Barmer plants

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Map of the Barmer plants
View in the northern part of the Barmer plants
Trees of the plants
A lawn in the facilities
The Budde-Allee in the Ringeltal
The swan pond
The lower plants
The lower plants

The Barmer facilities are the second largest private, nonetheless freely accessible park in Germany. They are located in the Wuppertal district of Barmen , which was an independent city in the Bergisches Land until it was united with the neighboring city of Elberfeld in 1929 . The facilities were designed from 1864 onwards according to plans by the royal horticultural director Joseph Clemens Weyhe .

The park extends from the residential area Heidt on the southern edge of the Barmer inner city area up to the Barmer Südhöhen with the Barmer Wald around the Toelleturm at a height of 330  m above sea level. NN in the residential area Lichtenplatz . The difference in height between the northern part and the highest elevation is about 135 meters with a length extension in north-south direction of about 1200 meters. The area, including the part of the Barmer Forest belonging to the facilities, is around 300 hectares, of which 77 hectares are owned by the Barmer Beautification Association and 212 hectares are owned by the city of Wuppertal. Around 100 hectares of the grounds are designed as landscaped gardens .

The Barmer facilities are divided into three parts by the streets Untere Lichtenplatzer Straße , which runs in an east-west direction and which is qualified as Landesstraße 419 , and the Lönsstraße . The smaller part of the Barmer grounds north of Untere Lichterplatzer Strasse and the deepest part of it has a park-like character with two ponds and lawns with old trees. In the middle part, in which more ponds and larger lawns have been created, the landscape garden merges into the Barmer Forest with increasing height. The southern part, especially south of the Lönsstraße down to the Murmelbachtal , consists mainly of a closed forest area with numerous forest paths. At the highest point is the Toelleturm , which can be climbed as a viewing tower on selected days in the summer months .

There are numerous monuments, memorial stones and plaques on the site. One of the monuments is reminiscent of the Barmer Bergbahn , which was shut down in 1959 , a cogwheel railway whose former route led over long distances through the park to the Toelleturm and whose route was made recognizable as part of the Regionale 2006 in the form of a double row of granite steles in the park area. The beautifully designed Vorwerk Park and a cemetery of honor , which is enclosed by them, border the facilities . The grounds of the buildings of the Barmer Stadthalle , the Barmer Planetarium and the Meierei Fischertal, which were destroyed in the Second World War and not rebuilt, were also located on the park area .

The Barmer facilities have been in the care of the Barmer Beautification Association from the very beginning , which is financed by membership fees and donations and is responsible for maintaining it. They are one of 57 parks and landscaped gardens on the street of garden art between the Rhine and Maas , a cross-border merger of particularly beautiful and high-quality, mostly historical gardens in North Rhine-Westphalia and the Netherlands .

In September 2013, the European Garden Heritage Network (EGHN) announced that in 2014, the year of its 150th anniversary, the Barmer plants would be named partner garden and receive the EGHN badge. This makes you one of currently 180 European gardens in the network of culturally and historically significant gardens. The plaque was presented by the representatives of the LVR on February 14, 2014.

geography

location

The Barmer facilities belong to the districts of Heckinghausen and Barmen and there to the statistical residential quarters Heidt and Lichtenplatz . They are bounded in the north by inner-city areas with closed, originally Wilhelminian-style residential developments. In the north-east is the composer's quarter with predominantly villa-like buildings, the south-east is part of the Heckinghausen part of the Barmer Forest, which is not part of the complex. South, the site of the former closes beyond the marble Bach's site training area Scharpenacken on. In the southwest, the facilities border on the upscale residential area around the Toelleturm, in which the small Vorwerk park is also located. To the west, the facilities merge into the Kothener Busch and the allotment gardens in Springen .

The facilities on the edge of the Barmer facilities, which are located on the premises of the Beautification Association or were located at an earlier point in time, but are not part of the facilities themselves, but are enclosed by them, include the urban retirement home on Obere Lichtenplatz Strasse , which is next to it located mini golf course Adventuregolf Wuppertal as well as the adjacent forest tennis courts. On the opposite side of the street is the Wuppertal Youth Hostel , the site of which was made available by the Beautification Association in the 1950s. The area of ​​the Barmer Cemetery of Honor was also formally separated from the facilities, but is now part of the recreation area.

Geology, topography and natural spatial allocation

Vertical section through the systems from the main entrance to the Murmelbach

The natural boundary between the Wuppertal valley and the Mittelberg plateau runs through the Barmer plants . The northern area with the lower systems and the northern part of the upper systems belongs to the Barmer limestone sink of the Wuppertal and is based on mass limestone from the central Devonian that has been removed and karstified by precipitation . A former quarry on the site is evidence of the economic use of the rock. Due to the location on the windward side of the Bergisch weather slip surface , annual precipitation amounts of 800 mm to 1280 mm can be measured.

The terrain rises from the limestone basin to the Mittelberg plateau, which geologically consists predominantly of greywacke , sandstone and clay slate and is based on a hull of paleozoic rocks. The ascent from the Wuppertal in a southerly direction ends on the ridge of the Lichtscheider Höhenrücken , from which the terrain profile of the facilities drops back down to the Murmelbach to the south.

Waters

Flowing waters

The Fischertaler Bach below the facilities

Two tributaries of the Wupper run through the northern part of the Barmer plants in a south-north direction . The stream in the Barmer Anlagen ( river code number 2736513132), which geologically shaped the Ringeltal , has its source in the bleaching ponds on Lönsstrasse and flows above ground past the Ringeldenkmal into the large pond in the upper facilities. It feeds the two ponds in the lower systems and flows from there underground to the Wupper.

The second river, the Fischertaler Bach (273651314), has its source below Emil-Röhrig-Platz in the western area of ​​the upper facilities and feeds two ponds that are topographically one above the other above the forest tennis court. After crossing under Obere Lichtenplatzer Straße , it flows piped to the Wupper.

The Murmelbach (2736398), another tributary of the Wupper, limits the Barmer plants to the south. It flows in a west-east direction through the Barmer Wald and receives inflow from the systems from several smaller rivulets before it flows into the Wupper in Heckinghausen at the Heckinghauser Zollbrücke . Several ponds are dammed in its course.

Standing water

The swan pond in the lower Barmer plants
The big pond in the upper plants

In the course of history, ten ponds were created in the Barmer grounds, seven of which are still preserved today. Due to the topographical conditions of the hillside, the ponds usually do not have large bodies of water.

The largest pond is the so-called swan pond in the lower facilities, which in addition to a fountain also has houses for water birds. A lounge area on the bank with benches gives access to the waterline. A smaller pond was created above the swan pond, which, like this one , is fed by the creek in the Barmer facilities . A few meters further above is the so-called clinker pond, which used to be a pond, but was designed as a round square with an enclosed fountain in the center and surrounding benches from the middle of the 20th century. The well of the clinker pond also carries water from the brook in the Barmer plants.

The so-called bleaching ponds are located on Lönsstrasse . They are also connected to the creek in the Barmer facilities through a tunnel . Two of the original three ponds have been preserved.

The large pond in the upper facilities on Budde-Allee below the Ringelden monument in the Ringeltal is also fed by the brook in the Barmer facilities , which runs underground between all ponds.

The Fischertaler Bach originally fed three ponds. The source pond has meanwhile silted up , below it is a smaller pond on the Stüting-Weg and further below at the Alpine garden on the Overbeck-Weg a slightly larger pond, from which the Fischertaler Bach flows above ground along the way.

Landscape and nature protection

Almost the entire system is part of the 1975 designated landscape protection area in the urban area of ​​Wuppertal ( CDDA identification 321906). Only the outermost, a few meters wide southern edge on the banks of the Murmelbach is part of the Murmelbachtal nature reserve (CDDA identification 164737). The Murmelbachtal nature reserve was designated in 1989.

  • for the preservation and development of communities and habitats of wild plants and wild animal species
  • to preserve the ponds and the natural stream
  • because of its importance for amphibians, water birds, butterflies and reptiles,
  • because of its well-developed plant communities
  • because of the well-developed biotope complex
  • because of the valuable alluvial forest and the valuable Bachaue

Transport links

The Barmer facilities can be reached with the bus lines 640, 644 and 646 of the Wuppertaler Stadtwerke . The nearest train station is the regional and S-Bahn station Wuppertal-Barmen, about one kilometer to the northwest .

history

prehistory

View over the facilities towards the city center

In the city of Barmen there has been a rich proto- industrial production of yarns and textiles since the early modern period , which was manifested in the ducal yarn food privilege as early as 1527 . From these origins a dense textile industry developed from the middle of the 18th century, which made the twin towns of Elberfeld and Barmen in the valley of the Wupper one of the first and most important German industrial centers. Factories, public buildings and houses for the citizen's tower and the workers rapidly took over the bleaching meadows previously used by bleachers and dyers as work surfaces in the floodplains of the Wupper and also quickly spread to the hills on both sides of the river, where the originally agricultural Settlement by individual farms was gradually displaced. The upper bourgeoisie and especially the entrepreneurial families moved early from the narrow and dirty valley to the heights of the Barmer north and above all south heights and built bourgeois residential areas there far away from the manufacturing facilities.

Founding of the Barmer Beautification Association in 1864

In view of the rapid industrial development and the ongoing development of new residential and commercial areas, a group of forward-looking Barmer citizens, mainly from the ranks of the Barmer manufacturers and merchants, came together to secure appropriate areas as green spaces and recreational areas on the edge of the Barmer Forest. These efforts of the citizens soon found the support of the city leaders under the Lord Mayor of Barmer Wilhelm August Bredt . After this private initiative had collected a sum of 1,200 thalers , the establishment of the Barmer Beautification Association was decided on December 8, 1864 at a meeting . In addition to the Lord Mayor of Barmer, August Wilhelm Bredt, the meeting also included Wilhelm Werlé , August Engels , Johann Wilhelm Fischer , Carl Theodor Rübel , Friedrich von Eynern , Robert Barthels , Emil Blank , Oskar Schuchard and Friedrich Wilhelm Ostermann .

Wilhelm Werlé, a member of the Prussian House of Representatives , was elected first chairman of the Beautification Association, Emil Blank as its deputy and Johann Wilhelm Fischer as treasurer . The first board of directors also included Robert Barthels, Adolf Schlieper , Emil Wemhöner and Karl Wolff. Lord Mayor Bredt and Stadtbaumeister Fischer joined the Board of Directors as honorary members.

First territorial acquisitions from 1865

Overview map of the Barmer forest and the Barmer facilities
The grounds are also habitat for animals, here a musk duck

With the help of generous donations and foundations, primarily from industry and business, the Beautification Association acquired the properties of the owners Riese and Zöller on the Barmer Südhöhen in the area between the old coal road that led from the Heckinghauser Zollbrücke to Lichtscheid (today's Lönsstraße ), and the Lichtenplatzer Chaussee , today's Untere Lichtenplatzer Straße . The purchase price was raised through shares of 100 thalers each, with an interest rate of 4.5 percent. To this end, the city council of Barmens approved the Beautification Association on February 27, 1866, an annual grant of 300 thalers, which was paid out for the first time on January 1, 1866. After purchasing the land, the Düsseldorf landscape architect and royal horticultural director Joseph Clemens Weyhe was commissioned to design and plan a large park in the same year .

On January 14, 1869, the Beautification Association acquired the so-called Lembach Field from Abraham Beckmann, which was almost 5 hectares in size, and commissioned the city architect Fischer to design the access routes to the planned park. These included Ottostraße , Große Friedrichstraße (today Ferdinand-Thun-Straße ) and Augustastraße (today Heinrich-Janssen-Straße ). The funds for this were obtained on October 5, 1869 through an officially approved raffle. Since there was still a surplus after the acquisition of Lembach'schen Feld , the lower area of ​​the Barmer facilities between Ottostraße and Lichtenplatzer Chaussee through Weyhe could be created. In the same year an obelisk was erected north of it as a memorial to the Barmen war victims of the German-Danish War of 1864 and the German War of 1866.

Peter Schölgen (appointed municipal gardening inspector in 1895) came to Barmen in 1870 at the age of 30 on behalf of Weyhe in order to realize the further plans of his master. Schölgen was in charge of the design and maintenance of the Barmer facilities for 50 years until he retired in 1920 at the age of 80. Schölgen was supported by the city forester Baltz. In 1870, the first plots of land in the area of what would later become the Ringeltal were acquired and two artificial so-called “ Bleicher ponds” were laid out in a ravine in the old coal road (Lönsstraße) near today's Paul-Peter-Muckenhaupt-Platz to irrigate the facilities .

Design and expansion of the facilities in the late 19th century

As the owner of the facilities, the Beautification Association repeatedly made its site available to the public, especially for the construction of numerous war memorials and memorials to deserving citizens of the city. In 1874, for example, a tower-like war memorial was erected in the west of the lower Barmen plant for the fallen soldiers of the city of Barmen in the Franco-German War of 1870/71. The building was already decided on September 5, 1871 by the Barmer city council and after three years of construction in October 1874 it was inaugurated with speeches by the mayor and a pastor, with two military bands and Bengal fires. In 1877 a music hall was built next door.

With the support of the bank director of the Barmer Bankverein Matthias Hinsberg , a consortium was founded for the purpose of purchasing the Fischertal estate , which belonged to Johann Wilhelm Fischer, also a founding member of the Beautification Association. On April 18, 1876, the Beautification Association acquired this property, which stretched between Fischertaler Strasse (now Fischertal ) and the old Kohlenstrasse (now Lönsstrasse ) to what is now Hohenstaufenstrasse , at a price of 36,000 marks and sold part of the property west of the manor's own Quarry immediately back to the city of Barmen, which built an institution for abandoned children there. Today there is a retirement home on the home site on Obere Lichtenplatzer Strasse . Other parts of the site were also sold again as building sites for almost three times the value of the total purchase price.

On March 2, 1880, the co-owner of a silk factory in Barmer and member of the board of directors of the beautification association Ludwig Ringel acquired two houses on Lichtenplatzer Strasse with their land, which previously belonged to P. vom Scheid, at a price of 17,000 marks . The Lennep- born businessman made these two properties available to the beautification association on condition that this be canceled soon . As a thank you for this donation, a nearby area of ​​the Barmer grounds was given the name Ringeltal and prepared according to the plans of the court garden director Oscar Hering .

View towards the city center of Barmer
The Ludwig Ringel Memorial after the renovation in 2012

After his death on November 15, 1880, Ludwig Ringel bequeathed a donation of 100,000 marks to the Beautification Association. From now on, the Beautification Association received regular interest income from the Ludwig Ringel Foundation . In gratitude for the generous estate in favor of Barmen and his birth town Lennep totaling 1 million marks, the city council of Barmer decided on September 18, 1883, at the suggestion of the Beautification Association, to erect a Ludwig Ringel monument in the area of ​​a large one built in 1882 stone staircase in the Ringeltal was planned. The building officer Carl Winchenbach was commissioned with the execution of the monument . The city council of Barmen initially made 40,000 marks available for the construction work; on June 22, 1886, another 13,000 marks were added for changes. The monument was completed in 1885/86.

Also in 1880, on August 28th, the founder of the Beautification Association, Wilhelm Werlé, died. In his honor, the Werlé memorial was inaugurated on August 21, 1881 in the lower grounds .

In December 1886, the Toelle family donated a 26.25 meter high observation tower in the grounds, the Toelleturm, in memory of their deceased head of the family Ludwig-Ernst Toelle . The tower and the neighboring Barmer Luftkurhaus were inaugurated in 1888. In 1990 it was renovated and since then it can be climbed again on Sundays and public holidays.

From 1887 to 1889, larger areas of the Barmer Forest , the so-called Brüninghaus'schen Waldungen with an area of ​​80 acres, were acquired from the property of the board members of the Beautification Association Friedrich Wilhelm Dicke and Peter Adolph Rudolph Ibach and assigned to the Barmer facilities.

Also in 1889 the construction of a children's playground and a dairy in a quarry on the estate in the Fischertal was proposed. The Fischertal dairy was completed in the Black Forest house style according to the plans of the architects Herrmanns and Riemann, but ultimately never operated as a dairy. The house and playground used as an excursion restaurant fell victim to the bombing raids on Barmen in 1943, as did the tower monument and other structures in the complex and were never rebuilt. Today there are tennis courts and a mini golf course on the grounds of the dairy.

Pond in the Barmer plants

In 1889 the local poet Emil Rittershaus dedicated a poem to the facilities and the beautification association:


Rich and poor and old and young have been one for beautiful work ,
here the sick person seeks his recovery,
here the heart gains new momentum,
here the tired draws new breath,
here comes the joy of life.
And
the sunshine laughs golden over smoke and smoke .
Thanks, thanks to all those who are loyal to each other and
managed to do what serves and pays everyone!
How did it find honor and price.
With everyone who comes from outside! We are
not only
concerned here with struggling for fleeting profits -
says who is
still fighting us for our wreath in the real citizen 's sense!
Much common sense created brave rule -
but not the duty to rest! What we are happy about today is
not just about creating, maintaining, but
increasing.
We would like to donate the gifts
for our city treasure on the Au'n.
A work like this does not know how to finish it,
it only ever needs to be continued!
The former route of the Barmer Bergbahn was marked out by steles in the forest in 2006

In 1890 the city of Barmen acquired the site of the wooded summit of the Norrenberg in the Barmer Forest, also known as Deisemannskopf or Kaiser-Wilhelm-Höhe . It also subordinated the areas on the other side of the Murmelbach to the Beautification Association, which incorporated them into its Barmer facilities. The Deisemannskopf was discussed in the Beautification Association as the location for a representative Barmer lookout tower. He even had a wooden makeshift tower built there, but dropped the plans for a solid construction in favor of the Toelleturm, as the location was considered too low and too unfavorable. The wooden tower did not withstand the weather for long and quickly collapsed. Today this area of ​​the Barmer Forest is no longer one of the facilities.

On July 13, 1891, the Beautification Association approved an application from Barmer Bergbahn AG to route a rack railway through the Barmer facilities, Germany's first electrically operated rack railway. It should overcome a difference in height of around 150 meters between the bottom of the Am Clef valley and the southern heights in the most comfortable way. The Beautification Association left the area to the Barmer Bergbahn, which from 1894 until it was shut down under large-scale public protests on July 4, 1959, ran on a double track from the valley axis through the facilities up to the Toelleturm, where you can change to the tram and the Ronsdorf-Müngstener at the terminus Railroad passed. A three meter wide bridge over the railroad tracks was built at the height of today's rotunda . In the facilities, the mountain railway had two stops, “Stadthalle / Planetarium” on Lichtenplatzer Chaussee and “Talblick” at today's Emil-Röhrig-Platz .

Barmer town hall with war memorial
(1895–1943, picture around 1905)

In the lower complexes, the Beautification Association on Lichtenplatzer Chaussee has been running a popular restaurant with an attached music temple since 1881 . The restoration was demolished in order to build the new Barmer Stadthalle with a floor area of ​​2600 square meters on the site. The foundation stone for the new town hall was laid on March 20, 1895, and it opened in 1896. The representative building, including the galleries, had a floor space of 1200 square meters plus a 770 square meter concert hall for 1800 visitors. The construction was carried out by the Barmer architect Erdmann Hartig , who was also responsible for the construction of the Barmer Hall of Fame .

In the same year, Friedrich Wilhelm Dicke and Peter Adolph Rudolph Ibach donated a flight of stairs from the Ringeltal to the higher Richard-Wagner-Straße (today Joseph-Haydn-Straße ). As thick-Ibach staircase called staircase accesses the forms of castle architecture and Gothic and is today as a monument protected.

The music temple, on the other hand, was moved to the Deisemannskopf in 1896 at the suggestion of the Ritterhauser Spatenklub , where it fell victim to vandalism in the spring of 1897. After the renovation in 1898, a beer and refreshment bar was opened. Sales and a lottery in April 1901 raised over 34,000 marks, which the Beautification Association spent on building a new music temple on the Deisemannskopf. The music temple existed until the 1930s, in the end it fell into disrepair.

Development in the 20th century

The Schüller-Allee

After the death of the longtime chairman of the beautification association Otto Schüller, the long avenue from the Fischertal up to the Kohlenstraße was renamed Schüller-Allee in 1899 . The monument in honor of the poet Emil Rittershaus was erected in 1900. In mid-April 1901 a bazaar with lottery was held in the town hall, which achieved a surplus of 34,367 marks. With these funds, a new music temple was built, which replaced the old, very massive music hall. The music temple was created based on a design by Professor Sauerborn from the Royal Building Trade School. The first refuge was also built on the Wegnerhöhe in 1901 .

In 1902 the inauguration of the Schüller memorial was due, and the installation of paper baskets helped to keep the facilities clean. In 1903, a memorial to Friedrich Wilhelm Dörpfeld was erected in the Ringeltal at the end of Eichenallee , which was later renamed Budde-Allee after another chairman of the beautification association named Otto Budde . The Beautification Association provided the areas for the monument free of charge and the city built it to commemorate Dörpfeld's 30 years of activity as the main teacher at the elementary school in Wupperfeld . In 1904, pastures from the former Fischertal estate were sold in order to be able to settle debts to the city of Barmen.

56 tree species in the lower enclosures were presented to the population in 1904 by the installation of 110 porcelain signs with German and Latin names. To mark the centenary of Friedrich Schiller's death on May 9, 1905, four local secondary schools planted a linden tree in the upper grounds , which was christened "Schillerlinde" and is still in the park today. In the quarry of the former Fischertal estate, the area of ​​the playground was increased to 3,500 square meters by filling.

Lantern on the way

The Beautification Association broke new ground in 1906 when electric light bulbs were installed on the park paths. On April 1, 1908, the then independent city Barmen was on this occasion so named for centenary Century Square in Barmer Forest at the intersection of forest road with the Kuckucksweg the century oak planted at the time into it yet with distant views over the Murmelbachtal in the Bergisch Land. Also, the Ernst von Eynern -Platz was leveled this year.

The Barmer Bergbahn 1955 within the facilities

In 1909 a 1870 meter long toboggan path was laid parallel to Schüller-Allee , and in 1914 an alpine park was built by the Barmer garden architect Arthur Stüting near the quarry of the former Fischertal estate. Between 1910 and 1913, the Eisenlohrstraße toilet block on the Toelleturm was built in the Bergisch half-timbered style to meet the needs of visitors to the facility.

South of Lönsstraße , a cemetery of honor for the fallen citizens of the city of Barmen was laid out during the First World War , after the beautification society had made the site available. The complex was designed by Professor Hans Fischer from Barmen and in 1921 was expanded to include a burial ground for the twelve Barmen victims of the Kapp Putsch . The entrance area is designed by a flight of stairs , behind which the visitor is welcomed by a columned pergola . In the middle of the pergola is a plinth with an inscription by the author Will Vesper , on which a bronze lion sculpture by the sculptor Paul Wynand is enthroned.

The Three Emperors Place was rebuilt in 1915 to today's children's playground. The First World War drew attention to itself in the complexes mainly due to the lack of manpower to maintain the park and it fell into disrepair for a long time after the end of the war. On 21 October 1924, the city Barmen decided after a screening of a novel optical projection technology of Carl Zeiss in Jena the construction of a new planetarium. The lower entrance area of ​​the Barmer facilities was initially determined as the location. After residents' protests, however, the location was moved to an area above the Barmer town hall. When it opened on May 18, 1926, apart from a test installation by the projector manufacturer, it was the first planetarium in the world. Lanterns were set up in the lower systems.

Bronze relief "Jesus heals an abused animal"
The clinker pond

Johann Casper Engels had the watering fountain for the watering of draft horses and dogs and a sandstone built in the Barmer facilities near the Kohlenstraße , on which he warned the fight against animal abuse and vivisection in the name of the animal welfare association with a Schopenhauer quote . In 1930 he had the Berlin sculptor Reinhold Kübert made the bronze relief “Jesus treats an abused animal” for his garden, which his widow donated to the animal welfare association after his death. He handed it over to the Beautification Association, which installed it in a niche in the Dicke Ibach staircase in 1932. There it was presumably stolen by metal thieves in 2006 . In 1938 the Klinkerteich well was built.

World War II and post-war reconstruction

During the air raids on Barmen in the night of May 29th to 30th, 1943, the Barmen facilities also suffered considerable damage. The club building of the beautification club with office and gardening, the old forester's house, the Barmer town hall, the tower monument, the climatic spa at the Toelleturm and the Fischertal dairy burned out and had to be mostly demolished in the following years. There was no compensation for war damage, as this was not intended for the ownership of non-profit organizations. The planetarium was only slightly damaged, but in the post-war period the structure of the building fell into disrepair due to the lack of security measures, so that the ruins were torn down in 1955. At least the gardener's house was rebuilt in 1950.

The bombing war also left devastating damage to the forests and park areas. Bomb craters covered the area, parts of the facilities were used as garden land and pastures to feed the population. Trees that did not fall victim to the attacks themselves were cleared out of necessity in the post-war period for the purpose of obtaining firewood. Hardly any of the originally maintained, closed stands of trees or stylishly set individual trees have survived. After overcoming the hardship, the beautification association immediately began to repair the damage. First of all, the network of paths was made accessible again and the rubble was removed in order to give the park areas close to the city a neat appearance again. Then they turned to the woodlands and brought order back through new planting, thinning and clearing.

The vacated area of ​​the Barmer town hall and the tower monument were sold in 1955 and the head office of the Barmer Ersatzkasse was built on in 1956 . After the new building on Lichtscheid, the Wupperverband moved into the administration building, which is still in use today. In the 1950s, the area next to the old orphanage above the Oberen Lichtenplatzer Straße to the Panoramaplatz or Ernst-Günter-Plutte-Platz , on which the Auguste-Viktoria-Heim stood before, took place. The house was built in 1906 by the provincial administration for the training of nurses in Barmen. The Ernst-Günter-Plutte memorial stone was erected on the leveled square.

The Barmer Bergbahn was shut down in 1959, despite violent public protests, not least due to the need for renovation due to the war, and the route returned to the property of the Beautification Association. Through the purchase and exchange of third-party parcels, some of which were still owned by the city, the area was rounded off by the beautification association into a closed own property of approx. 80 hectares .

Connecting bridge between the lower and upper systems

In the following decades further monuments were inaugurated, for example the Schwalm-Stein in 1957, the mountain railway memorial in 1984 and the planetarium memorial. The Paul-Peter-Muckenhaupt-Platz was set up at the so-called bleaching ponds in memory of the sponsor of the beautification association Paul Peter Muckenhaupt in 2011, and in 2012 the ring monument was renovated.

At the beginning of the 1960s, the Bude staircase , which previously made it necessary to cross the street between the lower and upper systems, was replaced by a connecting bridge.

Selective redesigns and renovations as part of the Regionale 2006

The Bergisches Städtedreieck was planned as the development area for the regional structural funding program 2006 financed from state funds . Among numerous other projects in Wuppertal, Remscheid and Solingen were under the project name "Space Program valley axis - Barmer plants" in the Barmer plants for € 1 million from the Regional -Fördermitteln more environment improvement of landscape architects Ipach and Dreisbusch from Neu-Isenburg realized.

As the largest single project, the old mountain railway route was made recognizable again with a double row of granite steles in the area and the old train station area of ​​the mountain station, where there was a change to the tram to Heckinghaus and the Ronsdorf-Müngstener railway , was redesigned and provided with information boards.

The newly designed surroundings of the Toelleturm

Other measures were the redesign of Emil-Röhrig-Platz , which included the renovation of the old wall and the paving of the square, and the renovation of the area around the Toelleturm with new plantings, paving in the seating area of ​​the benches, new ceilings in the square area and the installation of Floor spotlights to illuminate the tower. Another focus was the redesign of the old Dreikaiserplatz in the lower area of ​​the upper facilities with the redesign of the children's playground, a rotunda- like viewing platform and the redesign of an arena as a multi-purpose area.

Plant festivals

The Barmer facilities are occasionally the venue for public festivals. In 2004 the “Magical Barmer Plant 2004” took place, in 2007 the “Barmer Plant Magic 2007” .

botany

In the founding year 1864, the population of trees in the Barmer enclosures and the Barmer forest was estimated at around 150,000. This stock doubled within the next quarter of a century through afforestation to 300,000 specimens and between 1889 and 1913 another 500,000 trees were added through plantings. First, spruce trees were planted, but they did not withstand smoke damage, an early form of forest death during industrialization in the 19th century, and had to be felled.

Today, the forestry area of ​​the Barmer plants covers 71.83 hectares with 53.1 hectares of wooden floor space . The forest communities today resemble the natural regional composition with poorly species-poor, acidic grove , bird cherry and beech forest . The stock includes beech (32.8%), sessile oak (32.8%), birch (15.6%) and sycamore maple (9.2%). The other deciduous trees include mountain ash , ash , bird cherry , American red oak and winter linden , so that the proportion of deciduous trees is 94.4%. 5.4% of the area is occupied by conifers, mainly Zurich , Weymouth , Banks and black pine , larch and spruce .

Isolated stocks and specimens of acacia , chestnut , red and white alder , elder , nut trees , sequoia trees , Hungarian silver linden , cedar and oriental fir trees are also available.

The age distribution in the forest area is very even and the wood supply is approx. 225 solid cubic meters per hectare, the annual wood growth even 330 solid cubic meters per hectare. The early use of the forest as part of the Barmer facilities is reflected in the age of the tree population. Approx. 450 oaks and beeches on 4.7 hectares are more than 150 years old, the oldest beech stands are even 181 years old and date before the establishment of the Barmer plants. Not least because of intensive maintenance measures and regular liming, the entire stock is in a very good condition.

Outstanding single copies

Outstanding individual trees in the lower enclosures are two sugar maples ( Acer saccharum ), a copper beech ( Fagus sylvatica f. Purpurea ), a sycamore maple ( Acer pseudoplatanus ) planted in 1841 with a trunk circumference of 3.35 m, one planted around 1800 Norway maple ( Acer platanoides ) with a trunk circumference of 3.3 m, two American red oaks ( Quercus rubra ) planted around 1856 (trunk circumference 4.17 m) and 1865 (trunk circumference 3.95 m ) and one silver linden tree planted around 1796 ( Tilia tomentosa ) with a trunk circumference of 4.6 m.

The stock of the upper plants includes a sequoia ( Sequoia gigantea ) planted in 1865 , a Dutch linden ( Schillerlinde ; Tilia × europaea ), a common beech ( Fagus sylvatica ) planted around 1866 with a trunk circumference of 3.45 m, two approx. Sycamore maples ( Acer pseudoplatanus Leopoldil ) planted in 1916 (trunk circumference 1.77 m) and 1821 (trunk circumference 1.77 m) and a copper beech ( Fagus sylvatica Purpurae ) planted around 1846 with a trunk circumference of 3.95 m.

In the Ringeltal there is a hornbeam ( Fagus sylvatica Purpurae Pendula ) planted in 1869 , a Canadian hemlock ( Tsuga canadensis ) planted in 1890 , an oriental dwarf spruce ( Picea orientalis Gracilis ) planted in 1870 and a giant arborvitae ( Thuja 1763) planted European beech.

Paths in the Barmer facilities

Path network and places

Shield of the Hoesch-Weg

The Barmer facilities have a dense, 35-kilometer-long network of paths, typical for parks, with curved walking paths, avenues and central crossroads, mainly at places with monuments. In the southern area of ​​the facilities, especially in the Barmer Forest, there are naturally mainly pure forest paths in addition to some paths with a park-like character. Due to the topography, the paths in the central part of the facilities sometimes have steep gradients.

Almost all paths within the Barmer facilities have a name that is often shown on signposts at intersections. Today they are mostly named after people who have done a lot for the facilities or the Barmer Beautification Association. Some trails with previously botanical names such as B. Eichenallee were renamed in the course of time in order to posthumously honor deceased club officials. In the anniversary year 2014, the signage was renewed. The approx. 100 new wooden signs were made by inmates of the youth prison in Wuppertal .

The following paths run through the Barmer plants and the Barmer forest that belongs to them:

Surname course Named after
At the burrow Path in the Barmer Wald between the Geschwister-Lauer-Weg and the Moltkehain Cauldron of the fox
Barthels way Path in the Barmer Wald between the forest path and Emil-Röhrig-Platz Robert Barthels, co-founder of the Barmer Verschönerungsverein, chairman from 1899 to 1913
Bismarck Grove Path in the Barmer Wald between Dohnenstieg and Moltkehain Otto von Bismarck (born April 1, 1815 in Schönhausen ; † July 30, 1898 in Friedrichsruh near Hamburg), Chancellor of the German Empire
Bredthöhe
51 ° 15 '29 "  N , 7 ° 12' 17.5"  O
Place in the Barmer Wald on the Höhenweg Wilhelm August Bredt (born March 16, 1817 in Barmen; † March 23, 1895 in Honnef ), first Lord Mayor of Barmen and sponsor of the Barmen Beautification Association
Budde Avenue Path in the Ringeltal between Schölgen-Allee and the Ringeldenkmal Otto Budde, chairman of the Barmer Beautification Association from 1913 to 1931
Dohnenstieg Descent in the Barmer Wald from the Höhenweg to the Murmelbach / Vorwerkpark Dohne (snare for birds)
Dreikaiserplatz
51 ° 15 ′ 50.9 ″  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 12.9 ″  E
Place on the east side of the bridge over the mountain railway tracks, today the location of the rotunda and the playground The three emperors of the German Empire
Emil-Röhrig-Platz
51 ° 15 ′ 35 ″  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 14.5 ″  E
Place in the Barmer Wald at the upper end of Schüller-Allee , end point of Barthels-Weg and Plutte-Weg , set up in 1953 including a memorial plaque for Emil Röhrig Emil Röhrig (born October 31, 1858 in Barmen; † October 25, 1941 in Switzerland ), authorized signatory and US representative of the textile company Barthels Feldhoff and long-term sponsor of the Barmer Beautification Association
Engemann way Path in the Barmer Wald parallel to the south of Schubertstrasse Hermann Engemann, board member of the Barmer Beautification Association from 1945 to 1963
Ernst-Günter-Plutte-Platz
51 ° 15 ′ 41.6 ″  N , 7 ° 11 ′ 54.2 ″  E
Artificially raised and leveled place at the northern arch of the Plutte-Weg , location of the Plutte memorial stone Ernst-Günter Plutte (born February 24, 1916 in Düsseldorf ; October 27, 2005 in Wuppertal), managing partner of the company Peter August Lückenhaus, chairman of the employers 'associations in Wuppertal and the employers' association of the textile industry on the right bank of the Rhine, chairman of the Barmer Beautification Association from 1967 to 1992
Ernst-von-Eynern-Platz
51 ° 15 ′ 44.6 ″  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 20.6 ″  E
Place in the upper facility, location of the Ernst-von-Eynern and the fallen monument on Stüting-Weg , Neumann-Wes and Lundt-Weg (laid out in 1908) Ernst von Eynern (born April 2, 1838 in Barmen- Wupperfeld , † November 2, 1906 in Barmen), wholesale merchant and national liberal politician
Forest path Path in the Barmer Wald between Dohnenstieg and Barthels-Weg (via Höhenweg and Lönsstraße ) Path in the forest
Geschwister-Lauer-Weg Path in the Barmer Wald between Dohnenstieg and Moltkehain
Geschwister-Ostermann-Weg Path in the Barmer Wald between Moltkehain and Jahrhundertplatz Friedrich Wilhelm Ostermann, co-founder of the Barmer Beautification Association
Greff way Path in the Barmer Wald between the Schubertstraße and the Höhenweg / or. the high path Rudolph Greff, board member of the Beautification Association between 1867 and 1913. Greff, entrepreneurial family from Barmer.
Herring way Path in the Ringeltal between the Dicke-Ibach-stairs and the Ringeldenkmal Hering, court garden director and park designer for the Ringeltal
Höhenweg Höhenweg in the Barmer Wald between the Toelleturm and Jahrhundertplatz Route on the ridge between the Wuppertal and the Murmelbachtal
Hoesch way Path in the upper facilities between Emil-Röhrig-Platz and the rotunda (via Stüting-Weg ) Hugo Hoesch; † 1899, treasurer of the Barmer Beautification Association from 1880 to 1888
Imler way Path in the Barmer Wald between the Höhenweg and Lönsstraße (via Molineus-Weg , Engemann-Weg , Schubertstraße and Schwarzschild-Weg ) Karl F. Imler, board member of the Barmer Beautification Society around 1866
Gasp away Path in the Ringeltal, byway of Budde-Allee Johann Peter Keuchen , Barmer Maire from July 28, 1808 to March 31, 1810
Cuckoo's Way Path in the Barmer Wald between the Bismarckhain and Jahrhundertplatz Forest bird cuckoo
Lore Jackstädt Platz Playground with toilet block at the Toelleturm Lore Jackstädt ; Patron and founder of the square
Lundt way Path in the upper facilities between the playground and the Ehrenfriedhof (via Ernst-von-Eynern-Platz ) Rudolf Lundt, Treasurer of the Barmer Beautification Association (1914 to 1945)
Molineus way Path in the Barmer Wald between the Lönsstraße and the Greff-Weg Barmer industrial family Molineus. Best- known representative: Max Albert Molineus (* March 24, 1855 in Barmen; † July 28, 1925 there), President of the Barmen Chamber of Commerce and the Chamber of Commerce for the Wuppertal industrial district
Moltkehain Path in the Barmer Forest between the Höhenweg and Forestastraße Helmuth Karl Bernhard von Moltke (born October 26, 1800 in Parchim , † April 24, 1891 in Berlin ), Prussian field marshal
Neumann way Path in the Barmer Wald between Ernst-von-Eynern-Platz and Lönsstraße Paul Neumann, chairman of the Barmer Beautification Association from 1932 to 1945
Overbeck way Path in the upper facility between Schüller-Allee and the rotunda Heinrich Overbeck, deputy chairman of the Barmer Beautification Association around 1914
Paulinenruhe
51 ° 15 ′ 32.8 ″  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 27.5 ″  E
Viewpoint with linden tree and benches in the Barmer Wald on the Höhenweg , donated in 1914 by the children of Pauline Luhn Pauline Luhn (née Wink, * 1841; † 1911), wife of August Luhn (* 1838; † 1915). Both founded the Luhns soap factory together
Paul-Peter-Muckenhaupt-Platz
51 ° 15 ′ 43.4 ″  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 27.5 ″  E
Place at the ponds between Lönsstrasse and Schubertstrasse Paul Peter Muckenhaupt (* February 28, 1950 - January 3, 2006), entrepreneur, holder of the Federal Cross of Merit and sponsor of the Barmer Beautification Association, among others
Plutte way Path in the Barmer Wald between the Barthelsweg or forest path and Emil-Röhrig-Platz see Ernst-Günter-Plutte-Platz
Schillerplatz
51 ° 15 ′ 52.8 ″  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 18.3 ″  E
Place in the upper systems, location of the Schillerlinde Friedrich Schiller (born November 10, 1759 in Marbach am Neckar , † May 9, 1805 in Weimar ), poet, philosopher and historian
Schölgen-Allee Allee in the upper layouts parallel to Obere Lichtenplatzer Straße and Untere Lichtenplatzer Straße Peter Schölgen, * 1840; † July 19, 1924, municipal gardening inspector and designer of the Barmer plants from 1870 based on designs by the royal horticultural director Joseph Clemens Weyhe
Schüller-Allee Allee in the upper complex between Obere Lichtenplatzer Strasse and Emil-Röhrig-Platz Otto Schüller (born October 5, 1829 in Barmen; † November 30, 1899), entrepreneur, town councilor (1967), alderman (1869) and honorary citizen of the town of Barmen, chairman of the Beautification Society from 1880 to 1899. Bearer of the Red Eagle Order IV class and of the Order of the Crown III class
Schwarzschild way Path in the Barmer Wald parallel to the north of Schubertstrasse Otto Schwarzschild, board member of the Barmer Beautification Association from 1945 to 1953
Stüting way Path in the upper facility between Schüller-Allee and Ernst-von-Eyenern-Platz Arthur Stüting (* 1872; † 1927), Barmer garden architect, creator of the Alpinum in the Barmer facilities and the park at Hohenstein .
Forest path Path in the Barmer Wald between Dohnenstieg and Jahrhundertplatz Path in the forest
Choice way Path in the Barmer Wald between the Geschwister-Ostermann-Weg and the Höhenweg / btw. the high path Salomon Ernst Wahl (born June 27, 1873 in Barmen; March 12, 1944 in Theresienstadt concentration camp ), textile department store owner, founder of the Heidter District and Citizens Association (May 8, 1904) and temporarily chairman of the Barmen Beautification Association
Wegner height
51 ° 15 '34.1 "  N , 7 ° 12' 28.6"  O
Place in the Barmer Wald on the Höhenweg Friedrich Wilhelm Wegner (born March 14, 1836 in Klöden in the Torgau district; † July 8, 1898 in Barmen), Lord Mayor of Barmen
Weyhe way Path in the lower facilities between the street An der Bergbahn and the Werlé monument Joseph Clemens Weyhe (* 1807 in Düsseldorf; † July 26, 1871 in Engers / Neuwied), royal horticultural director and planner of the Barmer plants
  1. Name around 1930: Eichenallee
  2. a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Official street name
  3. Also called Panoramaplatz around 1954 .
  4. Around 1930, together with the Geschwister-Ostermann-Weg, still called Waldweg
  5. Around 1930, together with the Geschwister-Lauer-Weg, still called Waldweg
  6. Around 1913 still called Ulmenallee
  7. Name around 1930: Sonnenallee , before that Lekebusch-Allee
  8. The forest path of the 20th century was in the second half sibling Lauer-way and sibling Ostermann-way split

Hiking trails

The Barmer Verschönerungsverein has developed two marked circular hiking trails and two marked target hiking trails within the facilities, the signposts of which are regularly marked by the Wuppertal department of the Sauerland Mountain Association :

Waymarks trail Path length
Circular hiking trail through the Barmer forest and the Barmer facilities past the Toelleturm into the Murmelbachtal and back. 5.5 km
= Circular hiking trail through the upper Barmer plants 2.6 km
Target hike from the main entrance of the Barmer facilities on Ottostraße through the Barmer Forest up to the Toelleturm 2.0 km
JH Youth hostel path: destination path from the Wuppertal youth hostel up to the Toelleturm 1 km

As part of the Regionale 2006 , several themed routes were defined starting from suspension railway stations to Wuppertal towers. One of these leads from the Alter Markt suspension railway station through the Barmer facilities up to the Toelleturm. The path is not marked in the landscape, but hand-made tiles have been placed on beveled marker stones at selected places, which artistically depict the Toelleturm in two colors.

Monuments, memorial trees and structures

Over the centuries, numerous monuments and structures have been created in the Barmer grounds that shape the character of the park. In particular, monuments for deserving Barmer citizens were regularly given a place in the facilities, even if the builder was not the beautification association itself, but the city or private associations. Some monuments were vandalized or suffered substantial damage during the Second World War, so that they were demolished without replacement. Nevertheless, 17 monuments and memorial stones have been preserved. The structural facilities also include infrastructure facilities such as enclosed ponds or viewpoints, connecting bridges, children's playgrounds and similar devices for recreation in the park.

The following monuments, memorial stones, memorial trees and structures are located in the facilities:

Main entrance in the lower Barmer facilities

At the upper end of Heinrich-Janssen-Straße there is the main entrance to the lower facilities on a small forecourt, which is enclosed by a wall with two stone columns. The Heinrich-Janssen-Straße was named Augusta Street designed by the city architect Fischer in 1869 as an access to the Barmer plants. The wide boulevard has two separate lanes, between which a footpath lined with 36 summer linden trees ( Tilia platyphyllos ) was laid. This avenue is under the ND no. 7.03 placed under protection as a natural monument . The originally much more magnificent design of the entrance area was not restored after the Second World War.

Side entrances in the lower and upper systems

In addition to the main entrance, which was designed as an entrance portal in terms of urban planning, there are several framed side entrances to the lower systems and the northern area of ​​the upper systems.

The eastern access from Untere Lichtenplatzer Straße to the lower facilities is framed by two tall stone columns, which stylistically correspond to those of the main entrance, but without its lanterns.

The southern access from the same street is located below the connecting bridge between the two plant areas and has an edging made of processed natural stone. This configuration is repeated in the slightly offset opposite the entrance to the upper plant at the branch of Waldemarstraße from the Lower Lichtenplatzer road .

The most splendid access to the upper facilities was realized as a staircase from Joseph-Haydn-Straße .

Another entrance from the same street leads to the site of the monument against vivisection. It consists of a removed segment of the wrought-iron railing that secures the pavement of the road to the lower-lying plant area.

The other entrances to the Barmer facilities do not have a complex design.

Toelleturm

The Toelleturm stands at a height of 330  m above sea level. NN and is 26.25 meters high. The double-walled tower made of Beyenburger Grauwacke has a round cross-section and tapers from 7.70 meters at the base to 5.14 meters upwards. The space in between is formed by a Cyclops masonry made of uncut stone and undirected joints, partly open and without mortar. An outside staircase leads to a passage seven meters above the plateau. From there, 146 steps lead up a spiral staircase to the viewing platform. A bronze plaque is attached above the entrance door to the interior space on the ground floor:

Toelleturm
built in 1888,
renewed in 1990
Another dedication plaque bears the text:

This observation tower was built in 1887 and donated to the property of the Barmer Beautification Association in memory of Ludwig Ernst Toelle, 1822–1886, by his family.

Barmen Cemetery of Honor

Grave sites

The grave sites themselves are mostly made with grave inscriptions in unusually detailed form. Many grave sites have a gravestone on which a round or square bronze plate is attached, which was made by the Barmer entrepreneurs Otto Wirth and Emil Meurer in 1921 at a unit price of 120 Reichsmarks. There the name of the fallen, the military rank, the type of weapon , the place of birth, the date of birth, the unit , the place of the wounding, the place of the death and the date of death are noted.

War memorial

Several memorials and memorial plaques can be found on the cemetery of honor, which was laid out in 1914:
The most extensive memorial is the war memorial, which stands in the middle of a pillared pergola made of 10 columns. The war memorial was unveiled on September 30, 1916 on the occasion of the first expansion of the cemetery, but it was still a long time to be erected. The base, which was transported to the cemetery on a wagon with 10 harnessed horses, bears a contemporary inscription by the author Will Vesper :

Here everyone is silent about their suffering
and the greatest need. Are we not
all ready for sacrifice and death?
One thing is burned in the sky
Everything may perish
Germany, our children and fatherland,
Germany must exist

A bronze lion sculpture by the sculptor Paul Wynand , symbolizing a lion from Barmer , sits enthroned on the base . This was initially carried out on a provisional basis, as the desired material “gilded bronze” was not available for reasons of war. Only after the end of the war did the city council of Barmens decide to complete the monument on July 6, 1922, and it was presented to the public on October 20, 1922 as the “defiant symbol of the city” and “symbol of loyalty and courage without death” . After the Second World War, the inscription was added. The Wuppertal sculptor Fritz Bernuth made the four-line addition from bronze letters:

The dead of
the world wars
1914–1918
1939–1945;>
Dying warrior

The Deutsche Bank memorial, also known as the “Dying Warrior” , was created by Walter Wolff in 1923 for the vestibule of the Deutsche Bank AG building in Elberfelder Königstrasse (today Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse ) to commemorate the 31 fallen employees. The illustration shows a suffering man lying on the ground, holding one wounded side and struggling to support himself with the other arm. The face with the eyes closed turns to the sky. An additional bronze plaque was installed on April 6, 1955 to commemorate the 19 fallen and 6 missing from the then Rheinisch-Westfälische Bank in World War II. When the old bank building was demolished in 1960/61 and replaced by a new building, the figure was placed on an open space in the upper part of the cemetery of honor at the suggestion of the director of the Von der Heydt Museum at the time, Günter Aust .

The war memorial in honor of the former prisoners of war

The war memorial in honor of the former prisoners of war on a part of the area attached to the Barmen Ehrenfriedhof was created by the Barmen Association of Former Prisoners of War and handed over to the city of Wuppertal on May 21, 1933. It consists of a memorial stone and seven graves of foreign prisoners of war (one Serb, three Belgians and three Russians) who died in the Barmen hospitals in the last days of the First World War and after burial in various Barmer cemeteries in 1933 with the participation of the Belgian Vice Consul from Cologne and Representatives of the authorities, the warrior associations and the churches were reburied there. The design of the tombstones is similar to that of the German fallen soldiers. The memorial stone, which was originally lined with two crosses, reads:

'Don't hate
but love
rule the world!'
––
Godfather graves of
the
former prisoners of war
Barmen.
Memorial to those who fell in the Kapp Putsch

The memorial for those who died in the Kapp Putsch on a separate part of the cemetery was inaugurated on March 20, 1921. The grave sites are also optically matched to those of those who died in war, but only simply show names and dates of life. The associated memorial shows a sower at work under the bright sun, above him the sentence

The banner must stand
when the man falls
March 1920

The sentence comes from the song Tord Foleson by the Norwegian Per Sivile , which was sung as a workers' battle song at the time and is often immortalized on the graves of the fallen in March 1920. The memorial was designed by Paul Kuhnle and recreated by Fritz Kuhnle based on the original after the supposed destruction by the National Socialists in 1946 . The sower symbolizes “the victoriously striding proletariat” , as Paul Sauerbrey (USPD) put it. In the early summer of 1980, the remains of the original were found on the cemetery grounds and placed on a terrace next to the war memorial.

Dicke Ibach stairs

Dicke Ibach stairs
51 ° 15 ′ 54.3 ″  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 27.7 ″  E

The Dicke-Ibach staircase is a listed Wilhelminian-era open staircase that was donated by Friedrich Wilhelm Dicke and Peter Adolph Rudolph Ibach in 1897 . In 2006, the bronze relief Christ heals an abused animal was stolen from a niche .

Mountain railway memorial

The Barmer Bergbahn memorial was erected on October 22, 1984 based on an idea by Heinz Reistenbach a few meters next to the former route on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the BARMER replacement fund and the 50th anniversary of its pension fund. It consists of an originally preserved section of track with a rack , which was secured when the An der Bergbahn road was removed , a set of wheels and a ring gear from the Stuttgart rack railway , as nothing of the original rolling stock of the Barmer Bergbahn has been preserved. The architect Max R. Wenner executed the monument. When the old route with a double row of granite steles was recreated as part of the Regionale 2006 , the monument was moved to the route. The inscription reads:

1894 The mountain railway 1959
Donated as a reminder by the pension fund for
the employees of the Barmer Ersatzkasse on
the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Pensionkasse and the
100th anniversary of the Barmer Ersatzkasse November 1984
Design: Heinz Reistenbach - Architect Max R. Wenner

Mountain railway line

The former route of the Barmer Bergbahn was marked with a double row of 180 granite steles in the landscape as part of the Regionale 2006 for a construction sum of approx. 1 million euros (but the renovation of Emil-Röhrig-Platz was financed from this total budget) and provided with gravel ground between the rotunda at the children's playground and Lönsstraße. The winning contribution to an ideas competition by the landscape architects Ipach and Dreisbusch was realized.

The distances between the paired, bright steles are not equidistant, but follow the principle of the Fibonacci sequence several times , in which each distance doubles compared to the previous one. This results in closer distances between the pairs of steles at the intersections of the route with paths, squares and streets that particularly emphasize the route at these points. In this way, a maximum distance of 25 meters is achieved in areas away from intersections. The head of the 2.2 meter high stelae is bevelled to symbolize the incline of the mountain railway.

The setting up of the steles was partly criticized because they were made in China. The monument to the Barmer Bergbahn was then moved so that it lies in the middle of the route. The area of ​​today's rotunda is laid out on a filled in and leveled cut in the rising mountain railway line, over which the beautification association built a three meter wide bridge. At this point, the steles seem to disappear into the ground to symbolize the depth of this filled-in incision. Although the route marking is not intended as a path, it has been used as such by the population in the southern area on Lönsstraße since then.

Ludwig Ringel Monument

Ludwig Ringel Monument (historical view)
51 ° 15 ′ 49.2 ″  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 28.4 ″  E

The monument, decided by the Barmen city council in 1883 out of gratitude for the estate of 1 million marks in favor of the cities of Barmen and Lennep , was erected in the Ringeltal by the city architect Carl Winchenbach in 1885/86 for a total of 53,000 marks . The memorial plaque for the builder Carl Winchenbach was destroyed as early as 1900 and a vase in the right niche was damaged. In 1938, the "superfluous structure" of the now unsightly monument was removed, but a complete demolition was refrained from. After the Second World War, the niches of the dilapidated monument were walled up, and the outside stairs and balustrades were dilapidated. In 1968 the master stonemason Manfred Stölzel renewed the monument without the dilapidated stairs. In 2012, the monument was thoroughly renovated by the Barmer Beautification Association for 75,000 euros from donations, event proceeds and grants from the Ilselore Luckow Foundation and new memorial plaques were installed.

The inscription on originally brown-red granite reads:

In memory
of
Ludwig Ringel
geb. Nov 10, 1808
died Nov 15, 1881
the grateful city of
Barmen
1885

Fountain (with putti) at the Toelleturm

Fountain at Toelleturm
51 ° 15 ′ 23.7 ″  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 8.4 ″  E

On August 21, 1929, a fountain with an octagonal water basin was inaugurated on the square between the Toelleturm and the Barmer Luftkurhaus , which replaced a roundabout at this point with the “Flora” statue . Above the water basin there are three water bowls arranged one above the other, from which a water cascade pours into the basin. There are different statements about the material of the well. Both dolomite limestone, which was extracted in a quarry on Kirberg , and Franconian shell limestone are mentioned.

The fountain was donated by Wilhelm Vorwerk in 1927 on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Vorwerk & Sohn company and created by the Elberfeld sculptor Paul Wynand . The city of Barmen took on the costs of 16,000 marks for the water connection and the design of the square.

Originally, four one meter high bronze putti playing with dolphins were attached to the fountain , which were dismantled and probably melted down during World War II. With the death of Wynand on March 2, 1956, a redesign of the figures was prevented. The fountain has been restored several times and has been carrying water again since 1992 after almost twenty years of building damage-related drainage.

Emil Rittershaus memorial

The memorial to the poet Emil Rittershaus (born April 3, 1834 in Barmen; † March 8, 1897 there), among others the lyricist of the Westfalenlied , was inaugurated on June 20, 1900. It was created by Prof. Friedrich Schaper, a son-in-law of the honoree, after a Germany-wide collection brought in 26,162 marks and the remaining sum of 30,133 marks was donated by the Barmer Masonic Lodge "Lessing" , whose honorary master and master of the Rittershaus chair had been. The life-size statue, which, according to contemporaries, portrayed its model as "lifelike", rests on a plinth made of Swedish granite.

During the Nazi era , the Masonic symbols had to be removed. When the statue was threatened with melting down, it was able to be hidden in the municipal building yard with the help of a family member and, after the Second World War, on the 50th anniversary of the poet's death in 1947, it was put back in its original location next to the damaged planetarium. In 1960 it was moved to its current location above Untere Lichtenplatzer Straße . The inscription on the base reads simply:

Emil Rittershaus
1834–1897

Since the base was rotated when the site was relocated, the inscription is now on the back of the monument. On the front you can now see the inscription on the back, which, when you turn it, adds the name of the poet:

Emil Rittershaus Built for the
poet
and philanthropist
in
1900

On the 150th birthday of Ritterhaus, a commemoration ceremony was held at the memorial in 1984, which was organized by the Bergisches Geschichtsverein , the Concordia Society and the Johannisloge Hermann zum Lande der Berge . A third plaque created by Walter Bardolatzy with the symbols of the Freemasons, square and compasses, was unveiled:

Your master from the chair
1877–1879 a. 1883–1889
Freemason lodges
Hermann for the land of the mountains
Lessing
in Wuppertal
as donors

Friedrich Wilhelm Dörpfeld monument

Friedrich Wilhelm Dörpfeld monument
51 ° 15 ′ 47.5 ″  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 26.1 ″  E
Detailed view of the bronze plate

The monument to Friedrich Wilhelm Dörpfeld was inaugurated by the city of Barmen on July 18, 1903, after the teaching staff called for a monument to the life and work of Dörpfeld, long-time teacher and educator in the Barmen district of Wupperfeld. Numerous teachers and citizens from all over Germany responded to the call, so that 21,000 marks could be collected, of which 15,000 marks were used for the construction of the monument. The memorial was created in collaboration with Wilhelm Neumann-Torborg , who created a group of figures that was lost in the Second World War, as with the Elberfeld Poor Care Memorial , and Hans Dörpfeld, the pedagogue's second son. The figures showed the allegorical female figure of pedagogy and a boy who was surrounded by her. There was a book on her lap. A relief portrait of Dörpfeld was embedded in the memorial with the inscription:

FW Dörpfeld
1824-1893

The base has a second inscription ( Lk 7.5  EU ):

He loved our people
and he built the school for us

Despite all efforts, the group of figures could not be replaced for financial reasons. In 1986 the monument was renovated by the Beautification Association, the inscription was newly gilded and the base of the figures was provided with a cover plate. The bronze relief, along with other objects, was stolen by metal thieves in February 2006 and was seized at a Leverkusen junkyard shortly before it was recycled. On May 9, 2006, the relief was reinstated in the memorial.

Ernst von Eynern memorial stone

Ernst von Eynern memorial stone
51 ° 15 ′ 44.6 ″  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 20.4 ″  E

Memorial stone with inscription

Ernst
v.Eynern
Platz

for Ernst von Eynern (born April 2, 1838; † November 2, 1906), German wholesale merchant, national liberal politician and long-time member of the Beautification Association. The memorial stone was the central part of a three-meter-high hill made of stone built in July 1907 by the Barmer grotto builder Friedrich, which was later destroyed. After his accidental death, it was donated by his widow for 20,000 marks in memory of her husband and placed in a place called Ernst-von-Eynern-Platz .

War memorial for the fallen soldiers of the Reserve Infantry Regiment 53

The 180 × 90 × 20 centimeter monument was planned as early as 1930, but was not erected next to the Ernst von Eynern memorial stone until July 17, 1938 . It was designed by the sculptor Fritz Lücken and executed by Hugo Wesselmann. The inscription reads:

1914    
    1918

The fallen heroes of
the Reserve Inf.Reg. 53

The monument made of Franconian shell limestone stands on a pedestal in which a box with documents has been deposited.

The Reserve Infantry Regiment 53 consisted of Solinger , Barmer and Elberfelder Bürgen and was deployed in the First World War from August 1914. Of the 2,000 men, 1,500 (including 800 Barmer) died on the French front line in the battles on the Somme for Péronne , Verdun , Marne-Aisne and Cerny. 33 of them were buried in the Barmer Ehrenfriedhof. At the inauguration ceremony, Wehrens city council remembered the 11,920 men from Wuppertal who lost their lives in the war.

Obelisk in memory of the fallen citizens of Barmer in the wars of 1864 and 1866

The obelisk made of sandstone is the oldest still existing war memorial in Wuppertal. It was built in June 1869, at that time still flanked by a wall, to commemorate the two citizens of Barmen who died at Düppeler Schanzen and Flensburg in the German-Danish War of 1864 and the 19 who died in the German War of 1866. The upper part of the obelisk is decorated with symbols of honor and mourning typical of the time. On three of four sides there are marble plaques with the names, date and place of death of the fallen, the fourth side has a plaque with the inscription:

In
honor of the memory
of the brave
sons of our city,
who gave their lives for their fatherland in the
glorious wars
of 1864 and 1866 . The citizens of Barmen.



The memorial was cleaned, refurbished and enclosed between 2008 and 2010.

Plant with Wilhelm Vorwerk memorial stone

Wilhelm Vorwerk memorial stone
51 ° 15 ′ 28.1 ″  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 15 ″  E

The memorial stone and the facility to commemorate the long-time chairman of the beautification association Wilhelm Vorwerk , who did particularly well to rebuild the facilities after the devastation during the Second World War, was inaugurated on April 8, 1971. The sculptor Eugen Busmann created a bronze plaque with the inscription on behalf of the Beautification Association:

Wilhelm Vorwerk
sponsor of the Barmer
Beautification Association

Adolf Werth memorial stone

Adolf Werth memorial stone
51 ° 15 ′ 26.8 ″  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 18.7 ″  E

The memorial stone in memory of Adolf Werth was unveiled on July 15, 1916 by the Barmen Department of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein under the chairmanship of Privy Councilor Albert Molineus. A bronzed copper plate, which was melted down during the Second World War, was attached to a granite boulder from the Odenwald . On February 5, 1955 it was replaced by the History Association and the Beautification Association with a plaque with a slightly different inscription. It is:

ADOLF WERTH
1839–1915
The founder of the mountain.
History Society of
Barmen. His life's work
was researching the
history of his
hometown.

Johannes Langermann Monument

Johannes Langermann Monument
51 ° 15 ′ 31.4 ″  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 23.1 ″  E

The monument to the Barmer teacher and school reformer Johannes Langermann (born October 24, 1848 in Brook (today in Kalkhorst ), † July 28, 1923 in Lüdenscheid ) was created by Peter Klotzbach on behalf of the Provincial Association of Rhineland of the German Teachers' Association and on April 9 Inaugurated in 1926. Langermann graduated from the teachers' seminar in 1878 and worked as a teacher in Barmen from 1880 to 1906. He developed a school concept in which students can freely develop their own personality without interference from the state or church and the teacher is given the task of promoting the students' talents. This concept found numerous followers as far as Japan , from whose minister of culture , who came into contact with Langermann's ideas during his studies in Germany, gave him a valuable sword as a thank you around 1900. The inscription on the front reads:

JOHANNES
LANGERMANN
1848–1925
RECOVERY THROUGH
EDUCATION
LOVE FOR YOUTH
LOVE FOR ALL
THE CHILDREN OF THE PEOPLE OF
STEIN - PESTALOZZI - SPRUCE

The monument was restored in 1986.

Wilhelm Werlé monument

The monument was inaugurated on August 21, 1881. The bust was made by the Berlin sculptor Bernhard Afinger during Werlé's lifetime and delivered on November 9, 1878. The production of the plaster model was delayed because Werlé was ill. The cost of 3300 marks was paid in three installments and financed by donations from respected Barmer families. The bust stands on a granite base about two meters high, which rests on a three-tiered substructure. The monument is dedicated to Wilhelm Werlé , the founder of the Barmer Beautification Association . The inscription in the base reads:

Donated
in memory
of the founder of the
Barmer Beautification Association =
MR
WILHELM Werle

born on Sept. 26, 1804
died on August 28, 1880

Otto C. Schmitz memorial stone

Otto C. Schmitz memorial stone
51 ° 15 ′ 36.6 ″  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 7.3 ″  E

Memorial stone for Otto C. Schmitz, manufacturer and chairman of the Wuppertal AvD automobile club from 1955 to 1967.

Ernst Günter Plutte memorial stone

The memorial stone for Ernst-Günter Plutte , chairman of the Beautification Association from 1967 to 1992, was erected on February 24, 1981 on the occasion of the 65th birthday of the chairman of the Barmer Beautification Association, who has been in office since 1967. It consists of two boulders made of greywacke that were blasted out of the rock during the construction of the Great Dhünntalsperre and marked with "EG Plutte" and the date of installation.

Memorial stone for the Barmer Planetarium

Memorial stone for the Barmer Planetarium
51 ° 15 ′ 55.7 ″  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 14 ″  E
Detailed view of the memorial plaque

The memorial stone for the Barmer Planetarium , which was destroyed in 1943 , was inaugurated on June 4, 1997 on the initiative of Margot Sundermann, the daughter of the first scientific director of the planetarium Erich Hoffmann. A bronze plaque with Mrs. Sundermann's text, which was made by Mr. Fratz, was placed on a boulder from the Barmer Nordpark . The Sedanstrasse grammar school , where Erich Hoffmann was a full-time teacher, took over the financing of the memorial stone . The inscription reads:

The
Barmer Planetarium stood here.
Built Destroyed
1926 1943
It was the world's first large planetarium.
Under the direction of Dr. Erich Hoffmann
teacher at the Realgymnasium Sedanstrasse
it became a place
of instruction and reflection.

Memorial stone against vivisection

Memorial stone against vivisection
51 ° 15 ′ 50.3 ″  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 30.1 ″  E

The memorial stone against vivisection was erected before 1930 by the animal lover Johann Casper Engels from Barmen , a member of the Engels factory owner family, from which Friedrich Engels also emerged . In the name of the Wuppertal Animal Welfare Association founded by Johann Carl Fuhlrott in 1862, the memorial stone warned with a Schopenhauer quote to fight against animal abuse and vivisection.

The inscription reads:

Motto
Do Your mouth
for the dumb in
the cause of all that comparable
have let

Arthur Schopenhauer
1788-1860

In his struggle against
the hideous Tiermiss-
action and against the
ruthless vivisection

The Wuppertal animal welfare
association

Schwalm memorial stone

Schwalm memorial stone
51 ° 15 ′ 59.4 ″  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 16.3 ″  E

The Schwalm memorial stone was erected in memory of the married couple Alice and Hans Heinrich Schwalm, who died in 1954 and 1956 respectively and left the Beautification Association 10,000 DM for new plantings. The beautification association used this legacy to plant rhododendrons along the promenade below the administration building of the BARMER replacement fund (today the Wupperverband). In the fall of 1962, the Beautification Association erected an approx. 1.20 meter high memorial stone made of shell limestone to commemorate the donation. The inscription reads:

Hans Heinrich
Schwalm
Foundation

Emil-Röhrig-Platz with a memorial plaque

The Emil-Roehrig Square was close to the bus stop on October 30, 1955 Valley View inaugurated the Barmer mountain railway. The name Talblick refers to a vantage point with an unobstructed view over the Barmer valley of the Wupper and the city center, which makes the square a popular place to stay. Emil Röhrig had been a member of the Beautification Association all his life and was made an honorary member in 1928. The square was set up for 25,000 marks from Emil Röhrig's estate and was inaugurated in the presence of his nephew and the Lord Mayor of Barmen, Heinrich Schmeißing .

A metal capsule with a certificate and documents of the time was embedded in a recess in the surrounding wall of the square and closed with a memorial plaque. The course was renovated as part of the Regionale 2006.

Clinker pond

The clinker pond
51 ° 15 '57.3 "  N , 7 ° 12' 22.3"  E

The clinker pond is a round square with a surrounding wall made of processed natural stones in the lower facilities. Resting benches surround a circular, enclosed fountain. The brook flows out of an area of ​​the enclosing wall in the Barmer Anlage , which supplies the fountain by means of an inlet enclosed in parallel walls. The square was laid out in the middle of the 20th century in place of an older pond.

On the surrounding wall of the clinker pond was the bronze sculpture "Boy with Dove" , which was created in 1953 by the Hanoverian sculptor Kurt Lehmann based on a design from 1936 on behalf of the Beautification Association for DM 7,000 . The 1.1 meter high sculpture was erected on September 28, 1954 for the 25th anniversary of Wuppertal. The sculpture is currently no longer in its place of installation.

Imler memorial stone

Imler memorial stone
51 ° 15 ′ 44.8 ″  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 31.1 ″  E

Memorial stone for Karl F. Imler, board member of the Barmer Beautification Association around 1866 on Imler-Weg named after him .

Drinking fountain

The Tränkbrunnen
51 ° 15 '52.1 "  N , 7 ° 12' 33.7"  O

The animal lover Johann Casper Engels had the watering fountain built on the edge of the Barmer plant near the coal path from Heckinghausen to Lichtscheid (today Lönsstraße ) in addition to the memorial stone against vivisection, as well as the drinking fountain for drinking draft horses and dogs. The inscription reads simply:

Be good to the animals!

Figure at the office of the beautification club

The figure
51 ° 16 '2.6 "  N , 7 ° 12" 22.6 "  O

The Barmer Beautification Association has its office in a residential building with the postal address Untere Lichtenplatzer Straße 84 on the edge of the lower facilities. The plant nursery was located on the site in the 19th and 20th centuries. In front of the house, on a pedestal, based on a round base, stands a bronze figure of putti with a fish in her arms.

Femlinde

The root offspring of the Dortmund Femlinde was donated by the city of Dortmund in 1893 as a thank you to the poet Emil Rittershaus , poet of the Westphalia song, and planted in the Barmer grounds in October 1894. At the beginning of 1908, a competition for fencing the tree was announced. The first prize went to the sculptor Wilhelm Giesecke with his design "Stone and Iron" , whose design was also carried out. From the enclosure, the obelisk-shaped delimitation stones and the connecting curved iron band have been preserved. Most of the quarry stones, which were stored in front of the cave-like, are still preserved. They just lie deeper in the ground. The metal plaque was melted down during World War II. Their inscription read:

Femlinde
root shoot
d. Dortmund Femlinde
Emil Ritterhaus
donated z. Thanks for his
Westphalia
song planted here in October
1894

Schiller Linden

Round bench with plaque around the Schillerlinde
51 ° 15 ′ 53.4 ″  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 18.9 ″  E

The Schillerlinde was planted in 1905 on the centenary of the death of the poet Friedrich Schiller by students from four higher boys' schools in Barmens after torches were lit and fireworks burned down the evening before at the planting site, which was henceforth called Schillerplatz . After a celebratory speech by grammar school director Evers, the four school directors, two teachers and seven pupils each and the then chairman of the beautification association Robert Barthels each excavated a spade and planted the linden tree in the dug hole. Then they sang together three verses from the equestrian song "Wohlauf Kameraden auf Pferd ..." from Schiller's drama Wallenstein's camp . The celebration continued in the evening in the nearby Barmer town hall with great crowds. For the 150th anniversary of the Barmer Beautification Association , the round bench was renewed in 2014 by trainees from the Ronsdorf juvenile detention center , and the inscription was adapted accordingly.

A bench was placed around the Schillerlinde. A plaque bears the inscription:

Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805)
German poet, philosopher, historian
Schillerlinde
planted on May 9, 1905 on the 100th anniversary
of the death of four high schools in Barmens
2014: Bank in the Ronsdorf JVA rebuilt
as a preparatory work training course

Alpine garden

The recultivated alpine garden
51 ° 15 ′ 40.8 ″  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 9.7 ″  E

The Alpinum in the upper facilities was donated in 1914 by 33 members of the Beautification Association and inaugurated on Overbeck-Weg in a former quarry of Gutshof Fischertal. It was created by the garden architect Arthur Stüting from Barmen and presented flowers, shrubs and flowering permanent plants with German and Latin names on porcelain signs. However, the brittle rock repeatedly caused rockfalls and landslides, which repeatedly destroyed the rock garden and ultimately led to the fact that the facility was not restored after the Second World War for cost reasons (50,000 DM was estimated in 1950). To mark the 100th anniversary, the Alpine Garden was modestly recultivated in 2014.

Paulinenruhe

Memorial stone Paulinenruhe
51 ° 15 ′ 32.8 ″  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 27.5 ″  E

The Paulinenruhe is a round viewing platform with a linden tree and benches that can be climbed up a few steps and was donated in 1914. It is dedicated to Pauline Luhn (née Wink, * 1841; † 1911), wife of August Luhn (* 1838; † 1915), who founded the Luhns soap factory with her husband .

Paul-Peter-Muckenhaupt-Platz and the bleacher ponds

Paul-Peter-Muckenhaupt-Platz
51 ° 15 ′ 43.4 ″  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 27.5 ″  E

For many decades, the Barmer Beautification Association assumed that the two adjacent ponds, together with a third pond that had been lost, were created in 1782 by the bleacher Johann Peter Nagel in the ravine of the Kohlenstraße. According to the association's own tradition, the two ponds were the nucleus of the Barmer plants, from which the design of the park began. From them a 60-meter-long, head-high water tunnel was driven to irrigate the lower systems and the Ringeltal and to supply the ponds there.

The flat area around the ponds was redeveloped as part of the Regionale 2006 and named in 2011 in honor of the organizer of the redevelopment, long-time sponsor and deputy chairman of the beautification association Paul Peter Muckenhaupt (* 1950, † 2006) in Paul-Peter-Muckenhaupt-Platz .

In 2012/13 it was determined, based on historical maps, among other things, that the correct bleaching ponds of Johann Peter Nagels are a few hundred meters further northeast and are still preserved today. They have meanwhile been placed under protection under the ground monument number B040. The ponds on Paul-Peter-Muckenhaupt-Platz , which were previously assumed to be bleaching ponds , were in all probability only created at the beginning of the park design.

rotunda

The rotunda is a lookout point in the lower part of the upper facilities. From the semicircle, which was built on a cut in the mountain railway line next to Dreikaiserplatz , one has an unobstructed view of Barmer city center along the route axis. The rotunda was worked out more clearly within the framework of the Regionale 2006 with the terraced embankment and the installation of 50 cm high seating steps made of concrete.

At the site of the rotunda, a three-meter-wide bridge crossed the cut until it was demolished. Here was also the location of the so-called Colonie , an ensemble of old farmhouses belonging to the farmer König , which had been prepared as a visitor attraction.

Clemens Artmeier playground

Clemens Artmeier playground
51 ° 15 ′ 52.2 ″  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 14.3 ″  E

The children's playground was set up on Dreikaiserplatz in 1915 . It is named Clemens Artmeier Playground after a previous founder . In the course of the Regionale 2006, the playground was also equipped with new play equipment.

arena

Next to the children's playground is a circular arena with a diameter of about 25 meters. The multi-purpose area was newly laid out as part of the Regionale 2006 and has a gently sloping slope on the south side with square seating and lawn steps. The floor of the arena consists of a lawn with lava gravel and a pavement line running around it. 51 ° 15 ′ 50.8 "  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 15"  E

Connecting bridge

The curved pedestrian bridge over Untere Lichtenplatzer Straße was built in the early 1960s using reinforced concrete and connects the lower with the upper structures. It replaced the Budde stairs as access to the upper facilities, which made it necessary to cross the street at ground level.

Outhouse on Eisenlohrstrasse

The outhouse before the redesign of the area
51 ° 15 ′ 25.7 ″  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 9.3 ″  E

The listed toilet house on Eisenlohrstrasse was built between 1910 and 1913 in a half-timbered style for the public needs of visitors to the facility.

In 2014, the building was extensively refurbished, equipped with a disabled toilet and a playground was added in the vicinity. A kiosk is to follow. The newly designed open space with a playground was named after the donor of the financial resources, Lore Jackstädt Platz .

Shelters and weather mushrooms

Weather mushroom in the Barmer forest

In the Barmer facilities and the associated parts of the Barmer Forest, eight shelters , shelters and weather mushrooms offer protection from bad weather.

Information boards

Information board in the typical park design

Numerous panels in a uniform design inform visitors about the special features and the history of the park under the title “Magical Barmer Installations” .

Archaeological monuments and ravines

Barmer Landwehr

Barmer Landwehr
51 ° 15 ′ 26.8 ″  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 18.9 ″  E

From the Fischertal up to the Höhenweg and back down to the Murmelbach, the Barmer line of the Bergische Landwehr , a presumably high to late medieval border marking between Oberbarmen and Unterbarmen (due to the medieval parish and deanery border ) ran from Hatzfeld to Beyenburg . Although it lost its protective function in the early modern era and was largely razed in the 16th century, the documents of the Landwehr due to property matters affecting them can be proven up to the 19th century. In addition, a remnant of the moat in the Barmer Wald, which has been heavily worn down and disturbed in many places, has been preserved in the area between Lönsstrasse and the Adolf-Werth memorial stone. This is protected as a ground monument under the ground monument number B002 "Medieval Landwehr in the Barmer facilities Lönsstrasse / Barmer facilities" .

Hollow road of the old coal road

The ravine
51 ° 15 '32.7 "  N , 7 ° 12" 15.8 "  O

Today's Lönsstraße runs on the route of a modern coal route from the Sprockhövel / Hattingen / Witten area , which crossed the Wupper on the Heckinghauser Zollbrücke and ran via Heckinghausen and Lichtscheid to Ronsdorf and Remscheid or to Cronenberg and Solingen . In the Barmer Anlage, a deep ravine of this old road has been preserved south parallel to Lönsstrasse .

Lost and destroyed monuments and facilities

There were other monuments in the Barm complex that were irreparably damaged or completely destroyed over time, mostly through the effects of war or the use of materials during the Nazi era, or through vandalism.

War memorial for the fallen soldiers of 1870/71 in the city of Barmen

Historical view of the war memorial and the Barmer Stadthalle
51 ° 15 ′ 55.6 ″  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 10.7 ″  E

On September 5, 1871, the city council of Barmens decided to erect a war memorial in honor of the fallen citizens of the city in the Franco-Prussian War from 1870 to 1871 . It should take until October 1874 before the war memorial was inaugurated. The construction costs for the time were an impressive 45,000 marks, for which a 24-meter-high octagonal tower with a viewing platform on the top, as well as an attached, also octagonal hall of honor, on which there was a second viewing platform at a height of 5.5 meters. In the tower there was a stone band with the carved battle sites of the war. The flagpole on the top of the tower was 12.3 meters high and was crowned by a two-meter-high copper eagle.

In the hall of honor, stone tablets with the 77 names of the fallen and their regiments were attached to three walls. Another four walls were broken through by floor-to-ceiling stained glass windows. The portal with wrought iron grille was in the eighth wall. An inscription was carved below an eagle figure above the portal:

To the brave Barmer warriors who fell for Germany's unity in 1870 and 1871, the grateful hometown!

Around the hall of honor there was a wide parapet walkway from which a flight of stairs led to the portal. In the same axis, a second flight of stairs leads up to the gallery. To the left and right of the portal were two captured French cannons, a gift from Kaiser Wilhelm I. They were melted down in 1917. The building was badly damaged during World War II and blown up in 1951.

Twine box

On the carbon (today Lönsstraße one was located) twine , the time since the 16th century at the Rosenau stood in the 1870s here translocated was. The twine box had a footprint of 5.13 × 3.49 meters and a gable height of 6.30 meters, the basement was 2.56 meters high and the upper floor 3.25 meters. The twine box was renovated in 1908, but it rotted in the war and post-war period and was also vandalized. The historic building was eventually demolished. 51 ° 15 ′ 47.3 "  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 31.7"  E

Otto Schüller Memorial

On April 28, 1902, in the presence of the Lord Mayor of Barmen, August Lentze, the memorial was inaugurated for the long-time chairman of the beautification association Otto Schüller, whose costs were secured by a legacy of his companion, friend and colleague Hugo Hösch, who died just a few months earlier.

The sculptor Wilhelm Giesecke created a white marble bust for 4,000 gold marks , which rested on a pedestal made of white syenite by the sculptor Adolf Bröckler . The inscription on the pedestal read:

Otto Schüller
Honorary Citizen of
the
City of Barmen,
Chairman of
the
Beautification
Association
1880–1899

The memorial survived World War II but was destroyed by vandals in 1946 . In 1953, during cleaning work in the mud of the neighboring pond, the head of the bust, which had since disappeared, was found and put back on the monument. In April 1957, vandals chopped off parts of the back of the head, whereupon the bust was replaced by a replica by Otto Pieper. In the summer of 1983 the monument was so destroyed that it was no longer possible to repair it again.

Memorial stone for the singers who died in the First World War

The memorial stone for the singers who died in World War I, a granite boulder from the Odenwald , was inaugurated next to the planetarium on June 29, 1930 by the Barmer district group of the Rhenish Singers Association on the occasion of the 27th Rhenish Singers Association Festival and the first German Song Day.

The stone was worked by the city planning director Eugen Rückle , on the front was a bronze plaque with the image of a harp and the following inscription:

In memory of the
singers who died in the World War , the
Barmer district group of the
Rhenish Singers Association

At the inauguration, under the direction of Max Beschle, a complete Barmen choir, which consisted of approx. 800 singers, sang Franz Schubert's Heilig, Heilig, Heilig from the German Mass . Finally, Wilhelm Mirbach, chairman of the Rheinischer Sängerbund, gave a consecration speech and the Barmer district group under its chairman Emil Ey laid a wreath. During the air raids on Barmen on the night of May 29th to 30th, 1943, the memorial and the neighboring planetarium were destroyed.

Theodor Körner Monument

The memorial was erected on August 24, 1913 in honor of the poet and playwright Theodor Körner two days before the centenary of his death by the “Dramatic Association Theodor Körner” , which has been collecting for it since it was founded in 1891. The monument was created by the Barmer sculptor Carl Moritz Schreiner . It consisted of the figure of a bared bard with a lyre and sword, which was enthroned on a tall and narrow obelisk made of Eifel tuff with an outside staircase in front. Verses of the poet were carved into the obelisk, on which a bronze medallion was placed:

You sword on my left
What should you secretly blink?

The symbols lyre and sword are derived from the title of the same name from Körner's collection of patriotic war and freedom songs, which were published under the name “What should your secret flashing?” After Körner's death. The monument was not without controversy due to its depiction of nudity, which is why the removal was discussed in the city council from 1939. The bronze medallion had previously been stolen in 1923. The memorial was destroyed during World War II and the remains were removed in April 1959.

flora

The "Flora" was a statue that was erected on a planted roundel with a grotto-like substructure at the Toelleturm at the end of the 19th century. Apart from the name of the statue depicted in contemporary photographs, all that is known is that it was taken over by the city council around July 28, 1913. Nothing is known about its whereabouts either; the fountain designed by Paul Wynand was built at its location in 1929 .

Liberation Oak

The Liberation Oak was planted on July 1, 1930 to celebrate the premature retreat of the Allies from the occupied Rhineland , who occupied it due to the Compiègne Armistice and the Versailles Peace Treaty . A white board on the foot carried the inscription:

I was planted on that day,
where the Rhine was free and the shame ended.
Now I want to grow, bloom and flourish here, to be
a warning sign for the world around me and posterity.

The tree was destroyed in World War II.

Budde stairs

Access from Untere Lichtenplatzer Strasse to the upper facilities was via the Budde staircase . It was replaced by today's connecting bridge across the street.

Forest house on Lönsstrasse

The forester's house of the Barmer Wald was located on Lönsstrasse opposite the confluence of Schubertstrasse . It was used as a restoration in the 20th century and had a specially designed garden within the grounds. The forester's house did not survive the Second World War. 51 ° 15 '45.4 "  N , 7 ° 12' 28.4"  E


Toboggan run

A toboggan run ran parallel to Schüller-Allee between Emil-Röhrig-Platz and Obere Lichtenplatzer Straße . The route is currently overgrown in parts.

literature

  • Brigitte Alexander, Antonia Dinnebier for the Förderverein Historische Parkanlagen Wuppertal eV (Hrsg.): Barmer Anlagen: Barmer Beautification Association since 1864 (=  Wuppertal's green plants . Volume 6 ). Edition Köndgen, Wuppertal 2014, ISBN 978-3-939843-45-0 .
  • Klaus-Günther Conrads: Die Barmer Anlagen - A citizens' initiative is 125 years old . In: Romerike Berge . tape 39 , no. 2 , 1989, ISSN  0485-4306 , pp. 10 ff .
  • Sonja Priester: Chronicle 125 Years of Barmer Beautification Association . 1989.
  • Ruth Meyer-Kahrweg : Monuments, fountains and sculptures in Wuppertal. Volume 1 (main volume) (= contributions to the preservation of monuments and the cityscape of the Wuppertal. Volume 10). Born, Wuppertal 1991, ISBN 978-3-87093-057-8 .

Web links

Commons : Barmer Anlagen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Marion Meyer: Private park with history. RP Online October 25, 2011. Accessed April 10, 2014.
  2. ^ Wuppertal - Barmer plants. ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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. Garden Art Route between the Rhine and Maas. Retrieved April 10, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.strasse-der-gartenkunst.de
  3. New partners in the EGHN from Malmö, Sweden and Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia (September 2013). ( Memento of the original from September 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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. Latest news from the European Garden Network - EGHN. Retrieved April 10, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.eghn.org
  4. Manuel Praest: Wuppertal says thank you for the Barmer systems. wz-newsline February 15, 2014. Accessed April 10, 2014.
  5. a b c Handbook of the natural spatial structure of Germany: Sheet 108/109: Düsseldorf / Erkelenz (Karlheinz Paffen, Adolf Schüttler, Heinrich Müller-Miny) 1963; 55 p. And digital version of the corresponding map (PDF; 7.4 MB)
  6. a b c flow Geographic Information System of the Wupperverbandes
  7. Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
  8. ^ "Murmelbachtal" nature reserve in the specialist information system of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection in North Rhine-Westphalia , accessed on February 24, 2017.
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  10. a b c d e f g Anonymous: Citizenship creates social action! ; Article from the journal “Our Forest” of the German Forest Protection Association ; Edition March 1960, for the 96th anniversary of the Barmer Beautification Association
  11. a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac Festschrift of the Barmer Beautification Association on the 50th anniversary of its existence in 1914 ( Online ( Memento des original from December 2nd 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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. ) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.barmen-200-jahre.de
  12. a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x History ( Memento of the original from December 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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. of the Barmer Verschönerungsverein at barmer-anlagen.de (accessed on November 25, 2013) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.barmer-anlagen.de
  13. a b Biography of Peter Schölgen ( Memento of the original dated December 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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. on barmen-200-jahre.de (accessed November 25, 2013) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.barmen-200-jahre.de
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  20. a b Klaus Ulrich Grigo: Of animals, perpetrators and animal rights activists - history of the animal welfare association Wuppertal . In: Animal welfare is the future - Festival brochure for the 150th anniversary . Tierschutzverein Wuppertal, Wuppertal 2012, p. 18th f .
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  22. Anonymous: Retrospectives on 100 years of Barmer history , Barmen, 1910 ( PDF Online ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to instructions and then remove this notice. ) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.barmen-200-jahre.de
  23. a b c d e f Planning status ( Memento of the original dated December 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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. Open space program valley axis - Barmer plants in the council information system of the city of Wuppertal @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wuppertal.de
  24. Program of the Barmer Anlagen Zauber 2007 on dav-wuppertal.de (accessed on December 14, 2013)
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  29. Wuppertal city map from 1930.
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  31. Biography Wilhelm August Bredt ( Memento of the original dated December 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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. on barmen-200-jahre.de (accessed on November 26, 2013) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.barmen-200-jahre.de
  32. a b c d e hiking tips ( memento of the original dated December 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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. on barmer-anlagen.de (accessed on November 26, 2013) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.barmer-anlagen.de
  33. Ruth Meyer-Kahrweg: Monuments, fountains and sculptures in Wuppertal. Volume 1, Wuppertal 1991, p. 385 f.
  34. Ernst-Günter Plutte's biography ( memento of the original from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on barmen-200-jahre.de (accessed on November 26, 2013) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.barmen-200-jahre.de
  35. Biography of Paul Peter Muckenhaupt ( Memento of the original dated December 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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. on barmen-200-jahre.de (accessed on November 26, 2013) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.barmen-200-jahre.de
  36. Biography Otto Schüller ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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. on barmen-200-jahre.de (accessed on November 26, 2013) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.barmen-200-jahre.de
  37. Recultivation of the Alpinum ( Memento of the original dated December 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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. on barmer-anlagen.de (accessed on November 26, 2013) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.barmer-anlagen.de
  38. Article by Antonia Dinnebier on landconcept.de (accessed on November 26, 2013)
  39. Biography Salomon Ernst Wahl ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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. on barmen-200-jahre.de (accessed on November 26, 2013) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.barmen-200-jahre.de
  40. ways on berg-mark-wege.de (accessed on November 26, 2013)
  41. ↑ Description of natural monuments of the city of Wuppertal
  42. According to the source Ludwig Ernst Toelle - His tower on the south heights always reminds of the factory owner ( memento of the original from October 6, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Accessed in January 2011, the bronze plaque was called: "Toelleturm, built in 1888, renovated in 1978" - it may be that the plaque was renewed in 1990. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.barmen2008.de
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