The Russian Orthodox Chapel on the Neroberg is one of the most surprising buildings in Wiesbaden — a perfect miniature of a Moscow church, complete with five golden onion domes, set on a wooded hill above the German spa town. It was completed in 1855 as a memorial to the young Russian wife of Duke Adolf of Nassau.
The interior is small, dark, and richly decorated in the Russian Orthodox style, with an iconostasis of gilded wood and a Carrara marble effigy of Elizabeth Mikhailovna by Russian sculptor Emil Wolff. The setting on the Neroberg, reachable by the historic Nerobergbahn funicular, makes a visit doubly worthwhile: the view from the chapel platform takes in the whole Rhine plain on a clear day.