In 1873, niklaus riggenbach, on behalf of the basel company internationale gesellschaft für bergbahnen, applied for the construction of a cog railway leading to the swabian mountain. The construction of the railway line began immediately after the permit was issued on july 3, 1873. The manager of the construction works was ferenc cathry szaléz, a native of switzerland, who built his villa, which is still standing today, near the railway. After a year of railway construction work, and only five years after the delivery of the world's first public cogwheel railway, the first train ran on june 24, 1874, at 4:00 p. M. (note: due to the fact that the image is double-sided, there is a scanning error on the fold, the lack of image resulting from the binding. ). Date: 1875.
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