Josef Staffler
Josef Staffler (born March 17, 1846 in Bozen ( South Tyrol ); † January 18, 1919 there ) was a South Tyrolean innkeeper and builder of the first passenger cable car in Central Europe.
Life
Since the beginning of the 1880s, Josef Staffler was the owner of the prestigious "Riesen" inn on Dominikanerplatz in Bozen, which he expanded into a modern hotel around 1890. Before the turn of the 20th century, he bought a homestead on Kohlerer Berg and also built a mountain hotel there. In this context, he planned to build a cable car that would take his guests from Kampill to Bozen's local mountain, to Kohlern . Against the resistance of the kuk -Bürokratie and using his personal fortune (he sold for a castle at the entrance of Sarner Valley ), he managed the first Kohlerer train to take on 29 June 1908 in operation. After a change in the law, extensive technical changes were necessary in 1910. Instead, the railway was shut down, and Staffler planned a new state-of-the-art building that also met all legal requirements. This second Kohlerer Bahn was completed in 1912, but was not able to start public transport until the following year - after overcoming further bureaucratic problems.
A stone bust at the mountain station still reminds of Staffler as a pioneer of cable car construction.
literature
- M. Martischnig: Staffler Josef. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 13, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2007–2010, ISBN 978-3-7001-6963-5 , p. 80.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Staffler, Josef |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | South Tyrolean restaurateur, initiator and owner of the first passenger cable car in Central Europe |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 17, 1846 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bolzano |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 18, 1919 |
| Place of death | Bolzano |