Castle cable car
| Burg an der Wupper cable car | |
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 Access with a view upwards
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| Location: | Castle on the Wupper , DE-NRW |
| Design type: | Single-cable double chair lift |
| Construction year: | 1952, reconstruction 1961 2013 Control technology modernized |
| Mountain: | Burgberg Schloss Burg |
| Valley station: | Lower castle , 97 m |
| Height difference: | 91 m |
| Mountain station: | Oberburg , 188 m |
| Route length: | 248 m |
| Number of supports: | 3 pcs. |
| Capacity: | 2 people / armchair = 800 people / hour |
| Manufacturer: |
Herbert Weigmann , Oberstdorf Conversion Pohlig , Cologne (PHB) 2013 Control technology PBI, Hürth |
| Operator: | Seilbahn Burg GmbH |
| Website: | www.seilbahn-burg.de |
| Armchair: | 30 double armchairs (2-CLF) |
| Conveyor / suspension rope: | Diameter 23 mm, length 495 m |
| Drive power: | Main drive DC motor 56 HP Auxiliary drive 3-phase motor 38 HP |
| Positioning: | Drive and tension weight in the mountain station |
| Driving time: | 4 min |
| Architect: | Walter Fehse, Remscheid |
| Design engineer and site manager: | Ernst Wilfer |
| Passengers: | approx. 200,000 / year, 14 million by 2011 |
The Burg cable car in Solingen 's Burg an der Wupper district in North Rhine-Westphalia is mainly used for tourist purposes.
Every year around 200,000 people take the chairlift between the Unterburg district and the Oberburg district above it with the Bergisch count residence Schloss Burg . The cable car crosses the Wupper River and then runs steeply up the Burgberg. Over a distance of almost 250 meters, the train overcomes around 90 meters in altitude.
Dieter Backhaus (1926–1997), a businessman from Remscheid, was the builder and until 1986 managing director of the company . He and his father Erwin Backhaus sen. and his brother Erwin Backhaus decided in 1951 to build a cable car between Unterburg and Oberburg based on impressions gained in the Black Forest and Austria .
As the first such means of transport in North Rhine-Westphalia, it was implemented by the Weigmann company from Oberstdorf in 1952. The opening of the train service took place on May 31, 1952. The architect was Walter Fehse (1909–1992) from Remscheid; Designer and site manager Ernst Wilfer (1923–2014).
Technical specifications
The system corresponds to the type of a monocable gondola with 30 double armchairs. It can be driven either by a direct current motor (56 HP) with a Leonard kit or a three-phase motor (38 HP). In 1961 the Pohlig company from Cologne carried out extensive technical improvements. The cable car has a total of three supports. The diameter of the endless conveyor and carrying cable is 23 millimeters and its length 495 meters. In 1996 today's rope was installed (manufacturer: Seilfabrik Zwickau). The drive is located in the mountain station (188 m above sea level), the deflection disc in the valley station (97 m above sea level). Since 2012, every double armchair has had a holder for transporting bicycles. Bicycle transport is only carried out uphill, people are transported in both directions.
Regular safety checks and magnetic-inductive rope tests are carried out by ROTEC GmbH .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 8 ′ 11.7 " N , 7 ° 8 ′ 55.5" E