TL;DR
Nassfeld is putting €13 million into a new 6-seater chairlift, the Tressdorfer Almbahn, connecting Sonnleitn with the Tressdorfer Alm from December 2026. It replaces three ageing drag lifts and will run through summer too, from June 2027, moving up to 2,500 people an hour on the roughly three-minute ride. It's the latest step in Carinthia's largest ski resort building out a genuine year-round offering, following last year's Gartnerkofelbahn gondola.
Nassfeld is putting €13 million behind a new chairlift that will connect Sonnleitn with the Tressdorfer Alm, replacing a trio of ageing drag lifts on that side of the mountain.
The Tressdorfer Almbahn, a modern detachable 6-seater, is under construction and set to open for the 2026/27 winter season. Nassfeld Pramollo AG, the mountain railway company running Carinthia's largest ski resort, describes it as one of the region's most significant recent lift investments.
What the new lift replaces
From December, the Tressdorfer Almbahn takes over the connection currently served by drag lifts on the Sonnleitn side of the mountain, moving up to 2,500 people an hour on a roughly three-minute ride. For skiers and snowboarders, that mostly means an easier, more comfortable way to move between sections of the resort - and the operator expects it to smooth out traffic flow across Nassfeld more broadly as well.
A lift built for summer too
The Tressdorfer Almbahn isn't just a winter project. From June 2027, it joins Nassfeld's summer lift network alongside the Millennium Express, the Gartnerkofelbahn, and the Madritschen chairlift - giving hikers, families, and other warm-weather visitors a new route up the mountain. Nassfeld Pramollo AG frames the €13 million outlay as an investment in the wider region as much as the ski season itself, with flow-on benefits expected for hotels, restaurants, mountain huts, and other local operators given how explicitly the lift's been designed for both winter and summer use.
Nassfeld has been leaning into that kind of year-round positioning for a while now. The resort already counts more than twenty attractions and activities aimed at families, mountain bikers, hikers, and other non-skiers, and the new lift is meant to open up more of that terrain across a longer stretch of the year rather than just during ski season.
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