Cabin lift

The cabin lift was an overhead monorail in Ziegenhain (Schwalmstadt) . The horizontal elevator connected the main hospital building there with an auxiliary building, separated by a forest and about 500 meters away.

Construction began in April 1975. Two stations, nineteen pillars, a pylon and a 569.50 meter long route were built. The official inauguration by the Federal Minister for Research and Technology, Hans Matthöfer , took place on March 29, 1976. A cabin operated on the route without stopping. It could hold a maximum of 12 people. Patients in hospital beds were also transported. The top speed was between 20 and 30 km / h, a single trip took about two minutes. Shortly before reaching one of the two stations, the driving speed slowed down to 3 km / h. The cabin was automatically lowered to the level of the stations to stop at ground level to allow entry and exit.

The manufacturers of the system were Demag and Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm (MBB). The cabin lift came from a BMFT development project in the early 1970s under the name Cabinentaxi . On a test track in Hagen-Vorhalle that was initially 150 meters long and expanded to 1.9 kilometers in the final stage, there were separate cabins with which passengers were supposed to get to their destination fully automatically on request and without an intermediate stop. In 1981 this project was discontinued and the test facility in Hagen was completely dismantled.

The cabin lift was decommissioned in 2002, dismantling and dismantling stretched over several years in several stages.

literature

Klaus Dieter Becker: Dream, invent, improve the world. Out of my life . Publishing house Haag + Herchen, Frankfurt / M. 2002, ISBN 3-89846-211-0 .

Individual evidence

↑ The first cabin lift system opened in Schwalmstadt-Ziegenhain near Kassel . In: Local traffic practice . tape 24 , no. 4 , January 1, 1976 ( trb.org [accessed June 10, 2016]).
^ Sylke Grede: Cabin lift at the hospital. In the floating taxi . In: Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine from August 10, 2012

Web links

The operator's advertising film last accessed on May 4, 2013
Detailed article by Karsten Leiding, last accessed on May 4, 2013
Report on cable car systems in the magazine of the German Museum of Technology Berlin, issue 2-2009 (PDF; 1.0 MB) last accessed on May 5, 2013
Podcars and People Mover in the Book of Synergy, last accessed on September 26, 2015

50.922372222222 9.256575Coordinates: 50 ° 55 ′ 21 ″ N , 9 ° 15 ′ 24 ″ E

[1] The first cabin lift system opened in Schwalmstadt-Ziegenhain near Kassel . In: Local traffic practice . tape 24 , no. 4 , January 1, 1976 ( trb.org [accessed June 10, 2016]).

[2] Sylke Grede: Cabin lift at the hospital. In the floating taxi . In: Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine from August 10, 2012