Cable car · Grodig, Austria
Untersbergbahn
Untersbergbahn is a cable car near Grodig, Austria. It climbs 1,319 m over 2.50 km, from 455 m to 1,774 m above sea level. Between its 3 pylons, the cable runs up to about 212 m above the ground.
How scary is it?
96/100 · Very scary
By the numbers, Untersbergbahn is scarier than 96% of the 2,742 gondolas and cable cars on this site. It is number 14 of 408 in Austria.
- Highest above the ground: about 212 m, higher than the Great Pyramid of Giza (139 m), 2.22 km after the bottom station.
- Longest stretch without a pylon: 740 m.
- Steepest stretch of cable: 37°.
- More than 50 m above the ground for 1.24 km of the 2.50 km ride.
Where does it start?
The bottom station of Untersbergbahn is near Grodig, Austria, at 455 m above sea level (47.72566° N, 13.04208° E). From there it runs 2.50 km up to the top station at 1,774 m.
Directions to the bottom station ↗ Bottom station on OpenStreetMap ↗
- Per cabin
- 50 people
Nearby lines
- Reißzug funicular · 8.1 km away · rises 60 m
- Festungsbahn funicular · 8.1 km away · rises 31 m
- Obersalzbergbahn cable car · 11.0 km away · rises 449 m
- Predigtstuhlbahn cable car · 11.3 km away · rises 1,095 m
- Jennerbahn Sektion 1 gondola · 15.1 km away · rises 554 m
- Jennerbahn Sektion 2 gondola · 15.9 km away · rises 602 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.