On the Rails of the Double Headed Eagle
The railway age in the Austrian Empire began with the construction of the horse-drawn railway from Linz to Budweis. Plans soon followed to connect the imperial capital of Vienna with the iron and coal deposits in northern Moravia and with the port city of Trieste. In 1837 the Kaiser Ferdinands Nordbahn was opened, in 1857 the Semmeringbahn planned by Karl Ritter von Ghega, overcoming one of the most difficult obstacles on the way to the Adriatic. The crossing of the Alps by train, such as over the Arlberg or the Brenner, is still considered a unique engineering masterpiece. The expansion of the railway network brought epochal changes. Goods and people circulated on an unprecedented scale – life accelerated. It had succeeded in connecting the northern crown lands such as Silesia or Bohemia and Moravia with Carinthia, Tyrol or the coastal region.
Year: 2019
Genre: Documentary
Country: Croatia, Austria, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, Romania
Director: Björn Kölz, Gernot Stadler
Cast:
Crew: Björn Kölz (Director), Björn Kölz (Writer), Gernot Stadler (Director), Gernot Stadler (Writer), Manfred Plessl (Music), Björn Kölz (Editor)
First Air Date: May 28, 2014
Last Air date: Nov 11, 2019
Season: 1 Season
Episode: 5 Episode
Runtime: 259 minutes
IMDb: 0.00/10 by 0.00 users
Popularity: 0.6224
Language: English, German
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