Muottas Muragl
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| height | 2453 m above sea level M. | |
| location | Canton of Graubünden , Switzerland | |
| Mountains | Livigno Alps | |
| Coordinates | 788.99 thousand / 155230 | |
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The Muottas Muragl ( , Rhaeto-Romanic Muotta 'hill', muottas as plural, Muragl as field name) is an excursion mountain with a height of 2453 m above sea level. M. in the Livigno Alps . It is located in the municipality of Samedan and offers a wide view of the Upper Engadine with the Engadine lake plateau ( Lake Sils , Lake Silvaplana and Lake St. Moritz ). A hiking trail leads with a difference in altitude of approx. 400 m to the Segantini hut on the Schafberg , where the painter Giovanni Segantini died in 1899 . A path that is easier to walk leads to Alp Languard.
The Muottas Muragl can be reached on foot or with a funicular from Punt Muragl (between Samedan and Pontresina ). The funicular railway Muottas Muragl-Bahn (MMB) has a length of 2199 m and overcomes a height of 709 m. It is the oldest mountain railway in the Engadine and celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2007. For this purpose, the "AG Drahtseilbahn Muottas-Muraigl", based in Samedan, was founded in 1904 under the leadership of the then Swiss Railway Bank (Suiselectra). The groundbreaking ceremony took place in 1905 and operations began in 1907. Initially, the guests reached the starting point on foot, by carriage or by bus, because there was no rail connection yet. In 1995 the company was taken over by the Celeriner Bergbahnen.
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Share of 100 francs in the "Muottas-Muraigl" cable car company on March 13, 1919
Passage of the funicular
Upper Engadine lakes
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Mountain station and hotel in winter
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Individual evidence
- ↑ HP magazine 5/1995, page 18f