Tafamuntbahn
The Tafamuntbahn is a cableway ( Pendelbahn ) with a passenger cabin in partenen in Austrian state Vorarlberg and is located at the end of the valley of the Montafon .
It connects a valley station at 1032 m above sea level. A. (near the Vermuntwerk and the valley station of the Vermuntbahn ) with the intermediate exit (support 2) at 1530 m above sea level. A. on the Alpe Tafamunt ( Maiensäss , Alpstöbli Tafamunt) and the mountain station at 1717 m above sea level. A. Like the Vermuntbahn, it is a feeder railway. The facility is owned by illwerke vkw AG and is also used by its subsidiary Golm Silvretta Lünersee Tourismus .
The Tafamuntbahn is approved for "restricted public transport" (no obligation to operate, no obligation to travel). The operational use for the maintenance and troubleshooting of the hydropower plants of the illwerke vkw has first priority for this railway. Therefore, the cable car not only has transport equipment for passenger transport, but also cargo hangers that can be attached alternately.
Word meaning
The steep drop of the Valschaviel ridge between Gaschurn and Partenen in the Rotte Rifa is called Tafamunt . The name of Davos , which is documented as Tavaus in 1213 , is derived from late Lat. * tovu "Tobel" < tubus "Tube" traced back: * ad tovātos - " in places covered by ravine debris " or * ad tovānes - " in the case of the Tobelle people ".
According to another interpretation, Tafamunt (formerly also written as Tavamunt, Tafamondt, Dafamont) should be derived from “ Tobel ” in the meaning “ the rear ”, “ rearward ”, thus in the sense of “ rear mountain ” (mont / Monte ( ital . / span. / portug .), lat .: mons = mountain).
history
The Tafamuntbahn was built in 1963 for the construction of the Kopswerk I (1962 to 1969) and renewed in 1981. It can transport loads of up to 6 tons. Originally only intended as an operating cable car operated by illwerke vkw , it was approved for semi-public transport in 1970 and has since served hikers as an aid to climbing to the surrounding destinations.
During the construction of Kopswerk II (2004 to 2008), intensive use was made of the capacities of the Tafamuntbahn. In addition, from 2004 to 2007, two material ropeways with a load capacity of up to 12 tons for further load transports to construction lot 2 of Kopswerk II were built and operated in parallel (auxiliary ropeway Tafamunt 1 and 2).
In 2009, after completion of the work on Kopswerk II, the Tafamunt cable car system was renovated and the cable car cabin renewed ( Carvatech company ) and inaugurated on August 13, 2009. Until the renovation, 624,000 people and around 28,700 tons of material were transported in the cable car cabin.
Technical data of the system
The aerial tramway was renewed by the Steurer Seilbahnbau company in Doren in 1981. In 2004, the cable car was significantly renewed by the company Doppelmayr (electrical components), Garaventa (mechanical parts), company Kissling (gearbox), company Steurer in Doren (recovery equipment and recovery concept) (new drive, gearbox, drive pulley, brakes, emergency drive, etc. .). The main parts of the old system came from Waagner-Biro and Von Roll . Before the conversion in 2004, a direct current drive via a Ward-Leonard set was used to control the driving speed .
- Cable height in the valley station: 1032 m
- Rope height intermediate exit: 1530 m
- Rope height in the mountain station: 1717.80 m
- Carrying rope diameter load track: 56 mm (carrying rope 1)
- Carrying rope diameter of the passenger lane: 45 mm (carrying rope 2)
- Pull rope diameter: 29 mm (compacted steel wire rope 6 19)
- Cable pulley diameter (mountain and valley station): 4 m
- Difference in altitude: 685.80 m
- Operating length ( inclined length ): 1287.80 m
- horizontal length: 1079 m
- Mean slope: 64.6%
- Supports: 3
- Tensioning station: valley station
- Tensioning device: directly tensioned suspension ropes - tension weights
- Drive station: valley station
- Drive power (operation): 250 kW ( frequency converter )
- maximum current consumption: 1100 A (short-term for arrival)
- Transport equipment suspension cable 1: a 6 to load suspension with two cable winches (3 to load capacity each)
- Driving equipment suspension cable 2: a passenger cabin (Carvatech)
- Capacity of driving equipment: 30 + 1 people
- Nominal travel speed 4 m / s
- Direction of travel: aerial tramway operation
- Travel time: approx. 5 minutes
- largest transport capacity per hour and direction: 180 people.
Illwerke-Park Partenen
The Illwerke-Park Partenen at 1030 m above sea level. A. is open to the public and was built and opened in 2010 on an area of around 10,000 m 2 . The park was created on the storage and construction area for the Kopswerk II after the construction work was completed (2008) and is located directly at the valley station of the Tafamuntbahn.
Woods suitable for the location were planted and selected from an ecological point of view for the existing flora and fauna .
hike
The intermediate station at pillar 2 is the standard exit, and transport to the mountain station is only available at the special request of the hiker. Right at the intermediate exit in Inner-Tafamuntmaisäß is the Alpstöbli Tafamunt (also: Jausenstation Tafamunt) at about 1533 m. ü. A.Template: height / unknown reference Located at altitude.
The Wiegensee (approx. 1.5 hours walking time, high moors ), the Alpe Verbella ( Versalspitze ) or the Kopssee are popular destinations. The Heilbronner Hütte can be reached in around 4.5 hours.
Web links
Remarks
- ↑ Alpenstube Tafamunt.
- ↑ This intermediate exit is the normal exit. Transport to the mountain station is possible on request.
- ↑ See also: Alpstrategy Vorarlberg, Sömmerung and Habitat Diversity, study carried out on behalf of the Vorarlberg Nature Conservation Council, October 2013, p. 45: Online ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
- ↑ Josef Zösmair, Die Bergnames Vorarlbergs, UT: if possible on a documentary basis, Verlag der Vorarlberger Buchdruckerei-Gesellschaft mbH, Dornbirn 1923, p. 19.
- ↑ Auxiliary cable car Tafamunt 2: height difference 660m, operating length 1300m, carrying cable diameter 42mm, pulling cable 16mm, two supports with 20m height and two inlet supports with 8m height. Propulsion: diesel (winch).
- ↑ The old cable car cabin dates from 1946 and was already in operation at three other cable car systems.
- ↑ Tafamuntbahn, blessed new gondola .
- ↑ Data partly taken from Seilbahntechnik.net .
- ↑ Altitude measurement function on http://vogis.cnv.at/atlas/init.aspx?karte=adressen_u_ortsplan
Coordinates: 46 ° 58 ′ 6 ″ N , 10 ° 3 ′ 49 ″ E