The Nordkette Cable Car (german: Nordkettenbahn) in the

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n state of

Tyrol Tyrol (; historically the Tyrole; de-AT, Tirol ; it, Tirolo) is a historical region in the Alps - in Northern Italy and western Austria. The area was historically the core of the County of Tyrol, part of the Holy Roman Empire, Austrian Emp ...

is a

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from

Innsbruck Innsbruck (; bar, Innschbruck, label=Bavarian language, Austro-Bavarian ) is the capital of Tyrol (state), Tyrol and the List of cities and towns in Austria, fifth-largest city in Austria. On the Inn (river), River Inn, at its junction with the ...

to the

Nordkette The Nordkette, also variously called the North Chain, Northern Range, rarely the Inn Valley Range or Inn Valley Chain (''Inntalkette''), is a range of mountains just north of the city of Innsbruck in Austria. It is the southernmost of the four g ...

, the southernmost

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of the

Karwendel The Karwendel is the largest mountain range of the Northern Limestone Alps. The major part belongs to the Austrian federal state of Tyrol (state), Tyrol, while the adjacent area in the north is part of Bavaria, Germany. Four mountain chain, chain ...

. It runs in two sections from the

quarter of

Hungerburg Hungerburg is a district of Innsbruck, Austria. It has a population of 1,005 (as of 2014). It is connected with the city center through a hybrid funicular railway, the Hungerburgbahn, and from Hungerburg the Nordkette Cable Car continues in 2 sect ...

via Seegrube Station () to the

top station A top station or upper stationFor example, se''Chairlift Blausee (upper station)''at www.outdooractive.com. Retrieved 15 May 2019. is usually the highest station of an aerial lift, a funicular, a T-bar lift or a rack railway. The lowest station is ...

, Hafelekar (). The cableway is the heart of the ''Innsbrucker Nordkettenbahnen'' ski area.

Literature

* . * Roland Kubanda (Hrsg.): ''Stadtflucht 10 m/s. Innsbruck und die Nordkettenbahn. Beiträge zum 75-Jahr-Jubiläum''. Studien Verlag, Innsbruck 2003, Veröffentlichungen des Innsbrucker Stadtarchivs, 352 S., Gebunden, .

External links

Nordkette Cable Car website
*,

Wiener Zeitung ''Wiener Zeitung'' is an Austrian newspaper. It is one of the oldest, still published newspapers in the world. It is the official publication used by the Government of the Republic of Austria for legally-required announcements, such as company r ...

, 12 September 2003
www.nordkette-austria.net
- The Nordkette in the Karwendel
Die Nordkettenbahn in Innsbruck
- Information by the Austrian Federal Monument Office about its Renovation
The Nordkette Singletrail

References

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