Dicke Ibach stairs

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Dicke Ibach stairs
The bronze relief Christ, stolen in 2006, heals an abused animal

The Dicke-Ibach staircase is a listed Wilhelminian-era open staircase in Wuppertal - Barmen and the entrance to the Ringeltal in the Barmer facilities . The staircase that leads to the higher Joseph-Haydn-Strasse (formerly Richard-Wagner-Strasse ) and the country houses on the east side of the Ringeltal was designed by the board members of the Barmer Beautification Association from 1878 to 1897, Friedrich Wilhelm Dicke and Peter Adolph Rudolph Ibach , donated in 1897. The construction of the sophisticated staircase, which draws on the forms of castle architecture and the Gothic, is typical of buildings in public parks of that time.

The three-flight staircase changes direction in the opposite direction, so that the staircase has a Z-shaped floor plan. The walls of a castle-like viewing platform rise between the lower platform and the two upper flights of stairs, with a small tower-like pavilion in the inner corner. Below the turret there is a plaque on the west wall in memory of the donors of the stairs with the inscription:

Friedr. Wilh. Thickness - Rudolf Ibach - 1897
Rud. Ibach Sohn, Hof-Pianoforte-Fabrikant Sr. Majesty of the King and Emperor

The bronze relief Christ heals an abused animal created by the Berlin sculptor Reinhold Kuebart adorned the stairs until 2006. The manufacturer Johann Caspar Engels had intended it for his garden (on Mendelssohnstrasse , today's Brahmsstrasse ). After his death, in March 1933, his widow donated it to the Wuppertal Animal Welfare Association , which in turn made it available to the Beautification Association, which had it attached to the Dicke-Ibach stairs in April 1933. During the Second World War , the relief was secured by the Barmer Beautification Association and reassembled in early 1950 after the war damage to the stairs caused by the air raids on Wuppertal had been repaired. In 2006 the relief was stolen by bronze thieves. The plastic was later found irreversibly destroyed in a junkyard. In the stair niche there is now a metal plate with a weatherproof reproduction of the relief.

In 2002, after five years of renovation, the Dicke Ibach stairs were inaugurated at a cost of two million marks.

The financing of the ensemble renovation of the staircase and its railing up to Lönsstraße came from a benefit concert by Joachim Dorfmüller , large and small donations, but also through grants from the Heckinghausen district council .

In July 2004 the restored staircase was smeared by vandals .

Web links

Commons : Dicke Ibach stairs  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Entry in the Wuppertal monument list

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Geoportal.Wuppertal.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Factual information@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / geoportal.wuppertal.de  
  2. ↑ Barmen-200-jahre.de ( Memento of the original from January 24, 2017 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
  3. ↑ a b Barmen2009.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Ruth Meyer-Kahrweg : Monuments, fountains and sculptures in Wuppertal , Born-Verlag Wuppertal, 1991@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.barmen2009.de  
  4. ↑ dav-wuppertal.de (PDF; 148 kB), Barmer Anlagenzauber, program
  5. ↑ Barmen2008.de of June 23, 1996 , Klaus-Günther Conrads: If only every dog ​​(and its owner) would pay a contribution
  6. ↑ Klaus-Günther Conrads for Wuppertaler Rundschau  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from June 30, 1999: Barmer Anlagen and Barmer Wald are in excellent condition - Barmer Beautification Association was founded 135 years ago@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / barmen1808.de  
  7. ↑ HBV-wuppertal.de , Heidter Bürgererverein eV
  8. ↑ a b Barmen2009.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Hermann-Josef Brester@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.barmen2009.de  
  9. ↑ HBV-wuppertal.de , 100 years
  10. ^ Wuppertal.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ), minutes of the public / non-public meeting of the Heckinghausen district council on June 11, 2002@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.wuppertal.de

Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 54 "  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 27"  E