Bad Schandau passenger elevator

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View of the elevator from the front
View of the elevator from the side
Bad Schandau and the Lilienstein seen from the elevator.

The Bad Schandau passenger elevator is a passenger elevator built in Bad Schandau in 1904 , which leads from Bad Schandau to the Ostrauer Scheibe , a flat area around the Ostrau district . Use is chargeable. The passenger elevator is very similar to the Hammetschwand lift in Switzerland, which was built between 1903 and 1905 , but has a lower overall height.

Technology and history

The local hotelier Rudolf Sendig suggested the construction and financed it from his personal fortune. The elevator was manufactured by August Kühnscherf & Söhne and was inaugurated on Holy Saturday in 1905. He goes up in a 52.26 meter high, Art Nouveau designed steel lattice tower manufactured by the company Kelle & Hildebrandt in Großluga , which has a diameter of 5.20 meters at the bottom and 2.50 meters at the height of the exit Has. He overcomes a difference in altitude of 47.76 meters. There is a 1.25 meter wide viewing platform at the top exit . This is connected to the top of the rock face by a 27.80 meter long bridge .

The elevator was driven by electric current from the beginning until 1921 with direct current . This was taken from the overhead contact line of the electric Kirnitzschtalbahn during the summer months ; in winter and in emergencies, it was supplied by an accumulator that was previously fed from the local network.

During the First World War , the plant was stopped. In 1921 the drive of the passenger elevator was switched to three-phase current , a hand crank remained for emergency operation. In 1950 a traction sheave hoist was installed. In 1954 the facility was placed under a preservation order. In 1961 two additional guy ropes were installed and in 1978 a new control system was installed. The facility was renovated in 1989/1990.

The elevator in the film

The elevator was the location of several scenes in Wes Anderson's 2013 film Grand Budapest Hotel .

literature

  • Mario Schatz: GDR cable cars. History - technology - operation. transpress VEB Verlag für Verkehrwesen, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-344-00159-0 , pp. 190–193.
  • Richard Stroetmann, Holger Flederer, Holger Schmidt, Lars Sieber: Bad Schandau passenger elevator. Revitalization of a listed tower structure. In: Stahlbau , Volume 78 (2009), No. 9, pp. 662–676; doi: 10.1002 / stab.200910081 .

Web links

Commons : Personenaufzug Bad Schandau  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Historical passenger elevator, fares. Retrieved February 21, 2017.
  2. ^ Thomas Kühnscherf: History of the August Kühnscherf and Sons company. Retrieved February 21, 2017.
  3. ↑ The elevator on rudolf-sendig.de.
  4. ↑ a b Bad Schandau passenger elevator. In: Structurae

Coordinates: 50 ° 54 ′ 59.7 "  N , 14 ° 9 ′ 40.2"  E