Heidelberger Bergbahnen
Two-section funicular climbing past a castle ruin to a summit, with wooden-bodied cars on its upper line.
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This guide to the Heidelberger Bergbahnen in Heidelberg starts on a staircase, with a marathon runner thirty-five kilometres into the race and facing the Himmelsleiter, a climb laid in 1844. It then turns to the station you're standing in, the water-powered cars of 1890 and the second line pushed up the Königstuhl in 1907. Best heard on the platform at Zwingerstrasse, before you choose how to go up.
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