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The second trunk of the funicular
Cassarate-Monte Brè was inaugurated the
18th of February of 1912; the first was opened
the 10th of June of 1910. Born out of the idea
of Enrico Brinkmann and professor Bianchini of
"giving to Lugano a summer village where
the people could, without abandoning their affairs,
enjoy the freshness of the canicula, the delightful
walks, a wonderful view"; reported by "Popolo
e Libertà" the 17th of February of
1912.
Brinkmann and prof. Bianchini took the concession
that Mr. Strub, Mr. Birken and Mr. Wenips from
Zurich had obtained in 1905, and initiated the
financing. The Ticino Banking Society succeeded
Mr. Brinkmann, who gave the concession to a joint-stock
company, formed with the capital of CHF 700,000.
Once opened the first part, Cassarate-Suvigliana,
the work for the second station began among a
thousand of difficulties and adversities, in fact
the original project for a cableway was rejected
by the Federal Department of the Post and Railways,
therefore it was necessary to obtain new capitals,
that arrived with the issue of CHF 300,000 in
privileged shares and the intervention of the
Saving and Loans Bank of Bern. |
