Mellaubahn
The Mellaubahn is a cable car ( monocable gondola ) in Mellau in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg and is located about 650 m from the center on the southeastern edge of the village.
The Mellaubahn connects a valley station at 710 m above sea level. A. (Mellau) with the Roßstelle mountain station at 1392 m above sea level. A. The facility is owned by Bergbahnen Mellau GmbH & Co KG . The name of the cable car is derived from the place of the same name.
history
Since 1972 there has been a cable car near today's cable car, which was substantially rebuilt in 1982 by Doppelmayr and also had a very special meaning for Doppelmayr, as it was the first detachable cable car manufactured by this company. In the summer and autumn of 2015, the Mellaubahn was rebuilt to replace the old cable car in the form of a monocable gondola on the same route. After investing around 20 million euros, the new 10-person gondola went into operation on December 4, 2015.
Technical specifications
In 2015, the Mellaubahn was comprehensively renewed in the shortest possible time after many years of discussion and preparation. For years, the transport capacity has been considered insufficient to meet the number of passengers. As a result of the conversion of the system, the total capacity of the system's conveying capacity has been increased by around three times compared to the previous one.
Technical data of the new system
The new detachable 10-person gondola was built by Doppelmayr in Wolfurt .
- Orientation of the facility: largely from north (valley station) to south (mountain station)
- Cable height in the valley station: 716 m
- Rope height in the mountain station: 1396 m
- Difference in altitude: 680 m
- Operating length ( slant length ): 2041.90 m
- Supports: 13
- Conveyor rope diameter: 50 mm
- Weight of the hoisting rope: 50 tons
- Driving resources: 76
- Vehicle equipment capacity: 10 people
- Nominal travel speed 6 m / s
- Travel time: approx. 6 minutes
- largest transport capacity per hour and direction: 3146 people.
Technical data of the old system
The old 4-seater gondola lift, which was replaced in 2015, was built in 1972 by Doppelmayr.
- Orientation of the facility: largely from north (valley station) to south (mountain station)
- Cable height in the valley station: 713 m
- Rope height in the mountain station: 1394 m
- Difference in altitude: 681 m
- Operating length ( inclined length ): 2080 m
- Supports: 23
- Clamping device: valley station (weight)
- Drive station: mountain station (electric)
- mean slope: 35.80%
- greatest slope: 91.40%
- Vehicle resources (from CWA): 90 + 2
- Vehicle equipment capacity: 4 people
- Nominal travel speed 4 m / s
- Direction of travel: counterclockwise
- Travel time: approx. 9 minutes
- largest transport capacity per hour and direction: 1072 people
- Promotions / year in the last operating year (2014/2015): 730,032 people
- last major renovation: 1982
- Plant shutdown: spring 2015.
Ski Area
In the Damüls Mellau ski area there are two gondola lifts, 15 chair lifts, two drag lifts, four practice lifts, two rope lifts and six people movers.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Wir", newspaper of Doppelmayr Seilbahnen GmbH, April / May 2014, No. 193, 39th year, p. 9.
- ↑ 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).
- ↑ 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 ° 20 ′ 45.7 " N , 9 ° 53 ′ 18.8" E