Reisseckbahn

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The valley station, on the left the water pressure pipes
The Reisseck funicular (section 1) at the Schütter stop

The Reisseckbahn was a mountain railway that led from the Carinthian Mölltal to the Reisseck group . It consisted of the Reißeck funicular and the Reißeck Höhenbahn ( narrow-gauge railway ).

The old railway in 1968 next to the pipeline

General

The Reißeck funicular began in Kolbnitz in Mölltal at an altitude of 719  m above sea level. A. and ended at Schoberboden at 2236  m above sea level. A. This is where the Reißeck-Höhenbahn began , which is used for passenger traffic at Berghotel Reißeck at an altitude of 2250  m above sea level. A. ended. Continuing factory routes reached to around 2400  m above sea level. A. On the opposite side of the valley, another funicular, the Kreuzeckbahn , rises. The Tauern Touristik GmbH was responsible for the management.

Originally, the Reißeckbahn was built to transport material for the construction of dams and power stations for the Reißeck-Kreuzeck power station . After various modifications and extensions, it was then largely used for passenger traffic. It was one of the ten most popular excursion destinations associated with the Kärnten Card .

Section 1 of the funicular

The Reißeck lake plateau at the terminus of the Höhenbahn offers numerous hiking trails. A ski area with two lifts was also operated until the 1990s. The Berghotel Reißeck had 42 rooms on three floors and at times the highest indoor swimming pool in the Alps. Less than half a kilometer from the mountain hotel is the Reißeckhütte , which has existed since 1908 , directly below the dam of the Great Mühldorfer See, through which guided tours were offered.

The Wadlbeißer was held on the stairs next to the railway line, a flight of stairs over 8,971 steps and 1,518 meters in altitude.

In 2014, the Reißeck-Höhenbahn was stopped due to expansion and modernization work on the power plant. As the lake plateau was no longer accessible, the funicular lost most of its attractiveness and recorded less than half of the previous 65,000 passengers per season.

Due to construction work on Schoberboden, the Reißeck funicular also remained out of service from 2016. In February 2017, the association announced that it would give up tourist operations and want the BMVIT to stop the railway. Accordingly, the railway made an annual loss of around half a million euros. In addition, the concession would have expired in 2022 and the necessary investments of several million euros were expected for an extension. The search for other investors was unsuccessful, despite the intention of the state of Carinthia to provide financial support.

In January 2018, the train was used again to transport a defective motor from the Hattelberg pumping station into the valley, which also raised hopes that it would reopen for tourists. At that time, the concession for passenger transport had already "long expired".

The Berghotel Reißeck is empty today and is to be demolished. The Reißeckhütte, on the other hand, is still managed in the summer months. It can be reached via Mühldorf in a specified walking time of 5½ hours.

Technical data of the Reißeck funicular

The Reißeck funicular had a track width of 1,000 mm and overcame a height difference of 1,517 m in three sections with a total length of around 3,500 m. The highest mountain station was at 2236  m on the Schoberboden. The water from the Großer Mühldorfer See, the Kleiner Mühldorfer See, the Hochalmsee and the Radlsee in the Mölltal flows into the annual storage plant in Reißeck-Kreuzeck via a 4,234.5 m long pressure pipe next to the funicular.

Each section was driven by wagons with 64 seats each, which were pulled from the three mountain stations with 40 mm thick pull ropes . The diameter of the electrically operated cable drums was 3.85 m. The slope of the route was between 25 and 82%.

In normal operation, a change was made at the two intermediate stations, a trip over the entire route took around thirty minutes. For material transport it was also possible to move a wagon between the sections. Such a journey then took about four hours.

kilo
meter		 Height
m		 bus stop comment location
0.0 719 Zandlach Valley station 46 ° 52 '48.2 "  N , 13 ° 18' 58.4"  E Coordinates: 46 ° 52 '48.2 "  N , 13 ° 18' 58.4"  E
1.185 1,270 Sparse Change from section 1 to 2 46 ° 53 '18.4 "  N , 13 ° 19' 7.4"  E
2,475 1,749 trough Change from section 2 to 3 46 ° 53 '49.9 "  N , 13 ° 19' 27.9"  E
3,650 2,236 Schoberboden Change in section 3 to the Reißeck-Höhenbahn 46 ° 54 '13 "  N , 13 ° 20' 0.4"  E
Section Length
km		 Height
difference		 medium
slope		 greatest
inclination
Zandlach - Schuetter 1,185 551 m 55% 82%
Schütter - trough 1,290 479 m 51% 74%
Trough - Schoberboden 1,130 487 m 49% 76%

Web links

Commons : Reißeckbahn  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Reißeck no longer available from 2016. In: kaernten.ORF.at. September 16, 2015, accessed February 22, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Berghotel Reisseck on holidaycheck.de, accessed on March 21, 2020.
  3. ↑ Once upon a time ... High-altitude ski area Reißeck - An obituary on sommerschi.com, accessed on March 21, 2020.
  4. ↑ Canceled: Reißeck Wadlbeißer canceled for safety reasons. In: verbund.com. May 11, 2013, accessed August 25, 2020 .
  5. ↑ a b Reißeck as a dead end street for tourists. In: kaernten.ORF.at. August 16, 2015, accessed March 21, 2020 .
  6. ↑ a b Bahn closed: Reißeck orphaned. In: kaernten.ORF.at. September 3, 2016, accessed February 22, 2017 .
  7. ↑ a b Further battle for the Reisseck railway. In: kaernten.ORF.at. January 26, 2017. Retrieved February 22, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Final end for the Reißeckbahn. In: kaernten.ORF.at. February 21, 2017. Retrieved February 22, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Nobody wants to buy the Reißeckbahn. In: kaernten.ORF.at. November 28, 2016, accessed March 21, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Reisseckbahn - and it went again. In: kaernten.ORF.at. January 22, 2018, accessed March 8, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Reißeckhütte at the Austrian Alpine Club , accessed on March 21, 2020.
  12. ↑ The Reißeck funicular , accessed on March 21, 2020.
  13. ↑ Detailed description of the Reißeck funicular and cable car at alpinforum.com, accessed on March 28, 2020.