Kölner Seilbahn
Cable car strung nine hundred thirty-five meters over a major river, first of its kind built in Germany.
The Kölner Seilbahn's guide follows the race to build Germany's first cable car strong enough to span the Rhine, engineered by the Cologne firm Pohlig in time for a nineteen fifty-seven garden show. It rides along on the opening days, when the mayor, the zoo director and eventually the chancellor himself climbed aboard to test a design nobody was fully sure would hold. The guide also picks up a later turn in the story, when a new road bridge forced the whole line down in nineteen sixty-three. Look down at the Rhine as you cross, level with the exact stretch of water that first line was built to fly over.
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