Quinquennially, that is once every five years, the city of Wuppertal holds a mid-summer celebration called ‘The Long Table’ (der lange Tisch) in honor of the city’s founding in 1929, when the cities and towns of Barmen, Cronenberg, Elberfeld, Elberfeld-West, Heckinghausen, Langerfeld-Beyenburg, Oberbarmen, Ronsdorf, Uellendahl-Katernberg and Vohwinkel were all merged Read More …
This railway station was built in 1913 as the main station of the then-booming industrial city of Barmen, which had not yet been incorporated into the city of Wuppertal. The station had a large and elaborate entrance hall (on the right in the photo) with several ticket counters and extensive Read More …
The Opernhaus (Opera House) in Wuppertal is on the left bank of the Wupper River in Barmen, a former industrial city which is now a district of the city of Wuppertal. Like many other German opera houses, this one was built in the first decade of the 20th century. It Read More …
In German there is an expression ‘über die Wupper gehen’ (= ‘to go over the Wupper’), meaning to die, like going over the Jordan or the Styx in other cultures and epochs. No one knows for sure why the Wupper was chosen for this expression, rather than some better-known German Read More …