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14-414: The tramway was built by the companies Elin, Waagner Biro, Swoboda. It has two cabins with a capacity of 60 persons (plus one operator), running from the station Krefelder Hut (Krefelder Hütte) which is 2,453 metres (8,048 ft) above the sea level to the station Kitzsteinhorn at 3,029 metres (9,938 ft). The length of the line is 2,208 metres (7,244 ft), the maximum gradient is 42%. The travel time

28-417: A rock tooth. The construction consists of a central steel tube with a diameter of 2.2 metres, in which there is a maintenance elevator and a ladder. This pipe is supported by eight tubes of 0.5 metres diameter, connected every 10 metres with the central tube. This pylon was 103 metres tall when built in 1966. It has been extended twice, first to 106.8 metres and then to 113.6 metres. The Gletscherbahn Kaprun 2

42-516: A temporary counter-weight would necessitate recertification of the system. This was a previously unknown failure scenario and has required other similar aerial tramway systems to review their safety assessments. In particular: to devise a method by which the rescue vehicle is restrained while being lowered onto the running ropes rather than afterwards . 47°27′21.86″N 10°59′30.25″E  /  47.4560722°N 10.9917361°E  / 47.4560722; 10.9917361 Ehrwald Ehrwald

56-441: Is 8.5 minutes and the maximum speed is 36 km/h. Glacial Aerial Tramway Kaprun III has two stretches, separated by a former tallest aerial tramway pylon in the world. Until 2017 when the new Seilbahn Zugspitze cable car opened, the tallest aerial tramway support pillar in the world was this 113.6 metres (373 ft) high steel framework construction, placed on a square concrete block with 17 metres side length, which stands on

70-787: Is a municipality in the district of Reutte in the Austrian state of Tyrol . Ehrwald lies at the southern base of the Zugspitze (2950 meters above sea level ), Germany 's highest mountain, but which is shared with Austria. The town is connected to the Zugspitze with the Tyrolean Aerial Tramway . Ehrwald has a humid continental climate ( Dfb ) with four distinct seasons. Summers are very pleasant, with mild to warm days and cool nights. Winters are relatively cold and snowy, with average annual snowfall totalling 128 inches (325 cm). Precipitation

84-751: The Garmisch-Partenkirchen area. It is thus possible to make round trips using both the rack railway and the cable car. On the Austrian side, there is the Tyrolean Zugspitze Cable Car which starts at Ehrwald and meets the Seilbahn Zugspitze at the top. The technical details of the Eibsee Cable Car and the replacement Seilbahn Zugspitze are summarised in the following table. On 12 September 2018, during an emergency training exercise,

98-565: The Gipfelbahn, where queues can form at busy periods due to the limited 60-person capacity and intermittent operation. 47°12′31″N 12°41′20″E  /  47.20861°N 12.68889°E  / 47.20861; 12.68889 Seilbahn Zugspitze The Seilbahn Zugspitze is an aerial tramway running from the Eibsee Lake to the top of Zugspitze in Bavaria , Germany . It currently holds

112-399: The chain of the chain hoist used to lower the rescue vehicle onto the running ropes broke dropping the vehicle onto the ropes before the hoisting rope could be attached. Consequently, the rescue vehicle ran down the ropes unrestrained into the passenger gondola that was approximately 280 m (919 ft) below the mountain station. As both the rescue vehicle and the gondola were empty during

126-408: The exercise, nobody was hurt. The gondola was damaged beyond repair (there is no information on the fate of the rescue vehicle, but there is no indication that a replacement is required). The tramway remained closed until a replacement gondola was available. It reopened on 21 December 2018. It is not possible to operate the system with one gondola as each gondola counter-balances the other. Installing

140-564: The lower station of the Gipfelbahn, and did not reach the summit of the Kitzsteinhorn. Nowadays visitors have to take two cable cars (or one cable car followed by a chairlift) to the Alpincenter, from where they can board the Gipfelbahn. The Gletscherjet 3 and Gletscherjet 4, consisting of continuously moving gondolas and chairlifts, were constructed for the 2015/16 ski season. With their construction, non-skiers now have an alternative route to

154-431: The world record for the longest freespan in a cable car at 3,213 metres (10,541 ft) as well as the tallest lattice steel aerial tramway support tower in the world at 127 metres (417 ft). Construction of the system began in 2015 and it opened on 22 December 2017. This cable car replaced the original Eibsee Cable Car which closed on 2 April 2017 leaving no service for eight and a half months (access to Zugspitze

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168-480: Was a funicular in service between 1974 and 2000, before a disaster occurred on 11 November 2000, in an ascending train in the tunnel. The disaster claimed the lives of 155 people, leaving 12 survivors (10 Germans and two Austrians) from the burning train. The victims were skiers on their way to the Kitzsteinhorn Glacier. The Gletscherbahn only took skiers from the valley station to the Alpincenter, near to

182-406: Was built to provide a faster access to the Zugspitze from its German side, as the rack railway from Garmisch-Partenkirchen does not go directly to the summit and takes much longer. Both the original Eibsee Cable Car and its replacement Seilbahn Zugspitze belong to Bayerische Zugspitzbahn Bergbahn AG , the company operating the rack railway and most cable cars, gondola lifts and chairlifts in

196-509: Was still possible via the rack railway and the Gletscherbahn Cable Car). The original Eibsee Cable Car, which opened in 1963, was a cable car which connected the lower station (973 metres or 3,192 feet above sea level ) near lake Eibsee with the top station at 2,950 metres (9,678 ft) above sea level next to the summit of Zugspitze , Germany 's highest mountain on the border to Austria . The cable car from Lake Eibsee

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