Cable car · Samerberg, Germany
Hochriesbahn Kabinenbahn
Hochriesbahn Kabinenbahn is a cable car near Samerberg, Germany. It climbs 625 m over 1.59 km, from 919 m to 1,545 m above sea level. Between its 4 pylons, the cable runs up to about 94 m above the ground.
How scary is it?
84/100 · Scary
By the numbers, Hochriesbahn Kabinenbahn is scarier than 84% of the 2,742 gondolas and cable cars on this site. It is number 16 of 64 in Germany.
- Highest above the ground: about 94 m, higher than the Statue of Liberty (93 m), 1.07 km after the bottom station.
- Longest stretch without a pylon: 852 m.
- Steepest stretch of cable: 29°.
- More than 50 m above the ground for 899 m of the 1.59 km ride.
Where does it start?
The bottom station of Hochriesbahn Kabinenbahn is near Samerberg, Germany, at 919 m above sea level (47.76078° N, 12.24023° E). From there it runs 1.59 km up to the top station at 1,545 m.
Directions to the bottom station ↗ Bottom station on OpenStreetMap ↗
- Opened
- 1973
- Capacity
- 600 people per hour
- Ride time
- about 7 min
Nearby lines
- Kampenwandbahn gondola · 7.1 km away · rises 846 m
- Hochkössen gondola · 18.4 km away · rises 861 m
- Wendelsteinbahn cable car · 19.7 km away · rises 930 m
- Panoramabahn Kaiser Maximilian funicular · 20.0 km away · rises 11 m
- Hochfelln-Seilbahnen Sektion 2 cable car · 24.1 km away · rises 558 m
- Hochfelln-Seilbahnen Sektion 1 cable car · 25.5 km away · rises 490 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.