Patscherkofelbahn

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The Patscherkofelbahn is a cable car from Innsbruck 's Igls district to the Patscherkofel . It was built as an aerial tramway in 1928 and replaced in 2017 by a monocable gondola with a slightly different route.

Aerial tramway (1928-2017)

Patscherkofelbahn (1928-2017)
Patscherkofelbahn (2017)
Patscherkofelbahn (2017)
Route of the Patscherkofelbahn
Location: Igls , Patsch
Design type: Aerial tramway
Construction year: 1928
Mountain: Patscherkofel , 2246  m above sea level A.
Valley station: Igls , 904  m above sea level A. ,
Intermediate station: Heiligwasser , 1136  m above sea level A.
Mountain station: Patscherkofelhaus , 1951  m above sea level A.
Height difference: 1047 m
Route length: 3738 m
Driving time: 14 min
Driving speed: 7 m / s
Number of gondolas: 4 pcs.
Number of supports: 11 pcs.
Capacity: 450 people / hour
Website: www.patscherkofelbahn.at

history

As early as 1905, Josef Riehl planned the construction of a cogwheel railway (first section) and cable car (second section) leading from the terminus of the Innsbrucker Mittelgebirgsbahn in Igls to the "Kaiser Franz Josefshaus" (today: Patscherkofelhaus ) built in 1887 .

In 1912 there were specific plans for the construction of a railway in two sections (Igls – Heiligwasser – Schutzhaus), whereby the first section should be designed as a funicular railway modeled on the Hungerburg railway “if there were no more unforeseen major difficulties” . In July 1912, plans for a pure suspension railway with one car for 25 people per section were reported. The financing of the construction costs of 1.2 million crowns has been secured. The pre-concession was obtained and the execution was entrusted to the Gesellschaft für Förderanlagen Ernst Heckel . Construction was to begin in autumn 1912 and the railway was to be opened to traffic on May 1, 1913. However, this project was not implemented.

A gondola in front of the valley station, 1960
Valley station of the Patscherkofelbahn (2011)

The Patscherkofelbahn was licensed on January 21, 1928 and Adolf Bleichert & Co. built. The first day of operation of the aerial tramway was April 14, 1928, the official opening took place on May 6, 1928.

The railway consisted of two sections (Igls – Heiligwasser – Schutzhaus), with a change in the Heiligwasser middle station . The journey time was about 25 minutes. A wood-clad cabin for 24 people ran on each section. The maximum gradient was 54% and was reached in the second section. At the time of opening, the Patscherkofelbahn was Austria's longest cable car; the suspension cable was 3800 meters long, 49 millimeters in diameter and weighed 50 tons. The rope lay on eleven supports with heights of 15 to 36 meters and was anchored in the mountain station. The rope train had a diameter of 28 millimeters, a mass of eleven tons and was designed by a 60 HP driven -Motor (Climax crude oil engine, delivered from Innsbruck businessman Oskar request) on the mountain. The power supply came from the power station on Vomper Bach .

In 1946 the cabins were replaced by light metal cabins. For the 1964 Winter Olympics , the capacity of the railway was increased from 120 to 450 people per hour in 1962. This was achieved through the use of two cabins per section with a capacity of 50 people and an increase in travel speed from three to seven meters per second . The travel time from the valley to the mountain station was almost exactly 25 minutes with a change.

Disaster in 1964

On December 28, 1964, the gondolas entered the terminus too quickly due to faulty brakes and a machinist not at his place of work. The gondolas hit hard. As a result, the pull rope broke and the gondola of the mountain station went downhill until it suddenly came to a standstill due to the broken part of the pull rope that had got caught. Five people were seriously injured and 16 slightly injured.

The mountain station of the Patscherkofelbahn contained a hotel wing and a restaurant in the eastern part. In October 2005 the administrative court in Vienna gave the Patscherkofelbahnen in Innsbruck-Igls the green light to demolish the dilapidated hotel at the mountain station. The monument protection was lifted. The mayor of Patscher Josef Rinner, who had already passed away at that time, had lodged a complaint against it. The demolition work began at the beginning of September 2007. Construction of a new panorama restaurant at the mountain station began in 2007 and was completely demolished in 2017.

In spring 2012 the two gondolas were renovated by Auto Brückl.

In February 2015, construction defects at the panorama restaurant were traced back to movement in the slope, which was triggered by "unprofessional filling up" after the mountain hotel was demolished. The mountain station also showed damage to the foundation.

October 22, 2017 was the last day of operation of the old Patscherkofelbahn.

operator

From December 1996 to October 2014 the railway was operated privately by a company owned by ÖSV President Peter Schröcksnadel ; In this phase of upheaval, a technical modification also took place, which was followed in 2002 by conversion and repainting of the cabin cars. It has been operated by Patscherkofelbahnen GmbH (100% City of Innsbruck) since October 2014. In 2014, Schröcksnadel sold the railway back to the community for EUR 10.7 million.

Crossing a high-voltage overhead line

Crossing Patscherkofelbahn with traction power line
47 ° 13 ′ 26 ″ N, 11 ° 25 ′ 34 ″ E

A special feature of the Patscherkofelbahn is the crossing of a high voltage overhead line , a 110 kV traction power line of the ÖBB . Not far and on the mountain side of a high cable car pillar, the four conductor cables leading from lower high-voltage pylons and an earthing cable are braced a little flatter than at an angle of 45 ° with chain insulators to points lying on a line near the ground. The five ladders are carried through air-filled tubes that run horizontally across under a functioning green bridge measuring almost 20 m in length and width , and slightly higher than the surrounding terrain plus the expected snowfall. Where the ladder comes relatively close to the ground or the top of the bridge, high fences with warning signs at a distance of several meters from live parts protect people, animals and the mower from dangerous approaches from the surrounding meadows.

Monument protection

The valley station in Igls in the area of ​​Bilgeristraße / Badhausstraße as well as the mountain station in Patsch - located almost 300 m below the summit of the Patscherkofel - are under monument protection.

Passenger numbers


Monocable gondola (since 2017)

Patscherkofelbahn (since 2017)
Gondola below the mountain station with a view towards Rosskogel, Oberinntal
Gondola below the mountain station with a
view towards Rosskogel, Oberinntal
Route of the Patscherkofelbahn
Design type: Monocable gondola
Construction year: 2017
Mountain: Patscherkofel
Valley station: Igls , Römerstrasse
Mountain station: Patscherkofelhaus
Height difference: 956 m
Route length: 2324 m
Driving time: 6:24 + 3:42 min
Driving speed: 6 m / s
Number of gondolas: 79 (winter), 50 (summer) pieces.
Capacity: 2000 people / hour
Manufacturer: Doppelmayr
Website: www.patscherkofelbahn.at

history

In October 2015, after evaluating various scenarios, it was decided to build a new railway. In March 2016, the winning "holistic project on the mountain" of the architectural competition was announced. Following a tender , Doppelmayr was awarded the contract in April 2016 for the new building with commissioning for the 2017/18 winter season.

In July 2016, the city of Innsbruck received the nature conservation permit for demolition and new construction from the state of Tyrol. The cable car procedure was initiated in the same month at the Federal Ministry of Transport and successfully concluded in February 2017.

In February 2017, cost increases for the entire project (including buildings up to the snowmaking system) from 42 to 52–55 million euros were made public. The cable car itself accounts for just over 12 million euros.

The groundbreaking for the construction of the new lift took place on April 26, 2017. The new lift should go into operation on December 15, 2017 and was postponed to December 22, 2017.

A ceremonial opening took place on December 22nd; normal ski operation has been running since December 23, 2017.

In the first few weeks of operation, the railway was out of service several times due to high wind speeds ( foehn storm ; operation possible up to 75 km / h), derailment of a gondola, and water ingress after heavy rainfall.

The middle station was built as a technical center in which the gondolas are also garaged.

  • Valley station

  • Middle station

  • Mountain station

  • Mountain station (interior view)

Criticism from the Alpine Club and citizens' initiative to relocate the mountain station

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New mountain station on the left, shelter on the right
New construction of the mountain station in front of the Alpine Club hut (August 2017)

The Austrian Alpine Association called for a project change in order not to obscure the Patscherkofelhaus visually, and he also complained that a large restaurant at the mountain station endangered the existence of the inn of the refuge. On March 19, 2017, a demonstration against the project took place in Innsbruck; The new building instead of modernization, the costs of the project and the location of the new mountain station right next to the refuge, which obscured part of the panorama of the Stubai Alps visible from the terrace of the refuge, including the view of the Zuckerhütl , were criticized. Innsbruck ski clubs welcome the construction as it would improve training opportunities. Furthermore, the Alpine Association evaluates the clearing carried out for the new route in autumn 2016 as illegal. There was no approval for this at the time. They were made to create irreversible facts.

While the new construction of the railway and the mountain station was already in progress, the Alpine Association, as a citizens' initiative, demanded that the mountain station be relocated by 70 meters. The appeal was signed by 2,309 Innsbruck residents on time by April 2017. The municipal council then set Sunday, June 11, 2017 as the day of the vote for this first referendum under Innsbruck's municipal law. The cost of the vote was put at 180,000 euros. In order to attract enough people to be electoral assessors in the 153 polling stations, an increase in remuneration from 44 to 60 to 70 euros was considered in the municipal council. 5,605 people took part in the vote; 4,456 (4.3% of those eligible to vote) voted for the citizens' initiative. More than half of those eligible to vote (> 50%) would have been required for mandatory treatment in the municipal council.

On June 23, 2017, the city of Innsbruck, Patscherkofelbahn Infrastruktur GmbH and the Alpine Association signed a cooperation agreement. The terrace at the shelter and the forecourt are to be redesigned together, the PES will be given the right to exclusive catering for the shelter. The city paid a total of 350,000 euros to the Alpine Club. The new building will remove part of the view to the southwest from the terrace of the shelter, but an extension of the terrace creates a view of the north-western mountains.

Ski area

In 1969 the Ochsenalm drag lift replaced a chair lift that had previously existed there .

In 1973 the practice lift was built. From 1961 until the closure in 2011 was the Gipfellift the opportunity to reach the summit of the Patscherkofel by climbing aid. From 2002 to 2017, the detachable four-person chairlift Olympiaexpress (Olex) carried winter sports enthusiasts from Igls in the area of ​​the “new” valley station to around 1740  m above sea level. A. in the area of ​​the "new" middle station. From there, from 2005 to 2017, the permanently coupled panorama train could be used to the area of ​​the Patscherkofelhaus. The Kasererlift and Heiligwasser tow lifts were built in 2006 and 2007 .

To put the monocable gondola into operation in December 2017, all lifts with the exception of the two practice lifts, the Heiligwasser lift, the children's lift and the magic carpet were shut down / demolished.

In the course of the new construction of the Patscherkofelbahn, the restaurant "Das Hausberg" was built at the valley station and the restaurant "Das Kofel" was built in the mountain station.

literature

  • Rudolf von Granichstaedten-Czerva: Guide for the Patscherkofel wire rope suspension railway . Braun, Vienna 1928, OBV .
  • Igls-Patscherkofel cable car, Tyrol, Austria . Zaunrith, Salzburg 1928, OBV .
  • Tyrolean daily newspaper. Independent Tiroler Volksblatt for western Austria and South Tyrol . Schlüsselverlag, Innsbruck 1945–1993, OBV .
  • Günther Schöffel: 50 years of Innsbruck cable cars. 1928-1988. Patscherkofelbahn April 14, 1928, Nordkettenbahn July 8, 1928 . Stadtwerke Innsbruck, Innsbruck 1978, OBV .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

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