Laas marble way – sloped railway track way

The sloped railway track in Laas, a technical cultural property of South Tyrol, was built in 1929 and taken in enterprise in October 1930. To the 80. Birthday of the sloped railway track, on 29 August 2010, the new topic way – the sloped railway track way - was opened.

The sloped railway track way leads from the valley station of the marble sloped railway track (876m) in zigzags to the St. Martinchurch and up to the mountain station at the “Bremsberg” (1.355m).
From the panorama point at „the change “of the load bridges, we have a wonderful view to Laas and the Vinschgau sun mountain.
That way is in the National Park Stilfserjoch and in the spruce-larch-forest.

At the sloped railway track way, 5 boards inform over:
- the valley station in “Loch” and the building history of the sloped 
  railway track starting from the year 1929
- the technical data to the sloped railway track 
- the St. Martinchurch from that 17. century and the marble
  transport in times before the building of the sloped railway track
- the mountain station at the “Bremsberg”
- a short firm portrait of the Laas of marble work and recital the
  historical mining places.

Going time: ca. 1.5 hours (ascent)
Importantly: walking shoes recommended

Information to the Laas marble mining:
- the electrical ropeway at the gallery entrance of the marble
  quarry „Weißwasser“ spans the Laas valley and lowers the
  broken marble blocks into the location „Aufleig “
- the upper railway with diesel locomotive brings the blocks over
  altogether a 1.800m long track up to the “Bremsberg”
- the sloped railway track lowers the blocks from 1.355m on 876m
  into the bottom of the valley
- the likewise the same-trieven lower railway brings the stones of
  the valley station in the „Loch “over „the iron bridge“ of the Etsch
  under the cranes in the marble camp.

Information to the sloped railway track:
- year of construction: 1929
- start-up: 25. October 1930
- technology: Company Bleichert and Co. Leipzig
- length of the track route at the sloped railway track: 960m
- track width: 2,535m
- payload: 18 tons
- machine: 260 HP
- valley station: 876m
- mountain station: 1.355m
- difference in altitude: 479m

(Reference: Der Vinschger Wind 18-10 / Artikel „Nationalpark Stilfserjoch: Loch und Bremsberg – die Laaser Marmorschrägbahn“)