Lungern-Schönbüel

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Lungern-Schönbüel is a mountain region and year-round excursion destination at 2011  m above sea level. M. in the municipality of Lungern in the canton of Obwalden .

situation

Mountain station Turren of the cable car

Lungern Schönbüel is located above the municipality of Lungern, below the Höch Gumme ( 2205  m above sea level ). From the Lungern district of Obsee ( 703  m above sea level ) the Lungern-Turren-Bahn cable car with a large cabin for 41 people leads to Turren at 1562  m above sea level. M. From there, a path leads past the Alp Breitenfeld ( 1764  m above sea level. M. ) to Schönbüel on 2011  m above sea level. M. The Mountain Zone offers a good view into the valley of Obwalden as well as south to the Bernese Oberland on Eiger , Mönch and Jungfrau .

In summer there are many hiking opportunities, in particular Lungern Schönbüel is the start and end point of the high-altitude hiking trail to and from the Brienzer Rothorn . Round trips including a trip with the Brienzer Rothornbahn and the Zentralbahn from Brienz via the Brünig to Lungern are offered.

history

The first cable car from Lungern Obsee to Turren was built in 1960. It was a system based on the Bell / Wallmannsberger system . The runway was renewed at the end of the 1990s. However, the capacity utilization was too low and the railway operations went bankrupt, even though the municipality of Lungern had repeatedly invested money in the railways. In 2001 Paul Niederberger, former managing director of the Beckenried- Klewenalp -Bahn, bought the gondola lift, the mountain inns and the ski lifts from the liquidation assets and introduced the name “Panoramawelt Lungern-Schönbüel”. At that time , the Panoramawelt Lungern Schönbüel ran a mountain inn with a singing cowshed and the Turrenbeizli with an eagle's nest bar on Schönbüel . The two mountain inns on Lungern-Schönbüel as well as holiday apartments and a warehouse near Turren were available for overnight stays.

In 2007 the Panoramawelt also had to file for bankruptcy. By means of a debt restructuring moratorium, operations could continue. At the end of January 2012, a mast of the Turren-Schönbüel chairlift buckled. It was initially assumed that the pressure of large amounts of snow and too warm ground were the cause of the damage. During the investigation it turned out, however, that the foundation of the mast had not been built properly. Despite the missing mast, the chairlift could continue to operate with a quarter of its former capacity.

At the start of the winter season on December 22, 2012, the Panorama World ceased skiing. It was decided to dismantle the Schönbüel – Höch Gumme and Schönbüel – Arnifirst ski lifts . In March 2013, the Federal Office of Transport (FOT) ordered the railways to be shut down because the company had repeatedly violated the statutory duty of care and the requirements of the operating license. In May 2013 it became known that the mountain railways would no longer be operated. The trams were then up for sale and in July 2015, shortly before their final shutdown, went to the newly founded Lungern-Turren-Bahn AG of Obwalden entrepreneur Theo Breisacher, who modernized the railway and reopened it in May 2016. At the same time, a new building with administration rooms and apartments was built at the valley station. The 4- seater chairlift from Turren to Schönbüel and the ski lifts on Schönbüel were dismantled. The Lungern-Turren-Bahn cable car started operating at the beginning of May 2016 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Unique view of the Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau  ( 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. , Article of the ONZ Obwalden and Nidwalden from July 15, 2011@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.onz.ch  
  2. ↑ Is Lungern-Schönbüel finished? , Article in the Neue Obwaldner Zeitung from April 15, 2012
  3. ↑ Mast buckled because there was sloppy construction during construction , article in the Neue Obwaldner Zeitung from October 19, 2012
  4. ↑ Schönbüel relies on summer , article in the Neue Obwaldner Zeitung from December 2, 2012
  5. ↑ Instead of skiers, express tourists come , article in Central Switzerland on Sunday 13 January 2013
  6. ↑ "This is a bitter loss" , article in the Neue Obwaldner Zeitung from March 28, 2013
  7. ↑ “It's finished for me now” , article in the Neue Obwaldner Zeitung from May 7, 2013
  8. ↑ For sale for 4 million francs , article in the Neue Obwaldner Zeitung from May 11, 2013
  9. ↑ Erich Aschwanden: Local investor saves Lungern-Schönbühl. Tourism. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. July 24, 2015, accessed July 25, 2015 .
  10. ↑ Obwalden investor saves Lungern-Schönbüel ( memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Neue Obwaldner Zeitung, July 24, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.obwaldnerzeitung.ch
  11. ↑ The excursion train picks up speed again , Neue Obwaldner Zeitung Online, May 1, 2016

Coordinates: 46 ° 47 '15.8 "  N , 8 ° 5' 55.7"  E ; CH1903:  650 408  /  182051