Chronical

Alpine Ski World Championships 1991

From January 22nd to February 1991 the Alpine Ski World Championships took place in Saalbach Hinterglemm. It was the biggest international event ever. Best weather conditions framed this very successful event. The first golf war which startet at the same time brought unexpected difficulties because of terror warnings.

All results of the Alpine Ski WC 1991 online

1959

The construction of the legendary Schattberg cable car was finished.

1950/51

In Hinterglemm the "Zwölferkogel - personal community" was founded and a lift was built. In the following years new lifts were built.

1947

The first chair-lift is built. Three other lifts followed.

1945

On the 17th of September 1945 some locals began to build a lift up to the "Kohlmais".  That was the re-start of the tourism in Saalbach Hinterglemm.

The first ski lift tow

1937

The road is very important and so doctor Franz Rehrl garantues the completions of the road. Now the cars are also allowed to drive to Hinterglemm. In this year we could count 40.000 overnight stays.

1935/36

Though there are economical problems many houses force the tourism. The 1,000 DM locking is removed.

1934

Cause of political troubles the guests do not come to Austria. The winter sport club tries again to force the tourism and they reach to make the first downhill race at the "Schattberg" in Saalbach.

1933

The world wide economical crisis has also reached Saalbach Hinterglemm. Many people do not have a work. Cause of the 1.000 DM-locking, odered by Hitler, the economy has a lot of problems. The German guests do not spend their holidays still in Austria. The publicity does not reach the wished game.

1930/32

A telefon line is built to Hinterglemm. In the summer we could count 3.000 overnight stays, in the winter season there are already 30.000. The cars are still not allowed to drive to Hinterglemm. Though there are big problems with the road there is also a new guest house called "Frohe Heimat".

1929

The community and the winter sport club force their cooperation. Buses drive from Saalbach to Zell am See in the winter season and later also in the summer season. Josef and Maria Berger open the first sport hotel "Penhab" with central heating. Saalbach becomes a famous skiing village.

1928

The road in Saalbach becomes enlarged.

1927

It could be reached that the railway station Maishofen is now called Maishofen-Saalbach. This is very important, because now Saalbach is noticed at the Austian Railway. The winter sport club published 10.000 prospects of Saalbach Hinterglemm. Many owners need the licence, but the municipality does not give it to everyone. So a new discussion started.

1925

In the winter 1924/25 we could already count 800 overnight stays. There are not enough beds and so the alpine union build a hut with 80 beds. Now the municipality is glad, because they get taxes of ATS 438.37. 

1924

The winter sport club convinces the community to become a member of the tourist union of Salzburg. There are big differences between the municipality and the winter sport cup. The municipality has got no money. Hinterglemm could not be reached by car. The costs for the street in Saalbach must be paid by the inhabitants. But the winter sport does not give up. Some owners of houses start to prepare rooms for guests.

1921

The tourist can spend their holiday in our area again. The winter sport club makes a lot of publicity for Saalbach Hinterglemm. The community was not very happy about the publicity, because they do not have some money for forcing the tourism.

1920

The teacher Hermann Hueter and Fritz Hochleitner found again the winter sport club Saalbach Hinterglemm.

1918 - 1938

The tourism gains a footbild. After the first world war (1914 - 1918) the population of Saalbach Hinterglemm does not have enough food and so their situation is catastrophically and they could not force the toursim. The community does not allow that any guests come to Saalbach Hinterglemm.

1914

The teacher Ludwig Ramsauer returns to Saalbach Hinterglemm and establishes with Hermann Hueter the "winter sports club Saalbach" with 44 members. In the committee are the most important people of Saalbach Hinterglemm. The winter sport club is very important for the developement of the tourism in Saalbach Hinterglemm.

1913

The 11th of march 1913 is a important day in Saalbach Hinerglemm because there is the first skiing race for children. This was a big sucess for the teachers.

1909/10

The teacher Hueter becomes 6 pairs of skis for poor children. Saalbach Hinterglemm becomes more important and the interest of the population in skiing grows. The teachers try to force skiing under the population. They also try to teach the children of our area skiing, but many of them do not have skis.

1907

Ludwig Ramsauer has to go to Bramberg. Instead of him comes the teacher Hermann Hueter, an enthusiastic skier from Tyrol. He forces from the beginning on skiing. The teachers Höll and Hueter teach the children skiing. The parents have to buy the skis. At the beginning they were not very happy about this, but after a time they accepted it! The teachers could also convince some inhabitants to make rooms available for new guests.

1906

The teachers want to puplish Saalbach Hinterglemm in a magazin in Munich, but the local government refuses with the argument: "The population is not interested that other people come to Saalbach Hinterglemm, because the inhabitents of Saalbach Hinterglemm are poor and they have got enough problems and do not need more!

1904

A military unity comes with the skis and spends their night at the guest house "Neuhaus". The owner was the only person who noticed the importance of the skiing winter guests. The Lady was enthused from the friendleness of the winter guest and the soldiers enjoy the hospitality. But you could not find the requirements for the costruction of a touristic enterprise in the village.

1903

Saalbach Hinterglemm will be discovered for skiing from the other people, who are not living in our valley. 3 Jurists come from Kitzbühel to us and are fascinated from our skiing area. One of them, doctor Theodor Gemeiner, becomes settled in Saalbach Hinterglemm and he makes a lot of publicity for our region.

1901

The teacher Ludwig Ramsauer comes to Saalbach and likes the idea of teaching skiing. The two teachers are the pioneers and Saalbach Hinterglemm profits a lot of them. The sister of Ludwig Ramsauer, called Klara, was one of the first persons who knows how to ski.

1898

In the history of a municipality it is not very often that the developement of a sport equipment called "Sky" changes a little village into an international tourist center. This happened 1898 in Saalbach Hinterglemm. In farmer times the municipality was one of the poorest in our region. The economic boom of Salzburg did not reach our valley. The last hard centuries were handled by the inhabitants of our valley with much work and there device was: "We must collaborate!".

In this year Josef Wallner brings the first "Sky" into our village. Wallner wants to leave his village and move to Saalbach. But this was not possible, because his family was to big and so there was no place for his family. He went back! As a present he gave Mr. Bachmann a pair of ski! It was a luck that the teacher in Saalbach, Peter Höll, gets the skis and he knows what they are for. He knows the book of Fritjof Nansen "On snowboots through Greenland" and knows also that skiing is in the Styrie already a famous sport. He copies some skis and gives them to some pupils for skiing. This is the beginning of skiing in Saalbach. The pupils were enthusiastic. The older people are not interested in the new sport called skiing.