On the Zugspitze in Bavaria on Sunday morning (October 26. August) Winter reported. It fell nearly ten inches of new snow.
It was minus seven degrees freezing cold. From a height of 2000 metres, was formed on Germany’s highest mountain (2962 meters) in a closed blanket of Snow.
Today, Monday, meteorologists expect but again with sunshine – just in time for the anniversary of the first ascent of the Zugspitze: At the 27. August, 1820, the surveyor Josef Naus and mountain guide, Johann Georg Tauschl to be successful, the first documented ascent of the Zugspitze. Actually stood on Germany’s highest mountain, already 50 years before, people like a historical map of 1770 in the archives of the German Alpine club proves.
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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.
Most of the time to reach the summit today, however, with the cable cars or the cog railway. The weather stone mountains belonging to the Zugspitze visit in the year, around half a Million tourists and mountain climbers.
fm/ ks (dpa)