Kufstein – Schwoich railway line

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Kufstein-Schwoich
Route length:	4.4 km
Legend from Rosenheim Kufstein 482  m above sea level A. 0.0 to Innsbruck 0.1 Inn 1.0 White thing Endach 1.0 Junction 1.9 White thing 2.9 White thing 3.3 White thing 4.4 Schwoich cement works

The Kufstein – Schwoich railway was a 4.4 kilometer long railway line in Tyrol that connected the Kufstein train station with the cement works in Schwoich . It was used exclusively to transport cement and was operated as a horse-drawn tram .

history

Franz Kink found clay-containing marls in the Weißach Valley in 1841, which led to the construction of a cement works in the following year. The cement produced here was used, among other things, to build the northern line and buildings on Vienna's Ringstrasse such as the Vienna City Hall .

In order to facilitate the complex transport from Schwoich to Kufstein, a railway was built. It led from the cement works in Schwoich-Egerbach or Eiberg through the Klemm Gorge along the Weißache, first to the Kufstein district of Endach and the Inn . In 1891 a steel truss bridge was built over the Inn in the area of ​​today's Wendlinger Bridge , in order to be able to transport the cement directly to the Kufstein train station.

In 1904, Eibergstraße was built along the same route .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Historical maps of the Tyrol US Army Map Service: Austria (AMS Series M871) 1952. Retrieved on May 14, 2016 . 
2. ^ Franz Biasi: Kufstein: 600 years of the city; 1393-1993. Tyrolia-Verlag, Innsbruck 1992, ISBN 3-7022-1848-3 .