Cable car · Berchtesgaden, Germany
Obersalzbergbahn
Obersalzbergbahn is a cable car near Berchtesgaden, Germany. It climbs 449 m over 1.50 km, from 535 m to 984 m above sea level. Between its 8 pylons, the cable runs up to about 43 m above the ground.
How scary is it?
30/100 · Gentle
By the numbers, Obersalzbergbahn is scarier than 30% of the 2,742 gondolas and cable cars on this site. It is number 44 of 64 in Germany.
- Highest above the ground: about 43 m, as high as a 14-storey building, 1.10 km after the bottom station.
- Longest stretch without a pylon: 228 m.
- Steepest stretch of cable: 24°.
Where does it start?
The bottom station of Obersalzbergbahn is near Berchtesgaden, Germany, at 535 m above sea level (47.63066° N, 13.00653° E). From there it runs 1.50 km up to the top station at 984 m.
Directions to the bottom station ↗ Bottom station on OpenStreetMap ↗
- Opened
- 1950
Nearby lines
- Jennerbahn Sektion 1 gondola · 4.2 km away · rises 554 m
- Jennerbahn Sektion 2 gondola · 5.0 km away · rises 602 m
- Untersbergbahn cable car · 11.0 km away · rises 1,319 m
- Predigtstuhlbahn cable car · 13.8 km away · rises 1,095 m
- Seilbahn Reiteralpe cable car · 16.1 km away · rises 1,039 m
- Reißzug funicular · 19.0 km away · rises 60 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.