The Building of the Grossglockner High Alpine Road
In the autumn of 1924 Dip. Eng. Franz Wallack was commissioned to
undertake the project of a three-metre-wide road. The Grossglockner
High Alpine Road was opened in 1935.
The History of the Road
A journey in time through the High Alpine Road project
Trails over the Hochtor: the Celts-, Romans and Pack-animal Routes
The road over the Hochtor follows ancient trails. People crossed the Hochtor almost two-thousand years before Christ.
Such finds as pre-Celtic bronze knives, Celtic gold
jewellery, a Roman Hercules statue, medieval pack-animal bridles and
the chains of galley slaves from the 17th century are proof.
Until the highpoint of trade in the 17th century, after the Brenner and the Radstadt Tauern, the Hochtor was the third most important trade route carrying almost ten per cent of the trade goods over the eastern Alps.
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