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The Drachenfels Railway (German: Drachenfelsbahn) is a rack railway line in the North Rhine-Westphalia region of Germany. The line runs from Königswinter , on the east bank of the Rhine , to the summit of the Drachenfels mountain at an altitude of 289 m (948 ft).
Drachenfels, view from Mehlem. The Drachenfels ("Dragon's Rock", German pronunciation: [ˈdʁaxənˌfɛls]) is a hill (321 metres (1,053 ft)) in the Siebengebirge uplands between Königswinter and Bad Honnef in Germany. The hill was formed by rising magma that could not break through to the surface, and then cooled and became solid underneath.
The Drachenfels, crowned by the ruins of a castle built in the early 12th century by the archbishop of Cologne, rises behind the town. From the summit, which can be accessed by the Drachenfels Railway , there is a view celebrated by Lord Byron in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage .
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Schloss Drachenburg or Drachenburg Castle is a private villa styled as a palace and constructed in the late 19th century. It was completed in only two years (1882–84) on the Drachenfels hill in Königswinter, a German town on the east bank of the Rhine, south of the city of Bonn.
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Rail accident of Drachenfels [65] 14 September 1958 18 112 Faulty braking of a descending train on the Drachenfels Railway, a rack railway, resulted in excessive speed and derailment. Lauffen bus crash: 20 June 1959 45 25 After the barrier of a level crossing was not closed properly, a train hit a bus. Rail accident of Leipzig [66] 15 May 1960 ...