Schauinsland Aerial Tramway
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The Schauinsland Aerial Tramway is the longest cab rope orbit of Germany. It leads from valley station "Horben" at Freiburg out to the summit. It overcomes a difference in height of 746 meters on a length of 3,600 meters. The 37 Schaffnerless cabs can transport up to 700 humans per hour, per year approx. 240,000 passengers are transported.
[edit] History
After three-year construction period the Schauinsland Aerial Tramway, as the first personenseilbahn of the world according to the rotating principle, was taken on 17 July 1930 in enterprise. Ten grossraumkabinen, in which a Schaffner rode along in each case, carried from now the tourists up to the mountain. During World War II one alternate military hospital was supplied by Schauinsland Aerial Tramway. In the year 1987 the enterprise was stopped temporarily and one began with the modernisation. The Schauinsland Aerial Tramway received 37 new, but smaller cabs, which did not have to be accompanied by Schaffnern.
