The Wendelstein Cable Car (Wendelstein-Seilbahn) is a long cable car (US: aerial tramway) running from the village of Bayrischzell Osterhofen to Mount Wendelstein in the Bavarian Alps in Germany. It has a maximum speed of () and its travel time is 6.5 minutes. The cabins each take up to 50 passengers, and the cable car system has a transport capacity of 450 people per hour. The cable car climbs an altitude difference of .
The cable car has a track rope and a haulage rope. Its engine has a maximum output of . It has one tall pylon.
See also Wendelstein Rack Railway, which takes visitors to the summit from the other side of the mountain
References
External links Die Wendelsteinbahn (in German) Wendelsteinseilbahn (in German) Wendelsteinbahn GmbH English page Wendelstein Aerial pylon diagram at SkyscraperPage.com