Barmen center

Barmen-Mitte (50) ; district of Wuppertal
Coordinates	51 ° 16 '18 " N , 7 ° 12' 2" E Coordinates: 51 ° 16 '18 " N , 7 ° 12' 2" E
height	155 m above sea level NHN
surface	0.53 km²
Residents	5134 (Dec. 31, 2016)
Population density	9687 inhabitants / km²
Proportion of foreigners	35.5% (Dec. 31, 2016)
Post Code	42275
prefix	02 02
Borough	Barmen
Transport links
Federal road
Overhead conveyor	Wuppertal suspension railway
bus	332 604 608 610 611 614 617 624 627 628 632 634 637 640 644 CE61 SB67 NE4
	Source: Wuppertal statistics - spatial data

The Barmen-Mitte residential area in Wuppertal is one of six quarters in the Barmen district . It is the historic center Gemarke the former independent city Barmen .

geography

The 0.53 km² residential area is located east of the geographic center of Wuppertal, in a valley on both sides of the Wupper . It is bounded in the north by the route of the disused Wuppertaler Nordbahn , in the west by the streets Steinweg and Fischertal , in the south by the Elberfeld – Dortmund railway and in the east by the streets Heidter Berg , Bachstraße and Westkotter Straße . Clockwise, Barmen-Mitte surrounds the Sedansberg , Oberbarmen-Schwarzbach , Heckinghausen , Heidt , Kothen and Friedrich-Engels-Allee quarters . The Wupper with the Wuppertal suspension railway above flows through the residential area located in the valley, parallel to it runs the federal road 7 , here called Höhne .

Barmen-Mitte is the central traffic junction in Barmen, the Old Market .

There are numerous listed buildings in the quarter, such as the Wuppertal town hall on Johannes-Rau-Platz or the Barmer Hall of Fame on Geschwister-Scholl-Platz , both connected via the Werth pedestrian zone . Other culturally and historically significant buildings are the Concordia Society House , the Gemarker Church , in which the Barmer Theological Declaration was adopted at the Confessional Synod of the German Evangelical Church on May 31, 1934 , the Bergische Synagoge , and the Sedanstrasse grammar school founded in 1643 .

Web links

Commons : Barmen-Mitte - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files