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The Ritten Train
The Ritten railway opened for service on 13th August 1907, at that time
connecting the main square of Bozen, the Waltherplatz with Klobenstein,
making Ritten easily accessible for tourism.
In 1907 a narrow gouge railway was completed from the center of Bozen to
Klobenstein, dropping the cog engine required for the steep 1000-meter
ascent of the mountain in Maria Himmelfahrt and continuing as a tramway,
which still is in use today, to Oberbozen and Klobenstein.
The railway brought such guests as Sigmund Freud, who celebrated his
silverwedding at Bemelman’s hotel in Klobenstein, and Bronislaw Malinowski,
considered by many the father of modern anthropology, who bought a house in
oberbozen and lived there until 1939.
The writer Hans von Hoffensthal, who was bor on the Ritten, claimed when
it was opened that the introduction of the railway changed the character of
the Ritten for ever, but the complention of a paved road in 1971 brought
further changes, and in 1966 the cog railway gave way to a cable car from
Bozen to Oberbozen. Many people now use the cable car or highway to commute
to and from Bozen in daili modern variation on the old June to September "Sommerfrische".
Renon train - Photo © gianmy57
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Recommended hotels and restaurants (we visited them...):
- Turmbach Appiano sulla strada del Vino - Eppan an der Weinestrasse
- Schoenblink-Belvedere San Genesio Atesino - Jenesien
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