ASSOCIATION «FRIENDS OF THE RELLERLI»
Rellerli - NEWS
We want to preserve what our parents and grandparents built!
Spring in Saanenland, still a bit unsettled weather. It is helping the glaciers and the water recervoirs, we're thankful for that. However, we are looking forward to some sunny days that will soon herald the start of summer. Let's enjoy the spring splendour and lush meadows, the forests that are now completely dense. Flora and fauna rejoice. Enjoy the beautiful view, watch the bees buzzing around the flowers or discover a few deer? Off to the Rellerli!
We are still pursuing our goal: a new, year-round (and quietest) railway up the Rellerli should make the magnificent panoramic mountain comfortably accessible to all. We can still count on the support of our 1,100 "Friends of the Rellerli". Our project is making progress, everything is taking more and more shape. The next big step is to secure the funding, we are striving to make some progress here.
Your support is very valuable:
The planning approval procedure for the new «Rellerlibahn» has started!
We are some steps further in the planning and realization of our project. Read more in the section "Project Neu Rellerli"
Thank you very much for your support!
Freunde des Rellerli
IBAN: CH86 0634 2725 0622 5368 1
SB Saanen Bank, 3792 Saanen
PROJECT "NEU RELLERLI"
Status of the replacement of the Rellerli mountain railway
The railway construction company Garaventa AG, commissioned by us, examined several alternatives. The best solution proved to be a gondola lift with cabins for 10 people. This ensures simple, quiet and low-personnel operation, both in summer and in winter, during the day or in the evening. The large panorama-glazed gondolas offer comfortable seats for ten people; they are handicapped accessible, and with a transport capacity of 600 people per hour, they also allow the transport of sports equipment.
Site inspections have already taken place with representatives from various federal and cantonal authorities. Fortunately, they all made positive statements about the project. Evidently, the sustainable and ecology-oriented concept, which corresponds to gentle, near to nature tourism, is convincing. The feedback from wildlife and forest protection agencies is also positive. That patient work made it possible, despite the pandemic- related difficulties in maintaining contacts, to involve all those affected, and to unite them behind the railway project, can well be considered the important success of the past twelve months.
Despite separate procedures, everyone involved agrees that the new gondola and the renovation of the Rellerli building by our partner Mountain View AG can only be realized together. It is therefore important to support both projects.
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Because then it still holds true: If the next project stages can be handled optimally and
no objections are raised, the new lift could start operating in 2024
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Documents, press and newsletters
Documents
Press
Newsletter
«Ziel bleibt geräumige Gondel für alle»
Berner Oberländer (06.01.2023)
» read article (german)
«Die «leiseste Umlaufbahn der Welt»
nimmt Gestalt an»
Anzeiger von Saanen (13.12.2022)
» read article (german)
«Zurück zur alten Streckenführung ist kein Thema»
Berner Oberländer (13.10.2022)
» read article (german)
«Nächster Meilenstein ist die Überbauungsordnung»
Anzeiger von Saanen (20.04.2022)
» read article (german)
«Neue Pläne für das Rellerli»
Anzeiger von Saanen (04.01.2019)
» read article (german)
MEMBERSHIP
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Executive Committee
Rellerli, the mountain without which the whole-year tourism in Saanenland cannot be working.
Welten Heinz, Präsident // Hofmann Heinz, Kassier // Welten Heinrich, Sekretär // Keller Rolf // Reichenbach Roland // Wehren Paul
SB Saanen Bank AG, Saanen: IBAN CH86 0634 2725 0622 5368 1
E-Mail: info@reller.li