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Austria valley with Badgastein
Austria valley with Badgastein Mine. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
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- Austria valley with Badgastein Mine
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- Open-licence photograph
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BEFORE MODERN SPORT
Bad Gastein
How settlement, access and winter sport shaped Bad Gastein.
Scroll to read the contour through time
Bad Gastein is a spa town in the St. Johann im Pongau District of Austria.
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BEFORE TOURISM
Work and settlement beneath the snowline
It was originally an alpine farming and gold mining area and the site of an ancient trade route crossing the main ridge of the Central Eastern Alps.
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ACCESS CHANGES
A route reaches Bad Gastein
The Gastein valley is accessible by the Tauern Railway, a major railroad running from Schwarzach im Pongau in the north across the Tauern Railway Tunnel to Spittal an der Drau, Carinthia in the south.
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Stubnerkogel11
Stubnerkogel11. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
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- Stubnerkogel11
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ORGANISED SPORT
Winter becomes organised
The Bad Gastein and Bad Hofgastein ski resort is part of the larger Ski Amadé network, with Gastein valley having 4 ski areas with over 200 kilometres of downhill slopes.
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THE LIVING MAP
The mapped place
Bad Gastein is recorded at 47.116° N, 13.136° E. Its catalogue reference reaches 2,246 metres. A modern resort map compresses terrain, exposure and access into a diagram. This exhibition keeps the underlying contour visible so the place does not become only a list of facilities.
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Austria valley with Badgastein
Austria valley with Badgastein Mine. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
- Visual description
- Austria valley with Badgastein Mine
- Nature
- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0
TODAY
Bad Gastein now
Bad Gastein hosted the 1958 World Championships in alpine skiing and regularly is a scene of the snowboarding and boardercross world cup.
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THE LEDGER
Sources and credits
This exhibition is built from local, institutional and sporting records. The source ledger keeps the claims visible and leaves space for correction as further local evidence emerges.
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Artefacts in order of appearance
Austria valley with Badgastein
AOD.EU.BAD-GASTEIN.V00 · original · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0
Stubnerkogel11
AOD.EU.BAD-GASTEIN.V01 · original · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
Editorial record
Full European Beta edition. Place evidence is adapted from the linked Bad Gastein overview under CC BY-SA 4.0 and remains subject to named historical and local review. Cartography is generated from the PeakWave location catalogue.