Venter Street
| State road L240 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Start of the street: |
Zwieselstein ( 46 ° 56 ′ N , 11 ° 2 ′ E ) |
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| End of street: |
Vent ( 46 ° 52 ′ N , 10 ° 55 ′ E ) |
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| Overall length: | 13.39 km | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| The Venter Straße below Heiligkreuz | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Course of the road
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Map with all coordinates: The Venter road ( L 240 ) is a national road in Tirol . It leads from Zwieselstein in the Ötztal through the Venter valley to Vent and is 13.39 km long.
course
In Zwieselstein, Venter Straße branches off from Ötztalstraße (B 186) into the Venter Valley and initially leads on the left bank of the Venter Ache through Bodenegg and Heiligkreuz . After Heiligkreuz it changes to the right bank for almost 2 km and passes Winterstall. In the following section on the left side of the valley, the road is particularly endangered by falling rocks , mudslides and avalanches and leads through several galleries . In Vent it runs through the village and ends after the bridge over the Venter Ache in front of the Hotel Vent.
history
Up until the 20th century, Vent could only be reached from the Ötztal via a mule track , which Franz Senn , then curate in Vent, had expanded to promote tourism in 1867. Since 1913 the Ötztalstraße led to Zwieselstein, the planned extension to Vent was prevented by the First World War . In the inter-war period, due to lack of money and technical difficulties, construction on the road was slow. In 1927 the first car drove to Vent on the existing roads. The road was not completed until 1956, but only one lane. There was a one-way regulation that changed direction every hour. In 1972 part of the road was relocated, new bridges were added and widened. The road has been continuously passable in two lanes since 1976. As a result, the road was gradually built to be avalanche-proof. In 2015 the formerly separate galleries Glasair and Bruchscheibe were connected by another gallery. This created a continuous gallery with a length of 1320 m.
Despite the protective structures, Venter Straße is repeatedly laid by mudslides, rockfalls and, above all, avalanches. Between 1986 and 2004, the road had to be closed 173 times between Bodenegg and Winterstall and 241 times between Winterstall and Vent, with the month of March being the most frequently blocked month. In May 2019, a large rock fall moved the road between Winterstall and Vent, which then had to remain closed for two weeks and was only passable in one lane in the following weeks and was closed at night. During the full closure, Vent was supplied with an airlift .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Office of the Tyrolean Provincial Government (Ed.): Statistical Manual of the Federal State of Tyrol 2019. Innsbruck 2019, p. 10 ( PDF; 14.2 MB )
- ↑ Hasso v. Busse, Thomas Seidel, Dietmar Munz, Helmut Heuberger: The socio-economic structural change of the inner Ötztal (municipality of Sölden). Studies on population development, workforce and tourism. In: MaB-Projekt Obergurgl, Publications of the Austrian MaB-Program, Volume 10, Innsbruck 1987, pp. 25–114, here p. 41. hdl : 10013 / epic.40860.d001 (PDF; 16.5 MB)
- ↑ a b Hannes Schlosser: Alpine history in a nutshell: Vent in the Ötztal. Austrian Alpine Association, 2nd, updated edition, Innsbruck 2020 ( PDF; 2.3 MB )
- ^ Wilbrand Woebcken: History of Vent, the mountaineering center of the Ötztal Alps. Würzburg 1982, p. 20 ( digitized version )
- ^ Office of the Tyrolean provincial government, traffic and road department (Ed.): Annual report 2015. Landesstraßen Tirol: Construction, maintenance and road service. P. 65 ( PDF; 4.4 MB )
- ↑ Supply of the ventilators is assured. tirol.orf.at from May 23, 2019