Ještěd cable car
The Ještěd cable car (Czech: Kabinová lanová dráha na Ještěd ) is a cable car that leads from Liberec to the city's local mountain, Ještěd (German: Jeschken , 1012 m ). The valley station is located in the Horní Hanychov (German: Oberhanichen ) district at an altitude of around 600 meters.
The cable car was put into operation in 1933, making it the second oldest in the Czech Republic after the cable car to Černá hora in the Giant Mountains . Between 1972 and 1975 the railway was completely modernized. It is currently the only cable car operated by the Czech State Railways . The line number is 900 .
Data
The cable car transports around 250,000 people per year.
Technical specifications:
- Length of the route: 1188 m
- Incline: average 36%, maximum 55.78%
- Difference in altitude: 401.7 m
- Main cable diameter: 50 mm
- Cabins: 2
- Capacity: 35 people / cabin, maximum 1050 people per hour
- Maximum speed: 10 m / s
- Travel time: 4 minutes
history
In 1924, the German Society for the Jeschken and the Iser Mountains , the former owner of the hotel on the Jeschkengipfel, Roman Wienberger, and the company Adolf Bleichert & Co. from Leipzig proposed to build a passenger lift to the Jeschkengipfel.
In the 1930s, the Czechoslovak State Railways acquired land on the Jeschken for a future lift station. Construction began in 1932. In June 1933 the lift went into operation, which has been operated by the Czechoslovak State Railways since 1945. Between 1953 and 1962 the lift was replaced by a cabin cable car, as it still exists in its current form. In 1971 operations were temporarily suspended. The railway was completely modernized between 1972 and 1975.
