Belle-Epoque at Kandersteg
Chronology
1888 First stagecoach service in the valley
1892 Mountain hotel Oeschinen opened
1895 September 11th: second Altels glacier fall
1896 Acquisition of the 1806 Wimmis organ
1898 First set of skis in Kandersteg
1899 First mountain refuge hut built for climbing at the Doldenhorn
1901 Railway reaches Frutigen
1902 First Wildelsig mountain hut (today it's the Balmhorn hut)
1903 Kandersteg power station built
1904 Catholic services begin in the school house
1903/04 First winter touristic season
1904/05
First Scottish Curlers at Kandersteg
1905 Rescue station opened in Kandersteg
1906 October 15th: Work begins on Lötschbergtunnel
1908 July 24th: Tunnel collapses under the Gastern valley; New school built
1909 Januar 23rd: First meeting of provisional Kandersteg council.
Inauguration of Kandersteg community.
1910 Building of Church steeple and annexe
1911 March 31st: Lötschberg tunnel breakthrough
1913 July 15th: BLS reaches Kandersteg an goes through the tunnel to Brig
