Gerlos Alpine Road
| Gerlos Alpine Road in Austria | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Operator: | Großglockner High Alpine Roads AG | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Start of the street: |
Krimml ( 47 ° 13 ′ N , 12 ° 10 ′ E ) |
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| End of street: |
Gerlos Pass ( 47 ° 15 ′ N , 12 ° 7 ′ E ) |
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| Overall length: | 12 km approx. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Requirement for use: | toll | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Toll booth near the highest point | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Course of the road
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Map with all coordinates: The Gerlos Alpenstraße is a toll private road from Krimml in Oberpinzgau , Land Salzburg to the Gerlospass , Salzburg side in the municipality of Wald im Pinzgau . The road reaches its highest point at 1628 m above sea level. A. .
The most important thing is the access to the Hochkrimml-Gerlosplatte ski area (network of the Zillertal Arena ).
history
The Gerlos Straße (B 165) was rebuilt on the Salzburg side by the Großglockner Hochalpenstraßen AG between the village of Krimml and the Pinzgauer Höhe ( Gerlospass ) between 1960 and 1962, as the route of the old Gerlos Straße, from Wald im Pinzgau directly onto the Gerlos, very steep and partly impassable in winter. The plans for this were drawn up in 1949 by Franz Wallack , the builder of the Großglockner High Alpine Road .
This 12 km long two-lane section overcomes 558 meters of altitude with a maximum gradient of nine percent. The grand opening of Gerlos Alpenstraße took place on December 1, 1962.
The further connection on the North Tyrolean side was not completed until 1964, when the state of Tyrol and the Tauern power plants closed the road gap between the Pinzgauer Höhe and the village of Gerlos as part of the construction of the Durlaßboden reservoir .
The new route section was renamed Krimmler Landesstrasse (L 113) and Gerlos Alpenstrasse on March 31, 2002, on the occasion of the handover of the federal roads to state support , and the old Gerlosstrasse was reintegrated into the route of the B 165. The street itself still belongs to the Großglockner Hochalpenstraßen AG (GROHAG), so it is owned by the federal government and in a minority by the states of Salzburg and Carinthia.
The newly built section between Krimml and Gerlospass is subject to a toll , but can be used without restrictions. Between 2000 and 2003, automobile hill climbs took place on this toll road.
Web links
proof
- ↑ Prices Gerlos Alpenstraße , gerlosstrasse.at
- ↑ Sign on site