Kölner Seilbahn
Cable car strung nine hundred thirty-five meters over a major river, first of its kind built in Germany.
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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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