Wiesbaden, Germany

Our morning was spent seeing some of the sights of Wiesbaden. We drove through a beautiful area of town where all of the houses looked like (and were the size of) large villas or small castles. We were on our way to the Nerobergbahn, a funicular railway which opened in 1888 and is one of the few funiculars with water propulsion. At the upper station, tanks on the downbound car are filled with up to 1,800 US gal of water to ensure that it is heavier than the upbound car. The downbound car can then pull the upbound car uphill with a 1,483 ft long steel cable. When the downbound carriage arrives at the lower station, the water is discharged and pumped back uphill (thanks to Wikipedia for this description).

From the top of the hill we walked to the Russian Orthodox Church of Saint Elizabeth. The church was built from 1847 to 1855 by Duke Adolf of Nassau on the occasion of the early death of his wife, the 19-year-old Russian princess Elizabeth Mikhailovna, Grand Duchess of Russia and Duchess of Nassau (1826-1845).

We then drove to Köln/Cologne for our next two days.

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