Grindelwald – Männlichen cable car
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The Grindelwald – Männlichen ( GGM ) gondola lift , also known as the Männlichenbahn Grindelwald , is a gondola lift in the Bernese Oberland in Switzerland that leads from Grindelwald to the Männlichen mountain .
Location and route
The valley station is in Grindelwald- Grund ( 937 m above sea level ) in the valley floor. The cable car takes you via the Holenstein middle station ( 1624 m above sea level ) to the Männlichen mountain station ( 2225 m above sea level ). In the middle station the direction of travel is changed slightly (bend uphill to the left). The total difference in altitude is therefore 1288 meters. From the mountain station located on a saddle, it is still a 20-minute walk to the Männlichen mountain top ( 2343 m above sea level ). The Wengen – Männlichen aerial cableway , which connects the mountain from the west, is located near the mountain station .
In summer, the Männlichen mountain station and the Holenstein middle station serve as starting points for numerous hikes. In winter, the Männlichenbahn takes skiers to the Männlichen / Kleine Scheidegg ski area . 20 cable cars and lifts with over 100 kilometers of slopes are available for winter sports enthusiasts.
Data
length
When it opened on December 23, 1978, with a total length of 6.2 kilometers, it was the longest gondola in the world, as far as modern mountain railways are meant. The norsjö ropeway is 13 kilometers significantly longer, but went from a disused goods lift out and runs in a largely flat terrain. Earlier material ropeways were up to 96 kilometers long. The Skyrail Rainforest Cableway in Australia , opened in 1995, is longer with a section of 4.8 kilometers and a total length of 7.5 kilometers.
Gondola lift from 2019
Today's Garaventa gondola consists of 111 gondolas for ten people and runs in two sections over 33 supports. The new facility, which opened in December 2019, was built a few meters to the north parallel to the old gondola lift from 1978. The new gondola has a doubled capacity of 1,800 people per hour and a significantly reduced travel time of 19 minutes.
Gondola from 1978
The gondola lift from 1978 was built by Habegger Maschinenfabrik in Thun as a fully automatic Habegger single-cable gondola . The system was built in two sections, each with a 40 mm rope. In the middle station, the four-gondolas were automatically transported from one rope to the other. The horizontal length of the first section was 3068 meters, that of the second 3003 meters, the total horizontal length was 6071 meters. In the incline, the sections were 3167 meters and 3073 meters long, for a total of 6240 meters. There were 52 pillars along the route, the tallest of which was 38 meters. The drive for both ropes was in the middle station. The maximum travel speed was four meters per second (14.4 kilometers per hour) and the conveying capacity was 900 people per hour. The journey took about half an hour. After commissioning, the valley and mountain stations were rebuilt several times. In autumn 1989 the ropes were renewed.
The first section has the Egg intermediate exit in Itramen , but it is rarely used.
Passengers
In 2018, the gondola lifted 855,968 people, around two thirds of them in winter.
"V-Bahn" project
Since the railway's concession was originally limited to April 2018, a new gondola lift with modern eight-person gondolas was planned. The new project did not only provide for a replacement of the old railway. A second cable car has been planned from Grindelwald-Grund, which will lead to the Eigergletscher station of the Jungfrau Railway and will bring passengers to the Jungfraujoch faster . Together, the two systems form the so-called "V-Bahn". The new terminal in Grindelwald-Grund will have a multi-storey car park and a connection in Rothenegg to a new Grindelwald Terminal stop on the Bernese Oberland Railway .
The project, known as the “V-Bahn”, is expected to cost around CHF 470 million. Its construction was approved by the Federal Office of Transport on June 1, 2018 , after 17 objections had been received , mainly from nature conservation organizations who feared an impairment of the landscape. Construction started in summer 2018.
The last ride of the old gondola took place on March 31, 2019, and the replacement building started operations on December 14, 2019. The Eiger-Express to the Eigergletscher station, which is also under construction, is then to be opened on December 12, 2020 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Opening of the new Männlichenbahn and the Grindelwald Terminal BOB station. In: Jungfrau V-Bahn Special. December 12, 2019, accessed December 14, 2019 .
- ↑ Jungfraujoch-Top of Europe: last ride on the old Grindelwald-Männlichen cable car. In: jungfrau.ch. March 31, 2019, accessed December 14, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Christoph Buchs: Itramen is preparing. In: Jungfrau newspaper. August 13, 2014, accessed November 5, 2014 .
- ↑ Grindelwald – Männlichen AG gondola lift (publisher): 41st Annual Report 2018 . ( maennlichen.ch [PDF; accessed on December 14, 2019]).
- ↑ V-Bahn: the 8 elements. (No longer available online.) In: Jungfrau Railways. Archived from the original on November 5, 2014 ; Retrieved November 5, 2014 .
- ↑ V-Bahn. (No longer available online.) In: GGM / LWM Männlichenbahn. Archived from the original on September 24, 2018 ; accessed on September 23, 2018 .
- ^ Noël Brühlmann: The Männlichen Railway is open - in fog and snow. In: look. December 13, 2019, accessed December 14, 2019 .
- ↑ «We want to be among the best in the Alpine region again» , Der Bund , June 1, 2018.
- ↑ Last ride on the old Grindelwald-Männlichen cable car. In: Jungfrau V-Bahn Special. March 31, 2019, accessed October 16, 2019 .
- ↑ milestones. In: Jungfrau V-Bahn Special. Retrieved October 16, 2019 .
- ↑ Grindelwald: Start of construction on the V-Bahn. In: Baublatt. July 3, 2018, accessed September 23, 2018 .
Coordinates: 46 ° 37 ′ 29 " N , 8 ° 1 ′ 8" E ; CH1903: 644440 / 163883