The Kurwaldbahn is a

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in the town of

Bad Ems Bad Ems () is a town in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Rhein-Lahn rural district and is well known as a spa on the river Lahn. Bad Ems was the seat of Bad Ems collective municipality, which has been merged i ...

in the

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. It links the city with a view point, complete with a Bismarckturm (Bismarck Tower), and lies opposite the closed

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 ...

funicular on the other bank of the River Lahn. The funicular was constructed in 1979 and reconditioned in 2005. It operates daily every few minutes between 06:15 and 22:30. The funicular has the following technical parameters: *Length: ' *Height: ' *Maximum Steepness: ''78%'' *Configuration: ''

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with

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'' *Cars: ''2'' *Capacity: ''25 passengers per car'' *Journey time: ''70 seconds'' *

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: ' *Traction: ''Electricity''

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Kurwaldbahn web page
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