https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Germany in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Thirteen people, including German tourists, have been killed after a cable car disconnected and fell near the summit of the Mottarone mountain near Lake Maggiore in northern Italy. https://www.thelocal.de/20210523/13-killed-after-cable-car-falls-in-italy-say-emergency-services-2 Sun, 23 May 2021 16:15:00 +0200 13-killed-after-cable-car-falls-in-italy-say-emergency-services-2 After six years of planning and construction, the new cable car to be inaugurated on Thursday will take visitors up nearly 3,000 metres to Zugspitze, the highest peak in the country. https://www.thelocal.de/20171221/record-breaking-cable-car-for-tallest-mountain-in-germany-to-open-thursday Thu, 21 Dec 2017 11:36:35 +0100 record-breaking-cable-car-for-tallest-mountain-in-germany-to-open-thursday Operation of the new cable car which will take visitors up the 2,962 metre-high Zugspitze, Germany’s highest peak, is set to start in about ten weeks’ time. But not everyone is looking forward to it. https://www.thelocal.de/20171011/record-breaking-new-cable-car-for-tallest-mountain-in-germany-near-completion Wed, 11 Oct 2017 14:09:03 +0200 record-breaking-new-cable-car-for-tallest-mountain-in-germany-near-completion After 65 people had to be rescued from the Cologne cable car on Sunday, investigations into the cause of the emergency began on Monday. https://www.thelocal.de/20170731/investigation-starts-after-dramatic-cable-car-rescue-in-cologne Mon, 31 Jul 2017 12:53:23 +0200 investigation-starts-after-dramatic-cable-car-rescue-in-cologne Six people, including a family and two American tourists, were left dangling 40 metres in the air over the Rhine for hours late on Tuesday after Cologne's cable car came to a halt. https://www.thelocal.de/20141022/tourists-stranded-on-rhine-cable-car-cologne Wed, 22 Oct 2014 11:08:00 +0200 tourists-stranded-on-rhine-cable-car-cologne An investigation has been launched after a paraglider crashed into the wires of a cable car, trapping 20 people in a gondola 100 above the ground for 17 hours overnight at the weekend. https://www.thelocal.de/20110815/36965 Mon, 15 Aug 2011 13:34:00 +0200 36965