The Herzogstand Cable Car (german: Herzogstandbahn) was built in 1994 as replacement for a

chair lift An elevated passenger ropeway, or chairlift, is a type of aerial lift, which consists of a continuously circulating steel wire rope loop strung between two end terminals and usually over intermediate towers, carrying a series of chairs. They ...

through the

Bavaria Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total lan ...

alps The Alps () ; german: Alpen ; it, Alpi ; rm, Alps ; sl, Alpe . are the highest and most extensive mountain range system that lies entirely in Europe, stretching approximately across seven Alpine countries (from west to east): France, Swi ...

. Its two cabins carry passengers from the village of

Walchensee Walchensee or Lake Walchen is one of the deepest and largest alpine lakes in Germany, with a maximum depth of and an area of . The lake is south of Munich in the middle of the Bavarian Alps. The entire lake, including the island of Sassau, ...

( above NN) to the Fahrenberg mountain ( above NN) on the upper slopes of the

Herzogstand The Herzogstand is a mountain in the Bavarian foothills of the Alps, south of the city of Munich. It has an elevation of and is northwest of Lake Walchen. Maximilian II of Bavaria had a hunting lodge built underneath today's so-called ''Herzogs ...

mountain. The cableway uses a carrying cable and a hauling cable. The cable car is driven by a 185 kilowatt engine. The cable way has two supports, which are and high. The journey time each way is four minutes and the cars reach a top speed of .

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