Cable car department store Weipert
The Kaufhaus Weipert cable car was a 143.72 meter long single- cable shuttle in Kiel and the only aerial cableway for passenger transport in Schleswig-Holstein . She joined the top floor of the department store Weipert across the street wall and the old marina away with the top deck of the Company's funding - parking garage . The system thus saved customers arriving by car from having to make a detour via the busy roads at the old boat harbor or the Holsten Bridge.
history
The development of the Kiel cable car goes back to an ideas competition held by the department store, which was won by Fritz Schwarplies from Kiel in 1971. The owner of the department store, Franz Weipert, was so enthusiastic about this idea that he put it into practice three years later. The track, which runs at a height of 18 meters, was built by the Swiss company Willy Habegger and went into operation on March 28, 1974. The supplier of the system was the Von Roll company from Bern . Initially there were two yellow painted cabins, which were designated 1 Kiel and 2 Munich , were each manned by a cabin attendant and could each carry 15 passengers. The total capacity of the facility was originally up to 300 passengers an hour. In 1986, when a real estate fund took over the building and the facility, cabin 1 in Kiel was shut down in order to save personnel costs.
The one-way trip took 70 seconds and was free. The passengers were offered an impressive view over Kiel's old town, which is why the facility was also considered a tourist attraction. In December 1988 the cable car was shut down for financial reasons. Their maintenance costs amounted to 70,000 D-Marks a year, and in 1989 a new rope would have been necessary, which alone would have cost 30,000 D-Marks. At the end of May 1991, the system was finally dismantled, and over the years over three million people have used the train. One of the two cabins was then set up on the Skagerrakufer in the Friedrichsort district until 2007 , when the city of Kiel removed the cabin there in connection with the sale of the school premises to the Lernwerft .
According to the requirements of the European Union , a state cable car law was passed in 2004 . The law is of no practical application, since - aside from temporarily on the Bungsberg built drag lift for skiers - in Schleswig-Holstein are no such lanes more.
Web links
- Cable car to the Weipert department store in Kiel ( Memento from May 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- Daring idea: cable car over the fjord , article on shz.de from November 11, 2013, accessed on June 24, 2017
- Law on cable cars for passenger transport
- two-minute silent film in which the cable car can be seen between 0:28 and 0:40 min
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 54 ° 19 ′ 15.5 ″ N , 10 ° 8 ′ 18.9 ″ E