Vogelsauer stairs
The Vogelsau staircase is a listed outside staircase in the Wuppertal district of Elberfeld-West , it opens up the residential areas on the slope of the Nützenberg with Friedrich-Ebert-Straße in the valley ( Bundesstraße 7 ). In the name of the Vogelsau staircase, the staircase is divided into a lower and an upper part.
The lower part, built in 1904 ( 51 ° 14 ′ 57.3 ″ N , 7 ° 7 ′ 14.9 ″ E ) connects the Vogelsaue street with the Friedrich-Ebert-Straße at the confluence of the Kabelstraße with 110 steps . The building ensemble of the former Küpper brewery and the Elberfeld thermal power station are nearby . It received its name on October 18, 1904.
The upper part ( 51 ° 14 ′ 59.4 ″ N , 7 ° 7 ′ 16 ″ E ) of the staircase, built around 1929, connects the Vogelsaue with the Nützenberger with 131 steps, at the beginning with an offset of one house block to the lower part Street . The church of St. Joseph, built in 1909–11, is located nearby .
The part of the facility on Friedrich-Ebert-Straße is particularly representative with retaining walls made of quarry stone and the individual steps, stringers, handrails, handrail supports and pedestal pillars made of basalt lava . The window and door walls of the rooms under the flights of stairs between the retaining walls, in which a location is located next to smaller niches, are made of basalt lava. The premises are not open to the public.
The staircase was declared a monument on October 23, 1985.
As of 2005, the staircase has been a sub-project "Path connections from the valley to the heights", it represents a connection from the valley to the Weyerbuschturm .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Cadastral Office and Geodata City of Wuppertal: Stages: 100 stairs in Wuppertal. (CD-ROM), 2006, ISBN 3-9807422-6-1 .
- ↑ a b Wolfgang Stock: Wuppertal street names. Thales Verlag, Essen-Werden 2002, ISBN 3-88908-481-8 .
- ↑ The upper part was included in the street designation "Vogelsau stairs" as an extension by resolution of the city council meeting on March 25, 1929. An exact date of construction is not documented.
- ↑ Urban redevelopment west - impulses and innovations for Wilhelminian-style districts in Wuppertal ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. PDF file from March 26, 2005
Web links
- Entry in the Wuppertal monument list
Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 56.4 ″ N , 7 ° 7 ′ 15 ″ E