Kurwaldbahn
The Kurwaldbahn is a funicular railway in the town of Bad Ems in the Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
The Kurwaldbahn is a funicular railway in the town of Bad Ems in the Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It links the city with a view point, complete with a Bismarckturm, and lies opposite the closed Malbergbahn funicular on the other bank of the River Lahn.
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Worth seeing in and around Kurwaldbahn
2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Sporkenburg
The Sporkenburg is a late medieval castle ruin about one kilometre south of Eitelborn in the district of Westerwaldkreis in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate.
3.9 km · castle ruin · Wikipedia - 02Bismarck Tower (Bad Ems)
The Bismarck Tower of Bad Ems on the Lahn in the Rhein-Lahn-Kreis of Rhineland-Palatinate was built in honour of the first German Chancellor, Prince Otto von Bismarck. Designed by architect Wilhelm Kreis, the tower stands east of the city centre on the Bismarckhöhe, is twelve and a half meters high, and was inaugurated in 1901.
100 m · Tower in honor of Otto von Bismarck · Wikipedia
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Getting to Kurwaldbahn
- Airports
- Frankfurt-Hahn (HHN), 54 km · Frankfurt Main (FRA), 68 km · Cologne Bonn (CGN), 72 km
- Stations
- Bad Ems station, 600 m
- Frankfurt am Main (Lautzenhausen) → KurwaldbahnTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Frankfurt am Main → Kurwaldbahn72 km · quickest by road, 1h 55m · €11–16
- Köln (Cologne) → Kurwaldbahn87 km · quickest by road, 2h 6m · €12–17
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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No local-transport research exists yet for Kurwaldbahn
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Kurwaldbahn. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundYou can reach Festung Ehrenbreitstein by taxi, bus, or by taking a ferry across the Rhine River and walking up the walled access road to the fortress.
- Get aroundYou can also ride a chairlift (Sesselbahn) to the top of the fortress.
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