Kulm (venue)
The Kulm ski jump at Kulmkogel, in the background the massif of Grimmig
47.54631666666713.995461111111Koordinaten: 47 ° 32 ' 46.7 "N, 13 ° 59' 43.7 " E
The Kulm in the Styrian Tauplitz on the mountain Kulmkogel (1123 m) is the world's largest natural ski jump.
History
After the end of World War I, some enthusiasts developed the idea to build a ski jumping hill at Kulm. Hubert Neuper senior, the father of former ski jumping World Cup winner Hubert Neuper junior was the first jumper who went over the hill. He arrived here a width of 96 meters. The first ski jumping competition was held in 1950 in front of more than 10,000 enthusiastic spectators and saw the Austrian Rudi Dietrich with a length of 103.0 meters as the winner. On the ski jump easily converted the Austrian ski jumping legend Sepp " Bubi " Bradl had already reached a length of 115.0 meters.
Once in 1975, 1986 and 1996 from a world championship was conducted on the Kulm ski jump, the Kulm was most recently in 2006 the scene of the World Cup. During this event the resignation of Andreas Goldberger was officially announced. With his last flight he took leave on 13 January 2006 final of his active career.
From the Austrian Federal Railways of Salzkammergutbahn was the demand - stop ski jump built Kulm at the Ski Flying World Championships 1996 on the near the finish area by leading railway line. Since then, viewers will be in ski flying events promoted also by special train to Kulm, thus relieving the traffic on the Salzkammergut road (B 145).
In autumn 2004 the ski jump was recently remodeled and updated to the latest state of the art. From the jumpers and officials now stands as a climbing aid, a new double chairlift is available.
At the Ski Flying World Championships 2006, a new start house was built with waiting room and snack bar directly above the lead-in track for the jumpers. In the middle station of the chair lift a small ski - museum was established in the judges tower. The hill record keeping since 10 January 2009, the Austrian Gregor Schlierenzauer of 215.5 yards flew in the second competition round. He thus broke the previous record holder Sven Hanna from Forest ( Germany), with 214.0 meters, held the longest jump since 2003. In 2003, the Austrian Christian Nagiller reached a length of 220.0 meters. However, he could not stand the jump due to a binding risen in the landing phase.
Summer at the Kulm
On September 25, 2011 took place the RedBull 400 for the first time. In this running event, the entire Schanze including discharge from below had to be handled continuously upward. The winner Ahmet Arslan required for 5:04,58 min. 2012 and 2013 took place this event continued and Ahmet Arslan was his time to 4:57,50 min. improve.
Honor roll of winners
The ski flying hill at Kulm in Tauplitz was four times so far scene of the Ski Flying World Championships and regular venue for ski jumping World Cup competitions. In the story so far Springer from nine different nations could enter the list of winners.