Zoo restaurants

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The zoo restaurants

With zoo restaurants (usually in the plural), partly Zoo halls , one under is listed detached building in the zoo area in Bergisch city of Wuppertal in North Rhine-Westphalia called. It is located in the Zoo residential area at Hubertusalle 30 and, as the former restoration building, is part of the Wuppertal Zoo complex .

construction

Lettering zoological garden
The zoo restaurants

When they had agreed on a site for the Wuppertal Zoo, an invitation to tender by the board of the Zoo-Aktiengesellschaft followed in 1880, in which designs for a restoration building were sought. The following conditions were defined:

  • A maximum of 60,000 marks expensive
  • Plastered facade
  • A main hall with 400  m²
  • Adjoining rooms with a total of 300 m²

The final design came from the architect Kayser in Elberfeld. The construction is divided into three construction phases. In the first section, from 1881 to 1883, a strictly symmetrical building was built, which is two stories high, has a central projectile with a triangular gable , and two corner towers, each of which protrudes one story above the rest, and designed in the neo-Renaissance style is. The original entrance of the building, located in the center of the central risalit, has a triangular pediment supported by pilasters that flanked the entrance. The zoological garden lettering is located under the gable of the central projectile . To the left and right of this portal there is an arched window , above it, on the second floor of the risalite, there are three biforias . The building held about 800 people. There was a terrace in front of the rear, but the seats there could not be used in bad weather. In order to increase the number of sheltered seats, the terrace should be integrated into an extension. The reconstruction, the second and third construction phases, took place in 1897 and 1898 under the direction of the architects Hermanns & Riemann . Since then, the building has had its current appearance.

First, in the second construction phase, the load-bearing south wall was replaced by iron columns, after which a glass hall, which could be opened to ensure a flow of air on warm days, was added. The hall is eleven and a half meters high and at 81 meters longer than the main and side rooms. The extended building has a capacity of 2200 people. The entrance was moved to the west side so that it is right next to the zoo entrance, and a cloakroom was built next to the new entrance. The old entrance was converted into a stage.

In the third construction phase in 1897, a kitchen and buffet wing was added.

On July 22, 1992, the zoo restaurants were entered as a monument in the list of monuments of the city of Wuppertal .

Use of the building

The zoo restaurants have indoor and outdoor catering, which is also accessible to zoo visitors. In 2011 the contract with the current tenant of the zoo restaurants, with whom the city of Wuppertal is in legal dispute, expires. For the time after that there was the idea of ​​exhibiting the exhibits of the Fuhlrott Museum , which was closed on March 31, 2008, in the building. In order to cover the costs incurred for the necessary renovation, the entrance fee to the zoo is to be increased by one euro and in return the visitors are to be given access to the new Fuhlrott Museum .

literature

  • Markus Arndt; The zoo district in Wuppertal as an example of the planning and development of a Wilhelminian style villa district ; Dissertation; University of Wuppertal; 1999.
  • Hella Nussbaum, Hermann J. Mahlberg : The zoo district in Wuppertal, Thiergarten, stadium and picturesque living around the fairy tale fountain, Wuppertal 2004, Verlag Müller & Busmann

Web links

Commons : Zoo Pubs  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Markus Arndt; The zoo district in Wuppertal as an example of the planning and development of a Wilhelminian style villa district ; Dissertation; University of Wuppertal; 1999; Pages 67 - 73.
  2. ↑ a b http://www.wz-newsline.de/?redid=203792
  3. ↑ http://www.wz-newsline.de/sro.php?redid=151357

Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 27.7 ″  N , 7 ° 6 ′ 35.2 ″  E