Old Market (Wuppertal)

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The Old Market is a major traffic junction in the Wuppertal district of Barmen and at the same time a historic inner-city square, which used to be the center of the "district", the historic center of the later city of Barmen .

topography

The transport hub

The Wuppertal suspension railway on the old market

At the traffic junction Alter Markt, federal road 7 (B 7) crosses the important east-west axis of Wuppertal, which leads west over Friedrich-Engels-Allee to the Elberfeld district , east over the Höhne to Schwelm , and the streets Fischertal and Steinweg , an important north-south connection. The Fischertal road runs south and forms a connection with the state road 419 (L 419) to Lichtscheid and on to the districts of Ronsdorf and Cronenberg . The Steinweg , which runs in a northerly direction , is the shortest connection to the federal motorway 46 (A 46) in the direction of Dortmund and Düsseldorf .

In the immediate vicinity is the modern monorail station Alter Markt , from not far from the German railway -Haltepunkt Barmer station is. Regional trains and S-Bahn trains stop here, but no long-distance trains ; these now stop at Elberfeld station , which was declared Wuppertal's main station in the 1990s. A tram also ran along the B 7 until 1987 .

The inner city square

The inner-city square as the western end of the
Werth shopping area

The inner-city square is located at the western end of the pedestrian zone ( Werth ) in Barmen and for a long time did not live up to its importance. The pedestrian zone is the link with the Barmer Town Hall on Johannes-Rau-Platz and the central public transport stops on the Alter Markt.

Suspension railway station

The suspension railway station, which forms the transport hub with it, is directly at the Alter Markt bus station. With the expansion of the B 7 in the post-war period , the public transport stops were combined here, so that the Old Market was only a bus station for a long time . In 2002 the city of Wuppertal decided to give more importance to pedestrian traffic and to upgrade the inner city square. The public transport stops were relocated to Höhne and Steinweg .

architecture

The inner-city square, whose houses were destroyed to the ground during the war, is now surrounded by multi-storey buildings, one of which, a former department store, has been converted into a shopping center . A multi-storey car park that was built across the street is attached to this building. At this place are street cafes, ice cream parlors and a branch of the fast food chain Burger King .

The former suspension railway station Rathausbrücke, built in Art Nouveau style behind the inner-city square, fell victim to the intersection in the 1960s. The most striking thing about the traffic junction is the modern architecture of the Alter Markt suspension railway station, built in 1967. Four 38 meter high pylons hold the scaffolding of the suspension railway for a distance of 120 meters above the crossing.

history

During the National Socialist era , when many streets in Wuppertal were given new names, the old market was renamed Horst-Wessel- Platz. But after the war it was given its old name again.

Web links

Commons : Alter Markt  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 51 ° 16 ′ 14 "  N , 7 ° 11 ′ 50"  E