Albonabahn I
| Albonabahn I | |
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 View from the valley station of Albonabahn 1 in summer
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| Location: |
Stuben am Arlberg , Austria
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| Design type: | 2-CLF |
| Construction year: | 1983 |
| Mountain: | Albona, (rooms) |
| Valley station: |
Stuben am Arlberg , 1408 m |
| Height difference: | 494 m |
| Mountain station: | Albona - middle station , 1811 m |
| Route length: | 1343 m |
| Driving time: | 8 min |
| Number of armchairs: | 195 pcs. |
| Number of supports: | 16 pcs. |
| Capacity: | 1440 people / hour |
| Manufacturer: | Doppelmayr |
| Operator: | Stubner Tourismus-Gesellschaft mbH |
| Website: | www.bergbahnen-stuben.com |
The Albonabahn I is a cable car ( double chair lift ) in Stuben in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg . The valley station is on the southern outskirts of Stuben. The Albonabahn I connects a valley station at 1408 m above sea level. A. with a mountain station at 1902 m above sea level. A. The facility is owned by Stubner Tourismus-GmbH. It is the only feeder from Stuben to the Ski Arlberg ski area .
Surname
The name of the cable car is taken from the Albonagrat, to which section II of the two cable cars, Albonabahn I and II, leads. There is also the Albonagrat double chairlift on the Albona, this chairlift overcomes a length of 954 m. an altitude difference of 309 m. and serves to develop slopes in the area of the Albonagrat. The name Albona is used in the region for other geographical objects as part of the name, e.g. E.g .: Albonabach or Albona Alpe.
history
From 1949 T-bar lifts were built in Stuben on a private initiative. 1949 a pendulum lift for three people each on the Gitzibühel, in 1953 a pendulum lift in the area of the Upper Angers, which was replaced in 1956 by a tow lift that still exists today (also: Walchlift after one of the initiators, Adolf Walch).
On May 28, 1956, the proponents of the later company applied for a permit under railway law. The required inspection took place on June 30, 1956 and on July 27, 1956 the constituent meeting of the Albonabahn Gesellschaft mbH was held in the Hotel Mondschein and in the same year the Albonabahn was built as a single chair lift. The railway law negotiation took place on March 14, 1957 and on April 13, the railway was put into operation by the initiators Emil Walch, Hansl Steiner and Mayor Karl Brändle. Erich Berthold was the manager at the time. Because of the large ground clearances, for reasons of railway law, there was initially an operating joint venture with the Muttersbergseilbahn in Bludenz, whereby the Albonabahn I and II facilities were subordinated to the Federal Ministry of Transport. In 1963 the Albonabahn was also operated in summer for the first time.
In 1964, a drag lift was built from the Grünen Bühel to the Seeli to relieve the Albonabahn II , which was extended to the middle station a year later and designed as a curved lift . Replaced ten years later by the Sonnleiten T-bar lift, which in turn was replaced by the Albonagrat double chairlift in 1984.
In 1978, due to the urgently needed investments, new partners joined forces and a new operating company was founded, the Stubener tourist company, Erich Brunner became managing director. In 1983 the construction of the section I to the lift to a double chairlift, 1985, the new building of the Section II. On 13 March 1988 the valley station to the lift, Section I, of a powder avalanche damage and then built the explosive cable cars Albona East and Albona West. In the same year the Albona Gratstube was opened. The restaurant at the Albona middle station was reopened in 1991.
The last major modernization step took place in 2016 with the construction of the Albonabahn II cable car and the Flexenbahn from Alpe Rauz . Subsequently (after the construction of the Albonabahn II) it is also planned to renew section I of the Albonabahn.
Technical specifications
- Valley station: Stuben at 1408 m
- Mountain station: 1902 m
- Owner: Stubner Tourismus-Gesellschaft mbH
- Manufacturer: Doppelmayr , Wolfurt
- Type of ropeway: double chairlift (2-CLF)
- Orientation of the facility: largely from northwest (valley station) to southeast (mountain station)
- Transport capacity: 1440 people / hour
- New construction: 1983
- Reopening: 1983
- Difference in altitude: 494 m
- Route length: 1343 m
- Horizontal length: 1354 m
- Mean slope: 39.60%
- Greatest slope: 84.90%
- Number of supports: 16
- Average travel time: 8 min
- Travel speed: 2.5 m / s
- Tensioning station for the hoist rope: valley station (hydraulically adjustable)
- Drive station: mountain station
- Drive type: electric
- Driving equipment: 195 Doppelmayr armchairs without heated seats
- People per resource: 2
- Direction of travel: clockwise
- Season time: winter operation
Old plant
The first system Albonabahn I and II from 1956 to 1983 and 1985 consisted of two sections and was designed as a single chairlift. The base station to the lift I in Stuben at 1,410 m above sea level. A. led in a south-easterly direction to the mountain station (middle station) at 1846 m above sea level. A. and from there in a southerly direction to the mountain station of the Albonabahn II on the Albonagrat at 2364 m above sea level. A.
Ski Area
The Albonabahn I belongs to the Ski Arlberg ski area and lies on the border between the Austrian states of Vorarlberg and Tyrol . Since the 2016/17 season it has been the largest contiguous ski area in Austria.
Web links
- Negotiation letter - building negotiation
- Ski Arlberg is investing 45 million euros in four new cable car projects , Vorarlberg Online, February 18
- 60 years of the Albonabahn: Erich Berthold was there from the start , Stuben Tourismus
literature
- Christof Thöny, Joschi Kaiser: 60 years of the Albonabahn , Wald am Arlberg 2017, Small series of publications by the Klostertal Museum Association, No. 17, Klostertal Museum Association.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christof Thöny in 60 Years of the Albonabahn , pp. 15, 27.
- ↑ Christof Thöny in 60 Years of the Albonabahn , pp. 4 and 16.
- ↑ 60 years of the Albonabahn , vol.at, April 20, 2017.
- ↑ Christof Thöny in 60 years of the Albonabahn , p. 19.
- ↑ Christof Thöny in 60 Years of the Albonabahn , p. 21.
- ↑ Christof Thöny in 60 Years of the Albonabahn , p. 27.
- ↑ 60 years of the Albonabahn , vol.at, April 20, 2017
- ↑ Christof Thöny in 60 years of the Albonabahn , p. 22.
- ↑ 60 Years Albonabahn , vol.at, April 20, 2017 and Christof Thöny in 60 Years Albonabahn , p. 22.
- ↑ Christof Thöny in 60 Years of the Albonabahn , pp. 4 and 23 f.
- ↑ 60 Years Albonabahn , vol.at, April 20, 2017 and Christof Thöny in 60 Years Albonabahn , p. 24.
- ↑ Christof Thöny in 60 Years of the Albonabahn , p. 27.
- ↑ 60 years Albonabahn , vol.at, April 20, 2017 and Christof Thöny in 60 years Albonabahn , p. 27.
- ^ Upgrade on the Albona , vol.at, March 23, 2009.
- ↑ Data partly from: Lift-World.info , Albonabahn I.
- ↑ Ski Arlberg: Albonabahn I is open orf.at, December 2, 2016, accessed December 2, 2016.
Coordinates: 47 ° 8 '15.8 " N , 10 ° 9' 35.5" E