Cable car · Bayrischzell, Germany
Wendelsteinbahn
Wendelsteinbahn is a cable car near Bayrischzell, Germany. It climbs 930 m over 2.79 km, from 793 m to 1,723 m above sea level. Between its 1 pylon, the cable runs up to about 139 m above the ground.
How scary is it?
92/100 · Very scary
By the numbers, Wendelsteinbahn is scarier than 92% of the 2,742 gondolas and cable cars on this site. It is number 11 of 64 in Germany.
- Highest above the ground: about 139 m, higher than the Great Pyramid of Giza (139 m), 874 m after the bottom station.
- Longest stretch without a pylon: 1.55 km.
- Steepest stretch of cable: 21°.
- More than 50 m above the ground for 2.22 km of the 2.79 km ride.
Where does it start?
The bottom station of Wendelsteinbahn is near Bayrischzell, Germany, at 793 m above sea level (47.68758° N, 11.98164° E). From there it runs 2.79 km up to the top station at 1,723 m.
Directions to the bottom station ↗ Bottom station on OpenStreetMap ↗
- Operator
- Wendelsteinbahn GmbH
- Capacity
- 450 people per hour
- Per cabin
- 50 people
Nearby lines
- Taubensteinbahn gondola · 7.8 km away · rises 506 m
- Schliersbergbahn cable car · 10.7 km away · rises 222 m
- Wallbergbahn gondola · 16.1 km away · rises 826 m
- Panoramabahn Kaiser Maximilian funicular · 18.0 km away · rises 11 m
- Hochriesbahn Kabinenbahn cable car · 19.7 km away · rises 625 m
- Kampenwandbahn gondola · 26.6 km away · rises 846 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.