Astro path Wuppertal

The Astro Path is a planet path in Wuppertal and therefore a model of the solar system .

description

The model developed under the project management of Hans Joachim Hybel with 16 students from the Gymnasium Sedanstraße from October 1987 was built on a scale of 1: 5.5238 10 ⁸ on an almost straight radius with a length of approx. 10.7 km.

A total of 14 bronze plates with dimensions of approx. 30 cm × 30 cm were embedded in the ground between the Werth and the suspension railway station Vohwinkel , nine plates for the planets , a smaller one for the moon and another four smaller plates for the large moons of Jupiter Io , Europe , Ganymede Callisto . The spherical Werther fountain was chosen as the sun and thus as the center of the solar system . The first plates were donated by the parliamentary groups of the CDU and SPD in the council, and other donors whose names are mentioned on the plates joined them.

On the occasion of the Barmer City Festival, the Astro Path was officially opened by the chairman of the cultural committee Ursula Schulz on Friday, May 18, 1990 on Geschwister-Scholl-Platz . Before that, in the spring of 1989, the project group led by the Minister of Education and Cultural Affairs, Hans Schwier, was awarded the special prize from the “Practical Learning” department. The project group was also allowed to exhibit its work on September 20, 1989 in the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia in Düsseldorf . Today, the Astro Path is under the patronage of the Friends of the Sedanstrasse grammar school, Unser Alte Penne .

The renewed plate of Neptune was reinstalled in March 2018 after metal thieves stole it in May 2012.

Stations of the astro path
Heavenly bodies	sym bol	location	image
Sun		Werther Brunnen at the east end of the Werth pedestrian zone
Mercury	☿	Corner of Beckmannshof / Werth / Rudolf-Herzog-Straße
Venus	♀	Geschwister-Scholl-Platz
earth	♁	Corner of Werth / Kleine Flurstrasse, with a board for the moon
Mars	♂	Corner of Werth / Lindenstraße / Johannes-Rau-Platz , near the fountain Das Tal der Wupper	Image wanted BW
Jupiter	♃	Friedrich-Engels-Allee 367, with panels for the moons of Jupiter
Saturn	♄	Nommensenweg 12
Uranus	♅	Luisenstrasse 110
Neptune	♆	Hauptkirche Sonnborn
Pluto	♇	Vohwinkel suspension railway station

Web links

Commons : Astropfad Wuppertal - collection of images, videos and audio files

www.Astropfad.de , homepage of the project

Astro path at Schulkulturatlas.de

Audio file (MP3; 1.5 MB) via the astro path at RadioWuppertal.de

Astro path on the website of the Friends of the Sedanstrasse secondary school

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Ruth Meyer-Kahrweg : Monuments, fountains and sculptures in Wuppertal . Born-Verlag, Wuppertal 1991, ISBN 3-87093-057-8 .
↑ Source: RA Ackermann, Wuppertal (mail@ra-ackermann.de)
↑ Neptune plate completes the Astro Path in Sonnborn . In: Westdeutsche Zeitung . 2018 ( wz.de ).
↑ From its discovery in 1930 to the revision of the term planet on August 24, 2006 by the International Astronomical Union (IAU), Pluto was regarded as the ninth and most distant planet in our solar system.

[Ruth_Meyer-Kahrweg-1] A ^b Ruth Meyer-Kahrweg : Monuments, fountains and sculptures in Wuppertal . Born-Verlag, Wuppertal 1991, ISBN 3-87093-057-8 .

[2] Source: RA Ackermann, Wuppertal (mail@ra-ackermann.de)

[3] Neptune plate completes the Astro Path in Sonnborn . In: Westdeutsche Zeitung . 2018 ( wz.de ).

[4] From its discovery in 1930 to the revision of the term planet on August 24, 2006 by the International Astronomical Union (IAU), Pluto was regarded as the ninth and most distant planet in our solar system.