Kreuzberg ski area

Due to the length and steepness of the slopes, it is the largest ski area and one of the most challenging in the Rhön region.

The two upper ski lifts, Rothanglift, and Blicklift are known for their snow reliability due to their higher altitude and northern location.

The town of Bischofsheim in the Rhön is to the north-northeast of the ski slope, and Sandberg in the Rhön-Grabfeld district is to the southeast.

The northern slope of the Kreuzberg, which is mostly occupied by the ski area, has a steep incline, and drops down to the upper course of the Brend, a tributary of the Franconian Saale River, at an elevation of approximately 400 meters above sea level.

The ski area offers four drag lifts: Blicklift, Rothanglift, Dreitannenlift, and Fischzuchtlift, with a combined hourly capacity of approximately 3,600 people.

The lift area includes the restaurant at Kreuzberg Monastery, which serves locally brewed beer.

The lifts, owned by the Willert family and operated by Thomas Fuß from Haselbach, are open every day while there is sufficient snow.

The fourth ski lift, Fischzuchtlift, operates independently and is open on weekends and during the Christmas holidays, depending on snow conditions.

The Blicklift, a Doppelmayr model built in 1958, is the oldest drag lift in the Rhön region and northern Bavaria.

It is 600 meters long and features four portal supports – two horizontal vertical profiles connected at the top to guide the rope.

[6] Departures The Dreitannenlift, a Doplmayr model built in 1964, is the longest ski lift in the region, covering a total length of 1408 meters.

[4] According to the German Ski Association (DSV), these slopes have sections with over 40 percent inclines both longitudinally and laterally.

[11] The largest event held at the ski jumps took place from January 24 to 26, 1964, during the Bavarian Nordic Winter Games for youth skiers.

The longest distance achieved, albeit with a fall, was 74 meters by Henrik Ohlmeyer from SC Bischofsgrün.

One 300-meter-long run is located near Gasthof Roth at the end of the Kniebreche hiking route, next to the access road to Kreuzberg monastery, at approximately 840 meters above sea level.

Another 4.5-kilometer trail connects Haselbach to Neustädter Haus and continues to the Kreuzberg transmitter on the summit plateau.

On Sundays, ski tourists would arrive via the Ski-Express, operated by the Deutsche Reichsbahn, from Schweinfurt and Würzburg to the Bischofsheim train station.

Skiers would descend on unprepared slopes and narrow, steep meadows called "Wieslich" down to Haselbach.

In 1952, the construction of the Große Kreuzbergschanze began, which at that time was one of the largest ski jumps in Germany with a K-point of 75 meters.

Otto Willert, a fountain pen manufacturer from Neuendorf near Lohr am Main, built the Blicklift in the summer of 1958, the first ski lift at Kreuzberg and one of the first outside the Alps in Germany.

The ski lift, which took two and a half minutes to ascend, was originally equipped with wooden bars for passenger transportation.

On operational days, it was heavily visited, with visitors coming from the surrounding areas such as Aschaffenburg, Lohr am Main and Wertheim.