Carvatech

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Carvatech body and cabin construction
legal form GmbH
founding 2005
Seat Oberweis ( municipality of Laakirchen ), Austria
management Reinhard Aschauer and Robert Vockenhuber
Number of employees 60 (2003)
sales 6.5 million euros (2003)
Branch Metal construction
Website www.carvatech.com

Carvatech Karosserie- und Kabinenbau GmbH is an Austrian manufacturer of cabins for cable cars and car bodies in Oberweis ( municipality of Laakirchen ). Previously the company was called Swoboda Kabinenbau, Karosserie- & Stahlbau Ges. Mb H. In 2003 the company had a turnover of 6.5 million euros with around 60 employees.

prehistory

Cabin (4th generation) of the Rax cable car ; manufactured in 2002, completely overhauled in 2015/16
Carvatech cabin of the Untersbergbahn in Grödig , Salzburg
Carvatech set of the Salzburg fortress railway

The company was founded shortly after the Second World War in Oberweis by Josef Swoboda as "Traunsteinwerkstätten Josef Swoboda". Initially, the focus was on body scrubbing. This business area was expanded in the 1970s as part of a collaboration with Rosenbauer International AG to include the construction of bodies for fire fighting vehicles.

Cable car cabins have also been built since 1956. Since then, more than 100 gondola lifts and well over 250 aerial tramway and funicular systems have been equipped with cabins, and the first ascent aids (for example the Zistlalm lift near Salzburg) were planned and built a little earlier.

At the end of the 1960s the "Traunsteinwerkstätten Josef Swoboda" were renamed (the) "Swoboda Traunsteinwerkstätten". This name lasted for years and is written on all yellow enameled factory plates. The exact company name can also be found on many pillar signs.

From Swoboda Traunsteinwerkstätten to SSG

After detachable cable car systems gradually became established by other manufacturers, the Swoboda Traunstein workshops were also thinking of such a system. The know-how for this was obtained from Switzerland - the dome technology came from the Städeli company, with which the Swoboda Traunsteinwerkstätten entered a special company structure. The knowledge of Städeli (WSO) as well as the system design and the sales department from the Swoboda Traunstein workshops were incorporated into the new company SSG (Swoboda Seilbahnbau Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung) - manufacturing and assembly continued to be the responsibility of the Swoboda Traunstein workshops. This corporate reorganization happened in 1984, and a few systems (Hössbahn, Grafenbergbahn, Jagerspitzbahn, Hösskogel etc.) were planned and sold by SSG, then produced and installed by Swoboda Traunsteinwerkstätten. The change in conditions was also reflected in the signage of the facilities - although the name Swoboda with the classic round lettering and Swoboda S is present, however, "Seilbahnbau Gesellschaft MBH" is also written; "System Städeli" for detachable lifts.

This company structure worked well until the autumn of 1986, when Swoboda Traunsteinwerkstätten had to file for bankruptcy; now the remaining departments have also been taken over by Swoboda Seilbahnbau Gesellschaft mbH and a new company headquarters have been moved into Regau. At the new production site, a new type of ropeway was worked on, the group orbit, and the first system was installed on the Kasberg. In addition, the construction of other types of systems continued. The change in ownership was reflected in the system signs - from now on there is a sign with the inscription "SSG" on every system built.

From SSG to Garaventa and more history

At the beginning of the 1990s, Städeli was taken over by Garaventa. From then on, the location in Regau was used by Garaventa. Garaventa Austria finally merged in 1996 with the traditional Austrian company Girak to become Girak-Garaventa; From now on, what was left of Swoboda was responsible for the construction of armchairs for Girak-Garaventa, from then on cable cars were produced in Korneuburg near Vienna in the former Girak factory. Garaventa finally merged with Doppelmayr in 2002 to form the Doppelmayr / Garaventa Group .

Until 2001, the Swoboda group also included the “Automobile Swoboda” car dealership with branches at the same location and in Timelkam .

In the aftermath of the fire disaster on the Kaprun 2 glacier railway in 2000, members of the Swoboda company, who had built the two trains for the funicular, were also investigated. The proceedings ended in acquittals. However, Swoboda's responsibility remained controversial as a result.

Carvatech

On September 1st, 2005, Swoboda Seilbahnbau GmbH was renamed Carvatech. The company was taken over by new owners in April 2001. The name CARVATECH refers to the current managing partners ( CAR osserie V ockenhuber A schauer). In today's company information (Internet, brochures, etc.) reference is made to the long tradition of the company, but the name "Swoboda" is not used at all.

With the restructuring of the ownership structure, the Carvatech administration moved from Oberweis Castle to newly built office space.

Buildings

The following table contains an incomplete, exemplary list of the cable cars built by Swoboda. The third from last column shows the number of people who can be transported per hanger .

Location / ski area Lift name design type people Construction year annotation
Grödig Untersbergbahn Cable car 2x50 1961 Carvatech gondolas since December 2018
Salzburg Zistlalm lift T-bar lift 2 1951 1987 shut down and dismantled
Bad Leonfelden Star stone Kombibahn 8 (cabin) or 6 (armchair) 2009 Combined lift with armchairs and cabins
Brandnertal Dorfbahn Monocable gondola 8th 2007 ULTRA type cabins only, Doppelmayr cable car
Brandnertal Panoramabahn Aerial tramway 60 2007 only cabins, cable car from Steurer Seilbahnen
Dachstein Dachstein-Südwandbahn Aerial tramway 50 (+10) 2013 only cabins, one with a viewing terrace
Haag am Hausruck Luisenhöhe Chairlift 1 1964
Hochfilzen Hochfilzen 1 and 2 Drag lifts 2 ?
Hinterstoder Hössbahn Monocable gondola 6th 1985 planned by SSG, executed by Swoboda, cabins modernized by Carvatech in 2010
Hinterstoder Hösskogel Chairlift 2 1985 planned by SSG, carried out by Swoboda
Kaprun Kaprun glacier lift 2 Funicular 180 1974 only transport equipment, cable car from Waagner Biro
Kufstein Kaiserlift I and II Chairlift in two sections 1 1970 Renovated by Doppelmayr in 2015
Grän Füssener Jöchle gondola lift Monocable gondola 8th 1998 ULTRA type cabins only, Doppelmayr cable car
Merano 2000 Ifinger cable car Aerial tramway 48 1968 only cabins, cable car from Trojer
Monte Baldo Malcesine-San Michele-Monte Baldo Aerial tramway 45 or 80 2002 only cabins (type Rotair), Doppelmayr cable car
Naturno Naturns shelter Aerial tramway 25th 2004 only cabins, cable car from Doppelmayr
Ravascletto / Monte Zoncolan Valcalda-Monte Zoncolan Funifor 100 2007 only cabins, cable car from Doppelmayr
Schenna Taser Aerial tramway 25th 2004 only cabins, cable car from Doppelmayr
Stubai Glacier Chamois garden Chairlift 2 1981
Westendorf Fleidingbahn Chairlift 3 1983 Removed in 2019
Embach Hörndl lift T-bar lift 2 198? Suspensions from Doppelmayr
Hinterglemm Bergfriedlift, Seekar lift, Mitteregglift Drag lifts 2 1999 Suspensions from Doppelmayr
Söll Silleralmbahn Chairlift 3 1985 Removed in 2008
Scheffau Brandstadlbahn I and II Chairlifts 2 each 1972 Removed in 2002
Brixen im Thale Sonnberg lift Chairlift 2 1970 Removed in 1986

swell

Swoboda cabin nameplate 1998
  1. ↑ a b Article in the international cable car review
  2. ^ Österreichs Presse, Werbung, Graphik Handbuch , Association of Austrian Newspaper Editors and Newspaper Publishers, p. 511, 1966.
  3. ↑ netzeitung.de Kaprun trial against 16 suspects started ( Memento from September 6, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  4. ↑ Jürgen Dahlkamp, ​​Udo Ludwig: acquittal for God . In: Der Spiegel . No. 46 , 2009 ( online ).
  5. ↑ https://www.sn.at/salzburg/chronik/die-gondeln-fuer-die-untersbergbahn-sind-da-60754120

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