Cable car · Piesendorf, Austria
Gipfelbahn, Piesendorf
Gipfelbahn is a cable car near Piesendorf, Austria. It climbs 579 m over 2.11 km, from 2,446 m to 3,025 m above sea level. Between its 1 pylon, the cable runs up to about 121 m above the ground.
How scary is it?
88/100 · Scary
By the numbers, Gipfelbahn is scarier than 88% of the 2,742 gondolas and cable cars on this site. It is number 31 of 408 in Austria.
- Highest above the ground: about 121 m, higher than the Statue of Liberty (93 m), 569 m after the bottom station.
- Longest stretch without a pylon: 1.16 km.
- Steepest stretch of cable: 20°.
- More than 50 m above the ground for 1.61 km of the 2.11 km ride.
Where does it start?
The bottom station of Gipfelbahn is near Piesendorf, Austria, at 2,446 m above sea level (47.20796° N, 12.69039° E). From there it runs 2.11 km up to the top station at 3,025 m.
Directions to the bottom station ↗ Bottom station on OpenStreetMap ↗
- Capacity
- 600 people per hour
- Ride time
- about 8 min
Nearby lines
- Gletscherjet 4 gondola · 0.6 km away · rises 306 m
- Gletscher Shuttle funicular · 1.0 km away · rises 98 m
- Gletscherjet II gondola · 1.8 km away · rises 470 m
- Lärchwandschrägaufzug funicular · 2.6 km away · rises 427 m
- Panoramabahn, Piesendorf gondola · 3.4 km away · rises 1,052 m
- Gletscherjet I gondola · 3.5 km away · rises 1,069 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.