Westende (Wuppertal)
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West end
City of Wuppertal
Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 57 ″ N , 7 ° 6 ′ 57 ″ E
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Location of Westende in Wuppertal |
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The location of Westende in the Nützenberg residential area in the Elberfeld-West district of Wuppertal goes back to an old field name.
location
The location is on the Wupper and at the southern foot of the Nützenberg ; in the middle of the 19th century it was the outer western edge of the settlement of Elberfeld .
Neighboring locations are: Hütte , Arrenberg , An der Weide , Vogelsaue , Auf dem Nützenberg , Varresbeck , An der Kupferhütte and Stockmannsmühle .
history
A first mention of the location is not documented.
The Königstraße (today Friedrich-Ebert-Straße ) between Breite Straße (today Tannenbergstraße) and Westende, leading west from the then independent municipality of Elberfeld, was laid out in the first half of the 19th century. The chemical company Friedr. Bayer et comp. (today Bayer AG ) for dye chemicals settled here in 1866.
At the west end was the house of the brewery owner Gustav Küpper , which had a large hall and a rock cellar .
The first horse-drawn tram in today's Wuppertal went from Rittershausen (today's Barmen district ) to Elberfeld via Königstrasse and ended at this location in Westende; it was opened in 1874. Since then, the name Westende has been common for this location.
In 1896 the horse-drawn tram was switched to electric operation and in the same year the 9.5 kilometer long railway line was extended to Sonnborn . There was a car shed for the tram, but it no longer exists. The coal dump of the Elberfeld power plant , which was inaugurated in 1900, was on this site until the turn of the millennium .
The Wuppertal suspension railway line, which went into operation in 1901 , was given a suspension railway station, which has been called the Westende suspension railway station from the start .
Individual evidence
- ^ Wuppertal-Elberfeld: Briller Quarter and Nordstadt . Sutton Verlag, 2003, ISBN 978-3-89702-533-2 ( books.google.com ).
- ↑ Wilhelm Langewiesche (ed.) In connection with C. Siebel, C. Coutelle , CR Hötte, C. Pöls: Elberfeld and Barmen - description and history of this twin town of the Wupperthals together with a description of their industry, an overview of the Bergisch regional history ; Barmen; 1863; P. 60.
- ↑ The tram in Wuppertal. In: bkstechnik.de. lightrail.bkstechnik.de, accessed on November 9, 2015 .
- ^ Horse and tram depot Schwarzbach 117-119. (No longer available online.) In: barmen-200-jahre.de. www.barmen-200-jahre.de, archived from the original on December 22, 2015 ; Retrieved November 9, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
