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The story of the Stilfser Joch road in cronological order:

 
1812 Planning
The later project tor the present-day road over the Stilfersjoch was based on the surveys carried out in 1812 by engineer "Capo...
1825 Building of the road
The building of the road Within just five years the Lombardian road construction firms of Pietro Pali and Antonio Talacchini soli...
1854-1904 Maintenance
In 1854, to conserve the Stilfser Joch road, the reforesting of the edges of the woods alongside the road was begun. After 1859,...
1876 A murder on the Stilfser Joch road
The large percentage of visitors from English-speaking countriesis noticeable. One reason für this lay in a murder which made...
1914 - 1918 First World War
On  the eve of WWI the Aus¬trian general statt considered the high mountains as a "militarily inaccessible area". In the...