SkiWelt
| SkiWelt Wilder Kaiser Brixental | |
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The Current SkiWelt Logo (Copyright - Skiwelt Wilder Kaiser Brixental 2016)
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| Location | Tirol, Austria |
| Nearest city | Innsbruck |
| Lift system | 90 |
| Terrain parks | 3 |
The SkiWelt is Austria's largest interconnected ski area. It has 90 Cable car lifts and Ski lifts, 280 Kilometers (173 Miles) of Ski Pistes, and 77 Ski Huts. The member villages are: Brixen im Thale, Ellmau, Going, Hopfgarten, Itter, Kelchsau, Scheffau, Söll and Westendorf.
There are:
15 Cable cars
18 Chairlifts
19 Drag lifts
20 Practice lifts
As of 2015-2016 season, these are all of the current ski lifts.
1946 Establishment of the Westendorf Ski Lifts, the oldest company in the SkiWelt. They experienced serious difficulties in the postwar years concerning the construction costs and the amount of materials determined by the authorities
1947 Establishment of the Hopfgarten Ski Lifts. The longest chairlift in Europe (2,830m) was built in 1954, however the top station and two supports were destroyed by an avalanche.
1948 Construction of the "Alpenrosenlift" - then Austria's biggest ski lift (2,205m long) In the winter of 1948/49, a total of 22,289 winter sports enthusiasts were transported
1952 Establishment of a ski school in Westendorf
1954 Installation of the "Stricklift" drag lift in Westendorf
1959 Establishment of the Söll Ski Lifts and construction of the "Angeralm" drag lift
1960 The "Stricklift" drag lift was converted into a double T-bar
1961 Construction of the "Zieplhöfe" drag lift in Westendorf
1962 Establishment of the Scheffau ski lift company (Schilift Scheffau am Wilden Kaiser GesmbH) by 66 citizens of Scheffau.
1964 Construction of the "Kandleralm" drag lift in Brixen
1965 Construction of the Söll-Hochsöll single chairlift and the Hochsöll drag lift
1966 Hopfgarten buys its first "Ratrak" snow groomer Construction of the "Salvenmoos" drag lift in Hopfgarten
1967 Construction of the "Knolln" drag lift
1968 Transportation of the 2,000,000th passenger on the Hohe Salve lift Construction of the "Stöckl" drag lift in Söll
1969 Construction of the "Taklaser" drag lift and the "Alpenrose II" single chair lift in Westendorf Chairlift at SkiWelt Hopfgarten Chairlift at SkiWelt Hopfgarten
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