Trier cable car

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Former Trier cable car, valley station
Former Trier cable car, view over the Moselle valley to the mountain station
former Trier cable car, mountain station
Former valley station 2011

The Trier cable car was a 375-meter-long small cable car from the Zurlaubener Ufer on the Moselle to the Weißhausterrasse in Trier . It was built in 1967 and crossed the Moselle in its course. A height difference of 53 meters was overcome. The official maiden voyage took place on August 5, 1967. The cabins held 15 people, the maximum speed was 6 m / s (22 km / h) and the maximum transport capacity was 400 people per hour.

The Trier cable car was stopped in 2001. A reactivation was supposed to take place in 2004, but was canceled again after a fatal accident during trial operation. An employee of the railway operator fell at the Weißhaus mountain station from a height of five meters on the gravel path below and died a short time later of his injuries in the brothers' hospital . The Trier professional fire brigade had planned a height rescue exercise for the same day shortly after the accident. In March 2010, an investor withdrew from taking over Deutsche Bahn. In July 2011, the train was offered for sale on the internet auction house ebay . There was no bidder at the auction who wanted to buy the railway.

The grounds of the plant were leased to the operator by the city of Trier, a settlement between the city and the latter stipulated that he would have to put the facility back into operation by April 30, 2011, otherwise the land would be returned to the city fall. Since the operator saw no possibility of economic operation and did not want to raise the high renovation costs for the facility in need of overhaul, the land fell back to the city on time and the operator was obliged to dismantle the facility, especially since the city of Trier did not have an economically viable solution for saw a company under its own management. Therefore, the dismantling began on November 13, 2011.

The mountain and valley stations were torn down, the café attached to the valley station was initially retained and subsequently fell into disrepair. For the future use of the property, the city of Trier initially announced an investor competition from which the planning for the construction of a hotel emerged. It was also intended to be carried out, but could not be implemented after the investor withdrew in mid-2015. In order to improve the appearance of the now heavily neglected site, the former café should first be demolished and then a provisional parking lot should be created, but at the same time the way would remain free for an appropriate redesign and use of the site. After the demolition of the former café in mid-2016, the last visible traces of the Trier cable car have now disappeared.

Web links

Commons : Trier Kabinenbahn  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cable car: Lots of clicks, but no bid . In: Trierischer Volksfreund . 2011 ( Online [accessed July 24, 2011]).
  2. ↑ Marcus Stölb: We are prepared for demolition. In: 16 BEFORE. May 3, 2011, accessed May 19, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Christa Weber: The cable car is history . In: Trierischer Volksfreund . 2011 ( Online [accessed November 13, 2011]).
  4. ^ Roland Morgen: Adieu cable car: demolition by the end of 2012 . In: Trierischer Volksfreund . 2011 ( Online [accessed May 13, 2015]).
  5. ↑ Eric Thielen: Gastronom from Irrel is planning a hotel on the banks of the Moselle in Trier. In: http://lokalo.de/ . June 19, 2014, accessed May 13, 2015 .
  6. ↑ http://www.volksfreund.de/nachrichten/region/trier/Heute-in-der-Trierer-Zeitung-Perle-am-Moselufer-wird-zum-Parkplatz;art754,4158813

Coordinates: 49 ° 46 ′ 1.8 ″  N , 6 ° 38 ′ 8.3 ″  E