WIR 02/2021 [EN]

News from Around the World
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Relaunch at Snow Space Salzburg
The Salzburg ski resort is ringing in a new
era with the Flying Mozart 10-passenger gondola
lift.
A modern D-Line gondola from Doppelmayr is
currently under construction at the Austrian resort
Snow Space Salzburg. The Flying Mozart
is to replace the old gondola lift that provided
33 years of reliable service and in 58,000 operating
hours carried 33.7 million winter sports
enthusiasts and hikers up to the Grießenkar
at 1,991 meters without a single accident. In
future, the new gondola will be able to carry
up to 4,000 guests an hour. The construction
work was able to resume earlier than planned
in spring 2021.
Wolfgang Hettegger, CEO of the operating
company Snow Space Salzburg Bergbahnen,
expressed an upbeat mood: “We are fully
aware of our responsibility as a flagship tourist
operation and the reach that the construction
project for the new Flying Mozart Gondola will
have. The decision to resume the construction
work earlier than originally planned and to
complete the ultramodern 10-passenger gondola
in time for the 2021/22 winter season is
intended as a clear signal to the many tourist
operations in our region that the only way is
up following the complete suspension of this
year’s winter season and that we can look
forward to very different winters in the years
to come.”
Construction of the new Flying Mozart
Gondola is one of the cornerstones of the
once-in-a-generation project known as the
12-peak, 5-valley ski experience. The first
milestone project was already successfully
put into service for the start of the past winter
season with the new Panorama Link between
Wagrain and Kleinarl/Flachauwinkl. The new
ultramodern Flying Mozart Gondola will complete
the ski link and enable the region to take
its place among the biggest and most varied
winter sports destinations in the Alps.
Ropeway for 2023 Federal Horticultural
Show in Mannheim
A ropeway from Doppelmayr will link the
exhibition grounds Spinelli and Luisenpark at
the Federal Horticultural Show in Mannheim
(“BUGA 23”) from April 14 through October
8, 2023. The detachable gondola lift will carry
up to 2,800 passengers per hour and direction
along the 2.1-kilometer route. The trip time
in the comfortable OMEGA V cabins will take
roughly eight minutes. The ropeway installation
will be presented as a sustainable mobility
solution at BUGA 23 – visitors will experience it
as a means of urban transport. The gondola is
to be constructed in 2022.
Further information on
BUGA 23 is available at:
www.buga23.de/englisch
BUGA 23
The Federal Horticultural Show in Mannheim
will run for 180 days from April through to October
2023 on the former Spinelli military base in
Mannheim’s northeast and in parts of Luisenpark.
A program of over 5,000 events and at-
tractions is planned. The organizers of BUGA
23 expect to see 2.1 million visitors. BUGA 23
is both a horticultural show and an urban development
with room for new ideas and part
of Mannheim’s Northeast Green Corridor Project,
connecting 230 hectares of green spaces
that stretch into the city center. At the former
Spinelli Barracks, more than 62 hectares of
land are to be cleared and relandscaped for
the 2023 Federal Horticultural Show.