Seilbahn Zugspitze

The original Eibsee Cable Car
View of the lake Eibsee from the Aerial Tramway cabin
Station Eibsee of new cable car "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 the world record for the longest freespan in a cable car at 3,213 metres (10,541 ft)[1] as well as the tallest lattice steel aerial tramway support tower in the world at 127 metres (417 ft).[2] Construction of the system began in 2015 and it opened on 22 December 2017.[3]

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 was still possible via the rack railway and the Gletscherbahn Cable Car).[3]

  1. ^ "Zugspitze-Eibsee Cable Car — One Ropeway, Three World Records". Gondola Project. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
  2. ^ "Tower of Zugspitze Aerial Tramway, Grainau - SkyscraperPage.com".
  3. ^ a b "Zugspitzbahn - Seilbahn auf die Zugspitze | zugspitze.de". Archived from the original on 2018-12-02.