Lambach railway station

The world's first railway station hotel

In 1976, the Volksstimme newspaper described the extremely precarious structural situation of the former Lambach station building, now Stadl Paura, which at the time served as a residential building for railway workers' families. Urgently needed renovation measures were not carried out by the owner, the Federal Railway, and vacant flats were not re-let. The owner's willingness to sell the property to the municipality of Stadl-Paura did not materialise for financial reasons. There was a threat of complete relocation and thus demolition, as no other function could be found for the largest building of the horse-drawn railway.

Lambach station once had the heaviest interchange traffic, had the first station inns with Kerschbaum and, after the addition of 14 guest rooms, had the world's first station hotel. The large stable extension was built in 1841.

The elongated, two-storey station square with 25 window axes is located at kilometre 41.5 on the right bank of the Traun. Lambach station was an official and residential building, had stables for around one hundred horses and was the busiest passenger transfer station. From here, the coaches travelled to Salzburg and Ried im Innkreis.

In the immediate vicinity, the Traun was crossed on a 106 metre long, six-bay bridge at a height of nine and a half metres. The bridge construction was a truss structure named after the American engineer William Howe. The compression rods were made of wood, with round iron bars serving as tension members. The bridge was in use until 1887 and was replaced by an iron truss bridge at the same location.