Kranzberg summit lift

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Kranzberg summit lift
View from the Kranzberg to the second and third pillars of the Kranzberg summit lift to the right of the summit drag lift

The Kranzberg Gipfelbahn is a first went into operation on July 11, 1955 shuttle cable car in Upper Bavaria Mittenwald . It leads to the Hohen Kranzberg .

description

The cable car runs from the St. Anton valley station at an altitude of 1250 m to the Kranzberggipfel mountain station at an altitude of 1380 meters . The operating length of the railway, which runs on three supports , is 790 meters. The main drive with an output of 15 hp was enough to cope with an average gradient of 18%. Its manufacturer was Peter KG in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

The Kranzberg summit lift was shut down after a fatal occupational accident by its former owner in 1982 and was only put back into operation for a short time in 2005.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kranzberg-Gipfelbahn ( memento from July 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ). On seilbahngeschichte.de
  2. The mountain calls . On bzb-online.de in June 2010 (PDF, approx. 60 kB)

Coordinates: 47 ° 27 ′ 0.9 ″  N , 11 ° 14 ′ 19.2 ″  E