The history of the highest observatory of the alps operated the whole year is connected with Ignaz Rojacher, the founder of the observatory. With unbelievable will and perseverance and simplest means of transport and building in the end  of 19. century a mountain top observatory was built on 3.106m in the Tauern, in order to be able to study procedures in higher layers of the atmosphere. Since this time meteorological data are measured and collected. For weeks on end in the winter, this weather station's only contact with the outside world is by telephone. But day in, day out, it continues to transfer vital data for weather forecasts, hydrology, radiology and air chemistry to European research centres.