Wuppertal-Barmen station

Wuppertal-Barmen
Deutsche Bahn Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn
Halt

Entrance building
Location Winklerstr. 2, Barmen, North Rhine-Westphalia
Germany
Coordinates 51°16′2″N 7°11′40″E / 51.26722°N 7.19444°E / 51.26722; 7.19444Coordinates: 51°16′2″N 7°11′40″E / 51.26722°N 7.19444°E / 51.26722; 7.19444
Line(s)
Platforms 4
Other information
Station code 6916
DS100 codeKWBA
IBNR8006596
Category3 [1]
Website www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened Original: 1847
Current: 1913
Previous names Barmen Hauptbahnhof
Services
Preceding station   Deutsche Bahn   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   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

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.

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.[2] 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.[3] 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.[4] 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:[5]

Line Line name Route
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
(usually continuing as line S5 to Dortmund)

Notes

  1. "Stationspreisliste 2016" [Station price list 2016] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 1 December 2015. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
  2. "Wuppertal-Barmen station operations". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 3 September 2011.
  3. "Wuppertal-Barmen" (in German). bahnen-wuppertal.de. Retrieved 3 September 2011.
  4. 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.
  5. "Wuppertal-Barmen station". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 18 April 2016.

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