Tyrolean Zugspitzbahn
| Tyrolean Zugspitzbahn | |
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 Tyrolean Zugspitzbahn gondola
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| Design type: | Aerial tramway |
| Construction year: | July 1926 (new building July 1991 ) |
| Mountain: | Zugspitze , Wetterstein Mountains , Alps |
| Valley station: | Ehrwald , 1225 m |
| Height difference: | 1725 m |
| Mountain station: | Zugspitze , 2950 m |
| Route length: | 3600 m |
| Driving time: | 7.2 min |
| Driving speed: | 10 m / s |
| Capacity: | 730 people / hour |
| Operator: | Zillertal Glacier Railway |
| Website: | www.zugspitzbahn.at |
The Tiroler Zugspitzbahn is a cable car from the Ehrwald- Zugspitzbahn ( Ehrwald-Obermoos ) hotel complex to the western summit of the Zugspitze . It is designed as a two-cable aerial tramway (two suspension ropes, one pull rope) with three supports and opens up the glacier ski area on the Zugspitzplatt from the Austrian side .
history
After completion in January 1926, the then so-called Austrian Zugspitzbahn was opened on July 5th, 1926 as the first of the railways leading to the Zugspitze. The Tyroleans won the race with the Bavarian side for the technical development of the summit. Although the lift built by Adolf Bleichert & Co. was a technical masterpiece for its time, it only led to a mountain station below the Zugspitzkamm at 2805 m , so that the summit ( 2962 m ) was not directly accessible. With a cabin size of 19 people and a travel time of at least 16 minutes, the transport capacity was only 80 people per hour. The Zugspitzplatt could be reached for skiing via a 700 m long tunnel. The "Kammhotel" was added to the mountain station.
After financial difficulties, the owners of the Austrian Zugspitzbahn in 1937 - the year before the annexation of Austria by the German Reich - were forced to sell their shares to Bayerische Zugspitzbahn AG . After destruction in the war (bombing of the valley station), operations could be resumed as early as 1945. After the war, the railway came under Austrian administration as " German property " and from 1958 onwards, when the Tiroler Zugspitzbahn AG, based in Ehrwald, was founded, it was majority owned by the State of Tyrol. In 1960 an intermediate station was opened in the “Gamskar” (“Stütze IV”), which made it possible to ski down to Ehrwald. In 1962 the Kammhotel was destroyed by fire. It was not until May 15, 1964 that the last section between the crest station and the summit was made accessible by the 250 m long (dismantled in 1991) Tiroler Zugspitz summit railway.
The state of Tyrol privatized the railway in 1988 on condition that it be rebuilt. The majority of the shares were taken over by the Zillertaler Gletscherbahn . This is where the stylized “Z” in today's logo of the Tiroler Zugspitzbahn is based. In June 1989, Waagner-Biro began building the new Zugspitzbahn, which opened in July 1991. 13 months of delays resulted from the difficult foundation of Pillar Foundation I in the brittle Wetterstein limestone - injections totaling 2000 tons of concrete were required - as well as the damage to a suspension cable that fell to the ground when the cable was pulled and had to be replaced. The old route was abandoned. While up until now you had to change trains twice between Ehrwald and the mountain station (at the "middle station" at Pillar 4 and at the Zugspitzkamm), the train now leads directly to the summit of the Zugspitze. With a cabin size of 100 people and a travel time of ten minutes, the transport capacity is 730 people per hour. In 1997 there was a dismantling negotiation by the Tyrolean cable car authority for the old Tyrolean Zugspitzbahn. Since the crest station was considered an architecturally valuable building from the 1960s by the structural engineering expert, the building was completely cleared out and the windows were closed with larch wood cladding.
After a fire in the valley station in February 2003 - the cable car was not in operation at the time - in which the valley booth and the ropes were damaged, operations could already be started in August 2003 after the reconstruction by Garaventa Seilbahnbau with new cabin and rope material to be continued. The journey time was reduced to 7.2 minutes, but the old transport capacity of 730 people per hour and direction was retained.
Others
The Wiener-Neustädter-Hütte is supplied by the gondolas of the Tiroler Zugspitzbahn, the route of which runs above the hut.
A small museum has been set up in the summit building that documents the construction of the first and second Zugspitzbahn lifts. One of the exhibits in the museum is a functional model of the first Tyrolean Zugspitzbahn as it was in operation around 1960.
The summit of the Zugspitze can also be reached from Germany with the Zugspitze cable car and the combination of the Bayerischer Zugspitzbahn and the Zugspitz-Gletscherbahn .
In 2016 the Tiroler Zugspitzbahn celebrates its 90th anniversary with various events, including a special exhibition in the Summit Museum.
Literary reception
The construction of the Tiroler Zugspitzbahn is the subject of the play The Bergbahn von Ödön von Horváth (1927/1929). In honor of the 80th birthday of the Zugspitzbahn, Horváth's first work was performed in the summer of 2006 at the authentic location of the old valley station of the Tyrolean Zugspitzbahn on a covered open-air stage.
literature
- Technological miracle - Tiroler Zugspitzbahn. The history of the first cable car in Tyrol. Published by Zillertaler Gletscherbahn GmbH & Co KG, Innsbruck 2006
- Peter von Bleichert: Bleichert cable cars. Chapter Zugspitze, Austria / Germany. Kindle Digital Press, 2013
- The construction of the Zugspitzbahn. Der Bauingenieur: Journal for the entire construction industry, issue No. 31/1926 (7th year), July 30, 1926
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ (caption): The completion of the cable car (...). In: Wiener Bilder , No. 2/1926 (XXXI. Year), January 10, 1926, p. 7, center right. (Online at ANNO ). .
- ↑ a b c Chronicle of the Tyrolean Zugspitzbahn. Tiroler Zugspitzbahn, accessed on November 4, 2014 .
- ↑ Cost estimate for '' Oesterreichische Zugspitzbahn A-.G. in foundation '' of September 6, 1924 . Ercl.net. Archived from the original on July 30, 2012. Retrieved June 18, 2010.
- ↑ Lifts in the world. 23-AT Zugspitz summit lift . In: seilbahntechnik.net , November 12, 2016, accessed on December 1, 2017.
- ↑ lift-world.info , accessed on March 30, 2011
- ^ The civil engineer: Journal for the entire building industry, vol. 7, issue 31 . Julius Springer's publishing house, 1926 ( polsl.pl [accessed February 11, 2018]).
Coordinates: 47 ° 25 ′ 35.2 ″ N , 10 ° 56 ′ 35.1 ″ E