Kaiserstrasse (Wuppertal)
The Kaiser Street is a main thoroughfare in Wuppertal and a 1.5-kilometer section of the national road 228 (B 228). In the Vohwinkel district it runs from the west, where it begins at the Kaiserplatz intersection . It continues the B 228 as Vohwinkeler Straße . To the north, at Kaiserplatz, the Bahnstraße goes off as Bundesstraße 224 (B 224) in the direction of Vohwinkeler Bahnhof , and to the south is Gräfrather Straße , also known as B 224. In the east it ends at Eugen-Langen-Strasse . The B 228 then crosses the Sonnborner Kreuz motorway junction as the Sonnborner Ufer road .
Description and history
Kaiserstraße is the most important main street in the district. The peculiarity of the street is that the Wuppertal suspension railway goes over the entire course of the street. The Rottscheidter Bach is cased throughout the entire course .
The road was laid out in 1838 and since then has been the most important connection from Vohwinkel to Sonnborn and on to Elberfeld and Barmen . It was named in the year of death of the Hohenzollern Emperor Wilhelm I on September 20, 1888 July 1895 separated as Königsstrasse (since 1935 Vohwinkler Strasse ). Since July 6, 1936, the Kaiserstraße has been relieved by the Westring as a bypass road of the Vohwinkel center, during rush hour the current traffic volume loads both streets up to the capacity limits.
Buildings and events
The most striking structure is probably the suspension railway, the suspension railway stations Bruch and Hammerstein are directly above the Kaiserstraße. The suspension railway terminus Vohwinkel is behind Kaiserplatz on Vohwinkeler Straße.
The Gebhard building has an eventful history. It was built in 1875 as a factory for the silk weaving mill Gebhard & Co. AG, and later it housed an ice rink.
Since 1971, the Vohwinkel flea market has been the largest one-day flea market in the world. On the Sunday of the last weekend in September each year, the entire Kaiserstraße is completely cordoned off and used as a flea market under the suspension railway.
literature
- Wolfgang Stock: Wuppertal street names . Thales Verlag, Essen-Werden 2002, ISBN 3-88908-481-8
Web links
- Architectural monument overview Kaiserstr. In the Wuppertal monument list
Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 5.3 " N , 7 ° 4 ′ 46.4" E