List of cable cars in Germany

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The Koblenz cable car has the highest capacity in the world with a transport capacity of 7,600 people per hour

Almost all cable cars on this list are members of the Verband Deutscher Seilbahnen und Schlepplifte e. V.

  • PB = aerial tramway, x-MGD = detachable single-cable gondola lift, x = number of people per cabin, SB = chairlift, SL = ski lift
  • see also list of funiculars

Public transport

Baden-Württemberg

Place, route Type
of
train		 Length
in m		 Height
under
arbitration
in meters		 Summit
height
in meters		 average
inclination
in
product		 largest
supply
in
mille		 from to items Remarks
Aitern -Multen - Belchen Gondola 1150 262 1356 2001 today Belchen cable car GB-8
Feldberg , B 317 - Seebuck Combined gondola and chairlift 950 180 1450 1998 today Feldbergbahn GB-8, SB-6
Freiburg - City Garden - Schlossberg (Restaurant Dattler) Gondola 259 72 348 Late 2006 Schlossberg cable car Dismantling in 2007, replacement by the Schlossbergbahn
Horben (near Freiburg) - Schauinsland Gondola 3600 747 1220 07/17/1930 today Schauinslandbahn (GB - 2S-Bahn)
Stuttgart - Killesberg , Höhenpark Chairlift 1950 1984 Höhenpark Killesberg chairlift
Todtnau - Hasenhorn Chairlift 964 364 1026 2004 today Hasenhornbahn SB-2; New building

Bavaria

Low mountain range

Place, route Type
of
train		 Length
in m		 Height
under
arbitration
in meters		 Summit
height
in meters		 average
inclination
in
product		 largest
supply
in
mille		 from to items Remarks
Bavarian Eisenstein Gondola 964 342 1400 1999 today Arber mountain railway GB-6 + 2 SB-6 (winter operation)
Bischofsgrün Chairlift 2220 358 1010 1991 today Ochsenkopf-Nord cable car SB-2; longest German chairlift
Episcopal corn Chairlift 1172 254 1089 1967/68 today Geißkopfbahn SB-1
Ground corn Chairlift 740 150 900 1977 today Silberbergbahn SB-2
Warmensteinach Chairlift 1833 249 1010 1997 today Ochsenkopf-Süd cable car SB-2

Upper Bavaria

Place, route Type
of
train		 Length
in m		 Height
under
arbitration
in meters		 Summit
height
in meters		 average
inclination
in
product		 largest
supply
in
mille		 from to items Remarks
Aschau im Chiemgau Gondola 2480 841 1461 1957 today Kampenwandbahn GB-4
Bad Kohlgrub Chairlift 1998 455 1395 1953 today Hörnle - suspension railway SB-2
Bad Reichenhall Aerial tramway 2380 1140 1583 1928 today Predigtstuhlbahn PB-25; listed
Bad Tölz Chairlift 1700 518 1238 1971 today Blombergbahn SB-2
Berchtesgaden Aerial tramway 1530 490 1020 1950 today Obersalzbergbahn PB-4
Mountains Aerial tramway 4840 1060 1649 1969/70 today Hochfellnseilbahn PB-45 (2 sections)
Bayrischzell -Osterhofen Aerial tramway 2953 932 1724 1970 today Wendelstein cable car PB-50
Garmisch-Partenkirchen Gondola 2140 504 1237 16th May 2019 today Eckbauerbahn GB-6; replaced old Eckbauerbahn
Garmisch-Partenkirchen Gondola 520 147 903 1953 today Graseckbahn GB-4
Garmisch-Partenkirchen Gondola 2036 606 1338 2006/07 today Hausbergbahn GB-8
Garmisch-Partenkirchen Chairlift 1030 180 1500 1997 today Kreuzwankl Ski Express SB-6
Garmisch-Partenkirchen Chairlift 1476 593 1704 2009 today Kandahar Express SB-4
Garmisch-Partenkirchen Gondola 2303 875 1638 2002 today Kreuzeckbahn (Garmisch-Partenkirchen) GB-2
Garmisch-Partenkirchen Chairlift 450 100 1640 1992 today Cauldron SB-2
Garmisch-Partenkirchen Aerial tramway 3810 1287 2045 1973 today Alpspitzbahn PB-80
Garmisch-Partenkirchen Aerial tramway 900 333 2033 1973 today Hochalmbahn PB-44
Garmisch-Partenkirchen Chairlift 820 260 1880 1996 today Length fields 1 SB-2
Garmisch-Partenkirchen Gondola 3000 1010 1740 1982 today Wankbahn GB-4
Garmisch-Partenkirchen Aerial tramway 1966 1992 Zugspitz summit cable car PB
Garmisch-Partenkirchen Aerial tramway 1000 360 2943 1992 today Zugspitz Glacier Railway PB-100
Grainau Aerial tramway 4467 1945 2944 December 21, 2017 today Zugspitze cable car PB-120; replaced the Eibsee cable car
Garmisch-Partenkirchen Chairlift 950 285 2588 2003 today Sonnenkar chairlift SB-6
Garmisch-Partenkirchen Chairlift 1476 287 2585 2012/13 today Wetterwandeckbahn SB-6
Lenggries Gondola 2500 800 1517 November 16, 1957 today Brauneck mountain railway GB-4
Marquartstein Chairlift 1330 480 1050 1973 today Hochplattenbahn SB-2
Mittenwald Aerial tramway 2486 1311 2244 1967 today Karwendelbahn PB-35
Mittenwald Chairlift 1463 229 1220 1950 today Kranzberg - chairlift SB-1
Mittenwald Aerial tramway 790 130 1380 July 11, 1955 today Kranzberg summit lift PB-10; currently not in operation (as of spring 2018)
Oberammergau Chairlift 1780 420 1276 1992 today Piston chairlift SB-2
Oberammergau Gondola 2021 780 1684 February 21, 1957 today Laber mountain railway GB-12
Oberaudorf Chairlift 1455 310 800 2006 today Hocheck mountain railway SB-4
Ramsau near Berchtesgaden Chairlift 1200 360 1969 today Hochschwarzeck mountain railway SB-2
Rottach-Egern Gondola 2140 825 1615 April 20, 1951 today Wallbergbahn GB-4
Ruhpolding Aerial tramway 1650 923 1650 1953 today Rauschbergbahn PB-20
Samerberg - Grainbach Aerial tramway 1725 626 1542 1972/73 today Hochriesbahn PB-50
Schliersee Aerial tramway 725 230 1061 1996 today Schliersbergbahn PB-10
Schoenau upon Kings sea Gondola 3320 1170 1800 2018 today Jennerbahn GB-10; New building
Spitzingsee Gondola 2485 520 1616 1971 today Taubensteinbahn GB-4
Walchensee Aerial tramway 1388 791 1600 1994 today Herzogstandbahn PB-30

Swabia

Place, route Type
of
train		 Length
in m		 Height
under
arbitration
in meters		 Summit
height
in meters		 average
inclination
in
product		 largest
supply
in
mille		 from to items Remarks
Bad Hindelang Gondola 1423 516 1314 2000 today Hornbahn GB-8; New building
Bad Hindelang Chairlift 1443 399 1559 2001 today Iselerbahn SB-6
Bolsterlang Gondola 1780 600 1540 2001 today Horn Railway GB-6; 2 sections
Grass ears Chairlift 632 300 1677 1993 today Bolgengratbahn SB-2
Immenstadt Chairlift 820 370 1451 1997 today Midday orbit SB-2
Immenstadt Chairlift today Alpsee chairlift - Bergwelt SB-2
Nesselwang Gondola / chairlift 880 271 1500 2006 today Alpspitzbahn Nesselwang GB-4 / SB-4
Oberstdorf Aerial tramway 3714 1053 1975 1972/73 today Fellhornbahn PB-100; PB-60 (2 sections)
Oberstdorf Gondola 2813 855 1773 2006/07 today Fellhornbahn GB-8; runs parallel to the 1st section of the aerial tramway
Oberstaufen Gondola 930 294 1056 December 2012 today Hündle adventure train GB-8; New building
Oberstaufen Gondola 1230 304 1217 2005 today Imbergbahn GB-8
Oberstdorf Aerial tramway 5768 1386 2214 1977 today Nebelhornbahn PB-60, PB-60, PB-30 (3 sections)
Oberstdorf Gondola 2025 345 1358 July 1997 today Söllereckbahn GB-6; New building
Oberstaufen - Steibis Gondola 2400 852 1708 1971/72 today Hochgratbahn GB-4
Pfronten Gondola 2005 656 1501 1993 today Breitenbergbahn PB-4
Pfronten Chairlift 784 183 1677 2004 today Hochalpbahn SB-4
Schwangau Aerial tramway 2146 893 1720 1968 today Tegelbergbahn PB-44

Berlin

Place, route Type
of
train		 Length
in m		 Height
under
arbitration
in meters		 Summit
height
in meters		 average
inclination
in
product		 largest
supply
in
mille		 from to items Remarks
Berlin-Hansaviertel Chairlift 1400 1957 September 1958 SB-2
Berlin ; Kienbergpark - Gardens of the World Gondola 1500 85 97 2016 today IGA cable car GB-10; Erected for the 2017 International Horticultural Exhibition

Hamburg

Place, route Type
of
train		 Length
in m		 Height
under
arbitration
in meters		 Summit
height
in meters		 average
inclination
in
product		 largest
supply
in
mille		 from to items Remarks
Hamburg , Planten un Blomen - ramparts Gondola 1415 1963 1963 GB-2; Cable car for the International Garden Show (IGA) in 1963, dismantled that same year

Hesse

Cable car from Rüdesheim to the Niederwald monument
Place, route Type
of
train		 Length
in m		 Height
under
arbitration
in meters		 Summit
height
in meters		 average
inclination
in
product		 largest
supply
in
mille		 from to items Remarks
Assmannshausen - Niederwald hunting lodge Chairlift 900 225 325 1953 today Niederwald cable car Assmannshausen SB-2
Biedenkopf Chairlift 443 88 650 1978 today Bagpipe lift SB-2
Malsfeld - Beiseförth Gondola 50 2009 today Beiseförth Fulda cable car
Rüdesheim am Rhein - Niederwald Monument Gondola 1400 209 1954 today Ruedesheim cable car GB-2 (half open)
Waldeck - Waldeck Castle Gondola 650 120 390 1961 today Waldecker Bergbahn GB-2
Willingen - Ettelsberg Chairlift 1400 240 830 1971 2007 Ettelsberg chairlift SB-2
Willingen - Ettelsberg Gondola 1370 237 830 December 1, 2007 today Ettelsberg cable car GB-8
Willingen Chairlift 800 110 690 2013 today Ritzhagen chairlift SB-6

Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

Place, route Type
of
train		 Length
in m		 Height
under
arbitration
in meters		 Summit
height
in meters		 average
inclination
in
product		 largest
supply
in
mille		 from to items Remarks
Riems , Kalkvitz - Riems Rope schwebebahn oscillating mode 747 0.4 9.7 289 1926 06/16/1972 Riems cable car
Rostock , for the International Horticultural Exhibition 2003 Gondola 2003 reduced

Lower Saxony

Place, route Type
of
train		 Length
in m		 Height
under
arbitration
in meters		 Summit
height
in meters		 average
inclination
in
product		 largest
supply
in
mille		 from to items Remarks
Bad Harzburg - Great Castle Hill Aerial tramway 481 186 483 1929 today Burgberg cable car PB-19
Bad Lauterberg , Kirchplatz - local mountain Chairlift 440 111 403 08/04/1954 today Bad Lauterberg Castle Cable Car SB-2
Braunlage Gondola 2800 397 965 02/16/1963 today Wurmberg cable car GB-6
Hahnenklee-Bockswiese Gondola 1100 164 724 1970 today Bocksberg cable car GB-4
Hahnenklee-Bockswiese Chairlift 964 171 727 07/10/2014 today Hahnenklee chairlift SB-4
Hanover , Expo area Gondola 2000 2000 reduced

North Rhine-Westphalia

Place, route Type
of
train		 Length
in m		 Height
under
arbitration
in meters		 Summit
height
in meters		 average
inclination
in
product		 largest
supply
in
mille		 from to items Remarks
Dortmund , Westfalenpark Gondola / chairlift 500 23 1959 today Westfalenpark chairlift GB-2 / SB
Bestwig waterfall , Fort Fun Adventure Land Chairlift 594 174 729 1971 today Fort Fun Lift SB-2
Kirchhundem , Panorama-Park Sauerland Wildlife Park Chairlift 415 88 647 1996 today Kirchhundem panorama lift SB-2
Cologne , Rheinpark Chairlift 935 1957 2003
Cologne , Riehler Strasse - Auenweg Gondola 935 1957 today Cologne cable car GB-4 2S
Solingen - Castle on the Wupper , Lower Castle - Upper Castle Chairlift 250 91 188 May 31, 1952 today Castle cable car SB-2

Rhineland-Palatinate

Place, route Type
of
train		 Length
in m		 Height
under
arbitration
in meters		 Summit
height
in meters		 average
inclination
in
product		 largest
supply
in
mille		 from to items Remarks
Altenahr Chairlift 1953 2011 Altenahr cable car SB
Bad Dürkheim , Dürkheim sausage market - Teufelsstein Gondola 1270 165 1973 1981 Bad Dürkheim gondola lift GB
Boppard Chairlift 915 232 302 1954 today Boppard chairlift SB-2
Cochem Chairlift 360 155 258 1955 today Cochem chairlift SB-2
Edenkoben Chairlift 560 220 535 1954 today Rietburgbahn SB-2
Koblenz , Rheinanlagen - Ehrenbreitstein Fortress Gondola 890 112 180 2010 today Koblenz cable car GB-35 3S, world's largest capacity, built for BUGA 2011 , continued operation until 2026 approved by UNESCO
Koblenz , Ehrenbreitstein - Ehrenbreitstein Fortress Chairlift 290 88 194 1955 2009 Ehrenbreitstein chairlift SB 2011 by the funicular Ehrenbreitstein replaced
Saarburg Chairlift 702 168 320 1976 today Saarburg chairlift SB-2
Trier , Moselle bank Zurlauben - Weisshaus terrace Aerial tramway 375 53 1967 2001 Trier cable car PB-15, dismantled since 2011

Saarland

Place, route Type
of
train		 Length
in
meters		 Height
under
arbitration
in meters		 Summit
height
in meters		 average
inclination
in
product		 largest
supply
in
mille		 from to items Remarks
Saarbrücken ; Franco-German garden Gondola 752 20th 1960 today GB-2
St. Ingbert ; Rohrbach - Hassel Chairlift 500 75 1973 1995 Kahlenbergbahn (St. Ingbert)

Saxony

Place, route Type
of
train		 Length
in m		 Height
under
arbitration
in meters		 Summit
height
in meters		 average
inclination
in
product		 largest
supply
in
mille		 from to items Remarks
Dresden - Loschwitz , Pillnitzer Landstrasse - Oberloschwitz , Siercksstrasse Overhead conveyor 274 84 207 322 400 05/06/1901 today Dresden suspension railway Steam, electric from 1909
Klingenthal , Great Aschbergschanze Chairlift 319 103 788 323 630 January 1961 today Klingenthal chairlift SB-1
Neurehefeld Chairlift Chairlift at the drag shoe
Oberwiesenthal , Schönjungferngrund - Great Fichtelbergschanze Chairlift 262 94 1045 380 590 1963 Schönjungferngrund chairlift SB-4
Oberwiesenthal , Kleiner Fichtelberg cattle drive Chairlift 734 185 1204 260 500 1963 Viehdrift chairlift SB-4
Oberwiesenthal , Vierenstrasse - Fichtelberg Aerial tramway 1175 303 1208 277 500 12/28/1924 today Fichtelberg suspension railway PB-44 (has been refurbished)
Schöneck / Vogtl. Chairlift 672 136 756 2006 today Hohe Reuth chairlift SB-4

Saxony-Anhalt

Place, route Type
of
train		 Length
in m		 Height
under
arbitration
in meters		 Summit
height
in meters		 average
inclination
in
product		 largest
supply
in
mille		 from to items Remarks
Thale - Hexentanzplatz Orbit 721 244 428 350 412 07.10.1970 today Bodetal cable car GB-4 2S
Thale - Rosstrappe Chairlift 652 244 342 500 820 04/22/2005 today Roßtrappe chairlift SB-2; New building

Schleswig-Holstein

Place, route Type
of
train		 Length
in
meters		 Height
under
arbitration
in meters		 Summit
height
in meters		 average
inclination
in
product		 largest
supply
in
mille		 from to items Remarks
Kiel Aerial tramway 144 03/28/1974 May 1991 Cable car department store Weipert

Thuringia

Place, route Type
of
train		 Length
in
meters		 Height
under
arbitration
in meters		 Summit
height
in meters		 average
inclination
in
product		 largest
supply
in
mille		 from to items Remarks
Oberhof - Alpine slope "Fallbach" Chairlift 700 120 840 1999 2017 SB-2; reduced
Oberhof , Kanzlersgrund - ski jump on the Rennsteig Chairlift 305 104 842 2016 today Oberhof chairlift SB-2; New building
Steinach , Silbersattel ski arena Chairlift SB, SL
Tabarz , Großer Inselsberg Chairlift SL

Non-public passenger traffic

Material ropeways

Material ropeway in Nussloch

Baden-Württemberg

  1. Dossenheim , load cable car Porphyry works Dossenheim (no passenger transport !, no longer existed in 2007)
  2. Dotternhausen - Plettenberg , Dotternhausen – Plettenberg material ropeway
  3. Leimen - Nussloch , Leimen – Nussloch material cable car
  4. Freiburg im Breisgau , Schauinsland - Kappel-Neuhäuser material ropeway for the transport of iron ore. 5.3 km long, 650 meters in altitude, dismantled when ore mining was discontinued in 1954

Bavaria

  1. Berchtesgaden , Fischunkelalm , 1900 m long, Fischunkelalm – Röth cable car
  2. Oberstdorf , material cable car to the Kemptner hut
  3. Oberstdorf , material cable car to the Rappenseehütte
  4. Oberstdorf , material cable car to the Mindelheimer hut
  5. Oberstdorf , material cable car to the Fiderepasshütte
  6. Bad Hindelang , material cable car to the Prinz-Luitpold-Haus
  7. Garmisch-Partenkirchen , material cable car to the Meilerhütte
  8. Grainau , material cable car to the Höllentalangerhütte
  9. Mittenwald , material cable car to the Mittenwald hut

Lower Saxony

  1. Osterode am Harz , Schwarze Hütte, 377 m long, in operation until the First World War

North Rhine-Westphalia

  1. Brühl , cable car Grube Berggeist (Brühl) - corner station - sugar factory Brühl; ceased to exist in 2007
  2. Hürth- Hermülheim, Ribbertwerk cable car (Hürth-Hermülheim) - Luise pit (Hürth-Berrenrath); ceased to exist in 2007
  3. Bennauberg station and the Plagerkop quarry. Length: 1.28 km
  4. Carbon cableway railway depot Köln operating station (Ehrenfeld trinkets), length 735 m, difference in height: 29 m, 1918-1964. Source: Eisenbahnmagazin 6/2014, pp. 66–73

Rhineland-Palatinate

  1. Sayn , 1875 Construction of a test cable car by Alfred Krupp
  2. Material ropeway Hockweiler-Gusterath-Tal for the transport of ores that were mined in Hockweiler and washed in Gusterath-Tal . (1891-1893)

Saxony

  1. Beierfeld , Frankonia cable car (closed before 1934)
  2. Lugau , freight cable car with circulating operation for hard coal transports (closed before 1987)
  3. Thallwitz -Böhlitz, quarry cable car (closed before 1987)
  4. Leupoldishain - Pirna , Uranerz transport (shut down before 1990)

Saxony-Anhalt

  1. Teutschenthal , the world's first cargo cable car, built in 1872, in operation from 1874 to around 1914
  2. Sangerhausen-Helbra material ropeway, never completed

Schleswig-Holstein

  1. Alsensche cable car , material cable car from Alsen's Portland cement factory Itzehoe for transporting clay, length 12.554 km, from 1952 13.25 km, operating: 1908–1977. See also Agethorster cable car

Thuringia

  1. Dorndorf (Rhön) , Kaliseilbahn Springen – Dorndorf between the Springen shaft and the Dorndorf potash factory, no passenger transport, dismantled when potash mining was discontinued in 1990
  2. Menteroda , potash ropeway between the Pöthen shaft and the main plant in Volkenroda, no passenger transport, dismantled when potash mining was discontinued
  3. Springen , potash ropeway between Springen Shaft I and Shaft II, no passenger transport, dismantled when potash mining was discontinued in 1990
  4. Trusetal , ore cable car between Erzwäsch Elmenthal and Auwallenburg train station , no passenger transport, dismantled when mining stopped

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The cable cars, p. 54 / n64 ff, cable car of the Portland cement factory Alsen Itzehoe . Archive.org. Retrieved January 12, 2011.
  2. ↑ The Agethorster cable car . agethorst.de. Archived from the original on October 16, 2014. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 12, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.agethorst.de