The St. Jakob lift

For over two decades, it was possible to take a chairlift up to St. Jakob. The lift ran from today’s Stua Zirm farm up to the meadow below the Jakober Hof farm.

The chairlift, which Robert Höglinger from the Hotel Regina had purchased second-hand, first began running in 1848. In later years, it was converted into a gondola lift, and, in 1960, its ownership was transferred to Hansi Peristi from Banch. The lift was demolished in 1970.

In St. Jakob or, to be precise, from Pertan to the Gasthaus Somont, a small ski lift was also in operation from 1960 to 1969.