Remigi Niederberger

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Niederberger Materialseilbahn 1923

Remigi Niederberger (* 1860 in Dallenwil ; † 1926 there ) was a Swiss blacksmith and cable car pioneer .

Life

As the village blacksmith of Dallenwil, Niederberger developed the first rudimentary small cable cars for agricultural use shortly before the turn of the 20th century. His entry into cable car construction was the erection of a wire rope around 1000 m long , which he stretched in Büren from Gibelberg to Buoholz in 1898 . Farmers could use the wire rope to transport bundles of hay into the valley using sliding hooks and thus overcome a height difference of around 480 m with minimal effort. Simple technical refinements (e.g. rollers instead of sliding hooks) soon made it possible to connect terrain sections with minimal height differences with a cable car. Niederberger later developed a two-lane aerial tramway that was driven with overweight going downhill. It made it possible to move cargo up the mountain. A milestone in the development of Niederberger cable cars was the construction of a motorized cable car in 1911. For this purpose, Niederberger built an old ship engine into an aerial tramway.

Until the economic crisis of 1932, the R. Niederberger Söhne AG company in Dallenwil sold numerous of the typical Niederberger Schiffli throughout the Swiss mountain area, but mainly in Obwalden , Nidwalden and Uri . Characteristic for this type of ropeway are the ball-like vehicles covered with arched metal sheets, which have become the trademark of this manufacturer.

Web links

  • Entry about the company R. Niederberger und Söhne AG on the website of the current owner Inauen-Schätti AG .
  • Inventory entry of a Niederberger cable car, built in 1912, on the cable car inventory in Switzerland.
  • Inventory entry of a typical Niederberger ship , built in 1953, on the Swiss cable car inventory .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Walter Aeschlimann, Hansjörg Ruf, Thomas Schenk, Hans Syfrig: Material ropeways - an opportunity for development in the mountain area? Ed .: Swiss Foundation for Landscape Protection and Conservation. Bern 1996, p. 42-43 .
  2. a b cable car inventory. Federal Office of Culture, 2011, accessed on February 13, 2020 .