Wuppertal-Barmen station

Wuppertal-Barmen station is a station in the city of Wuppertal in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia on the Elberfeld–Dortmund railway. Its entrance building is protected as a monument. It was Barmen Hauptbahnhof prior to Barmen's incorporation in Wuppertal in 1929. Before the Second World War it was an important stop for express trains and had substantial freight traffic. Its importance declined after the war in favour of Oberbarmen and since the renaming of the Elberfeld station as Wuppertal Hauptbahnhof. The Opernhaus Wuppertal is nearby.

Wuppertal-Barmen
Halt
Entrance building
LocationWinklerstr. 2, Barmen, North Rhine-Westphalia
Germany
Coordinates51°16′2″N 7°11′40″E
Owned byDB Netz
Operated byDB Station&Service
Line(s)
Platforms2 island platforms
Tracks4
Train operatorsAbellio Rail NRW
DB Regio NRW
Eurobahn
National Express Germany
ConnectionsS 7 S 8 S 9
Other information
Station code6916[1]
DS100 codeKWBA[2]
IBNR8006596
Category3[1]
Fare zone
Websitewww.bahnhof.de
History
OpenedOriginal: 1847
Current: 1913[5]
Previous namesBarmen Hauptbahnhof
Services
Preceding station   DB Regio NRW   Following station
toward Aachen Hbf
RE 4
Wupper-Express
toward Dortmund Hbf
Preceding station   Eurobahn   Following station
toward Venlo
RE 13
Maas-Wupper-Express
toward Hamm Hbf
Preceding station   National Express Germany   Following station
toward Bonn-Mehlem
RB 48
Rhein-Wupper-Bahn
Terminus
Preceding station   Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn   Following station
S 7
toward Solingen Hbf
S 8
toward Hagen Hbf
S 9
toward Hagen Hbf
Location
Wuppertal-Barmen
Location within North Rhine-Westphalia

Entrance Building

The building is a rectangular construction of Muschelkalk stone in neoclassical style, with pilasters and arched windows. Originally it had projecting wings at each end with Ionic columns, but since the war only the western one is preserved. This portal wing is topped by a flat triangular tympanum and has tall rectangular windows and oculi in the panels below the beams. In the tympanum there is a small semi-circular window. The central axis is adorned by a clock, with the letters of "Wuppertal-Barmen" replacing the numbers.

History

The first station building was opened with the Elberfeld–Dortmund line as Barmen station by the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company on 9 October 1847. In 1905 the station's name was changed to Barmen Hauptbahnhof.[5] The first building, which was a little to the east of the current building was demolished.

Relocation and construction of the new station building
View from the west
Station clock

Construction of the current, only partly preserved, station building at Winklerstraße started in October 1911 and it was opened for the public on 10 October 1913.[6] The plans of the building were drafted by the Prussian architect Rüdell Alexander, who worked in a leading position in the railway department of the Prussian Ministry of Public Works.[7] The construction was directed by the government architect, Johannes Ziertmann and Edward Behne of the railway division (German: Eisenbahndirektion) of Elberfeld. The building was badly damaged in the Second World War.

The station building became a listed building on 1 July 1988.

Current operations

The station Wuppertal-Barmen is currently served by the following passenger services:[8]

LineLine nameRoute
RE 4 Wupper-Express Aachen – Mönchengladbach – Neuss – Düsseldorf – Wuppertal Hbf – Wuppertal-Barmen – Hagen – Dortmund
RE 13 Maas-Wupper-Express Venlo – Viersen – Mönchengladbach – Neuss – Düsseldorf – Wuppertal Hbf – Wuppertal-Barmen – Hagen – Unna – Hamm (Westf)
RB 48 Rhein-Wupper-Bahn Bonn-Mehlem – Bonn – Cologne – Solingen – Wuppertal-Vohwinkel – Wuppertal – Wuppertal-Barmen – Wuppertal-Oberbarmen
S 7 Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn Wuppertal Hbf – Wuppertal-Barmen – Remscheid – Solingen
S 8 Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn Mönchengladbach – Neuss – Düsseldorf – Wuppertal – Wuppertal-Barmen – Gevelsberg – Hagen
S 9 Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn Haltern am See – Bottrop – Essen – Velbert-Langenberg – Wuppertal – Wuppertal-Barmen – Gevelsberg – Hagen

References

Footnotes
  1. "Stationspreisliste 2021" [Station price list 2021] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 16 November 2020. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
  2. Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
  3. "VER-Tarifinformation". Verkehrsgesellschaft Ennepe-Ruhr. 20 July 2017. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
  4. "Ticketberater". Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
  5. Joost, André. "Wuppertal-Barmen station operations". NRW Rail Archive (in German). Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  6. "Wuppertal-Barmen" (in German). bahnen-wuppertal.de. Retrieved 3 September 2011.
  7. C. Cornelius (1 January 1921). "Dr.-Ing. Alexander Rüdell †" (PDF, ca. 1.70 MB)). Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung (in German). 40 (1): 3f. Retrieved 3 September 2011.
  8. Joost, André. "Wuppertal-Barmen station". NRW Rail Archive (in German). Retrieved 11 May 2020.

Sources
  • Cuny (27 December 1913). "Das neue Empfangsgebäude in Barmen" (PDF, ca. 1.96 MB). Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung (in German). 33 (103): 721–724. Retrieved 3 September 2011.
  • Manfred Berger (1987). Historische Bahnhofsbauten (in German). 2. Berlin. ISBN 3-344-00067-5.
  • WSW mobil Gmb, ÖPNV Systemmanagement (2009). Wuppertal timetable 2009/10 (in German). Wuppertal: ECO-Druck GmbH.
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