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Malberg Funicular, Bad Ems

Malberg Funicular, Bad Ems

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Malberg Funicular, Bad Ems

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Location: Bad Ems, Rhein-Lahn-Kreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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Hunsbuckel 🇺🇦

March 1, 2021

The history of the Malbergbahn goes back to the founding of the “Malbergbahn Actien-Gesellschaft” in 1886. Only seven months later, on June 5th, 1887, the Malbergbahn and the hotel at the mountain station that was built at the same time went into operation. With a gradient of a maximum of 54.5 percent, it was considered the steepest funicular in Germany and was the epitome of German engineering. The drive principle was very simple: Depending on the number of passengers, the upper wagon was additionally loaded with water in order to pull the lower wagon upwards due to the increased dead weight. The water came from an artificial pond specially created on the mountain, which was fed by pumps from the Lahn.
Up to 400 people were transported to the mountain station every day, who visited the mountain area as a local recreation area. The Malbergbahn became a tourist attraction and was a landmark of Bad Ems until its closure in 1979; most recently over 70,000 passengers were counted. Unfortunately, the city did not have the means to meet the requirements of the TÜV and so it came to the cessation of driving, which had been completely accident-free until then.
In 1981 the Malbergbahn, together with the mountain and valley stations, was listed as an industrial monument.

The valley station and the car that remained there were restored by a development association and the operators of Café Eckstein.

The valley station can be reached from Bad Ems directly over a bridge and a pedestrian crossing over the railway line.

malbergbahn.de

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Zwenne On Tour

February 26, 2021

This is an old cog railway that is no longer in operation.

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PeterH65 (a.k.a. "Waldorf")

September 27, 2021

"... The Malbergbahn - also known as Malbergbahn Bad Ems - was a funicular railway that ran between Bad Ems and the hotel on the Hohen Malberg from June 5, 1887 to 1979. On December 7, 1981, two years after the Shutdown, the railway was declared a technical monument and ran without an accident until its last day of operation.
The Kurwaldbahn, which opened in 1979, is located on the opposite bank of the Lahn. ... "
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malbergbahn

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