Wimmis Military Incline

 

 

 

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Photo Michael Schmocker

 

This military funicular it located at Wimmis near Spiez, at the bottom of the Niesen in the Simme-valley (Simmental).

It's a short funicular, maybe about 300 or 400 meters. They say that it is not
used any more. But at the time were i was there, there was not a lot of dust on the tracks.

The landscape there is very steep, so i holded me by grabbing the rails. But there was really nearly no dust on my hands afterwods. Also the bottom station was very clean.

The part just up of the bottm station looks like rocks felt down. But the mountain itself is to high that there could be stones down there, and even there's a forrest in between. But the part of the forest near the tracks doenst not look like it is a real forrest. Also the stones at the bottom station, i tried to climb up, but i was not possible. Those stones they are not fix. I just had to stand a little on them an the felt down...

Michael Schmocker

 

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Bottom station Oberdorf
Top station Burgflue
Length 205 m
Difference of levels 105 m
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