Zugspitze Glacier Cable Car

The Zugspitze Glacier cable car is a 1992 put into operation, 1,000 -meter-long cable car to Zugspitze Mountain. It connects the Zugspitzplatt directly with the 360 m higher summit. Since then, the mountain station of the Bavarian Zugspitze Railway was moved from Schneefernerhaus on the platform, the Schneefernerhaus and the old cable cars down from there to the platform ( slope course and old glacier cable car ) and up to the summit ( summit cable car ) have drove, lost their meaning.

Run by the Bavarian Zugspitze Railway Berg Bahn AG rail is designed as aerial tramway with two track ropes and has no support. Your support cables have a diameter of 50 mm, her pulling rope 34 mm diameter. It is driven by two motors of 210 kW of power at the base station. The cabins of the Zugspitze glacier railway have a capacity of 100 people, the railway has a total capacity of 1000 people per hour per direction.

The railway was built by the South Tyrolean company Hölzl Seilbahnbau.