Wuppertal-Loh train station
| Wuppertal-Loh | |
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 View from the train tracks
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| Data | |
| Location in the network | former connection station |
| abbreviation | KWLO |
| opening | 1879 |
| Conveyance | 1991 |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Wuppertal |
| Place / district | Tan |
| country | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 16 '9 " N , 7 ° 10' 29" E |
| Railway lines | |
| Railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia | |
The Wuppertal-Loh train station , known as Loher Bahnhof , is a historic train station in Wuppertal . It is located on Rudolfstrasse in the north-west of the Barmen district , which was an independent town when it opened.
The station
The Wuppertal Northern Railway was built by the Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (RhE) from 1873 as a competing route to the main line of the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (BME) and opened on September 15, 1879.
The station was called Unter-Barmen RhE until 1880 and was considered the Barmer main station on the Rhine route. In 1897 the name was changed to Barmen-Loh, after the merger of the cities of Barmen and Elberfeld to Wuppertal, it became Wuppertal-Loh.
From 1894, the Loh – Hatzfeld railway began at Loher Bahnhof , which led to the Barmer slaughterhouse and was shut down in 1980. In the middle of the 20th century, the station lost its importance. The Rhenish route now owned by the federal railway became a branch line until it was completely closed for passenger traffic on September 27, 1991. The station building was initially useless. In December 2008 the railway line was sold to the city of Wuppertal and the Wuppertal movement.
The station building and its current use
The station building was built in the Bergisch style in 1870 and was originally provided with a slate facade, which was converted into an Eternit facade in the 1970s .
From January 2009 the unemployment and social welfare association Tacheles e. V., which previously had its headquarters in Luisenstraße , moved to Loher Bahnhof and has extensively renovated the Loher Bahnhof. A social center with a district meeting point, an advice center and a café has been created in the building. The association is given the new rooms by the owner under favorable conditions. Over the years, the building has been extensively renovated, in 2012 the former bowling alley was converted into a seminar and conference room with attached office space.
See also
Web links
- Railway stations on the Rhenish route
- A portrait of train stations: Wuppertal-Loh
- Description of the operating point in the NRWbahnarchiv by André Joost
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wuppertaler Rundschau : Tacheles moves into the “Erdbeerhaus”, August 20, 2009