In front of the station in Klobenstein stands a special sculpture by the artist Franz Messner, symbolically referring to the Ritten narrow-gauge railway. The Ritten author Inga Hosp describes how Franz Messner came up with the idea of the goat.

A train station is a place for "migratory birds" with skin and feathers, a place marked by a certain transient modesty. After all, no one travels somewhere just to stay at the station, especially not when the entire Ritten with its mountain views and earth pyramids beckons. So Franz must have thought: whatever he was planning to create for the Klobenstein station had to be something “going,” something migratory, something forgotten, plus a little place to rest, and some information.

In a tourist destination, providing information also means reflecting on oneself, self-representation, where the image of the visitor flows into the local self-image and changes it.

After all, it must be clear to any informed guest that their mass presence does not leave the locals untouched, probably not even unchanged. Franz Messner has always had a keen sense for change brought by civilization. So, in the logic of the creative artist, who is always a seismograph with a particularly sensitive sensorium, what follows was created:

1. A station coat rack made from sections of rails from the Ritten railway, with a forgotten walking stick. But if you forget something, or if in the rush of your quick trip you didn’t pay enough attention to the whole splendor of the Ritten landscape, then come back again, leisurely, without hurry, and settle yourself more deeply on the resting bench.

2. Also created is a narrow-gauge, moving creature with distinct characteristics; it is comparable to a full-sized train like a goat to a cow, which in passing throws a clever glance around and into the mirror.

Thoughts by Inga Hosp