Wuppertal Travel Guide
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Wuppertal Overview
Wuppertal is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located on the Wupper river south of the Ruhr area. Population 361,333 (2005). The prestigious Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy is located in this city.
Two thirds of the total municipal area is green belt: woods, meadows, gardens and fields. From any part of the city it is only a ten-minute walk to one of the public parks or shady woodland path. At the same time it is a major industrial centre including such industries as: textiles, metallurgy, chemicals, medicine (Bayer), electric, rubber, vehicles and printing equipment. One of the most famous pain-killers, Aspirin, was invented in Wuppertal by Bayer.
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Things to See in Wuppertal
In total, Wuppertal possesses over 4,500 buildings classified as national monuments, most dating from styles as Neoclassicism, Eclecticism, Historicism, Art Nouveau/Jugendstil and Bauhaus.
Concert hall, a fine masterpiece[citation needed] of turn-of-the-century architecture (Stadthalle)
Wuppertal Dance Theatre (Tanztheater Wuppertal), headed by Pina Bausch, is world-famous
Engels house (Engelshaus), architecturally typical of the region. It houses a permanent display of materials associated with Friedrich Engels and other famous citizens of Wuppertal, Wuppertal Zoo, one of the largest, most nicely landscaped zoos in Germany with many rare animals
Botanischer Garten Wuppertal, a municipal botanical garden
Arboretum Burgholz, an extensive arboretum
Von der Heydt Museum, one of the most important galleries in Germany, with works by 19th and 20th century artists. The first of Picasso’s works that ever appeared in public was displayed here.
One of the city’s greatest attractions is the suspended monorail (“Wuppertaler Schwebebahn”), which was established in 1901. The tracks are 8 m above the streets and 12 m above the Wupper river.
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Maps and Driving Directions to Wuppertal
Wuppertal Schwebebahn
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- Homepage of Wuppertal: Wuppertal (official home page)
- Wikipedia: Wuppertal
More about the History of Wuppertal
The city was formed in 1929 by merging Barmen, Elberfeld, Vohwinkel, Ronsdorf, Cronenberg, Langerfeld, and Beyenburg. The name was initially Barmen-Elberfeld, and after 1930 Wuppertal (“Wupper Valley”). The new city was administered within the Prussian Rhine Province.
Uniquely for Germany it is a linear city, owing to the steep hillsides along the river Wupper. The dominating city-centres Elberfeld (historic commercial centre) and Barmen (more industrial) form a united built-up area since 1850. In the following decades, this “Wupper-Town” became the dominating industrial agglomeration of the territories in northwestern Germany. Before the 19th century ended, this conurbation had been surpassed by Cologne (Cologne vacation rentals | Cologne travel guide), Düsseldorf (Düsseldorf vacation rentals | Düsseldorf travel guide) and the Ruhr area, all with much more favourable topography.
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