Photo: Roman Gric

The Burgberg Cable Car – the oldest ropeway in northern Germany

ISR REPORT This classic reversible aerial tramway has been carrying spa visitors and tourists up Bad Harzburg’s local mountain since 1929.

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Photo: Roman Gric

Exotic little ropeway in Ticino

ISR REPORT In Camorino on the southern outskirts of Bellinzona, there is a little ropeway with a cantonal operating permit for passenger…

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All photos: Roman Gric

In 1961, a ropeway was opened as a link between the terminus of the Chamonix-Montenvers rack railway and the ice cave at the foot of France’s longest…

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Photo: Roman Gric

Seventy years ago the Obersalzbergbahn opened as Berchtesgaden’s first cable car, a pulsed-movement aerial ropeway with a total of eight cars in four…

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Photo: Roman Gric

Small ropeways with cantonal operating permits are typical of many Swiss farms and mountain communities and often their only means of transport. With…

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Photo: Radim Polcer

Eighty years ago the first chairlift in Europe was opened in the Moravian-Silesian Beskids in the Czech Republic.

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Photo: Doppelmayr

A further upgrade for the biggest ski area in the Ore Mountains – with a chairlift with orange bubbles.

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Winter Park is one of Leitner Poma of America’s installation highlights this season and marks the introduction of Leitner Direct Drive technology.

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[Translate to English:] LEITNER ropeways

29 September 2018 marks a historic day for modern ropeway systems. With the opening of the world's highest 3S gondola lift on the Klein Matterhorn,…

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Bild: Garaventa

The Doppelmayr/Garaventa Group has built a reversible aerial tramway across Ha Long Bay in Northern Vietnam which puts all previous ropeway dimensions…

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Photo: Leitner

Local public transport has reached its limits in many urban centers. Streetcars and buses compete with private vehicles at street level, and the…

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Photo: Radim Polcer

The “Oldřichovice – Javorový vrch” single-seat chairlift in the Czech Republic is the last example of the first generation of this type of ropeway…

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Photo: Fatzer

FATZER AG Whether in inaccessible terrain in the mountains or in densely populated urban centers, the space available for splicing ropes is often…

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Photo: Doppelmayr Seilbahnen GmbH

DOPPELMAYR/CARVATECH Effective October 10, 2022, the Doppelmayr/Garaventa Group has acquired the Upper Austrian body-maker and ropeway carrier…

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Photo: Christoph Noesig / Bergbahnen Sölden

Jakob Falkner, Managing Director of Bergbahnen Sölden (A), on the subject of entrepreneurial responsibility in times of crisis, the potential for…

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Photo: Radim Polcer

For 60 years, the Waldeck Cable Car with its 2-seater cabins has been operating as a tourism facility linking the Eder Reservoir with Waldeck Castle.

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