Weggis – Rigi Kaltbad cable car
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Cable car Weggis – Rigi Kaltbad cable car |
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| LWRK with the cabins from 1993 | |
| Location | Rigi |
| design type | Aerial tramway |
| Construction year | 1968 |
| Valley station | Weggis |
| Mountain station | Rigi Kaltbad |
| Height of the valley station | 499 m |
| Height of the mountain station | 1423 m |
| Height difference | 924 m |
| length | 2330 m |
| Gondolas | 2 cabins for 76 passengers |
| Maximum transport capacity | 640 people / hour |
| website | rigi.ch |
The Weggis – Rigi Kaltbad cable car , LWRK for short , is a cable car in Switzerland that runs from Weggis on Lake Lucerne to the 924 m higher resort of Rigi Kaltbad at 1423 m above sea level. M. leads. The 2.3 km long aerial tramway was opened on July 15, 1968 and is operated by Rigi Bahnen AG .
history
Before the Vitznau-Rigi Railway was built, Weggis was the most important starting point for climbing the Rigi. Due to the cog railway , the place lost to tourism, which is why a license application for a mountain railway from Weggis to the Känzeli viewpoint was submitted as early as 1888 . The funicular was to be built by the mountain railway pioneers Bucher and Durrer . The application was rejected in the same year because, in the opinion of the Federal Council, with the Vitznau-Rigi-Bahn (VRB) and the Arth-Rigi-Bahn (ARB), enough mountain railways would already lead to the Rigi and the information that according to the concession of the VRB would not be allowed to approve another mountain railway to the Rigi for 30 years after the license for this cableway was granted.
In the 1960s, Weggis tried again to get a concession for a mountain railway to the Rigi, this time a cable car . Although this time the VRB resisted the train again, the project came about. The concession for the suspension railway was granted on September 24, 1964. The initiative committee had previously reached an agreement with the VRB and entrusted it with the construction and operation of the cable car. The mountain station of the railway built by Garaventa was integrated into the newly built hotel and sports complex near Rigi Kaltbad.
In 1993 the railway received new cabins for 76 passengers, the old cabins held 80 people.
In autumn 2022, the existing railway's concession will expire. It is to be replaced by a circulating cable car with 21 gondolas, the construction costs of which will be around 20 million SFr. to be appreciated. In contrast to the existing suspension railway with three masts , the new suspension railway will require eleven masts and should be able to transport up to 800 people per hour with the possibility of doubling the capacity. The feasibility of a 3S lift was also examined in advance. The project would have had the advantage that, like the old railway, only three masts would have been needed, but the stations would have had to be significantly enlarged, which would have led to problems, especially at the mountain station. In addition, the project would have become more expensive and would have had too much capacity, which was undesirable during the overtourism discussion on the Rigi.
Web links
- Garaventa (Ed.): Weggis – Rigi Kaltbad aerial cableway (Switzerland) . Advertising leaflet. ( seilbahnen.org ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Message from the Federal Council to the Federal Assembly regarding the refusal of the license for a cable car from Weggis to Rigi-Känzeli . In: Bundeblatt . tape 4 , no. 53 , December 8, 1888, pp. 923 ff .
- ↑ Weggis – Rigi Kaltbad aerial cableway. In: Rigi. Rigi Plus and Rigi Bahnen
- ↑ Garaventa (ed.): Weggis – Rigi Kaltbad aerial cableway (Switzerland) . Advertising leaflet. ( seilbahnen.org ).
- ↑ Christian Glaus: Construction of the new gondola lift on the Rigi: lifts must bring additional evidence. In: Lucerne newspaper. Retrieved February 21, 2020 .
- ^ Christian Glaus: Futuristic cable car from Weggis to Rigi-Kaltbad is off the table. In: Lucerne newspaper. Retrieved February 22, 2020 .
Coordinates: 47 ° 2 '17.9 " N , 8 ° 27' 6.5" E ; CH1903: 677001 / 210 193