Schafbergbahn
| St. Wolfgang – Schafbergspitze | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 New construction steam locomotive Z.13 in the Schafbergspitze station
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| Route number (ÖBB) : | 273 01 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book route (ÖBB) : | 173 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 5.85 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1000 mm ( meter gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maximum slope : | 255 ‰ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rack system : | System dept | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Schafbergbahn is a meter-gauge rack railway in Austria . It has been leading from St. Wolfgang on Lake Wolfgang in the Salzkammergut up to the Schafberg ( 1782 m above sea level ) and back since 1893 .
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history
In 1862–64, Wolfgang Grömmer, innkeeper at the Hotel Weißes Rößl in St. Wolfgang, built the Hotel Schafbergspitze on the summit of the Schafberg , Austria's first mountain hotel. In 1889 the Kaiser Franz Josef Reitweg was laid out with cement steps suitable for riding .
The first projects for a railway on the Schafberg appeared at the same time as those for the Kahlenbergbahn , and on August 10, 1872, Berthold Currant and Carl Peusens received a concession which, however, could not be used due to the financial crisis of 1873. On January 13, 1890, the railway for Stern & Hafferl from Gmunden was again licensed, and after a supplementary announcement by the Ministry of Commerce on July 29, 1892, the Salzkammergut-Localbahn-Actiengesellschaft (SKGLB) opened on August 1, 1893 the "cog railway executed local railway ".
Since the cog railway on the Schafberg "is to be treated in every respect as an integral part [...] of the Salzkammergut local railways", in the aforementioned announcement "the company was obliged to build the railway lines Strobl - Mondsee and at the same time as the Schafbergbahn was built Ischl Localbahnhof - State train station. "
On September 30, 1906, the old building of the mountain hotel, at the time owned by the Salzkammergut-Lokalbahn-Aktien-Gesellschaft, burned down completely.
After financial difficulties, the Schafbergbahn was sold to the Austrian Tourist Office in 1932 . 1938 she went to the German Reichsbahn and thus after the Second World War to the ÖBB over. The Salzkammergutbahn GmbH (SKGB), a subsidiary of Salzburg AG , has been operating the Schafbergbahn and Wolfgangseeschifffahrt since 2006 .
route
The starting point of the route is the Schafbergbahnhof in St. Wolfgang on Uferstrasse, located directly on Lake Wolfgang. The company workshop located there is reached via a transfer platform because of the limited space available . After leaving the train station, the route is initially still quite flat with a gradient of 60 or 44 per thousand through the built-up area of St. Wolfgang. Shortly after the bridge over the Dietlbachgraben (Upper Austria-Salzburg border) the settlement area is left and the steep section with a relatively constant 250 per mille gradient begins. The railway line initially runs in a north-westerly direction, then turns sharply to the east after the Schafbergalpe siding and finally reaches the terminus along the flank of the Schafberg. This last section runs above the tree line on rocky terrain , partly overgrown with mountain pines .
Operation takes place from the beginning of May to the end of September. The journey takes about 35 minutes. With the original steam locomotives, the journey takes around an hour. It takes 500 kilograms of coal and 3000 liters of water to go up and down the mountain.
Technology and vehicles
The lift is equipped with a rack according to the Abt system and overcomes a height difference of 1190 meters with a maximum gradient of 25.5%. The drive takes place exclusively on the gear wheels, which is why horizontal and slightly inclined tracks are also equipped with a rack.
The route is not electrified and is operated by steam and diesel locomotives . The main load of traffic today is carried by the four new oil-fired steam locomotives Z 11 to Z 14 (originally series 999.2) built in 1992 and 1995, which are very similar to the H 2/3 of the Brienz-Rothorn Railway . The diesel railcar VTZ 22 (built in 1964) is kept operational as a reserve. The diesel-electric locomotive Vz 31 , which was initially rented by the NÖSBB and purchased in 2012 , is used with a train when there is a heavy crowd. Since March 2016, the identical, newly built Vz32 has been part of the fleet. In 2020 two more locomotives were procured, which are named Vz33 and Vz34. The historical original machines (built in 1893 and 1894) of the SKGLB Z series are used in the course of their own nostalgic timetable; with them, the travel time to the summit is one hour instead of 35 minutes.
For each modern vehicle engines are two biaxial Vorstellwagen present, wherein the mountain-side carriage having 50 pitches and a cabin for the Zugsbegleiter, the valley-side carriage (the one with the lower number) 55 seats:
- Z 11: Bz 211 and 221 aluminum new buildings from Bombardier, 1993 (ÖBB 9970 and 9971), 2.91 m wide with central aisle
- Z 12–14: Bz 212–14 and 222–224 new buildings of the ÖBB TS St. Pölten 1995/96 (ÖBB 9962–64 and 9972–74), 2.60 m wide with compartments
- Vz 31: Bz 111 and 112 new box buildings in 2012 on underframes 9953 and 9959 ex Schneeberg, 2.60 m wide with compartments
- Vz 32: Bz 121 and 122 new box buildings in 2016 on underframes 9954 and 9955 ex Schneeberg, 2.60 m wide with compartments
In addition to the operational original locomotives Z1, Z4 and Z6, the four-axle wagons 101-103, which are also original but have been renewed on various occasions, are available. 101 is the original Kaiserwagen 1 from 1893 (ÖBB 9900, discarded and sold in 1996, bought back in 2008), 102 and 103 are the cars 5 and 6 (ÖBB 9903 and 9904) that were subsequently procured in 1894. The original cars 2 and 3 (ÖBB 9901 and 9902) no longer appear in the official lists. These cars initially had 5 compartments with 10 seats, but were extended by one compartment in the 1950s (then B4 / sz 4900–4904) and have since offered 60 seats.
The two-axle Oz 503 (converted from passenger car 9940 ex 4) and the two four-axle Oz 504 and 505, which were built by Steck, Bowil (Switzerland) in 2010 and 2019, are used for goods and service transport. According to the company's website, there are two more freight wagons (Oz 502 and?), According to the vehicle description there were initially three two-axle open freight wagons, the ÖBB still had two (49011 and 49012).
Frequency, winter break
In 2019 the record number of almost 340,000 visitors was counted, and on strong days there were up to 2,500 passengers. As of Christmas, the railway is usually down because of snow drifts and the risk of avalanches.
In the future, the aim is to increase operation in winter and also when it rains, supported by the construction project for a covered valley station.
Renovation 2018/2020
The valley station building next to uncovered platforms, which will still exist in 2020, was built before 1990.
The fundamental renewal of the rail line has been underway since 2018. Until then, the rails from 1893 were still in place, following the rolling mark "BST" for Bessemer steel from Zeltweg . You can only work in spring and autumn, as there is snow in winter and the railway is in full operation in summer.
In 2020, after an international architectural competition, the project by the Dunkelschwarz architects (with Hannes Sampl, Erhard Steiner) was selected. It provides for a multifunctional hall that ensures weather-protected entry into the car, contains an exhibition on the railway and can also serve as an event room.
The building budget is 25 million euros, Salzburg AG contributes 7.5 million, the provinces of Salzburg and Upper Austria each 6 million.
Train at the Schafbergalpe station, 1896
Steam locomotive of the class 999 in the boiler house still with the name board of the ÖBB
Schafbergbahn on the way to the summit (2008)
Ride by train (video 2008)
literature
- Gunter Mackinger: Schafbergbahn and Wolfgangseeschiffe , Kenning Verlag, Nordhorn, 2008, ISBN 978-3-933613-92-9
- Johann Stockklausner: Schafbergbahn St. Wolfgang (railway collection booklet No. 9), Verlag Josef Otto Slezak, Vienna, 1978, ISBN 3-900134-50-2
- Hans Steffan : The locomotives of the Salzkammergut local railway . In: Die Lokomotive , 1916, pp. 123–125 ( ANNO - AustriaN Newspapers Online )
Movie
- SWR: Railway romance - 100 years of the Schafbergbahn (episode 110)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Berghotel Schafbergspitze . In: Salzburger Nachrichten : Salzburgwiki .
- ^ History of the railways of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Volume: 1.2. Karl Prochaska, Vienna 1898, p. 554
- ↑ RG Bl. No. 134/1872
- ↑ RG Bl. No. 160/1873
- ↑ RG Bl. No. 15/1890
- ↑ a b R. G. Bl. No. 121/1892
- ↑ Daily news from town and country. (...) Fire in the Schafberg Hotel. In: Linzer Volksblatt , No. 224/1906 (XXXVIIIth year), October 2, 1906, p. 3, bottom right. (Online at ANNO ). .
- ↑ Type Journal of Vz31 on the company's website
- ^ Salzburg AG: Delivery of the fourth diesel locomotive. Retrieved April 9, 2020 .
- ^ Homepage of the Schafbergbahn: information about the railway
- ↑ Homepage of the Schafbergabahn: car material
- ↑ Heimo Griesinger: With steam and diesel on the Schafberg , in: Märklin Magazin 4/81, 1981, pp. 30–33.
- ↑ Tourism: 25 million euros for Schafbergbahn orf.at, January 16, 2020, accessed January 16, 2019. - Picture gallery with (20) aerial photos. Roll mark "ZELTWEG BST 1893". ORF broadcast, Salzburg Today, video (2:31 min)
Coordinates: 47 ° 45 ′ 23.3 " N , 13 ° 25 ′ 49.3" E