Travel on the Drachenfels Cog Railway, that starts at the bottom
of Königswinger and takes us up 722 feet to the top of Drachenfels
Mountain, and past Schloss Drachenburg - a stunningly beautiful
villa that is said to have inspired the castle in Disney's
'Sleeping Beauty'. On arrival at the top of the mountain, you will
see the ruins of Burg Drachenfels, a castle that was built in the
12th century, and destroyed 500 years later. The line started
running in 1883, using steam powered trains, changing to electric
traction in 1953, and continues to run today.
