Neroberg Mountain Railway

At the end of upper Nerotal, one of the valleys leading out of the city, is the lower end of the Neroberg funicular railway. Attached is a WC building in half-timbered construction, completed by Felix Genzmer in the years 1897/98. Today, a museum of the history of the Nerobergbahn is housed there. In 1888, the Nerobergbahn was open to the public; since then its engineering has remained unchanged. The railway, powered by the weight of water, whose carriages are designed to conform to the inclination, climb up the 438.5 metres in only a few minutes to the top of Neroberg, overcoming an unchanging gradient of 25 percent.  Two carriages are connected to each other by a steel cable and meet at the mid-point of the line where sidings permit them to pass each other. To save on drinking water, the roughly 7,000 litres of water are today emptied into a catch basin and transported back up again by pumps.