The Grindelwald–Männlichen gondola cableway () 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 additio ...

with

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

. 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 to 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 . The cableway was constructed by Habegger Maschinenfabrik AG, at a cost of CHF 22 million. At the time of its construction it was the world's longest aerial gondola cableway. The gondola was upgraded in 2019 as part of the

V-cableway The V-cableway is a gondola lift, gondola cableway with a shared base station at Grindelwald; it has one route to Männlichen and another to Eigergletscher railway station. It was built by Jungfraubahn AG. Project The project had two aims. First ...

, with a new 10-passenger gondola built and designed by Doppelmayr and paid for by Jungfraubahn AG. This replaced the original 1978 infrastructure.

Operations

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 ten passengers (four in the original gondola prior to 2020), and the cableway can transport 1,800 passengers (previously 900) per hour. The journey time from

is 19 minutes (previously 30 minutes).

Connections

It is a 3-minute walk from the Gondelbahn base station at Grindelwald to the Wengernalp railway'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 () is a aerial tramway, cable car linking Wengen with the Männlichen in Switzerland. It is owned and operated by the Luftseilbahn Wengen–Männlichen AG. History In 1949, a number of concerned indivi ...

References

External links

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Grindelwald–Männlichen gondola cableway official web site

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