Sulden am Ortler cable car
The Sulden am Ortler cable car leads from the valley station at Sulden in Vinschgau ( South Tyrol ) ( 1910 m slm ) to the mountain station at the Schaubachhütte ( Rifugio Città di Milano ) at an altitude of 2610 m , where it opens up the Madritsch ski area.
New construction of the cable car
The new cable car started its operation on 21 November 2003. It has virtually the same route as the 1975 by Agudio built, consisting of two sections aerial tramway , which was canceled.
With today's cable car, Doppelmayr has implemented a new concept of an aerial tramway for the first time, which has two sections, but which are not independent sections, and in which the intermediate station is not a full middle station, but only the transfer station for the gondolas from the upper and lower section that meet here at the same time.
The performance of an aerial tramway naturally depends on the distance between the valley and mountain stations and thus on the time a gondola takes for this route. One therefore often builds aerial tramways with a middle station and two sections, so that two gondolas take over the transport of people, whose travel time is ideally reduced by almost half. The middle station contains a full mountain station for the lower and a valley station for the upper section, including all the necessary technical equipment. Changing from one platform to the other platform in another part of the building is time-consuming.
At the Sulden cable car, the gondolas from the lower and upper sections meet head-to-head on the same platform at the intermediate station; passengers only need to go from one gondola to the next. A platform inside the station and a platform outside the gondolas make it possible to use the large doors on both sides of the gondola at the same time, be it to handle the flow of passengers more quickly in one direction, or to deal with the flow of passengers going uphill separated from those of the downhill passengers.
The four gondolas each offer space for 110 people. Considering that the cable car can transport a total of 440 people at the same time, it is the largest cable car in the world.
technical description
The route has a total horizontal length of 2781 m and an inclined length of 2871 m. The intermediate station is in the middle, the difference in altitude is around 700 m in total, of which around 300 m are in the lower section and around 400 m in the upper section. There are two supports in the lower section and one in the upper section .
The Sulden cable car has two suspension ropes with a diameter of 56 mm per track, which are anchored in the mountain station and extend without interruption via the intermediate station to the valley station, where they are tensioned by weights of 174 t. The two drives are located in the mountain station. They primarily drive the 32 mm thick traction ropes of the two gondolas in the upper section as well as their 26 mm thick counter ropes, which run over large deflection sheaves in the intermediate station. These deflection pulleys are each connected by a further deflection pulley firmly connected to them, with which the traction cables for the gondolas in the lower section are driven. The tension weights in the valley station tension the traction cables of the lower section and, via the pulleys in the intermediate station, also those of the upper section. The ropes were supplied by Teufelberger . In order to be able to compensate for different tensions in the two sections, the entire intermediate station is movably mounted so that it can move by one meter in both directions.
The cabins were built by CWA. The two cabins in the upper section have a slightly longer hanger so that they hold exactly at the same level in the intermediate station as the two cabins in the lower section. The travel speed with two motors is a maximum of 9 m / s (32.4 km / h). With a holding time of 80 seconds per station, the cabins have an hourly transport capacity of approx. 1300 people.
Web links
- Homepage of the Ortler cable cars
- Panorama map of the ski area
- Technical data of the cable car (PDF; 440 kB)
- TPH110 Sulden – Schaubachhütte in remontées mécaniques, French, with numerous photos
Coordinates: 46 ° 30 ′ 57.5 ″ N , 10 ° 35 ′ 46 ″ E