Introduction
This article is an orphan, as no other articles link to it. Please introduce links to this page from related articles. (January 2023) You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in German.  (January 2026) Click [show] for important translation instructions. View a machine-translated version of the German article. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must follow the LLM translation guideline, revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 2,159 articles in the main category, and specifying|topic= will aid in categorization. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing German Wikipedia article at [[:de:Fernbusverkehr in Deutschland]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated|de|Fernbusverkehr in Deutschland}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation. Flixbuses at Berlin's central bus station in 2016Intercity bus services in Germany virtually did not exist until 2013, when the market was liberalised with the end of Deutsche Bahn's monopoly on long-distance passenger travel. Liberalisation led to the creation of a number of coach companies, including Flixbus (founded in 2011). Many of the initial companies failed or sold their business to Flixbus, including Postbus in 2017.