Breitenbergbahn Pfronten
Mountain cable car rising to alpine pastures, a gilded summit-area cross and wide Allgäu views.
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This audio guide rides the Breitenbergbahn above Pfronten, near Füssen, into a mountain that doubles as an open-air church. It follows the alphorn players who gather here each autumn to play for God, and the Catholic Kolping society of the nineteen sixties, who wanted a cross on their home mountain and faced the problem of getting a cast-iron Christ up there. Best heard in the cabin on the way up.
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