Pischa sports railways
| Sportbahnen Pischa AG (LDP)
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1967 |
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Davos , Switzerland
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| management | Markus Good |
| sales | 567 thousand CHF |
| Branch | Tourism, gastronomy |
| Website | davos.ch |
The Sportbahnen Pischa AG (LDP) are a Swiss tourism companies and operators of a ski area in Davos Flüelatal.
history
At the beginning of the 1960s, Davos Parsennbahn AG first considered opening up a completely new area to relieve its main ski area. The choice finally fell on the southwest slopes of the Flüela valley.
The project, submitted to the authorities in 1963, provided for a three-section run to the Pischahorn , but had to be withdrawn as the area was used for target practice. Then a new project was submitted which included an aerial tramway with two sections to the Pischagrat. For economic reasons, this was again resized to an aerial tramway with only one section from a valley station in the Dörfji area on the Flüelapass road at 1808 m to the Mitteltälli below the Pischagrat at 2491 m. Finally, in 1967, Sportbahnen Pischa AG was founded as a subsidiary of Parsennbahnen. At this point in time, the Flüelatal was not yet electrified. Therefore, the appropriate infrastructure had to be created here before the construction of the cable cars could begin.
In 1967 the aerial tramway, which was built by von Roll , was opened. In addition, two drag lifts in the Mitteltälli and on the Flüelamäder by Garaventa were put into operation. In 1973 a third T-bar lift was built from Garaventa to the Mittelgrat. In 1993 the Mitteltälli lift was upgraded to a double drag lift with a correspondingly higher capacity.
At the end of the 1990s, Sportbahnen Pischa, like its parent company, ran into economic difficulties. This resulted in a consolidation of the mountain railway companies in Davos, whereby the participation of 52.86% of the Parsennbahnen in the Sportbahnen Pischa came to the 2003 merged Davos Klosters Bergbahnen AG . As part of a new strategy, the focus was now more on alternative winter sports and freeriding . The Mittelgrat lift was closed in 2005 and the Flüelameder and Mitteltällilifts closed in 2015.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Annual Report 2016/17 (PDF) Accessed October 11, 2017.
- ↑ Swiss cable car inventory. Accessed October 11, 2017.
- ↑ Cable car database. Accessed October 11, 2017.