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Austrian Federal Railways

Austrian state-owned railway company
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Summary

Austrian Federal Railways is a railway company[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of railway company entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,603 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Member of: Railteam[3], International Union of Railways[4], International Rail Transport Committee[5]
  • Country: Austria[6]
  • Instance of: business[7]
  • Owned by: Austria[8]
  • Follows: Imperial Royal Austrian State Railways[9], Erste Eisenbahnwagen-Leihgesellschaft[10]
  • Headquarters location: ÖBB Konzernzentrale Hauptbahnhof Wien[11]
  • Child organization or unit: Österreichische Bundesbahnen (4c) - Rollendes Material[12], City Air Terminal Betriebsgesellschaft m.b.H[13], ÖBB-Business Competence Center[14], ÖBB-Infrastruktur[15], Rail Cargo Austria[16], ÖBB-Personenverkehr[17], ČSAD AUTOBUSY České Budějovice[18], Postbus[19], Rail Cargo Hungaria[20], ÖBB-Technische Services[21]
  • Commons category: Österreichische Bundesbahnen[22]
  • Industry: rail transport[23], passenger rail transport, interurban (NACE 49.1)[24], rail freight transport[25]
  • SRGB color hex triplet: ED1834[26]
  • Has part(s): ÖBB-Business Competence Center[27], Corporate Redesign 2000[28]
  • Inception: November 21, 1919[29], March 31, 2004[30]
  • Official website: https://konzern.oebb.at/[31], https://www.oebb.at/[32]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Austrian Federal Railways[33]
  • Director / manager: Andreas Matthä[34], Josef Halbmayr[35]
  • Product or material produced: rail transport[36]
  • Employees: 40,265[37]
  • Replaces: Deutsche Reichsbahn[38]
  • Official name: Österreichische Bundesbahnen-Holding Aktien­gesellschaft[39]
  • Legal form: Aktiengesellschaft[40]
  • Owner of: Vöcklamarkt railway station[41], Vöcklabruck railway station[42], Altenstadt railway station[43], Tisis[44], Gisingen[45], Northern Railway Bridge[46], S1 (Vienna) train[47], S45[48], S7[49], Vienna Airport station[50], Wien Hetzendorf railway station[51], R 510/900[52], Mödling railway station[53], Tauern Railway[54]

Why It Matters

Austrian Federal Railways has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[55] It is known by 69 alternative names across languages and contexts.[56]

Related Entities

Austria business Chodzież Christian Kern

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [55] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [56] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 7w ago · Jklamo · 2026-08-31 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Vehicle keeper marking (vkm) → ÖBB
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Vehicle keeper marking (vkm): ÖBB, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/175407044|Österreichische Bundesbahnen (#175407044)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/66"
  2. 8w ago · Trivialist · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14750 → 8499-226E-231F-A085-34B1
    Owner of → Vöcklamarkt railway station, Vöcklabruck railway station, Altenstadt railway station +65
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ P14750: 8499-226E-231F-A085-34B1, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/269254|batch #269254]]"
  3. 24w ago · B.Zsolt · 2026-05-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Member of → —
    Director manager → —
    Owner of → Vöcklamarkt railway station, Vöcklabruck railway station, Altenstadt railway station +65
    Employees → {'amount': '+40265'}
    + 40 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Patronage: 559,000,000"
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