Karl Schäfer Omnibusreisen

Karl Schäfer Omnibusreisen GmbH is a regional bus company based in Mechernich in the Kreis Euskirchen district of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Founded in 1932, it has grown into an established family business now in its third generation of family management. The company operates regional bus lines around Mechernich that primarily serve local school transport, and it also runs a travel and coach-hire division marketed under the name Schäfer Reisen. Its fleet numbers around 25 coaches and line buses, ranging from minibuses up to a double-decker with 107 seats, and it employs roughly 50 people. According to the company, its buses carry about 2,500 passengers per day. The business began modestly in 1932 with a single truck converted into a bus. Over the decades it expanded into scheduled regional services and organised coach travel, and it remains headquartered in Mechernich, serving customers across North Rhine-Westphalia. Under the Schäfer Reisen brand the company offers day trips and multi-day holiday coach tours for groups and individual travellers, as well as individual bus rental for transfers, day excursions and longer journeys. It also publishes travel catalogues and operates a petrol station as an additional service point. The company positions itself as a family enterprise built on service quality and safety. Its travel coaches are equipped with features such as an on-board kitchen, service tables, refrigerator, footrests, video and DVD systems and a WC, while safety equipment includes ABS, ASR and retarders; vehicles can be fitted with ski racks for winter sports trips. Its roughly 50 employees include full- and part-time bus drivers, workshop and tool specialists, office and travel-trade staff, tour guides, line and works-transport attendants, and apprentices. The company highlights that its drivers have been recognised by the Bundesverband Deutscher Omnibusunternehmer and the Berufsgenossenschaft für Fahrzeughaltungen for accident-free and long-term safe driving. Until 2015 it also ran nostalgia trips with a historic Mercedes-Benz O 3500 from the 1950s.

The origins of Karl Schäfer Omnibusreisen date to 1932, when the company began modestly with a single truck converted into a bus. From these small beginnings the firm grew into a regional bus operator based in Mechernich in the Kreis Euskirchen district of North Rhine-Westphalia. Over the decades it developed two main areas of activity: scheduled regional bus services, which primarily serve local school transport around Mechernich, and a travel and coach-hire business marketed under the name Schäfer Reisen. The company has remained a family business and, according to its own account, is now run by the third generation of the family. It has built up a modern fleet of around 25 coaches and line buses, ranging from minibuses to a double-decker with 107 seats, and employs roughly 50 people. Its buses are reported to carry about 2,500 passengers per day. The company serves customers from Mechernich across North Rhine-Westphalia. Under the Schäfer Reisen brand, the company offers day trips and multi-day holiday coach tours for groups and individual travellers, as well as individual bus rental for transfers, day excursions and multi-day journeys. It also publishes travel catalogues and operates a petrol station. Its coaches are equipped for comfort and safety, with features such as an on-board kitchen, service tables, refrigerator, footrests, video and DVD systems and a WC, plus safety equipment including ABS, ASR and retarders; vehicles can be fitted with ski racks for winter sports trips. Until 2015 the company also ran nostalgia trips using a historic Mercedes-Benz O 3500 from the 1950s. In 2021 the company was documented as operating a set of regional bus lines in the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg (VRS) network around Mechernich, having served a comparable set of lines in 2013. The company continues to operate as an active regional transport provider and travel organiser.

• 2021

  Documented as operating regional bus lines in the VRS network around Mechernich.

• 2015

  Nostalgia trips with a historic Mercedes-Benz O 3500 from the 1950s discontinued.

• 2013

  Documented as operating a set of regional bus lines in the VRS network around Mechernich.

• 1932

  Company founded; operations begin with a truck converted into a bus.

Established family-run regional bus operator combining public-transport lines with leisure coach travel and bus rental, emphasising service, comfort and safety.

• Regional bus lines (school and public transport)

  Scheduled regional services around Mechernich, primarily serving local school transport.

• Schäfer Reisen coach tours

  Day trips and multi-day holiday coach tours for groups and individual travellers.

• Bus rental

  Individual bus rental for transfers, day excursions and multi-day journeys.

• Petrol station

  Company-operated petrol station with fuel voucher service.

1. 1Startseite - Schäfer Reisenschaefer-mechernich.de
2. 2Über uns - Schäfer Reisenschaefer-mechernich.de
3. 3Fuhrpark - Schäfer Reisenschaefer-mechernich.de
4. 4Unser Team - Schäfer Reisenschaefer-mechernich.de
5. 5Karl Schäfer Omnibusreisende.wikipedia.org
6. 6Karl Schäfer Omnibusreisen (Wikidata)wikidata.org