The Grindelwald–Männlichen gondola cableway (german: Gondelbahn Grindelwald-Männlichen, GGM) is a gondola cableway linking

Grindelwald Grindelwald is a village and Municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the Interlaken-Oberhasli (administrative district), Interlaken-Oberhasli administrative district in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Bern (canton), Berne. In addition ...

with

Männlichen The Männlichen is a mountain in the Swiss Alps located within the Canton of Berne. It can be reached from Wengen by the Wengen–Männlichen aerial cableway, or from the new (December 2019) Grindelwald Terminal stationBOB website - was to hav ...

. It is owned and operated by the Gondelbahn Grindelwald–Männlichen AG. The Grindelwald–Männlichen gondola cableway was the longest passenger-carrying gondola cableway in the world when it opened in 1978.

History

The cableway was proposed in order to provide direct access the snow-sure and wind-sheltered

ski region and thus extend the ski season into spring. It was also felt that it would create interesting new round-trips and hiking attractions. The company was founded in 1978, and the cableway opened in 1978. The cableway was constructed by Habegger Maschinenfabrik AG, at a cost of CHF 22 million. At the time of its building, it was world’s longest aerial gondola cableway. The gondola is due to be replaced in 2019 by the

V-cableway The V-cableway is a gondola cableway with a shared base station at Grindelwald with one route to Männlichen and the other to Eigergletscher railway station. It was built by Jungfraubahn AG. Project The project had two aims. Firstly it replaced ...

and a new 10-passenger gondola built and designed Doppelmayr and paid for by Jungfraubahn AG.

Operations

The cableway has an overall length of over . The cableway is constructed in two sections, and there is an intermediate station at

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where the gondolas change cable. Each gondola carries up to four passengers, and cableway can transport 900 persons per hour at a speed of . The journey time from

is 30 minutes.

Connections

It is a 3-minute walk from the Gondelbahn base station at Grindelwald to the

Wengernalp railway The Wengernalp Railway (german: Wengernalpbahn, WAB) is a long rack railway line in Switzerland. It runs from Lauterbrunnen to Grindelwald via Wengen and Kleine Scheidegg, making it the world's longest continuous rack and pinion railway. The ...

's Grindelwald Grund station. It is a 4-minute walk from the Gondelbahn top station at

to the

Wengen–Männlichen aerial cableway The Wengen–Männlichen aerial cableway (german: Luftseilbahn Wengen-Männlichen) is a cable car linking Wengen with the Männlichen in Switzerland. It is owned and operated by the Luftseilbahn Wengen–Männlichen AG. History In 1949, a nu ...

References

External links

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Grindelwald–Männlichen gondola cableway official web site

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