Kapellbahn
The Kapellbahn is a cable car ( chairlift ) in the Silbertal in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg and is located about 760 m from the center on the western edge of the local area.
The Kapellbahn connects a valley station at 855 m above sea level. A. (Ausertal) with the mountain station at 1752 m above sea level. A. The system is owned by Silvretta Montafon GmbH . The name of the cable car derives from the Kapellalpe 1850 m above sea level. A. from (Kapelljoch 2325 m above sea level ), on which the mountain station of the Kapellbahn (district of Silbertal), the Zamang-Bahn and the Hochjochbahn I (district of Schruns ) is located.
history
The Kapellbahn, built in 1981, has an essential function for tourism in the Silbertal, which is why the maintenance of the railway is a high priority.
In 2014/15 the Panorama Bahn (Silvretta Montafon) was built, which significantly shortened the connection time from the mountain station of the Kapellbahn to Kreuzjoch.
Technical specifications
The chairlift was built by the Doppelmayr company in Wolfurt .
- Orientation of the facility: largely from north (valley station) to south (mountain station)
- Cable height in the valley station: 855 m
- Cable height in the mountain station: 1752 m
- Difference in altitude: 897 m
- Operating length ( inclined length ): 1889 m
- Driving equipment: 145 (armchair with weather protection cover)
- Vehicle equipment capacity: 2 people
- Nominal travel speed 2.3 m / s
- Travel time: approx. 14 minutes
- Direction of travel: counterclockwise
- largest transport capacity per hour and direction: 656 people.
- Supports: 22
- Tensioning device: valley station (electrical winch anchoring)
- Drive station: mountain station (electric)
- mean slope: 54.60%
- greatest slope: 96.20%
- Year of construction: 1981
Ski Area
The Kapellbahn is part of the Hochjoch- Silvretta Montafon ski network . Two cable cars ( Zamang-Bahn and Hochjochbahn ) I from Schruns and the Kapellbahn from Silbertal serve the same ski area.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Owned by the Montafoner Hochjochbahnen since 1992, after which the cable car companies were merged.
- ↑ Silbertal worries about Kapellbahn and Gemeindeblatt Silbertal , p. 3.
- ↑ Source: Vorarlberger Landesregierung ( Memento of the original from November 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. and lift-world.info (partially).
Coordinates: 47 ° 5 '42.2 " N , 9 ° 58' 0.6" E