Betzenhausen

District in western Freiburg, Germany, a village incorporated into the city in 1908. A VAG Freiburg article tells how it got the city’s first motor-bus line in 1925.

At a glance

Source	Author	Role	In one line
How the First Bus Line Connected Betzenhausen with the City Centre in 1925	VAG Freiburg	subject	Freiburg’s first bus line, opened in 1925, as a late gift for the village incorporated in 1908.

How the First Bus Line Connected Betzenhausen with the City Centre in 1925 — VAG Freiburg (2026)

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With the connection to public transport, one of the wishes that the village of Betzenhausen had hoped for from its incorporation into the city was finally fulfilled.

• Role: subject
• In the article: On 27 September 1925 two MAN buses began running every 20 minutes from Hohenzollernplatz (today’s Friedrich-Ebert-Platz) to Betzenhausen, carrying 750 passengers a day on average; a 10-pfennig surcharge for the suburb was dropped after protests from the residents’ association. The inaugural run the day before ended with a welcome and a small celebration at the Gasthaus zur Krone, where singing schoolchildren got 75 pretzels. Betzenhausen, a village of about 600, had asked to join Freiburg in 1908; water, a school and electricity (1917) came first, the bus in 1925 and the tram only in 1983.
• Why it matters: The article is about Betzenhausen’s link to the city: the bus line is the payoff of its incorporation, and the start of Freiburg’s bus network.