Wuppertal
Wuppertal-Elberfeld
Wuppertal
Coordinates	51°16′0″N 7°11′0″E / 51.266667°N 7.183333°E / 51.266667; 7.183333Coordinates: 51°16′0″N 7°11′0″E / 51.266667°N 7.183333°E / 51.266667; 7.183333
Administration
Country	Germany
State	North Rhine-Westphalia
Admin. region	Düsseldorf
District	Urban district
Lord Mayor	Peter Jung (CDU)
Governing parties	CDU / SPD
Basic statistics
Area	168.41 km2 (65.02 sq mi)
Elevation	100-350 m
Population	349,721 (31 December 2010)[1]
- Density	2,077 /km2 (5,378 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate	W
Postal codes	42001-42399
Area code	0202
Website	wuppertal.de

Wuppertal

Sankt Laurentius church in Wuppertal

The Schwebebahn floating tram in Wuppertal

Concert hall (Stadthalle) Wuppertal

Engels house (Historisches Zentrum)

Wuppertal University

Wuppertal (German pronunciation: [ˈvʊpɐtaːl] ( listen)) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located in and around the Wupper river valley, and is situated east of the city of Düsseldorf and south of the Ruhr area. With a population of approximately 350,000, it is the largest city in the Bergisches Land. Wuppertal is known for its steep slopes, its woods and parks, and its suspension railway, the Wuppertal Schwebebahn. Two-thirds of the total municipal area of Wuppertal is green space. From any part of the city it is only a ten-minute walk in one of the public parks or woodland paths.

In the 18th and 19th centuries, Wuppertal was one of the biggest industrial regions of continental Europe. Wuppertal today is still a major industrial centre, being home to industries such as textiles, metallurgy, chemicals, pharmaceuticals (Aspirin was invented in Wuppertal in 1897 by Bayer ^[2]), electronics, automobiles, rubber, vehicles and printing equipment.

The Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy is located in the city.

History[link]

Wuppertal in its present borders was formed in 1929 by merging the early-industrial cities of Barmen and Elberfeld with Vohwinkel, Ronsdorf, Cronenberg, Langerfeld, and Beyenburg. The initial name Barmen-Elberfeld was changed in a 1930 referendum to 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. Its highest hill is the Lichtscheid which is 351 metres above sea level. The dominant urban centres Elberfeld (historic commercial centre) and Barmen (more industrial) have formed a unified built-up area since 1850. In the following decades, “Wupper-Town” became the dominant industrial agglomeration of northwestern Germany. In the 20th century this conurbation had been surpassed by Cologne, Düsseldorf and the Ruhr area, all with a more favourable topography.

During World War II, about 40% of buildings in the city were destroyed by Allied bombing, as were many other German cities and industrial centres. However, a large number of historic sites have been preserved, such as:

• Ölberg, literally “Oil mountain”, Germany’s largest original working class district, protected as a historic monument. The name came about in the 1920s as the district continued using oil lamps while the surrounding bourgeois residential quarters were electrified. In traditional use the name "Ölberg" refers to the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem.

• Brill, one of Germany’s largest districts of Gründerzeit villas, i.e. middle class mansions built by industrial entrepreneurs in the second half of the 19th century.

The US 78th Infantry Division captured Wuppertal against scant resistance on 16 April 1945.^[3] After the last World War, the U.S.A. held the intellectual ownership rights to Bayer and other German companies and organisations. Wuppertal became a part of the British Zone of Occupation, and subsequently part of the new state of North Rhine-Westphalia in West Germany.

Main sights[link]

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.

Main sights include:

• Concert hall, a fine piece of turn-of-the-century architecture with outstanding acoustics (Stadthalle)
• Wuppertal Dance Theatre (Tanztheater Wuppertal), a world-famous center of modern dance founded by the choreographer Pina Bausch
• Engels house (Engels-Haus), 18th century-architecturally typical of the region. It houses a permanent display of materials associated with Friedrich Engels and other famous citizens of Wuppertal
• Wuppertal Zoo, a large, nicely landscaped zoo
• Botanischer Garten Wuppertal, a municipal botanical garden
• Arboretum Burgholz, an extensive arboretum
• Von der Heydt Museum, an important art gallery with works by 19th and 20th century artists. The first of Picasso’s works that ever appeared in public was displayed here.
• Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden, a sculpture park with exhibition hall, founded by sculptor Tony Cragg

[edit] Schwebebahn

One of the city’s greatest attractions is the suspended monorail (“Wuppertaler Schwebebahn”), which was established in 1901. The tracks are 8 m (26.25 ft) above the streets and 12 m (39.37 ft) above the Wupper River.

Wuppertal in the arts[link]

• The play Die Wupper by Else Lasker-Schüler takes places in Elberfeld.
• The 2000 movie The Princess and the Warrior by Tom Tykwer, was filmed in Wuppertal.
• In the 1974 Wim Wenders film Alice in the Cities, the main characters visit Wuppertal.
• A Lufthansa A340-600 D-AIHM (delivered 2006) is named after the city of Wuppertal. It primarily operates long haul flights from Munich Airport.
• In the 2011 film "Pina", several of the dance sequences take place in and around Wuppertal. In several sequences, the elevated tram is used as a setting as well as a backdrop.

Notable people from Wuppertal[link]

• Friedrich Engels, philosopher, historian, co-author of the Communist Manifesto (with Karl Marx)
• Johannes Rau, former Federal President of Germany
• Alice Schwarzer, one of the leaders of the German second wave feminist movement
• Tom Tykwer, film director (“Run Lola, Run”, “The Princess and the Warrior”), co-founder of X-Filme syndicate
• Rita Süssmuth, former President of the German Parliament
• Horst Tappert, actor
• Linda Kisabaka, athlete
• Pina Bausch, choreographer
• Friedrich Bayer, founder of the Friedrich Bayer paint factory, later Bayer AG
• Arno Breker, sculptor
• Rudolf Carnap, philosopher of science
• Udo Dirkschneider, singer in heavy-metal band Accept
• George Dreyfuss, bassoonist, composer
• Hermann Ebbinghaus, psychologist who studied memory
• Hans Knappertsbusch, orchestra conductor
• Hans Peter Luhn, computer scientist
• Else Lasker-Schüler, expressionist poet
• Harald Leipnitz, actor
• Ulrich Leyendecker, composer
• Reimar Lüst, astrophysicist
• Steffen Möller, satirist, soap-opera star and TV celebrity in Poland; the most popular German^{[citation needed]} in Poland
• Tyron Montgomery, Oscar-winning film director
• Simone Osygus, swimmer
• Siegfried Palm, cellist, director of Hochschule für Musik Köln, Intendant of Deutsche Oper Berlin
• Julius Plücker, physicist
• Hans Singer, economist
• Helmut Thielicke, theologian
• Bettina Tietjen, television presenter
• Günter Wand, orchestra conductor
• Sulamith Wülfing, artist and illustrator
• Peter Brötzmann and Peter Kowald, noted innovators in modern improvised music
• Christoph Maria Herbst, actor

Sports[link]

Association football[link]

In football, Wuppertal's most popular club is Wuppertaler SV Borussia, who currently play in the Regionalliga West, the fourth tier of the German football league system. Playing their home games at the Stadion am Zoo, the club, which was relegated from the 3rd Liga in 2009, looks back on a rich and eventful history, since it was established in a merger between the two leading Wuppertal clubs SSV Elberfeld 04 and TSG Vohwinkel 80 in 1954. The club spent a total of seven years in the first division of German football, three of which in the Bundesliga, which they were promoted to in 1972. In their first season in the nationwide first division, the club reached a remarkable fourth place and qualified for the UEFA Cup for the first and only time in its history. After a first-round-defeat by the Polish side Ruch Chorzow and another two widely unsuccessful Bundesliga campaigns, the club disappeared from the top flight again and has yet to return.

Team handball[link]

In handball, Wuppertal's currently most successful club is Bergischer HC playing in the 1st Bundesliga. BHC originates from a 2006 contract between LTV Wuppertal and rivals SG Solingen from the nearby city of the same name, which merged both clubs' squads and managements, as well as renamed SG Solingen's professional section to Bergischer HC. The club's name derives from the Bergisches Land (lit. “Country of Berg”), the historical and cultural region both cities are located in. LTV Wuppertal is still existent in its old structure, but due to the departure of their entire squad, they were relegated three times ever since, to the fifth tier Verbandsliga. They play their home games at both Wuppertal's Uni-Halle (4,100 seats) and Solingen's Klingenhalle (2,600 seats).

Wuppertal's past most successful club are afore-mentioned LTV Wuppertal. LTV spent most of their seasons in the 2nd and 3rd tier, before they merged with Wuppertaler SV's handball section in 1996, to form HSG LTV/WSV Wuppertal. The new handball combination immediately promoted to the Handball-Bundesliga and finished 8th in their first and only season in the top flight, before dissolving again in 1998. However, the departure of Wuppertaler SV still allowed LTV Wuppertal, whose handball section were renamed HC Wuppertal for the rest of their top-flight-days, to play another three seasons in the Bundesliga, before returning to the 2nd division.

Volleyball[link]

In volleyball, A!B!C Titans Berg. Land is the new name of Wuppertal's Volleyball-Bundesliga club, formerly the volleyball section of Bayer Wuppertal and briefly known as Wuppertal Titans. The club itself originated in Leverkusen and promoted to the Bundesliga in 1978. Reacting to low attendances, the eponymous Bayer AG decided to relocate the volleyball team to Wuppertal in 1992 where there also is a Bayer-funded club. Since the move, the club won various titles including the German championship in 1994 and 1997 and the German cup in 1995. Also, they finished as runner-up in the 1995-96 European Cup Winners' Cup, losing only to Greek side Olympiacos S.C. in the final. After the wide-reaching retreat of the Bayer AG from less popular professional sports in 2008, the club acquired its current name. There, however, still exists a cooperation between the former partners, especially in the amateur and youth sections.

Basketball[link]

Perhaps one of the most successful Wuppertal sports clubs was the women's basketball team of Barmer TV (known as BTV Wuppertal between 1994 and 2000 and BTV Gold-Zack Wuppertal between 2000 and 2002). The 11-time German champion and 12-time German cup winner won a remarkable nine back-to-back doubles between 1994 and 2002. In 1996, they also won the EuroLeague Women as the first and so far only German team, beating Italy's SFT Como in the final, and therefore even achieved a treble in that season. In 1997, they closely missed out on a back-to-back treble by losing to French side CJM Bourges in the EuroLeague final. In 2002, the club withdrew from the Bundesliga due to financial problems. One year later, the club's main sponsor Gold-Zack Werke filed for insolvency.

Wuppertal co-hosted the 1998 FIBA World Championship for Women as one of seven host cities.

Roller hockey[link]

In roller hockey, (also known as rink hockey) Wuppertal club RSC Cronenberg are current holders of the German championship and the German cup in both men's and women's competitions. In total, the men won eleven German championships and nine cups, the women nine championships and eight cups. The club plays its home games at the Alfred-Henckels-Halle.

Wuppertal hosted the 1997 Rink Hockey World Championship, the 2004 Ladies Rink Hockey World Championship, as well as the 1992 and 2010 Rink Hockey European Championship. In 2011, local club RSC Cronenberg are set to host the Ladies Rink Hockey European Championship.

Education[link]

There are two institutions of higher education in Wuppertal.

• University of Wuppertal (Bergische Universität Wuppertal)
• College of Theology, Wuppertal/Bethel (Theologische Zentrum Wuppertal)

Transport[link]

Railways[link]

Wuppertal is well connected to the rail network. The town lies on the Cologne–Hagen and the Düsseldorf–Hagen railway lines and is a stop for long-distance traffic. The central station is located in the district of Elberfeld. Regionalbahn trains and some Regional-Express trains also stop at Oberbarmen, Barmen, Ronsdorf and Vohwinkel. There are also S-Bahn stations in Langerfeld, Unterbarmen, Steinbeck, Zoologischer Garten and Sonnborn.

The rail services that operate on the mainline through the valley are the RE 4 (Wupper-Express), RE 7 (Rhein-Münsterland-Express), RE 13 (Maas-Wupper-Express), RB 47 (Der Müngstener), RB 48 (Rhein-Wupper Bahn) and three Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn services: the S 8, S 9 and S 68 (peak hours only). Every 30 minutes, it is served by a long-distance (Intercity-Express, InterCity, EuroCity or City Night Line) service in each direction.

With the exception of the line from Wuppertal to Remscheid (and continuing to Solingen and operated as the RB 47) and the Prince William Railway to Essen (now S-Bahn line S 9), all of the branch lines connecting to main line in the city of Wuppertal are now closed. This includes, among others, the Düsseldorf-Derendorf–Dortmund Süd railway (the Wuppertaler Nordbahn), the Burgholz Railway, the Wuppertal-Wichlinghausen–Hattingen railway, the Wupper Valley Railway and the Corkscrew Railway. Thus, there were once 31 stations in the Wuppertal area, including nine stations on the mainline.

International relations[link]

Twin towns — sister cities[link]

Wuppertal is twinned with:

Photogallery[link]

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  View on Wuppertal

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  Section of the floating tram over the Wupper

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  Typical steep street in Wuppertal.

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  Sculpturepark Waldfrieden - Tony Cragg Points of View (2008)

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  View on Burgholz woods with typical Bergisches farmerhouse

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  Panoramic view over Ölberg quarter in Wuppertal

Notes and references[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Wuppertal

• (German) Wuppertal official website
• Wuppertal travel guide from Wikitravel
• Official website of the University of Wuppertal

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Wuppertal Schwebebahn
Wuppertal Schwebebahn in 2010
Background
Locale	Wuppertal, Germany
Transit type	suspended monorail
Number of lines	1
Number of stations	20
Daily ridership	82,000[1]
Operation
Began operation	1 March 1901
Operator(s)	Wuppertaler Stadtwerke (WSW)
Technical
System length	13.3 kilometres (8.3 miles)

Coordinates: 51°16′1.52″N 7°10′53.13″E / 51.2670889°N 7.181425°E / 51.2670889; 7.181425

Stations

Wuppertal Schwebebahn or Wuppertal Floating Tram is a suspension railway in Wuppertal, Germany. Its full name is “Electric Highway Installation (Floating Tram), Eugen Langen System” (Anlage einer elektrischen Hochbahn (Schwebebahn), System Eugen Langen).^[2] Designed by Eugen Langen to be used in Berlin,^{[citation needed]} the installation with elevated stations was built in Barmen, Elberfeld and Vohwinkel between 1897 and 1903, the first track opened in 1901. The Schwebebahn is still in use today as normal means of local public transport, moving 25 million passengers annually (2008).^[3]

The suspension railway travels along a route of 13.3 kilometres (8.3 mi), at a height of about 12 metres (39 ft 4 in) above the river Wupper between Oberbarmen and Sonnborner Straße (10 kilometres (6.2 mi)) and about 8 metres (26 ft 3 in) above the valley road between Sonnborner Straße and Vohwinkel (3.3 kilometres (2.1 mi)).^[4][5] At one point the railway crosses the A46 motorway. The entire trip takes about 30 minutes.^[5] The Schwebebahn operates within the VRR transport association and accepts tickets issued by the VRR companies.

History[link]

The Wuppertal Schwebebahn had a forerunner: in 1824, Henry Robinson Palmer of England presented a railway system which differed from all previous constructions. It was basically a low single-rail suspension railway on which the carriages were drawn by horses. Friedrich Harkort, a Prussian industrial entrepreneur and politician, loved the idea. He saw big advantages for the transportation of coal to the early industrialised region in and around the Wupper valley. Harkort had his own steel mill in Elberfeld; he built a demonstration segment of the Palmer system and set it up in 1826 on the grounds of what is today the Wuppertal tax office. He therefore tried to attract public attention to his railway plans.

On 9 September 1826, the town councillors of Elberfeld met to discuss the use of a “Palmer’s Railway” from the Ruhr region, Hinsbeck or Langenberg, to the Wupper valley, Elberfeld, connecting Harkort's factories. Friedrich Harkort inspected the projected route with a surveyor and a member of the town council. The plans never went ahead, due to protests from the transport branch and owners of mills that were not on the routes.

In 1887 the cities of Elberfeld and Barmen formed a commission for the construction of an elevated railway or Hochbahn. In 1894 they chose the system of the engineer Eugen Langen of Cologne, and in 1896 the order was licensed by the City of Düsseldorf.^[5][6] In 2003, the Rhine Heritage Office (Rheinische Amt für Denkmalpflege des Landschaftsverbandes Rheinland or LVR) announced the discovery of an original section of the test route of the Wuppertal Schwebebahn.

Construction on the actual Wuppertal Schwebebahn began in 1898, overseen by the government’s master builder, Wilhelm Feldmann. On 24 October 1900, William II, German Emperor participated in a monorail trial run.^[5]

In 1901 the railway came into operation. It opened in sections: the line from Kluse to Zoo/Stadion opened on 1 March, the line to the western terminus at Vohwinkel opened on 24 May, while the line to the eastern terminus at Oberbarmen did not open until 27 June 1903.^[4] Around 19,200 tonnes of steel were used to produce the supporting frame and the train stations.^[5] The construction cost 16 million Goldmark. Since its first opening, the railway has closed once due to severe damage from World War II, but managed to open as early as 1946.^[4]

Construction of Wuppertaler Schwebebahn, 1900   Station Werther Brücke 1913   A 1977 Schwebebahn, crossing an intersection

Current modernisation[link]

The Wuppertal Schwebebahn nowadays carries up to 82,000^[1] passengers a day through the city. Since 1997, the supporting frame has been largely modernised, and many stations have been reconstructed and brought technically up to date. The “Kluse” station, at the theatre in Elberfeld, had been destroyed during the Second World War; this too was reconstructed during the modernisation. Work was planned to be completed in 2001; however a serious accident took place in 1999 which left five people dead and 47 injured. This, along with delivery problems, meant that the completion date was delayed. In recent years (2004), the cost of the reconstruction work has increased from €380 million to €480 million.^[7]

Since 2004, many of the railway stations have been fitted with CCTV cameras.

On 15 December 2009 the Schwebebahn temporarily suspended its operations for safety concerns; several of the older support structures needed to be renewed, – a process that was completed on 19 April 2010.^[8]

On 10 November 2011 Wuppertaller Stadtwerke signed a contract with Vossloh Kiepe to supply 31 new articulated cars to replace those built in the 1970s. These will be built by Vossloh Rail Vehicles in Valencia, Spain. When these cars are introduced the line's power supply will be uprated from 600 to 750v.^[9]

Stations[link]

• Oberbarmen – eastern terminus
• Wupperfeld
• Werther Brücke
• Alter Markt
• Adlerbrücke
• Loher Brücke
• Völklinger Street
• Landgericht
• Kluse
• Hauptbahnhof
• Ohligsmühle
• Robert-Daum-Platz
• Pestalozzistr
• Westende
• Varresbecker Street
• Zoo/Stadion
• Sonnborner Straße
• Hammerstein
• Bruch
• Vohwinkel – western terminus

Station Zoo/Stadion   Station Sonnborner Straße

Technology[link]

Detail of suspender, wheel and motor

The tram wagons are suspended from a single rail built underneath a supporting steel frame. The cars hang on wheels which are driven by an electric motor operating at 600 volts DC, fed from an extra rail.^[10]

The supporting frame and tracks are made out of 486 pillars and bridgework sections. The termini at each end of the line also serve as train depots and reversers.^[5]

The current fleet consists of twenty-seven^[10] two-car trains^[4] built in the 1970s.^[5] The cars are 24 metres long and have 4 doors. One carriage can seat 48 with approximately 130 standing passengers.^[4] The top speed is 60 km/h and the average speed is 27 km/h.^[5]

The Kaiserwagen (Emperor's car), the original train used by Emperor Wilhelm II during a test ride on 24 October 1900, is still operated on scheduled excursion services, special occasions and for charter events.^[5]

Accidents[link]

Schwebebahn accident of 5 August 2008, near Hammerstein station

Schwebebahn accident of 12 April 1999, near Robert-Daum-Platz station

15 January 1917

A train rear-ended another train that had stopped unexpectedly in front of it between Oberbarmen and Wupperfeld, causing the trailing car of the stopped train to fall off of the track. There were two minor injuries.^[11] Subsequently, a safety device was developed to make derailments nearly impossible.^[5]

21 July 1950

The Althoff Circus organised a publicity stunt by putting a baby elephant on the floating train at Alter Markt station. As the elephant started to bump around during the ride, she was pushed out the wagon and she fell into the river Wupper.^[12] The elephant, two journalists, and one passenger received minor injuries. After this jump, the elephant got the name of Tuffi, meaning 'waterdive' in italian. Both operator and circus director were fined after the incident.

11 September 1968

A truck crashed into a pillar and caused a section of track to fall. There were no trains in the area at the time. This incident led to the use of concrete walls in pillar anchors.

25 March 1997

A technical malfunction caused a rear-end collision in Oberbarmen station between a structure train and the Kaiserwagen. There were 14 injuries, but no derailment.

12 April 1999

The only fatal accident of the Schwebebahn Wuppertal occurred close to the Robert-Daum-Platz station during maintenance work in the early morning hours of 12 April 1999. Workers forgot to remove a metal claw from the track on completion of scheduled night work. The first train of the day heading east hit the claw at a speed of around 50 km/h, then derailed and crashed down about 10 metres into the river Wupper, killing 5 passengers and leaving 49 injured.^[5] The salvage operation took 3 days and nights to complete. 8 weeks after the accident the Schwebebahn went back into operation. The financial damage from the accident was in the vicinity of 8 million Deutsche Mark.

The judicial proceedings following the accident highlighted that the disaster was not caused through technical defects or system failure, but through negligence by workers having fallen behind in their work schedule during the preceding night, and abandoning the work site hastily only 10 minutes before the train departed from the depot. Contributing to the circumstances was a lack of control of their activities by site supervisors.

The Works Manager in charge of safety and the workers dealing with the steel claw at the time were acquitted of all charges by the District Court of Wuppertal. The site supervision personnel, having neglected their duties of control, were sentenced for involuntary manslaughter in 5 cases and bodily injury caused by negligence in 37 cases, but let off on probation with verdict 4 StR 289/01 dated 31 January 2002.^[13]

5 August 2008

The Schwebebahn collided with a crane truck making deliveries under the track, causing a 10-metre long tear in the floor of one of the cars. The truck driver was seriously injured, and the train driver and some passengers were treated for shock.^[14]

In literature[link]

The Schwebebahn is alluded to in Theodore Herzl's utopian novel Altneuland (The Old New Land). For Herzl, the Schwebebahn was the ideal form of urban transport, and he imagined a large monorail built in its style in Haifa.^[15]

In film[link]

Rüdiger Vogler and Yella Rottländer use images of the Schwebebahn in Wim Wenders’ 1974 movie Alice in the Cities (Alice in den Städten). It also appears in the 1992 Dutch movie The Sunday Child (De Zondagsjongen) by Pieter Verhoeff, in Tom Tykwer’s 2000 film The Princess and the Warrior (Der Krieger und die Kaiserin) and as a background and to a number of outdoor dance choreographies in another Wim Wenders film – 2011's Pina, and some dances are set inside the cars.

The Schwebebahn is both subject and title to video work by the Turner Prize-nominated artist Darren Almond. Produced in 1995, Schwebebahn is the first of three videos that constitute his Train Trilogy.

In other fiction[link]

Some of the events in Le Feu de Wotan, a Belgian bande dessinée in the Yoko Tsuno series, take place in the Schwebebahn. The T.V. series Thunderbirds never mentions the name Wuppertal, but often features high-speed trains travelling using suspended rails in a similar style to the Schwebebahn.

See also[link]

• Monorail
• H-Bahn
• Skybus Metro
• Schwebebahn Dresden
• Memphis Suspension Railway
• List of rapid transit systems

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Wuppertaler Schwebebahn

• Official Website (German) (English)
• Kaiserwagen Excursion Trip Information
• Structurae: Wuppertaler Schwebebahn
• Wuppertal in UrbanRail [1]
• The Monorail Society
• Photo tour of stations new and old

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