The Gondelbahn Grindelwald-Männlichen is a gondola cable car linking Grindelwald with Männlichen. A gondola lift is a type of Aerial lift, often called a cable car, which consists of a loop of Steel cable that is strung between two stations Grindelwald is a municipality in the district of Interlaken in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. Männlichen is a 2343 metre Mountain in the Swiss Alps located within the Canton of Berne. It is the longest passenger-carrying cable car (or aerial tramway) in the world. An aerial tramway is a type of Aerial lift in which a cabin is suspended from a cable and is pulled by another cable
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History
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- 1978 The Grindelwald-Männlichen Gondola Cableway opened on 23 December. Year 1978 ( MCMLXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar) Building costs were CHF 22 million.
Operations
The initiators of the cableway considered it essential provide direct access the snow-sure and wind-sheltered Männlichen ski region and thus extend the ski season into spring. Männlichen is a 2343 metre Mountain in the Swiss Alps located within the Canton of Berne. It would also create interesting new round-trips and hiking attractions.
With a length of over 6071m, the Grindelwald-Männlichen Gondola Cableway is the world’s longest aerial gondola. There is an intermediate station at Holenstein where the gondolas change cable. The gondola cableway can transport 900 persons per hour at a speed of 4 m/s. The journey time from Grindelwald to Männlichen is 30 minutes. Grindelwald is a municipality in the district of Interlaken in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. Männlichen is a 2343 metre Mountain in the Swiss Alps located within the Canton of Berne.
The gondola cableway was constructed by Habegger Maschinenfabrik AG.
Connections
It is a 3 minute walk from the Gondelbahn base station at Grindelwald to the Wengernalpbahn station at Grindelwald Grund. The Wengernalpbahn (or WAB) is a 19091 km long gauge Rack railway line in Switzerland, which runs from Lauterbrunnen and
It is a 4 minute walk from the Gondelbahn top station at Männlichen to the Luftseilbahn Wengen-Männlichen. Männlichen is a 2343 metre Mountain in the Swiss Alps located within the Canton of Berne. The Luftseilbahn Wengen-Männlichen is a Cable car linking Wengen with the Männlichen in Switzerland.
See also
This is a complete list of publicly-available Swiss Aerial tramways (excluding other types of Aerial lifts, according to official timetables 2004Dapyx Software network: MP3 Explorer | Ebook Manager | Zenithic