Alp Grüm

State :

Switzerland

Canton :

Graubünden (GR)

Region :

Bernina

Political community :

Poschiavo

Postal code :

7710

Coordinates :

799 650 / 139199 coordinates: 46 ° 22 '28 " N , 10 ° 2' 2" O ; CH1903: 799650 / 139199

Height :

2103 m above sea level M.

The Alp Grüm station and the Lagh da Palü as seen from Li Mandri

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The Alp Grüm is a known mainly by its Bahnhofsiedlung in the municipality Poschiavo in the canton of Grisons in Switzerland .

Below the Pru dal Vent on the edge of the first slope of the Poschiavo is the settlement that emerged from a Maiensäss , whose train station is at an altitude of 2091 m above sea level. M. lies. The current station building, at the same time buffet and hotel, was opened in 1926.

The settlement, which is not connected to the road network, can be reached by train all year round. The mule track that opens up the settlement is only passable in summer and is closed to motorized traffic.

Rail transport

Alp-Grüm station

Historical aerial photo by Werner Friedli , 1954

The place is also a stop of the Rhaetian Railway ( Bernina line between St. Moritz and Tirano ) on the Poschiavo side of the Bernina Pass .

The line between Ospizio Bernina and Poschiavo , where the train station designed as a crossing station is located, was opened on June 5, 1910 by the Bernina Railway Company .

From the station you have, thanks mainly to the south of the station deeper 180 ° turn, a wide view of the Palü Glacier , the Lagh da Palu and the Puschlav . Between Alp Grüm and the Italian-speaking Poschiavo, the RhB trains meander through narrow, partially covered curves and hairpin bends as well as five spiral tunnels with a gradient of up to 70 ‰ .

Avalanche accidents

On the night of the avalanche on February 28, 1937, an accident occurred below Alp Grüm, in which railway employees were caught in an avalanche while fleeing from a stuck train . Three railway workers were killed.

On January 3, 1951, an avalanche tore a track plow and a railcar into the depths directly at the Alp Grüm station , killing the railway foreman . The railcar could only be recovered in spring.

Movies

The Bernina Express: St. Moritz - Alp-Grüm. Eisenbahn Kurier DVD, 2007, 117 minutes

Attractions

Web links

Commons : Alp Grüm railway station - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Alp Grüm on the ETHorama platform
Historical recordings of the Alp Grüm station
Charles Knapp, Maurice Borel, Victor Attinger, Heinrich Brunner, Société neuchâteloise de géographie (editors): Geographical Lexicon of Switzerland . Volume 2: Emmenholz - Kraialppass . Verlag Gebrüder Attinger, Neuenburg 1904, p. 465, keyword Grüm ( scan of the lexicon page ).

Individual evidence

↑ Alp Grüm on the ETHorama platform
^ Gian Brüngger: 100-year-old mountaineer . History of the first generation of railcars BCe 4/4 and BCFe 4/4 of the Bernina Railway (= Loki-Spezial . No. 30 ). Lokpress, Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-9523386-1-2 , p. 112-113 .

[1] Alp Grüm on the ETHorama platform

[2] Gian Brüngger: 100-year-old mountaineer . History of the first generation of railcars BCe 4/4 and BCFe 4/4 of the Bernina Railway (= Loki-Spezial . No. 30 ). Lokpress, Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-9523386-1-2 , p. 112-113 .