Distance from the hotel: 4.0 km
The Rhine Cable Car, also known as the Cologne Cable Car, is a cable car crossing the Rhine in Cologne. It connects the two banks of the river (Riehl and Deutz) at the level of the Zoobrücke bridge and was built for the 1957 Federal Garden Exhibition.
Between 1957 and 2006, it transported over 14 million people without an accident. It is therefore considered Cologne's safest mode of transport. Through increased advertising and night journeys
In 2004, for the first time, a profit could be made on special occasions.
The operator of the Rhine cable car is Kölner Seilbahn-Gesellschaft mbH, a subsidiary of Kölner Verkehrs-Betriebe (KVB) since 1998. Until the completion of the Koblenz cable car for the 2011 Federal Garden Show, it was the only cable car in Germany to cross a river. [wikipedia]
