Wuppertal Zoologischer Garten station

• Dusseldorf -Elberfeld

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The Wuppertal Zoologischer Garten ( locally referred to as the Zoo station ) is a breakpoint on the railway line Dusseldorf -Elberfeld in Wuppertal. The station building was registered on 31 August 1987 in the monument list.

The station building

To the west of Wuppertal came with the opening of the Wuppertal Zoo in 1881, the uptown zoo area. Under the direction of the Prussian state railways, which had been taken over the course of the Bergisch- Märkischen Railway Company on January 1, 1882, the breakpoint was built. The dating of the start of construction difficulties; the heritage authority lays down on a work year of 1898 fixed, but the building is already visible in a photo from 1892, which for an earlier start of construction - according to sources 1886 - speaks. His reception building on the Siegfried line is connected by the straight road connecting the Valkyrie Avenue as a visual axis with the Zooempfangsgebäude at the Hubertus Ave.

The single-storey timber-frame building is covered with flat, hipped roofs above. Striking feature is the pre-built two-storey entrance tower. This is equipped with a steep and high roof. The tower is equipped with a altan like Zwerchgiebelgaube, which is pierced with a round arch. On the back of a broken stone base reaches to the floor a deeper platform.

Current usage

After the establishment of the S- Bahn line S 8 S-Bahn Rhein- Ruhr May 1988, the breakpoint has no remote platform and it is used only as an S- Bahn station. In addition to the S 8 from Mönchengladbach Hbf to Hagen Hbf (with extension to Dortmund Hbf) holds here since December 2003, the S 9 to Bottrop (with extension to Haltern am See). The remains of the former access to the remote platform can be seen to this day in the still above the middle two tracks leading across the northern part of the pedestrian bridge. The platform itself is completely eliminated, however, the long-distance railway lines are still in the same position, so that in the region of the breakpoint of the track distance is much larger than usual. The station building is now used as a restaurant.

On the night of April 1, 2012 burned the roof of the Grade II listed station building and is classified as in danger of collapsing the following day than during the initial consultation. After the first message, the cause of the fire is not yet clear. The level of damage was graded on at least 200,000 euros for a first estimate of the police. The restaurant, which was located in the house was closed for the purpose of renovation, but since the spring of 2013 returned to service.