Robert-Daum-Platz

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Robert-Daum-Platz (partial view with the suspension railway station)

The Robert-Daum-Platz is a major transport hub on the border of Wuppertal municipalities Elberfeld and Elberfeld-West . It is named after the SPD politician Robert Daum , who was Lord Mayor of Wuppertal from 1946 to 1948 and from 1949 to 1951. Before that it was called Tannenbergplatz .

topography

Location sketch

At Robert-Daum-Platz the federal road 7 (B 7), the important east-west axis of Wuppertal, which leads east over the Bundesallee into the city center, west over the Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse to Vohwinkel , and the state road 427 ( L 427), a north-south connection with the inner city names Tannenbergstraße and Briller Straße . The Tannenbergstraße runs to the south and forms the connection to the Elberfelder Südstadt and on to the Cronenberg district . The Briller Straße, which runs in a northerly direction and runs past the Briller Viertel , is the shortest connection to the federal motorway 46 (A 46) in the direction of Dortmund. In the direction of Düsseldorf via the A 46, the recommended route is in the opposite direction to the south (and therefore confusing for the motorists who are unfamiliar with the location), it leads quite quickly to the A 46 via a stretch through the Kiesberg tunnel to the motorway junction at the Sonnborner Kreuz .

The signposts necessary for this were implemented in the 1960s in the form of transparent boxes that were backlit at night by their own light source and gave the square its own atmosphere. In the late 1980s this backlight was recognized as too costly and energy consuming and was switched off. The signposts were replaced a few years later by the usual reflective metal signs.

The eastern continuation of Friedrich-Ebert-Straße leads into the classicist " Luisenviertel ", where numerous retailers have settled. In the past, the course of Friedrich-Ebert-Straße was continuous under the old name Königstraße , but the direct route was interrupted by the expansion of Robert-Daum-Platz in the post-war period , and Friedrich-Ebert-Straße meets Bundesallee with an offset . The Aue street runs parallel to the Bundesallee and opens onto the square.

View from the suspension railway station

In the immediate vicinity is the Robert-Daum-Platz suspension railway station , in front of which the most tragic accident in the history of the suspension railway occurred on April 12, 1999 . At that time, five people died and another 47 were injured. A commemorative plaque in the station commemorates the accident. Until 1987 a tram also drove along the B 7 and had a branch into Briller Straße to the final stop at fork point . Since the shutdown of the tram in Wuppertal and the complete removal of the tracks, wide strips of green have been created here.

Memorial plaque in the suspension railway station
The listed school building before renovation
The GEFA high-rise

The access to the suspension railway station for pedestrians was solved by two tunnels: an L-shaped tunnel that connected the left and right sides of Tannenbergstrasse and then offered a passage under the Bundesallee. Until the tram was shut down, there was also access to the two tram tracks here. A second tunnel crossed Briller Strasse at the level of the Deweerth garden . In January 2008 the tunnels were dismantled and replaced by above-ground pedestrian connections.

Demands to rebuild the transition to be handicapped accessible were already implemented in May 2002 by a city council resolution, but the implementation was repeatedly delayed. The above-ground pedestrian connection made a barrier-free connection possible and the "Angstraum pedestrian tunnel" made superfluous. For this purpose, the smaller tunnel was filled in and the larger tunnel closed. By eliminating cleaning and lighting, the city can save 18,000 euros a year; the 750,000 euros investment was completed in September 2008. Critics are now complaining about the long and multiple waiting times at the individual pedestrian crossings with traffic lights , which result in a significant increase in walking time compared to the tunnels.

At the same time, the municipal utilities refurbished the bridge over the Wupper on Tannenbergstrasse.

Starting in April 2007, a branching structure for the relief collector Wupper was built on a green area on the square underground for 18 months .

architecture

The square is defined by a red brick building that was built in 1900 and is a listed building. The building erected as the Aue grammar school is now used as the Catholic secondary school West . Opposite is the thirteen- story GEFA high-rise , which is one of the tallest buildings in the valley. It is the German headquarters of GEFA Bank , which previously belonged to the Deutsche Bank Group and has now been part of SG Equipment Finance since 2001 .

Villa Frowein, built in the classical style, is located in the immediate vicinity of the square.

There were originally two modern sculptures in the square. The younger one, created in the 1980s, which has already been damaged several times, has the title "Thread" - but evokes associations with an atomic model . The older sculpture, which was mounted above the ventilation in the pedestrian tunnel, was last painted red-orange - it used to be painted yellow. When the pedestrian tunnel was closed, it was removed and scrapped.

  • Older modern sculpture, removed in 2007

  • Newer modern sculpture " thread "

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Redesigning Robert-Daum-Platz to be handicapped accessible ( memento of July 29, 2003 in the web archive archive.today ), in: Wuppertaler Rundschau , June 17, 2003.
  2. ↑ The future is above ground , in: Wuppertaler Rundschau , October 10, 2007.
  3. ↑ Construction site at Robert-Daum-Platz ( memento from September 7, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), Wuppertaler Stadtwerke , April 3, 2007.

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Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 10 ″  N , 7 ° 8 ′ 2 ″  E