Saturday, 24 may 2025
Zauberg Expressz
One-day trip with the Continental Classic Express to the Semmering-pass
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Semmering is simply inseparable from the feeling of living a spring in the mountains. We can return to the world of bygone times, to its unique atmosphere at the end of strong conversations and walks, which was marked by art and culture.
The history of the southern railway, the Südbahn, was written by bold visionaries, great engineers, powerful rulers and risk-taking investors. One of them - and perhaps the most important of them - was the knight Carl von Ghega. His face can be found on the twenty-shilling banknote issued in 1967. The reverse side of the banknote is decorated with perhaps his most famous enterprise: the Southern Railway and the huge 184 m long and 46 m high Kalte Rinne viaduct with a panorama of Semmering. Anyone who wants to see the picturesque view of the old twenty bank in reality can go on a tour to the lookout point called the "Twenty-Shilling View".
Carl Ghega was a hero who accomplished a task considered impossible at the time: railway crossing the 895 m high Semmerin-pass, where the steepness of the handrails reaches 20-25‰. With this, in 1854, he not only made history, but also made Austria a world leader in the construction of long and steep mountain railways. At the same time, it created an opportunity for the noble to travel comfortably to his summer residence. The railway serving the "conquest of the south" has become a tourist attraction, which touches the visitor with its lovely charm even today, just like in the past. It is no wonder that an entire museum was dedicated to its creator, Ghega.
Discover the natural and cultural values of the Semmering-pass with the Continental Classic Express, which evokes the atmosphere of classic adventure travel.
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