Malbergbahn
The Malbergbahn - also known as ''Malbergbahn Bad Ems - was a'' funicular, that operated between Bad Ems and the hotel at the Malberg Hohen from 5 June 1887 to 1979. On 7 December 1981, two years after the decommissioning, was the funicular made into a technological monument. It had no accidents during its operational period. In 1979, on the opposite side of the Lahn, was the Kurwaldbahn opened. History In 1872, the city of Bad Ems decided to build a hotel on the 350-meter-high Hohen Malberg to compensate for the absence of numerous foreign spa guests. To provide access to the site, the construction of a "funicular with a water counterbalance system" (water balance railway) was decided upon, and for this purpose, the ''Malbergbahn'' AG was founded in 1885. The operating company was registered in the commercial register in Cologne on 3 December 1886 under the name MAG. Construction work on the hotel and funicular began as early as November 1886. On 5 June 1887, the Malbergbahn ...
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