Edelweissstrasse
| Edelweissstrasse in Austria | ||||||||||
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| Operator: | Großglockner High Alpine Roads AG | |||||||||
| Start of the street: |
Fuscher Törl ( 47 ° 7 ′ N , 12 ° 50 ′ E ) |
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| End of street: |
Edelweißspitze ( 47 ° 7 ′ N , 12 ° 50 ′ E ) |
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| Overall length: | 1.6 km (approx.) | |||||||||
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| Requirement for use: | Toll (via Glocknerstrasse) | |||||||||
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| View of the Edelweißstrasse, the road surface of which is still original from 1935 | ||||||||||
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Course of the road
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The Edelweißstraße is a 1.6 km long cul-de-sac and part of the Grossglockner High Alpine Road . The cul-de-sac leads in the area of the Fuscher Törl to the Edelweißspitze ( 2571 m above sea level ), the highest point of the Grossglockner High Alpine Road. The route has six hairpin bends and a maximum gradient of 14%. The summit is a worthwhile destination, especially for motorcyclists and cyclists. The road is closed to trucks, caravans and coaches.
history
The construction of this side excursion road goes back to a coincidence. Franz Wallack , the builder of the Grossglockner High Alpine Road, remained in the summer of 1934, shortly before the completion of the Grossglockner High Alpine Road, an amount of ATS 53,000. He was able to save this amount when building around the Törlkopf near Fuscher Törl.
Since one of the basic tasks of the road was the tourist development of the high alpine region around the Großglockner , Wallack thought of opening up this vantage point. The road to the Edelweißspitze was built in just 47 days: in six bends and over 177 meters in altitude, it leads to a point from which one had a panoramic view of 37 three-thousand-meter peaks and - at that time - 19 glaciers . Wallack gave it the name Edelweißspitze , after the name of a flank of the summit.
On September 23, 1934 at 10 a.m., the motorcade began the ascent from the Ferleiten toll station to the inauguration of the Grossglockner High Alpine Road to the Fuscher Törl and the Edelweißstrasse on the Edelweißspitze. In the first vehicle of the sitting governor Franz Rehrl . Behind them followed the cars with the Federal President Miklas , the Federal Chancellor Schuschnigg , ministers, diplomats and other dignitaries.
A solemn field mass took place below the Edelweißspitze at Fuscher Törl. After the mass, Kammersänger Richard Mayr sang the first two stanzas of Goethe's “Talismane”, based on the setting by Franz Schubert, without any accompaniment . Then there were speeches that were listened to by around 8,000 people who had gathered in the area of the Fuscher Törl - Edelweißspitze in the course of time, and Prince Kinsky circled above their heads in his sports plane.
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This article is based on Peter Krackowizer: Edelweissstrasse. In: Salzburgwiki. Salzburger Nachrichten , May 23, 2014, accessed on June 16, 2014 .
- Franz Wallack : The Grossglockner High Alpine Road - the history of its construction . 2nd Edition. Springer Verlag, Vienna 1960, ISBN 978-3-211-80123-9 .
- Clemens M. Hutter, Lothar Beckel: Grossglockner. Mule track, Römerweg, High Alpine Road . Residenz Verlag , 1992, ISBN 978-3-7017-0395-1 .
Footnotes
- ↑ Großglockner High Alpine Road , grossglockner.at