Cable car · Meiringen, Switzerland
Hospizbahn
Hospizbahn is a cable car near Meiringen, Switzerland. It climbs 162 m over 485 m, from 1,783 m to 1,945 m above sea level. Between its 1 pylon, the cable runs up to about 47 m above the ground.
How scary is it?
44/100 · Moderate
By the numbers, Hospizbahn is scarier than 44% of the 2,742 gondolas and cable cars on this site. It is number 338 of 402 in Switzerland.
- Highest above the ground: about 47 m, as high as a 16-storey building, 209 m after the bottom station.
- Longest stretch without a pylon: 392 m.
- Steepest stretch of cable: 22°.
Where does it start?
The bottom station of Hospizbahn is near Meiringen, Switzerland, at 1,783 m above sea level (46.57526° N, 8.33481° E). From there it runs 485 m up to the top station at 1,945 m.
Directions to the bottom station ↗ Bottom station on OpenStreetMap ↗
- Operator
- Kraftwerke Oberhasli AG
- Capacity
- 60 people per hour
- Per cabin
- 15 people
- Ride time
- about 4 min
Nearby lines
- Sidelhornbahn cable car · 0.7 km away · rises 257 m
- Oberaarbahn, Meiringen, 1,948–2,210 m cable car · 1.0 km away · rises 262 m
- Oberaarbahn, Meiringen, 2,216–2,303 m cable car · 3.4 km away · rises 87 m
- Pendelbahn Käppeli-Trift (Triftbahn) cable car · 15.5 km away · rises 364 m
- Tällibahn (Pendelbahn Fuhren - Birchlaui) cable car · 18.1 km away · rises 543 m
- Robiei-Cavagnoli cable car · 19.3 km away · rises 322 m
Pylon heights are estimated (30 m), so the height above ground is approximate. Terrain: swissALTI3D © swisstopo, 2 m. Data as of 2026-10-31.