Barmen center
Barmen-Mitte (50) district of Wuppertal |
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Coordinates | 51 ° 16 '18 " N , 7 ° 12' 2" E |
height | 155 m above sea level NHN |
surface | 0.53 km² |
Residents | 5134 (Dec. 31, 2016) |
Population density | 9687 inhabitants / km² |
Proportion of foreigners | 35.5% (Dec. 31, 2016) |
Post Code | 42275 |
prefix | 02 02 |
Borough | Barmen |
Transport links | |
Federal road |
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Overhead conveyor | Wuppertal suspension railway |
bus | 332 604 608 610 611 614 617 624 627 628 632 634 637 640 644 CE61 SB67 NE4 |
Source: Wuppertal statistics - spatial data |
The Barmen-Mitte residential area in Wuppertal is one of six quarters in the Barmen district . It is the historic center Gemarke the former independent city Barmen .
geography
The 0.53 km² residential area is located east of the geographic center of Wuppertal, in a valley on both sides of the Wupper . It is bounded in the north by the route of the disused Wuppertaler Nordbahn , in the west by the streets Steinweg and Fischertal , in the south by the Elberfeld – Dortmund railway and in the east by the streets Heidter Berg , Bachstraße and Westkotter Straße . Clockwise, Barmen-Mitte surrounds the Sedansberg , Oberbarmen-Schwarzbach , Heckinghausen , Heidt , Kothen and Friedrich-Engels-Allee quarters . The Wupper with the Wuppertal suspension railway above flows through the residential area located in the valley, parallel to it runs the federal road 7 , here called Höhne .
Barmen-Mitte is the central traffic junction in Barmen, the Old Market .
There are numerous listed buildings in the quarter, such as the Wuppertal town hall on Johannes-Rau-Platz or the Barmer Hall of Fame on Geschwister-Scholl-Platz , both connected via the Werth pedestrian zone . Other culturally and historically significant buildings are the Concordia Society House , the Gemarker Church , in which the Barmer Theological Declaration was adopted at the Confessional Synod of the German Evangelical Church on May 31, 1934 , the Bergische Synagoge , and the Sedanstrasse grammar school founded in 1643 .