Ještěd cable car

The cable car Ještěd ( tschech. Kabinová LANOVA dráha na Ještěd ) is a cable car, on the mountain of the city, the Ještěd ( German: ridge, 1012 m) leads from Liberec. The base station is located in Horni Hanychov district ( German: Oberhanichen ) at an altitude of about 600 meters.

The line was opened in 1933 in operation, making it the second oldest in the Czech Republic after the railway on the Black Mountain in the Giant Mountains. Between 1972 and 1975 the railway was modernized. She is currently the only cable car which is operated by the Czech State Railways, the line number is 900

Data

The cable car transports an average of about 250,000 persons per year.

Specifications:

  • Height Length of route: 1188 m
  • Horizontal Length of route: 1115 m
  • Average slope: 36 %, maximum 55.78 %
  • Difference in altitude: 401.7 m
  • Diameter of the main cable 50 mm
  • Cabins: 2
  • Capacity of a cabin: 35 persons / maximum of 525 persons per hour per direction
  • Maximum speed: 10 m / s
  • Driving time: 4 minutes

History

In 1924, was proposed by the German Society of the ridge and the Jizera Mountains, the former owner of the hotel on the summit Jeschke, Roman Wienenberger and the company Adolf Bleichert & Co. of Leipzig, to build a passenger lift to the summit Jeschke.

In the 1930s, the Czechoslovak State Railways Land acquired on the ridge for future lift stations. Construction began in 1932, in June 1933 the lift was put into operation, which is operated since 1945 by the Czechoslovak State Railways. Between 1953 and 1962, replaced the lift by a cable car, as it still exists in its present form. 1971, the operation was temporarily suspended and the web has been fundamentally modernized 1972-1975.

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