Reisseck-Höhenbahn
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Reißeck-Höhenbahn Schoberboden - Hochalmsee |
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| continent | Europe | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| country | Austria | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| state | Carinthia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 The Reißeck-Höhenbahn shortly before the terminus at the Seenplateau / Berghotel Reißeck
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| Route number (ÖBB) : | 920 01 (Schoberboden-Reißeck-Hotel) 920 02 (Reißeck-Hotel-Hochalmsee / Radlsee) |
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| Route length: | 3.3 / ~ 6.9 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 600 mm ( narrow gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Reißeck-Höhenbahn was a narrow-gauge railway with a track width of 600 mm that started at the Schoberboden mountain station. It was discontinued in 2014.
history
For the construction of the Reißeck-Kreuzeck power plant group , a works railway had to be built, which was put into operation on July 1, 1953. Since the railway had to be kept operational for maintenance work after the completion of the construction work, it was decided to use the railway for tourism as well. The Reißeck-Höhenbahngesellschaft mbH was founded in 1960, but public transport only started on September 16, 1965.
→ For more information on tourist operations, see Reisseckbahn .
In the course of the expansion and modernization of the power plant, it was also planned to discontinue the elevator in order to make the tunnel passable for larger trucks. For this purpose, the tracks and the upper headrace pipes of the Reisseck annual storage tank had to be dismantled. Nature came before it; On August 1, 2014, the tracks of the Höhenbahn were partially washed away by heavy rain. On August 9, emergency operations were resumed with a provisional stop.
- Track flushing summer 2014
On September 7, 2014, the Höhenbahn, which was to be replaced by buses, was finally stopped. The conversion of the tunnel into a driveway was delayed because the penstock to the Reißeck I power plant had to remain in operation longer than planned due to delays in the construction of the Reißeck II power plant. The touristic area therefore ended at Schoberboden from 2014; In 2016, the Reißeck funicular was also given up.
The railway tracks were dismantled in 2017 and the road was designed exclusively for truck construction site traffic. Tourist traffic with buses was not established.
route
Following the Reißeck funicular , the Reißeck-Höhenbahn connected the Schoberboden with the lake plateau. The route was 3,359 m long, of which 2,130 m ran in a pipe tunnel. The terminus for passenger traffic was at Berghotel Reißeck at 2250 m above sea level. A. ( 46 ° 55 ′ 1 ″ N , 13 ° 22 ′ 5 ″ E ). This made the Höhenbahn the highest railway in Austria with public transport and one of the highest in Europe without rack sections . A train could carry 68 people.
Shortly before the terminus at the Seenplateau, a 250 meter long cable line branches off to the works railway. This was divided into two Adhäsionsstrecken to Hochalmsee and Radlsee which mostly run in a 3 km long tunnel and only for material transport of the composite are accessible. These stretches end at around 2400 m .
vehicles
| design type | Construction year | Manufacturer | Remarks |
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| JW 20 | 1960 | Jenbacher works | Snow removal locomotive |
| JW 20 | 1963 | Jenbacher works | Reserve locomotive |
| JW DH40B6 | 1983 | Jenbacher works | Plan locomotive |
| AT | 1975 | ex Limbergstollen, conversion, Knotz, Vienna | Personnel transport and route controls |
Up to 1983, self-made wagons with 36 seats were used for passenger transport and had a compartment for the train attendant at the ends of the wagon. Then the delivery of two control cars from the Knotz company, with a length of 10 meters and 14 seats and 20 standing places each.
Location of the vehicles
The shuttle train composition and other vehicles were sold and are now on the Grevesmühlen – Klütz railway line (Klützer Kaffebrenner) in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . The battery-powered railcar from the Limberg tunnel came back from Klütz to Austria to the Liliputbahn in Vienna's Prater in July 2018 . The reactivation of the railcar is a project as part of the European Cultural Heritage Year 2018 .
Web links
- Reisseck-Bergbahnen ( Memento from August 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- Detailed description of the Reißeck funicular and cable car
- Pictures of the Reißeck-Höhenbahn in the lower and upper section
- The Reisseck-Höhenbahn at "DEEF" , accessed on August 16, 2015
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Alpine Battery: Green electricity from the mountain . 2016, The Reisseck II plus system to increase efficiency, p. 211-215 .
- ↑ Kleine Zeitung of August 2, 2014 ( Memento of September 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Kleine Zeitung of August 8, 2014 of August 8, 2014
- ^ Kleine Zeitung of August 25, 2014, accessed on April 19, 2020
- ↑ Reisseck as a dead end street for tourists , report on ORF-Online from August 16, 2015
- ↑ Reisseck: The tunnel is being expanded. ORF, accessed on March 8, 2019 .
- ^ Hans Sternhart: The Schoberboden-Reisseck-Seenplateau Höhenbahn. In: Railway. ISSN 0013-2756 ZDB -ID 162227-4 . Year 1970, issue 5, pp. 69–70.
- ↑ Vehicles of the Reißeck-Höhenbahn in the vehicle hall Klütz, Figure 1 accessed on March 8, 2019
- ↑ Vehicles of the Reißeck-Höhenbahn in the vehicle hall Klütz, Figure 2 accessed on March 8, 2019
- ↑ Limbergstollen railcar back in Austria, accessed on March 8, 2019
- ↑ Reactivation of the Limberg tunnel railcar. Federal Chancellery Austria, Section II "Art and Culture", accessed on March 8, 2019 .
Coordinates: 46 ° 54 ′ 12.5 ″ N , 13 ° 20 ′ 1 ″ E