Niederwald cable car Assmannshausen
| Niederwald cable car Assmannshausen | |
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 View from the Niederwald cable car to Assmannshausen
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| Location: | Assmannshausen , DE-HE |
| Design type: | Single-cable double chair lift 2-CLF |
| Construction year: | 1953 |
| Mountain: | Niederwald |
| Valley station: | Assmannshausen , 100 m ( location ) |
| Height difference: | 225 m |
| Mountain station: | Niederwald hunting lodge , 325 m ( location ) |
| Route length: | 900 m |
| Driving time: | 15 minutes |
| Number of supports: | 10 pcs. |
| Capacity: | 2 people / armchair, 540 people / hour |
| Manufacturer: | Herbert Weigmann , Oberstdorf |
| Operator: | Niederwald Seilbahn GmbH |
| Website: | www.seilbahn-assmannshausen.de |
| Armchair: | Double armchair (SB-2) |
| Conveyor / suspension rope: | Diameter 25 mm |
| Travel speed: | 1.0 m / s |
| Driving direction: | counter clockwise |
| Stations: | Drive in the mountain station. Tension weight in the valley station |
| Design engineer and site manager: | Ernst Wilfer |
| Assembly time: | 10 weeks |
The Niederwald cable car is a cable car between Assmannshausen , a district of Rüdesheim am Rhein , and the Niederwald hunting lodge on the Niederwald mountain.
Niederwald attraction
The Niederwald near Rüdesheim is a wooded area high above the Rhine between Rüdesheim and Assmannshausen. Originally the commercial forest of the former Ehrenfels Castle , the later owners used it as a hunting area. The Counts of Ostein converted the property into a landscape park , built the hunting lodge in 1764 and, with the temple, the Hermitage, the Rossel, the knight's hall and the magic cave, romantic viewpoints over the Rhine and the Binger Loch.
Cog railway (s)
In memory of the campaign against France and the founding of the German Empire in 1871, the construction of the Niederwald monument was planned from 1872 and inaugurated in 1883. From 1884 onwards, two cog railways transported tourists from Rüdesheim and from 1885 from Assmannshausen to the Niederwald, but were discontinued between the two world wars due to a lack of profitability.
Double cable car
The second cable car with double seats from Assmannshausen to the Niederwald hunting lodge, installed in 1953 after the Burg an der Wupper cable car by the small Oberstdorf company, is characterized by its robust, indestructible technology, like its sister facility on the Wupper.
Web links
- Niederwald cable car in the lift database
- Homepage of Niederwald Seilbahn GmbH
- Rüdesheim and Assmannshausen cable cars in the alpinforum
Individual evidence
- ↑ see the Niederwald cable car web link in the lift database
- ↑ see the weblink homepage of Niederwald Seilbahn GmbH
- ↑ Reinhold Forschner: With steam over teeth. From the rack railway to the cable car in Assmannshausen ( Memento from December 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ see the web link for the Rüdesheim and Assmannshausen cable cars in the alpinforum
Coordinates: 49 ° 59 '17.9 " N , 7 ° 52' 7.4" E