Gondola · Lenggries, Germany
Brauneck
Brauneck is a gondola near Lenggries, Germany. It climbs 780 m over 2.43 km, from 720 m to 1,500 m above sea level. Between its 13 pylons, the cable runs up to about 84 m above the ground.
How scary is it?
77/100 · Scary
By the numbers, Brauneck is scarier than 77% of the 2,742 gondolas and cable cars on this site. It is number 19 of 64 in Germany.
- Highest above the ground: about 84 m, as high as a 28-storey building, 1.90 km after the bottom station.
- Longest stretch without a pylon: 430 m.
- Steepest stretch of cable: 33°.
- More than 50 m above the ground for 297 m of the 2.43 km ride.
Where does it start?
The bottom station of Brauneck is near Lenggries, Germany, at 720 m above sea level (47.67498° N, 11.55456° E). From there it runs 2.43 km up to the top station at 1,500 m.
Directions to the bottom station ↗ Bottom station on OpenStreetMap ↗
- Opened
- 1957
- Capacity
- 800 people per hour
- Per cabin
- 4 people
- Ride time
- about 12 min
Nearby lines
- Herzogstandbahn cable car · 18.3 km away · rises 787 m
- Wallbergbahn gondola · 18.4 km away · rises 826 m
- Schliersbergbahn cable car · 26.0 km away · rises 222 m
- Taubensteinbahn gondola · 27.4 km away · rises 506 m
- Karwendel-Bergbahn gondola · 28.8 km away · rises 526 m
- Rofanseilbahn cable car · 30.9 km away · rises 849 m
Pylon heights are estimated (30 m), so the height above ground is approximate. Terrain: Copernicus GLO-30, 30 m. Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. Data as of 2026-10-31.