Pestalozzistraße suspension railway station

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Pestalozzistrasse
GER Wuppertal Pestalozzistraße 001 - Suspension Railway.jpg
Opening: March 1, 1901
New building: 2003
District: Elberfeld-West
Location: Waterway
Station number: 8th
Distance kilometers: 5.1
Support: 180-181
Former name: Schiller Bridge

The Pestalozzistraße suspension railway station is a station on the Wuppertal suspension railway in the Elberfeld-West district of the city of Wuppertal . It is located on the waterway between the suspension railway stations Westende (towards Vohwinkel) and Robert-Daum-Platz (towards Oberbarmen).

As part of the modernization of the suspension railway, the station was completely rebuilt on August 7, 2000 by the Cologne architects Jaspert and Steffen.

Location and history

View of the station from Gutenbergplatz (2008)

The Pestalozzistraße stop is in the immediate vicinity of the Arrenberg residential area , which it also opens up. The station was formerly called Schillerbrücke (today Wupperbrücke Pestalozzistraße), which bridges the Wupper shortly before / after the station. It is located across from Gutenbergplatz . The scaffolding workshop for the modernization of the suspension railway was located opposite. The gabled roof is modeled on the historic design and is equipped with aluminum - profiled sheets covered. 38 cubic meters of concrete, 315 tons of steel and 587 square meters of glass were required for the new building.

It forms a group with the stations Varresbecker Straße , Westende and Robert-Daum-Platz .

Suspension railway

line course Tact
Symbol of the Wuppertal suspension railway60 Wuppertal suspension railway: Vohwinkel - Bruch - Hammerstein - Sonnborner Straße - Zoo / Stadium - Varresbecker Straße - Westende - Pestalozzistraße - Robert-Daum-Platz - Ohligsmühle - Central Station - Deutsche Bahn AG-Logo.svg Train Kluse - Regional Court - Völklinger Straße - Loher Bridge - Adler Bridge - Alter Markt - Werther Bridge - Wupperfeld - Oberbarmen Bf Deutsche Bahn AG-Logo.svg Train 3-4 min

Transfer possibility

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600 W-Vohwinkel suspension railway - W-Elberfeld, Pestalozzistraße - W-Elberfeld, main stationDeutsche Bahn Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn 30 min (only in the late evening hours and one trip early in the morning)
611 W-Katernberg, Birkenhöhe Loop - W-Elberfeld, Pestalozzistraße - W-Elberfeld, Hauptbahnhof - W-Barmen Bahnhof  - W-Heckinghausen, Lenneper Straße Deutsche Bahn AG-Logo.svg S-Bahn-Logo.svgDeutsche Bahn AG-Logo.svg S-Bahn-Logo.svg 20 min (NVZ, Sat + Sun 30 min)
NE1 W-Elberfeld, Hauptbahnhof - W-Nützenberg, Kyhfhäuser Straße - W-Vohwinkel Bahnhof - W-Vohwinkel, Obere Engelshöhe - W-Vohwinkel, Dasnöckel Mitte - W-Elberfeld, Pestalozzistraße - W-Elberfeld, HauptbahnhofDeutsche Bahn AG-Logo.svg S-Bahn-Logo.svgDeutsche Bahn AG-Logo.svg S-Bahn-Logo.svgDeutsche Bahn AG-Logo.svg S-Bahn-Logo.svg 60 min (only Sat-Sun night)

Web links

Commons : Pestalozzistraße suspension railway station  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Entry in the Wuppertal monument list

Individual evidence

  1. a b Wuppertaler Stadtwerke complete suspension railway expansion: Wuppertaler Stadtwerke. Retrieved March 20, 2019 .
  2. ^ Wolfgang Stock: Wuppertal street names . Thales Verlag, Essen-Werden 2002, ISBN 3-88908-481-8

Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 55 ″  N , 7 ° 7 ′ 31 ″  E