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engl. / At 60 years the cable car Albonabahn is<br />
an elderly lady. It has been taking avid winter<br />
sports fans and panor<strong>am</strong>a-loving hikers up to<br />
the Albona ridge since 1957. In all those years<br />
the lift system saw quite a few innovations as<br />
well as highs and lows – <strong>La</strong> <strong>Loupe</strong> remembers<br />
the beginnings of the popular cable car.<br />
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Erich Bertholt, trained mechanical engineer and first operations<br />
manager, remembers the time before Albonabahn: “For<br />
passionate skiers Albona soon bec<strong>am</strong>e a f<strong>am</strong>ous n<strong>am</strong>e. Some<br />
people were taken up to the Albona plateau from Zürs in a<br />
helicopter, others made their way up on skins.” Even though<br />
there had long been plans to develop infrastructure on the<br />
Albona, the single chair lift was only realised in 1956.<br />
The construction was initiated by Emil Walch (of Hotel<br />
Mondschein), Hans <strong>St</strong>einer (Hotel Post) and then-mayor of<br />
Klösterle, Karl Brändle. After some bureaucratic hurdles and<br />
complicated negotiations, the day finally c<strong>am</strong>e in 1957: on 13<br />
April of that year the first ride over the two sections and up to<br />
the Albona ridge celebrated its premiere.
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