd edition 2017), France North (2015).
The Railway Atlas Germany , often simply called Schweers + Wall , provides the entire German railway network with all operating points, course book and route numbers and operational information, as well as almost all historical routes and parts of many tram , light rail and underground networks as well Tracks of special construction. The atlas is used as a reference in the German railway industry. The atlases of the other countries have a similar claim.