Adlerbrücke suspension railway station
Eagle Bridge | |
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Opening: | June 27, 1903 |
New building: | 1999 |
District: | Barmen |
Location: | Waterway |
Station number: | 16 |
Distance kilometers: | 10.5 |
Support: | 374-375 |
Former name: | Eagle Bridge / Opera House |
The Adlerbrücke suspension railway station is a station on the Wuppertal suspension railway in the Barmen district of the city of Wuppertal . It is located on the waterway between the suspension railway stations Loher Brücke (towards Vohwinkel ) and Alter Markt (towards Oberbarmen ).
As part of the modernization of the suspension railway, the station was completely rebuilt in 1999.
Location and history
The Adlerbrücke stop is located in Barmen near the Opera House , the Engels House and the Barmen comprehensive school , at the Adlerbrücke bridge that gives it its name . It mainly opens up the city quarters of Loh , Rott and Kothen . The station was built in Art Nouveau style and commissioned in 1903.
During the Second World War in 1943, the air raid on Wuppertal-Barmen caused minor damage to the suspension railway station.
On July 21, 1950 the elephant Tuffy jumped into the Wupper from a suspension railway approaching from the east as part of an advertising attraction of the Althoff circus not far from the stop.
The station was the first newly built stop that could be completed on June 12, 1999 during the modernization of the suspension railway according to a design by the Schuster architectural office (Düsseldorf). 110 m³ of reinforced concrete and 232 tons of steel were required for its construction; its glass surface measures over 840 m². The platforms are covered with a photovoltaic system that produces around 3800 kilowatt hours of electricity per year for the Wuppertal municipal utility network .
Suspension railway
line | course | Tact |
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60 | Wuppertal suspension railway: Vohwinkel - Bruch - Hammerstein - Sonnborner Straße - Zoo / Stadium - Varresbecker Straße - Westende - Pestalozzistraße - Robert-Daum-Platz - Ohligsmühle - Central Station - Kluse - Regional Court - Völklinger Straße - Loher Bridge - Adler Bridge - Alter Markt - Werther Bridge - Wupperfeld - Oberbarmen Bf | 3-4 min |
Transfer possibility
Web links
- Entry in the Wuppertal monument list
Individual evidence
- ^ Wolfgang Stock: Wuppertal street names . Thales Verlag, Essen-Werden 2002, ISBN 3-88908-481-8
- ↑ 85 years of the suspension railway. In: Bergische Blätter, p. 21.
- ^ Armin Himmelrath : Hype about Tuffi: The flying elephant of Wuppertal. In: Spiegel online / one day from July 21, 2016.
- ↑ WSW: Wuppertaler Stadtwerke complete suspension railway expansion. In: WSW Wuppertaler Stadtwerke from April 14, 2014, accessed on March 24, 2019.
- ↑ Adlerbrücke photovoltaic system inaugurated. In: WSW Wuppertaler Stadtwerke from October 21, 1999.
Coordinates: 51 ° 16 ′ 1 ″ N , 7 ° 11 ′ 20 ″ E