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After 3 1/2 months installation time the Summer Toboggan Run Gutach in the Black Forrest was taken into operation on July 19, 2006. It has been built and it is operated by our company group.

On 28 March 2006 the construction work on the „Schwarzwaldrodelbahn“, which is a Summer Toboggan Run of the type Alpine-Coaster, in Gutach started with the “ground-breaking ceremony” . The official opening is planned in the begin-ning of August, but the test run already starts in July.

The construction works in the Thermal Erding, which will be extended by several attractions and highlights, commence just now.

On 31 January 2006 the results of the ski area tests of summer 2005 were published in the casino in Innsbruck, Austria. Among other things the innovation prize for touristic product development in the alpine summer sector was awarded to the company Josef Wiegand GmbH & Co. KG.

The four-seater transporters of the “Wie-Li” ® system fill a gap in the winter sports service business. In many resorts there is no uphill transport for toboggans and sleds. The popularity of tobogganing is increasing greatly because this winter sport does not need expensive equipment or...

Two-seater vehicles - suspended from a stainless steel track and powered by gravity-swoop round curves and over jumps until accelerated uphill at one of several low points in the circuit.

The Alpine Coaster Imst was taken into operation at the end of July 2003 after 3 months installation time. With 3535 m length it is the longest one all over the world. Only the Alpine Coaster in the Swiss Churwalden with a length of 3100 m exceeds the 3000 m record.