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Gondola Lift Weggis-Rigi Kaltbad - Status
Current Status: The cable car can operate until the end of September 2027, but construction can only begin later. The new cable car can only start operating…
Felsentor Foundation on Rigi: From Halfway Hotel to Zen Center
Between Vitznau and Rigi Kulm, there is a stop where most people remain seated. Romiti-Felsentor is a request stop, and those who alight here usually go…
Who owns the Queen? Rigi between the secondary residence law and the gondola lift
2013, the Rigi was a topic of discussion in the future tense. The second home initiative had been accepted in March 2012, the first partial revision of the…
The Rigi and its failed large-scale constructions
On the Rigi, the most architecturally interesting buildings are rarely found where one expects them. Not on the summit, not in the village square, but…
The Iron Bridge Unterstetten as the most interesting structure of the Rigi
If you are interested in the structures of the Rigi, you will almost inevitably end up with the hotel palaces: with the ruins on the Scheidegg, with the…
Which trains are running to Rigi today
If you stand on Rigi Staffel on a Sunday in August, you can see four generations of propulsion systems pass by within an hour, covering approximately 150 years…
The Technology of the Rigi Cogwheel Railway
On May 21, 1871, a hissing, steaming train crawled up the mountain from Vitznau on Lake Lucerne for the first time. It was, incidentally, the 54th birthday of…
Rigi Kulm, Rigi Kaltbad, Kräuterhotel Edelweiss, Klösterli: Where you stay overnight on the Rigi
Whoever stays overnight on the Rigi today sleeps in the remnants of a system that was once significantly larger. According to the Luzerner Zeitung on Rigi…