Lecture
Carl Ghega as a road and railway builder in Tyrol
Most people will associate Ghega’s name with the construction of the Semmering railway line. What is less well known is that Ghega spent crucial years of his professional life in Tyrol before that.
Among other things, he planned the sensational road through the Valsugana around 1841 and was appointed as an expert for the road from Meran to the Vinschgau and for the Finstermünzer road. From 1853 to 1859, Ghega was the builder of the “k. k. Nordtiroler Staatseisenbahn von Innsbruck bis an die bayerische Gränze nächst Kufstein” and in 1858 acted as the trouble shooter for the delayed k. k. Südtiroler Staatseisenbahn from Verona to Bozen and was the delegate of the Minister of Trade for the sale of the Tyrolean lines to the private Südbahn-Gesellschaft.
These and other aspects will be discussed in the lecture.