Gasteiner Strasse

State road B167 in Austria
167
Basic data
Overall length:	27.1 km
State :	Salzburg
Course of the road Zell am See district Pinzgauer Strasse 311 Gigerach tunnel Klammtunnel Sankt Johann im Pongau district Gasteiner Ache Tauern Railway Klammstein tunnel Dorfgastein Bad Hofgastein Gasteiner Ache Bad Gastein Gasteiner Ache Tauern Railway Böckstein Gasteiner Ache Tauern Railway Car loading Tauernschleuse

The Gastein road ( B167 ) is a country road in Austria . It has a length of around 27 km and runs through the Gastein Valley from the Salzachtal near Lend to Böckstein . The Tauern Railway runs parallel to the road . In Böckstein there is the possibility of loading cars in order to get through the Tauern tunnel to Mallnitz in order to continue the journey on Mallnitzer Straße (B 105).

history

The road between Salzburg and the Gastein Valley was completed around 1830, so that on May 19, 1831, a weekly express mail between Salzburg and Bad Gastein could be set up for the first time. In 1856 there were twelve toll stations between Salzburg and Hofgastein, which brought in around 12,500 guilders a year for the state treasury. In 1893 the Gasteiner Reichsstraße still had four toll stations in Hofgastein, Dorfgastein, at the Taxbachbrücke and in St. Johann.

Numerous accidents on the narrow and busy Gasteiner Straße led to motor vehicle traffic being banned on Gasteiner Straße in 1904. This ban remained in force until 1909, since June 25, 1909, drivers were allowed to cross the dangerous curves and towns of the Gastein Valley at walking pace (6 km / h).

The Gastein road belongs to the former imperial roads that were taken in 1921 as federal highways.

photos

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  The north portal of the Tauern tunnel (1911), the end point of Gasteiner Straße

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  View of Bad Hofgastein and the Gastein Valley to the south

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Road toll tariff for the toll stations set up in the Crown Land of Salzburg on the basis of the law of August 26, 1891 […]. LGBl. No. 34/1893.
2. ^ Announcement of the kk state government in Salzburg on August 4, 1904. LGBl. No. 35/1904.
3. ^ Announcement by the Imperial and Royal State Government in Salzburg on June 18, 1909. LGBl. No. 44/1909.
4. ^ Federal law of July 8, 1921, regarding federal highways. Federal Law Gazette No. 387/1921.

B167	Like the other former federal highways, Gasteiner Strasse was part of the federal administration. Since April 1, 2002, it has been under state administration and continues to have the B in the number, but not the name Bundesstraße.