In the event of a emergency drill last week, damaged the cabin of the spectacular new Zugspitz cable car could be salvaged. However, the cable car must, for safety reasons, probably a long time still.
Severely damaged gondola to the Zugspitz railway
Well a week after the accident at the Zugspitz cable car specialists have recovered the damaged cabin. She was brought on Friday morning to the mountain station, such as the Bavarian Zugspitze railway Garmisch-informed Partenkirchen. The cabin had been pulled with a speed of ten centimeters per second, about 280 meters to the top. “We are very relieved. The first important step is done,” said Martin Hurm, Manager, cable Railways and lifts, Zugspitze.
In the case of an emergency exercise 12.9. had been damaged, the first in December 2017, with the opening of new cable car to the Zugspitze mountain so heavy that you have to set the foreseeable future of your operation. The cause of the accident needs to be investigated further, because the cable car manufacturers get involved. According to a report by the Bavarian broadcasting the forced break for the cable car could take months.
When the cable car can go to Germany’s highest mountain back in operation, is still open
It is considered the flagship project of Germany’s highest summit: 1945 metres of height difference from the valley up to the summit station – a world record. 580 passengers per hour can carry the two gondolas to the summit and the crowd of around half a Million visitors to the Zugspitze in the year, with significantly less waiting time to cope with the predecessor, the Eibsee cable car.
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Cable car to the Zugspitze – that is the summit!Germany’s highest construction site
50 million euros have been invested. No other cable car in the world with more than 3200 meters of distance from the support to the mountain station a larger distance. She has support with 127 meters of the world’s highest Steel. The gondolas cope on a total length of 4.5 kilometers and a height difference of almost 2000 meters. The technical world records.
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Cable car to the Zugspitze – that is the summit!The first of the new gondola
Adorned with the white Silhouette of the Wetterstein massif, the new gondolas promise more comfort and a view. 120 passengers. Per hour, the new cable car will bring up to 600 people to the summit. If the floor-glazed cabin is rolling at high speed across the sole support of a adrenaline-Kick on the ten minute drive.
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Cable car to the Zugspitze – that is the summit!The new mountain station
For three years engineers and technicians have worked on the new cable car. At the mountain station but built still. So you should look again: three stories and glazed all around to rise with the railway engineering building and the panorama restaurant. The amount of noise arises in the future, when A – and get Off: The mountain station hangs 30 meters above the abyss.
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Cable car to the Zugspitze – that is the summit!Is after 54 years
On the Austrian side, already in 1926, drove a cable car up to the Zugspitze crest on 2805 meters. In 1963, Bayern übertrumpften but the competition: The Eibsee cable car, brought since then, over 21 million guests even at 2960 meters. In the spring of 2017 your last gondola drove into the valley. It counts the kilometres travelled, explored the old cabins, more than 76 Times the earth!
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Cable car to the Zugspitze – that is the summit!Around the Eibsee
According to him, the old cable car was named. At the base station in an altitude of 1000 meters in the Caribbean is grace at the end of mountain lake. It is named after the yew-trees, the him formerly more numerous einrahmten than it is today. Around the lake, with its eight Islands in the crystal clear water of Hiking trails. Also with the mountain bike, the area can be explored.
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Cable car to the Zugspitze – that is the summit!The summit cross
In the course of the construction work for the new cable car to the Golden summit cross had been damaged in may 2017 by a crane. The chain of the crane had torn down some of the Golden rays of the cross. A part had fallen into the deep, but could be salvaged. On 6. December 2017, has been brought up in a spectacular action, the 4.88 meters high landmark of the Zugspitze back in its place.
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Cable car to the Zugspitze – that is the summit!Panorama
These views annually attracts over half a Million visitors. In clear weather the view over 400 peaks sweeps. Mountaineers know their names, or just in the App in the “Zugspitze” in the AR summit viewer to look in. However, many tourists only the sun and the magnificent view over Germany, Austria-rich, simply, the Swiss Alps, to the Dolomites in Italy.
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Cable car to the Zugspitze – that is the summit!Zugspitzplatt
As a true winter Paradise and the perfect winter sports arena, the Zugspitz region, there are still plenty of natural snow. Often, the season for skiing and tobogganing pleasure lasts on the glacier until may. As early as this Winter, the snow has fallen, however, in recent years, rare. The Alps are already suffering from the harbingers of climate change.
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Cable car to the Zugspitze – that is the summit!Alternative Gear Train
Only by the Zugspitze railway to the highest summit of Germany could be to a tourist’s Paradise. Since 1930, the mountain railway guests from Garmisch-Partenkirchen up to the glacier. The last meters to the Zugspitz plateau bridged by a short Gondola. With the historical cog railway station, the journey takes approximately 75 minutes. In the summer, many hikers use this route to the summit.
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Cable car to the Zugspitze – that is the summit!Germany’s highest beer garden
Most of the guests come in the summer on the Zugspitze. On the cable car operators. According to the Motto “mountain experience for all” will also come up more passengers with disabilities to the summit. Up to 600,000 people in the year to promote the barrier-free cable car, and at least 50 to 60 years. If there is still snow-covered peaks of the Alps, is uncertain.
In the case of the Exercise after it had come to a violent collision. In the preparation of routine Exercise, the chain of a lifting tool, crack. The mountain car sped unabated into a vacant cabin of the cable car. In the case of such internal Exercises for the case of the mountain railway staff, trains can be evacuated, as the passengers from the gondola, if this time should come forward. For this purpose, a so-called mountain car to the gondola, drained, with 30 passengers back to the mountain station can be called up, explained Verena Lothes, spokeswoman for the Bavarian Zugspitze railway. For each of the two ropes, a 2.5-ton mountain so cars installed at the mountain station.
To the Zugspitze, it also comes with the cog railway
Until further notice, the Zugspitzbahn remains out of operation. In the meantime, the Zugspitze can Dodge visitors on the cog railway. The glacier cable car from the Zugspitzplatt to the summit is regularly in operation.
is/ch (AFP, dpa, br, merkur.de)