Gaisbergbahn
| Salzburg-Parsch-Gaisbergspitze | |||||||||||||||||
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 Train in the stop and siding Zistelalm (approx. 1900)
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| Route length: | 5.309 km | ||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1000 mm ( meter gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||
| Maximum slope : | 250 ‰ | ||||||||||||||||
| Minimum radius : | 120 m | ||||||||||||||||
| Rack system : | System Riggenbach | ||||||||||||||||
| Top speed: | 10 km / h | ||||||||||||||||
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The Gaisbergbahn was a cogwheel railway in the city of Salzburg that ran from 1887 to 1928 and was intended for public passenger transport . The narrow-gauge mountain railway ran from the train station in the Parsch district of Salzburg for about one kilometer, parallel to the Salzburg-Tiroler Bahn and then, following the course of today's Apothekerhofstrasse, turned off towards Gaisberg . The Gaisbergspitze was reached at 1275 m via the Judenberg and Zistelalm stations . The 5.3 km long track was primarily used for tourism.
history
Emergence
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On May 25, 1887, the mountain railway was officially opened by the AG Gaisbergbahn Gesellschaft ( concession document of March 24, 1886, for the cog railway to the Gaisberg near Salzburg ). With the announcement of the Ministry of Railways on September 21, 1897 , the existing cogwheel railway on the Gaisberg near Salzburg was recognized as a small railway in terms of the law of December 31, 1894 (RG Bl. No. 2 ex 1895) .
At the beginning of 1889, the general assembly of shareholders of the Gaisbergbahn decided to purchase the Gaisberg with the aim of being able to undertake extensive renovations and new construction of hotels and other facilities to promote tourism .
The First World War and the consequences
The year 1914 had started hopefully, but with the onset of the First World War , traffic stopped abruptly. In the following year the company did not want to start operations at all, but the Imperial-Royal Railway Ministry at the time insisted on it, stating that it was required to operate, so that from July 1, 1915, a modest operation was closed. The years 1916 and 1917 were of moderate success for the railway. In 1918, as a result of the war, there was no longer any coal and operations ceased until 1920. During this time, only a few work and freight trains were operated. Regular operations resumed in the spring of 1921.
attitude
In 1927 the project of a high road leading to the Gaisberg came up, which became concrete with the state law of 26 January 1928: The construction of a Gaisberg low mountain road as a state road had been decided by the Salzburg state parliament.
On October 30, 1928, the last scheduled train of the Gaisbergbahn ran, which then had to give way to the tolled Gaisbergstrasse, which opened the next year. The railway concession was declared expired on May 15, 1929.
Relics
After the shutdown in 1928, the track system was only dismantled in the spring of 1930 and the wagon shed demolished. The Parsch train station and the boiler house continue to exist in a converted form, and the civil servants' residence built for the employees of the Gaisbergbahn still exists south of the train station. In the lower area of the former track system there are now residential areas.
The Judenberg station is also available . In front of the station building, a plaque reminds of the existence of the rack railway. Several kilometer stones have been preserved along the route, which is now used as a popular hiking route. The initials GB for Gaisbergbahn can still be seen on some of these .
When the railway was in operation, the Gaisberg plateau was home to the former hotel as well as the studio of the photographer Friedrich Pflauder, which was also k. u. k.-Postablage was (and now houses a restaurant). Because of this, there are still numerous photos and postcards showing the Gaisbergbahn.
A true-to-original replica of the Zistelalm station acts as a stop for the Großgmain Museumsfeldbahn in the Salzburg open-air museum in Großgmain .
Since the excursion traffic to the Gaisberg is constantly increasing, the rebuilding of the Gaisbergbahn was discussed several times; For the time being, no measures could be taken due to the necessary land redemption and the considerable financial outlay.
The locomotive 1, together with the presentation car, was loaned to the Großgmain open-air museum by the Technisches Museum Wien and is exhibited there in the former Böckstein Remise.
In 2016, an alleged reconstruction of the Gaisbergbahn including a new hotel, financed by a "major Chinese investor", was part of an April Fool's joke by the ORF.
Route and operation
The Gaisbergbahn was built on a single track and largely had its own track body with a turnout . The track width was 1000 millimeters, the route from Parsch to the Gaisbergspitze was over five kilometers long. The valley station was located directly next to the former Parsch train station (replaced in 2003 by the Salzburg Parsch S-Bahn station a little further south ). At times this was also accessible from the center by a branch of the Salzburg – Hangender Stein local railway . At the Gaisbergspitze terminus there is now a restaurant, a starting point for paragliders and a much-visited lookout point that offers wide views of the surrounding mountains and the city of Salzburg.
The trains of the mountain railway ran according to a fixed timetable, with usually two trains on the route. A trip up the mountain took about an hour. The track was equipped with a ladder rack based on the Riggenbach system. In the first years of operation - contrary to the later ones - the wagons were not coupled to the respective locomotives during the ascent and descent.
The traffic-related importance of the railway was mainly limited to day tourism, even if this took on enormous proportions at times.
Locomotives
| Locomotives of the Gaisbergbahn | |||||
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| number | number | Manufacturer | design type | Years of construction | Remarks |
| 1-5 | 5 | Esslingen , Floridsdorf | 2zz n2t 2z n2t |
1886-1888 | 1–3 delivered as 2zz n2t, 1889–1890 1–2 converted into 2z n2t; 4–5 supplied as 2z n2t |
Individual evidence
- ^ Opening of the Gaisbergbahn. In: Neue Freie Presse , Abendblatt, May 26, 1887, p. 1, bottom center. (Online at ANNO ).
- ↑ RGBl. 1886/58 ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ RGBl. 1897/226 ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Miscellaneous. (...) traffic news. (...) Gaisbergbahn. In: Communications of the German and Austrian Alpine Club , born in 1889, (Volume XV), p. 65, center right. (Online at ALO ).
- ↑ Sbg LGBl 1928/17
- ↑ Sbg LGBl 1929/60
- ↑ BGBl 1929/235
- ↑ http://www.salzburg.com/nachrichten/salzburg/chronik/sn/artikel/die-nummer-1-vom-gaisberg-ist-zurueck-in-salzburg-196035/
Remarks:
- ↑ On May 24, 1881, an inn was opened on the mountain plateau, where instrument-based meteorological observations were made. - See: That in No. 6 p. 188 mentioned Gasthaus on the Gaisberg (…) In: Mitteilungen des Deutschen und Österreichischer Alpenverein , year 1881, (Volume VII), p. 231 middle. (Online at ALO ).
literature
- Heinrich Harrer: Gaisbergbahn. The Salzburg cog railway 1887 to 1928 . International Archive for Locomotive History, Volume 35. Verlag Josef Otto Slezak, Vienna 1984, ISBN 3-85416-096-8 .
- Arthur Meyer, Josef Pospichal: Rack railway locomotives from Floridsdorf , Verlag bahnmedien.at, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-9503304-0-3
Web links
Coordinates: 47 ° 47 ′ 56.4 " N , 13 ° 5 ′ 51.2" E