Pilatus Railways
| PILATUS-BAHNEN AG | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | March 29, 1886 |
| Seat |
Kriens Switzerland
|
| management | Godi Koch, CEO |
| Website | www.pilatus.ch/de |
The Pilatus Railways is a transport company in Kriens in the Swiss canton of Lucerne . It operates the Pilatusbahn , the cable car Kriens- Fräkmüntegg and the cable car Fräkmüntegg-Pilate. It also owns and operates several tourist businesses, in addition to hotels and restaurants, a summer toboggan run and a rope park .
In 2011 the annual turnover was 23,881,962 Swiss francs with an annual result of 583,684 Swiss francs.
history
The first application for a license to level a Pilatus railway was submitted by the Luzern credit institution on April 22, 1873.
But only after Eduard Locher had presented his plans for the concession and the project had been presented to the public in a prospectus, was it on 4th / 5th March 1886 invited to subscribe to the share capital. This was divided into 4,000 pieces at 500 francs. In addition, a bond capital of 500,000 francs was planned. In a short time, 414 shareholders received interim certificates. Locher & Cie and Eduard Guyer-Freuler then ceded their concession rights, which had been approved by the Federal Council on June 1, 1886, to the company. June 1889. The official collaboration on May 17th allowed the start of operations on June 4th, 1889. The great success of the railway soon necessitated the purchase of additional steam railcars. On New Year's Eve 1889, the model car of the Swiss locomotive construction industry shown at the World Exhibition in Paris arrived in Alpnachstad and was celebrated with champagne.
Today's Pilatus-Bahnen AG is the direct legal successor to the Pilatusbahn-Gesellschaft founded on March 29, 1886 . After the construction of the two cable cars in 1956, the company was renamed. The headquarters were also later moved from Lucerne to Kriens.
literature
- Verena Gurtner: Pilatus via Lucerne . Zurich 1975, ISBN 3-280-00784-4
- Caroline Fink, Peter Krebs, Marco Volken: Pilatus Railway Experience, Ziegelbrücke 2014, ISBN 978-3-906055-22-0 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ PILATUS-BAHNEN AG: Management
- ↑ Pilatus-Bahnen AG Annual Report 2011 (PDF; 2.4 MB) ( Memento from June 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Gurtner 1975, p. 33
- ↑ Gurtner 1975, p. 60
- ↑ Gurtner 1975, pp. 60ff
- ↑ Festschrift for the 100th anniversary , page 27 ( PDF ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ))
- ^ Fritz Bandi: Die Schweizerische Privatbahnen , Volume 2, Page 52