Reisszug
The Reisszug (also spelt Reißzug or Reiszug) is a private cable railway providing goods access to the Hohensalzburg Castle at Salzburg in Austria. It is notable for its extreme age, as it is believed to date back to 1460. A wall for its protection was errected in 1461 and a source mentions it in 1515.
Key facts
- Rail line.name
- Reisszug
- Rail line.image
- Festung Hohesalzburg with Reiszug.jpg
- Rail line.caption
- The Hohensalzburg Castle, with the lower route of the Reiszug picked out by two parallel vertical walls, whilst the gateways on the upper route can just be seen
- Rail line.type
- Cable railway
- Rail line.locale
- Salzburg, Austria
- Rail line.start
- Nonnberg
- Rail line.end
- Festung
- Rail line.stations
- 2
- Rail line.open
- c. 1500
- Rail line.maxincline
- 67%
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The Reisszug (also spelt Reißzug or Reiszug) is a private cable railway providing goods access to the Hohensalzburg Castle at Salzburg in Austria. It is notable for its extreme age, as it is believed to date back to 1460. A wall for its protection was errected in 1461 and a source mentions it in 1515.The Reisszug should not be confused with the Festungsbahn, a funicular that provides public access to the Hohensalzburg Castle, and which dates from 1892.
== History == thumb|left|220px|View of the route from below The line was first documented in 1515 by Matthäus Cardinal Lang, who would later become Archbishop of Salzburg. These dates would make it the oldest cable railway still in existence, and possibly the oldest existing railway. It has been claimed as the oldest funicular railway, although in the absence of evidence that it ever used a counterweight, this is debatable.