Val Gardena Railway
The Val Gardena railway was a 31 km long narrow gauge branch line that ran from the paper today in the Italian province of South Tyrol Klausen station on the Brenner railway in the Val Gardena. The 1960 disused railway was performed in Bosnian gauge of 760 mm.
- 6.1 Contemporary works
Route
To the point of departure in Klausen station squirmed a sweeping viaduct to gain much height as early as possible. The train ran along the side of the mountain through tunnels and over bridges up to Saint Ulrich. In Santa Cristina a loop tunnel is still visible today. The line was built almost the entire length of engineering structures - on the one hand to make up for the difference in altitude, on the other hand, to compensate for the partially unfavorable for a railroad topography.
History
The web was 1915/16 built as a military field railway during the First World War in a time of four and a half months to provide the time to Italy stationed there at the running front-line units with material can. During construction there were up to 10,000 workers in use: 500 civilian workers, 3,500 military workers and soldiers, and 6,000 mainly Russian prisoners of war. The Department for Routing and works were conducted by Prof. Dr. Leopold Oerley.
Most bridges along the route were to take the train into operation more quickly can, initially built of wood and later replaced by stone.
On the occasion of the construction of the railway in Val Gardena sculptor Johann Baptist Moroder (1870-1932) in 1916, instructed by Field Marshal Conrad von Hötzendorf with four large sculptures of St. Barbara, patroness of the railway workers, the Apostles Peter and Paul and an Austrian imperial eagle of concrete. The monument was erected over Klausen and later received a bronze plaque with information on the history of the web. It was the first concrete sculpture of South Tyrol.
Closure
The railway was never particularly powerful and fast. With the advent of the automobile competition that led in 1960 to decommissioning. Finally, a section of the former route has been converted into a road for the Alpine World Ski Championships 1970.
Presence
The route today is still partially in place and is used primarily as a footpath. Chance of stations and engineering structures are obtained. Within the municipal area of Santa Cristina a Planet was created on the route.
In the tunnel in St. Ulrich presented by local artist Egon Moroder Rusina in October 2000 from the graphic cycle resolution.
In St. Ulrich, a locomotive of the Austrian original design was placed on a playground and added 2008 to the former railway yard in St. Ulrich in the 1980s. On Klausen station was also long established a steam locomotive. However, this had no relation to the Val Gardena railway, but was from a southern Italian narrow gauge line. Meanwhile, this locomotive has been replaced by a model of a typical train of Val Gardena railway. The abandoned downside viaduct in Klausen is also still available.
In addition, there is at the bottom, by the road Klausen -St. Ulrich covered area of the honor Conrad built by Hötzendorfs monument with eagle sculpture. At its feet lies an old railway viaduct, adjacent to the road for a new bridge with a larger radius of curvature was built. The numerous other structures of this part have been adapted for road construction, such as enlargement of tunnels.
Rolling stock
1916, the traffic was received with locomotives that came from the located in the present-day Slovakia narrow gauge railway Ružomberok - Korytnica kúpele. The three locomotives were built by the Budapest Lokomotivfabrik MÁVAG and had once given operating numbers 1-3 of the Rózsahegy - Korytniczai helyi érdekü vasút ( RKV).
Gallery
The web in St. Christina
Locomotive of the train in St. Ulrich
Locomotive train in Ortisei
Former route of the railway in Ortisei
Resolution - Graphics in the tunnel of the artist Egon Moroder Rusina
Tunnel in Ortisei
In the vicinity of the former station Ortisei
Monument to Field Marshal Conrad von Hötzendorf Klausen
Plaque at the monument to Field Marshal Conrad von Hötzendorf on the route of the cable car station above Klausen