Standseilbahn
Steam-era funicular climbing a former vineyard slope through two tunnels and over a long viaduct.
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This guide to the Standseilbahn funicular in Dresden-Loschwitz starts not with the railway but with a summer in seventeen eighty-five, when a young Friedrich Schiller came to stay on his friend Christian Gottfried Körner's vineyard on this very slope. It follows the artists who settled the hillside after him and the steep climb that a century later called for a railway. Best heard at the lower station on Körnerplatz, looking up the track.
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