Seegrube

About this audio guide

This guide to the Seegrube cable-car station above Innsbruck follows the money behind an Alpine view, from a coke-oven fire in nineteen twenty-eight to a private ski company's failed ownership decades later. It traces the changing hands of Nordkette's mountain railway, from the freight engineers who first built it to the municipal utility that bought it and the architect who later rebuilt it. Best heard standing on the terrace, looking back down at the city below.