Lechtalstrasse

State road B198 in Austria
Basic data
Start of the street:	Alpe Rauz ( 47 ° 8 ′  N , 10 ° 10 ′  E )
End of street:	Reutte ( 47 ° 29 ′  N , 10 ° 44 ′  E )
Overall length:	76.9 km
State :	Vorarlberg Tyrol
Flex gallery
Course of the road Vorarlberg District Bludenz Arlbergstrasse Flex gallery Flex gallery Zürs Flexenpass ( 1773  m above sea level ) Monzabon Gallery tunnel Lech Lech December – March Warth Bregenzerwaldstrasse Tyrol Reutte district tunnel Lech Lech Steeg Holzgau Lech Brook Lech Elbigenalp Häselgehr Lech Elmen Stanzach Forchach Lech Weißenbach am Lech Tannheimer Strasse Yards Lech Reutte Fernpassstrasse  Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap map

The Lechtalstraße ( L 198 / B 198 ) is a state road in Austria and runs for a length of 76.9 km from the Alpe Rauz (branching off the L 197 ) near St. Christoph , but still on the Vorarlberg side, over the Flexenpass , Zürs , Lech , Warth (connection to the L 200 ) and on via the Tyrolean Lech Valley to the Reutte bypass (connection to the B 179 ).

history

Construction of Flexenstraße of offices across the Flex Pass to Warth connecting the Lech Valley with the Arlbergstraße, officially began on August 3, 1895, when invited guests of honor, first of all kk Governor Adolf Rhomberg (1851-1921), in a ceremony the first Broke ground. On October 11, 1897, the first section of the new Flexenstrasse up to the top of the pass was inaugurated.

The subsequent section of the route on the Tyrolean side was built as a rival road from 1901 with financial support from the state . In Austrian legal language, competition refers to the joint financing of a project by various institutions, each of which assumes a percentage of the maintenance costs specified by law. In this case, took over

• the state 40%
• the country 45%
• the interested parties (neighboring communities) 15%

the planned construction costs of 108,900 guilders. On October 2nd, 1909, the new route over the Flexenpass was officially opened.

The Flexenstraße (in Vorarlberg) and the Lechtaler Straße (in Tyrol) were declared federal highways by ordinance of the federal government of June 9, 1933. On April 1, 2002, Lechtalstrasse was taken over by the state administration in both federal states. While in Vorarlberg the former federal highways with the abbreviation L were taken over into the state road network, in all other federal states the B was continued in the abbreviation.

In the section between Lech and Warth there is a permanent winter closure. But the route between Alpe Rauz and Zürs is also closed in some cases in the event of extreme amounts of fresh snow, which means that the winter sports resort of Lech is sometimes not accessible by road.

Literature, video

• One hundred years of Flexenstrasse. TV magazine report from the Landesstudio Vorarlberg, March 23, 1997 . ( Austria picture ). 1 video cassette, SVHS, 24 min, sp, mono, color. ORF 2 , s. l. 1997, OBV .
• Oliver Benvenuti: Old Tannberger views. Stuben - Flexenstraße - Zürs - Lech - Warth - Hochkrumbach - Schröcken . Oliver Benvenuti publishing house, Feldkirch 1999, ISBN 3-901522-05-0 .
• Josef Kaiser: The Flexenstrasse on the Arlberg - a road construction jewel in constant confrontation with rock and snow . In: Bernd Schwaighofer (Ed.): Lectures 1998/99 . Institute for Applied Geology at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna 2000, OBV , pp. 43–62.

Web links

Commons : Lechtalstraße  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry on Lechtalstraße in the Austria forum .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Local and Provincial. (...) From the foot of the Arlberg. In:  Vorarlberger Landes-Zeitung , No. 178/1895 (XXXII. Volume), August 6, 1895, p. 3 (unpaginated), column 1. (Online at ANNO ). ;
   Vorarlberger Volksblatt of August 4, 1895, p. 979.
2. ↑ Opening ceremony of the new Flexenstrasse (part 1/2). In:  Vorarlberger Landes-Zeitung , No. 233/1897 (XXXIV. Volume), October 12, 1897, p. 3 (unpaginated), column 2. (Online at ANNO ). ; Opening ceremony of the new Flexenstrasse (part 2/2). In:  Vorarlberger Landes-Zeitung , No. 234/1897 (XXXIV. Volume), October 13, 1897, p. 2 (unpaginated), column 3. (Online at ANNO ). ; Vorarlberger Volksblatt of October 12, 1897, p. 4.
   
   
3. ↑ Law of August 22, 1897, regarding the creation of competition roads in Tyrol, effective for the duchy of Tyrol. (…) § 3. The total effort required to carry out these road constructions (…) No. curr. 9. In:  Law and Ordinance Gazette for the ducal county of Tyrol and the state of Vorarlberg , year 1897, No. 31/1897, p. 123. (Online at ANNO ). .
4. ↑ "Welcome to Tamberg's heights!" In:  Vorarlberger Volksblatt , No. 52/1909 (XLIV. Volume), October 5, 1909, p. 1 ff. (Online at ANNO ). ;
   From town and country. (...) Opening of Flexenstrasse. In:  Innsbrucker Nachrichten , No. 228/1909 (LVI. Volume), October 6, 1909, p. 3, column 3. (Online at ANNO ). .

L198

Like the other former federal highways, Lechtalstrasse was part of the federal administration. Since April 1, 2002 it has been under state administration. In the other federal states, the conventional street name is continued with B - in Vorarlberg, however, the streets taken over by the federal government have an L in the name like all other Vorarlberg regional streets .