Adliswil – Felsenegg aerial cableway
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The Adliswil Felsenegg LAF AG aerial cableway - usually called LAF or Felseneggbahn - is the only public aerial cableway in the canton of Zurich . The operator is the Sihltal Zürich Uetliberg Bahn SZU AG .
With a few exceptions, the cable car is in operation all year round and into the late evening hours.
history
As early as 1934, the project draft for a funicular railway Adliswil – Felsenegg was commissioned to improve the tourist development of the Albis area , in competition with the “Albisbahn” Langnau – Albispass, which was planned at the same time . Both projects were not implemented due to a lack of financial resources, although the “Albisbahn”, unlike the “Felseneggbahn”, received a building license from the federal authorities. The PostBus line 240 on the Langnau – Albispass– Hausen am Albis route opened up this gap in the public transport network more than 20 years later.
On December 30, 1954, after a construction period of around seven months and costs of one million Swiss francs at the time, the company Von Roll from Bern celebrated the opening of the LAF , after which, from 1951, the financing of the establishment of a stock corporation became largely secure. The cabins of the Landi suspension railway from 1939 across Lake Zurich were still used. Each of them had room for 24 people. The ascent cost CHF 1.50 at the time, the descent CHF 1.– and the return ticket CHF 2.–. Six years later, the LAF transported its millionth passenger.
Since the route was opened in 1954, the cable car between Adliswil and the Felsenegg has overcome a height difference of 307 meters in five minutes on a distance of 1048 meters. Up to 840 people can be transported in the direction of the valley and the mountain in one hour; since 1954 there have been a total of around 11 million passengers. The Felseneggbahn is one of the numerous transport companies that joined the Zürcher Verkehrsverbund (ZVV) in 1990 . The entire LAF infrastructure has been wheelchair accessible since 1992.
In 1960 SIG Neuhausen's 30-seater cabins were put into operation , replacing the pulling and counter ropes. The conversion to "remote control from the cabins" (semi-automatic operation) was started in 1967 and implemented in 1986. The Felsenegg property was purchased in 1972, and in 1977 the majority of the shares and the property went to Denner .
The cable car celebrated its 60th anniversary on December 30, 2014. Thanks to the anniversary activities spread over the whole year and despite the seven-week shutdown due to the carriage revision in spring, the fourth-best result in history was achieved with 221,095 passengers. In June, August and November the best results since commissioning in 1954 were recorded.
In 2016 and 2017, the station building in the valley and mountain stations were renovated and upgraded.
General overhaul on the occasion of the 50th anniversary
backgrounds
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"We want our cable car to be even more attractive," said the Adliswil mayor after the 2005 General Assembly, after the completely new body, except for one member, had been constituted in May 2005, and that the "cable car was made available to the people in Sihl Valley Self-image »will. Because so far almost exclusively tourists have traveled by train.
The cities of Adliswil and Zurich contributed depending Fr. 300'000.00 the costs of remediation, according to public decision of the municipal council of the city of Zurich, "... the Luftseilbahn Adliswil-Felsenegg AG (LAF) is aligned one-time investment fee of CHF 300 000.- for the technical track renewal . This assurance is subject to the fact that the entire project is financed ... ». The Zürcher Verkehrsverbund contributed CHF 2 million to the total costs of around CHF 3.5 million. With a massive amount of donations, the cable car was “technically refurbished” when the license expired.
Renovation work
From February 4, 2008 to the end of April 2008, the LAF was closed for the extensive general overhaul. Around 50 craftsmen and cable car specialists were on duty. The following were renewed:
- Cabins with hangers and drive
- Both suspension ropes including guy ropes
- Raising the column head
- Suspension cable supports and end buffers in the stations
- Control and security monitoring
- Entrances and exits to the stations
- Glazed platform barriers with automatic doors
- Video surveillance and intercom system for the mountain station
On May 1, 2008, the railway resumed its regular service. On the weekend of 24./25. In May 2008, the completion of the renovation work was celebrated with a public party in the Adliswil valley station and with an «Älplerchilbi» on the Felsenegg.
Measures to increase attractiveness
With the support of the municipality of Stallikon , the city of Adliswil and the Swiss Nordic Fitness Organization (SNO), the Nordic Walking Park was opened on June 20, 2010 . The starting and end point for all trails is the mountain station of the cable car. In order to increase the number of people, group offers and an annual adventure day are offered on the Felsenegg.
Technical specifications
Track profile
- 1 support, height 40 m
- Maximum height from the ground 60 m
- Suspension ropes: Fully locked spiral ropes, diameter 39 mm
- Tension ropes: stranded spiral ropes, diameter 62 mm
- Pull rope: stranded rope, diameter 22 mm
- Opposite rope: stranded rope, diameter 23 mm
Cabins
- 2 in shuttle traffic
- Space per cabin: 30 people unaccompanied
- Empty weight: 2,600 kg
- Transport capacity: 420 people / h and direction
- Speed: 6 m / s or 21.6 km / h
LAF cabin
LAF cabin
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literature
- Heinz Binder: The Felseneggbahn has been floating up the mountain for 40 years. In: Blätter der Vereinigung Pro Sihltal, No. 45, Adliswil 1995, pp. 20–21.
Web links
- Website of the SZU - Felseneggbahn
- Cable car nostalgia website with numerous images and further details about LAF
Individual evidence
- ^ City of Zurich, City Council, resolution GR no. 2004/594 (November 10, 2004): Property business : Adliswil-Felsenegg aerial cableway (LAF), one-time investment contribution to the renovation , accessed on May 1, 2008.
- ^ Sihltaler Zeitung (May 28, 2005): With music into a yellow future.
- ^ Website of the Adliswil-Felsenegg cable car: Public festival, Saturday / Sunday, 24th / 25th May 2008 ( Memento of the original from August 8, 2016 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. , accessed on May 3, 2016.
- ^ Website of the Adliswil-Felsenegg cable car: Nordic Walking Albis , accessed on May 3, 2016.
- ↑ Technical data, unless mentioned in the info box or in the running text. Source: Website of the Adliswil-Felsenegg cable car, as of May 2008.
Coordinates: 47 ° 18 '47 " N , 8 ° 31' 12.2" E ; CH1903: 681,767 / 240804