Trittkopfbahn
| Trittkopfbahn I | |
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 Valley station of the EUB Trittkpfbahn I
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| Location: |
Zürs , Austria
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| Design type: | 10 MGD |
| Construction year: | 2016 |
| Mountain: | Trittkopf , (Zürs) |
| Valley station: |
Zürs , 1724 m |
| Height difference: | 503 m |
| Mountain station: |
Ochsenboden , 2227 m (Zürs) |
| Route length: | 1978 m |
| Driving time: | 5.75 min |
| Number of gondolas: | 76 (including Trittkopfbahn II) pc. |
| Number of supports: | 11 pcs. |
| Capacity: | 2400 people / hour |
| Manufacturer: | Doppelmayr |
| Operator: | Ski Zürs AG |
| Website: | www.ski-zuers.at |
| Trittkopfbahn II | |
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 Top station of the Trittkpfbahn II
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| Location: |
Zürs , Austria
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| Design type: | 10 MGD |
| Construction year: | 2016 |
| Mountain: | Trittkopf, (Zürs) |
| Valley station: |
Ochsenboden , 2227 m (Zürs) |
| Height difference: | 193 m |
| Mountain station: |
Trittkopf , 2420 m |
| Route length: | 959 m |
| Driving time: | 2.75 min |
| Number of gondolas: | 76 (including Trittkopfbahn I) pc. |
| Number of supports: | 5 pcs. |
| Capacity: | 1200 people / hour |
| Manufacturer: | Doppelmayr |
| Operator: | Ski Zürs AG |
| Website: | www.ski-zuers.at |
The Trittkopfbahn is a two sections cableway ( gondola ) in Zürs in Austrian state Vorarlberg and is located on the south edge of Zürs.
The Trittkopfbahn I connects the valley station in Zürs at 1724 m above sea level. A. with the middle station in the Ochsenboden area at 2227 m above sea level. A. and from there as Trittkopfbahn II to the mountain station at 2,420 m above sea level. A. near the northern stepping head. The middle station of the Trittkopfbahn on the so-called Ochsenboden at 2227 m above sea level. A. is also the mountain station of the Flexenbahn . The Trittkopfbahn I and II facilities are owned by Ski Zürs AG and are located in the Ski Arlberg ski area .
The name of the cable car is derived from the Trittkopf mountain ( 2720 m above sea level ).
history
Lech and Zürs are well-known ski resorts and Austria's first drag lift opened in Zürs in the winter of 1936/37. Three years later, the first ski lift in Lech was put into operation and a large number of other ascent aids were then built. The first Trittkopfbahn ( pendulum cable car ) was put into operation on 24 December 1962nd The opening ceremony took place on January 27, 1963, to which Federal Chancellor Alfons Gorbach also traveled. The construction time was only eight months. It led directly from Zürs to the area of today's mountain station in a straight line.
The development of the Trittkopf had been a concern in Zürs for a long time and the ski lifts Ing. Bildstein & Co. and the mountain railway company Zürs Walch & Co. merged to form the “Zürser Seilbahngesellschaft Franz Schmid & Co”. This merger made it possible to use the cable car to implement the tread head. After the 2015/16 winter season, this system was shut down on April 17, 2016 and demolition work began on April 24, 2016. Around 10 million passengers were transported during its 54-year operation.
The new construction of the Trittkopf I and Trittkopf II cable cars is said to have cost around 17 million euros and was part of a total investment of 45 million euros for further improvements and cable car systems ( Albonabahn II and Flexenbahn as well as a new practice slope lift ). This created the largest connected ski area in Austria on the Arlberg .
Technical specifications
Trittkopfbahn I
The valley station of the practice slope lift (detachable 6-seater chairlift) is also integrated into the Trittkopfbahn I valley station. For the valley station building in Zürs for the new practice slope lift and the Trittkopf lift I, it was necessary to relocate the Zürsbach over a length of approx. 98 m.
- Valley station: Zürs at 1724 m
- Middle station (mountain station): Zürs at 2227 m
- Owner: Ski Zürs AG
- Manufacturer: Doppelmayr , Wolfurt
- Cable car type: 10-person monocable gondola (MGD)
- Orientation of the facility: largely from northwest (valley station) to southeast (mountain station)
- Transport capacity: 2400 people / hour
- Construction: spring 2016 (construction time 7 months)
- Opening: December 2, 2016
- Length: 1.9 kilometers
- Difference in altitude: 503 m
- Route length: 1978 m
- Horizontal length: 1910 m
- Number of supports: 12 (maximum support height approx. 49 m - support 3)
- Greatest ground clearance: 49 m
- Maximum delivery rate: 2400 people / h
- Average travel time: 5.75 min
- Driving speed line: 6.0 m / s
- Rope manufacturer: Fatzer
- Length of the hauling rope: around 4000 m
- Total weight of the hoisting rope: 40 t
- Conveyor rope diameter: 52 mm
- Tensioning station for the hoist rope: valley station (hydraulically adjustable)
- Drive station: middle station (mountain station)
- Drive type: electric
- Operating resources: 76 CWA OMEGA IV-10 SI with seat heating
- People per resource: 10
- Parking: above floor in the valley station
- Direction of travel: counterclockwise
- Season time: winter operation
Middle station Ochsenboden
The above-ground two-storey building of the middle station in steel frame construction stands on a concrete base and is located on the plateau of the so-called Ochsenboden and forms the intersection of the Trittkopfbahnen I and II and the Flexenbahn. It is 2227 m above sea level. A. Due to the three cable cars converging here, the building has a strikingly curved Y-shape. The maximum building height is approx. 11.5 m. In some cases, photovoltaic modules were integrated into the facade. The intermediate station of the Trittkopfbahnen and the mountain station of the Flexenbahn are located on the upper floor of the building. The basement of the building houses the Hall Of Fame ski museum , and the basement and basement also house the technology, storage and toilet rooms. The drives of all three cable cars are located in this middle station. In the middle station, only half of the cabins make their way to the Trittkopf, the other half drive back towards Zürs. The cabins that use the Trittkopfbahn II pass through the intermediate station without opening the doors, which is why there are two separate access areas in Zürs, one for a journey to the mountain station at Trittkopf and the other for a journey to the intermediate station. It is not possible to return from the mountain station to the middle station on skis.
Trittkopfbahn II
Starting from the Ochsenboden middle station, section II leads to the area below the northern Trittkopf.
- Valley station (middle station): Zürs at 2227 m
- Mountain station: Zürs at 2420 m
- Owner: Ski Zürs AG
- Manufacturer: Doppelmayr , Wolfurt
- Cable car type: 10-person single cable gondola (MGD)
- Orientation of the facility: largely from northwest (valley station) to southeast (mountain station)
- Transport capacity: 1200 people / hour
- Construction: 2016 (construction time 7 months)
- Opening: January 7, 2017
- Length: 0.9 kilometers
- Difference in altitude: 193m
- Route length: 958m
- Horizontal length: 931 m
- Number of supports: 6 (maximum support height is approx. 22 m - support 5A)
- Maximum delivery rate: 1200 people / h
- Average travel time: 2.75 min
- Driving speed line: 6 m / s
- Rope manufacturer: Fatzer
- Conveyor rope diameter: 52 mm
- Tensioning station for the conveyor rope: mountain station (hydraulically adjustable)
- Drive station: valley station (middle station)
- Drive type: electric
- Operating resources: 76 CWA OMEGA IV-10 SI with seat heating
- People per resource: 10
- Parking: above floor in the valley station (section 1)
- Direction of travel: counterclockwise
- Season time: winter operation
Old plant
The two 10-seater gondolas Trittkopf I and Trittkopf II replace the previous aerial tramway of the same name , which was built by VÖEST-Alpine in 1962 . The route led away from the same point as it is today and extended from Zürs in a straight line to the area of today's mountain station without a stopover. The first pillar was quite imposing at 93 m and with its red cabins the Trittkopfbahn was something like the landmark of Zürs. With a capacity of 600 people per hour, you had to wait an average of 15 minutes in the high season. The former mountain station building of the aerial tramway was left and renovated, the station entrance was glazed.
- Valley station: Zürs at 1725 m
- Mountain station: Zürs at 2422 m
- Owner: Ski Zürs AG
- Manufacturer: VÖEST-Alpine
- Cableway Type: pendulum cableway
- Orientation of the facility: largely from northwest (valley station) to southeast (mountain station)
- Commissioning: December 24, 1962
- Difference in altitude: 697 m
- Route length: 1810 m
- Mean slope: 41.9%
- Greatest slope: 64.3%
- Number of supports: 2 truss supports from VÖEST AG with 93.66 m (support 1) and approx. 60 m (support 2)
- Maximum conveying capacity: after conversion in 1983 600 p / h (originally 500 p / h)
- Travel time: 5.2 min
- Driving speed. After conversion in 1983 10 m / s (originally 7 m / s)
- Suspension cable brakes: yes
- Driving equipment: 2 light metal cabins from Swoboda for 45 + 1 people (conversion 1983, before 50 + 1 people)
- Main drive type: DC motor (main drive 1 with 400 kW , emergency drive with 175 kW from BBC Brown Boveri )
- Emergency drive: Diesel engine with Ward-Leonard converter and a generator output of 210 kW
- Diesel engine: Mercedes-Benz MB 846 (6-cylinder in-line engine with approx. 191 kW and rated speed 1500 rpm)
- Drive pulley diameter: approx. 4 m
- Gearbox: oil-filled spur gear (1486 / min - 55 / min)
- Safety brake: hydraulic drum brake on the drive pulley
- Service brake: disc brake on the motor shaft
- Rope manufacturer: VA-Austria Draht GmbH
- Support ropes: 2 x 1980m with 50 mm diameter
- Pull rope: 1980 m with a diameter of 28 mm
- Opposite: 1920 m
- Rope tension: Tension weights: bottom station 2 x 35 t for the suspension ropes - top station 1 x 25 t for the pull rope
Huber's early plan to extend from the northern Trittkopf to the Vallugagrat was not implemented.
criticism
The new construction of the systems has not only met with positive feedback. The permanent and sometimes irreparable interventions in the environment were particularly criticized. This concerns u. a. also in particular the use of previously completely undeveloped and unused areas to and on the Ochsenboden and the connection to Alpe Rauz via the Flexenbahn. Doubts also arose with regard to the dimensioning of the middle station with a large roof terrace.
Ski Area
The Trittkopfbahn belongs to the Ski Arlberg ski area and lies on the border between the Austrian states of Vorarlberg and Tyrol . Since the 2016/17 season it has been the largest contiguous ski area in Austria.
Web links
- Ski Arlberg is investing 45 million euros in four new cable car projects , Vorarlberg Online, February 18, 2016.
- After a technical defect: 46 people roped off the Lech gondola , vol.at dated February 11, 2015 (related to the old Trittkopfbahn)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The European watershed in the Alps between the Rhine and the Danube runs in the south from the Albonagrat to the top of the pass, descending over the Valluga and the Trittkopf to the Flexenpass and from Flexenspitz follows the southern end of the Lechquellengebirge to the Klostertal to the west.
- ↑ Trittkopfbahn .
- ↑ "Free beer at the last ascent," Vorarlberger Nachrichten of 16-17. April 2016, p. A4.
- ↑ "Free beer at the last ascent," Vorarlberger Nachrichten of 16-17. April 2016, p. A4.
- ↑ The previous fixed-grip double chairlift was dismantled in 2015.
- ↑ The Zürsbach is a mountain stream of the northern limestone Alps and rises in the area of the Flexenpass and flows towards the Lech river and has a catchment area> 10 km².
- ↑ Lift-World.info Trittkopfbahn I.
- ^ Ski Arlberg, Pool West: Run of Fame. Retrieved December 3, 2017 .
- ^ Ski Arlberg - St. Anton-Lech-Zürs • The pitfalls of a large ski area. Documentation of the cable cars in Ski Arlberg. Retrieved March 8, 2020 .
- ↑ Lift-World.info Trittkopfbahn II.
- ↑ Construction diary Arlberg 2016 - alpinforum.com. Retrieved December 6, 2017 .
- ↑ Data according to: Lift-World.info to the old Trittkopfbahn and Trittkopfbahn.de .
- ↑ Trittkopfbahn , Alpinforum.com.
- ^ Vorarlberg Nature Conservation Ombudsman (private website).
- ↑ Negotiating document of the District Commission Bludenz .
- ↑ Ski Arlberg: Flexenbahn is open orf.at, December 2, 2016, accessed December 2, 2016.
Coordinates: 47 ° 10 ′ 5.5 ″ N , 10 ° 9 ′ 53.5 ″ E