Wuppertal Zoologischer Garten station

Through station

Location

Siegfriedstr. 30, Wuppertal Zoologischer Garten, Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia
Germany

Coordinates

51°14′36″N 7°06′24″E / 51.243317°N 7.10672°ECoordinates: 51°14′36″N 7°06′24″E / 51.243317°N 7.10672°E

Line(s)

Düsseldorf–Elberfeld (KBS 450.8) S 8 S 9

Platforms

Other information

Station code

6915

DS100 code

KWZ

IBNR

8006623

Category

Website

www.bahnhof.de

History

Opened

1880/97

Services

Preceding station		Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn		Following station
Wuppertal-Sonnborn toward Mönchengladbach Hbf		S 8		Wuppertal-Steinbeck toward Hagen Hbf
Wuppertal-Sonnborn toward Haltern am See		S 9		Wuppertal-Steinbeck toward Wuppertal Hbf

Wuppertal Zoologischer Garten station (locally also called Zoo station) is a station on the Düsseldorf–Elberfeld railway in the city of Wuppertal in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The station building was heritage-listed on 31 August 1987. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 4 station.

Wuppertal Zoo was opened in western Wuppertal in 1881, in the Zooviertel (“zoo quarter”). The station was constructed after the take-over of the Düsseldorf–Elberfeld line by the Prussian state railways, on 1 January 1882, following the nationalisation of the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company. The dating of the start of construction is difficult, it was dedicated in 1898, but the building is already visible in a photograph from 1892 and some sources say construction began in 1886. The entrance building is on Siegfriedstrasse and it is connected by a straight connecting street, Walkürenallee, which provides a vista to the Zoo entrance on Hubertusallee.

It is a single-storey timber-framed building, covered with a protruding hip roof. A striking feature is the prefabricated two-storey entrance tower, which has a steep hip roof. The tower has a balcony-like gable dormer and it is perforated with a round arch.

The station building is now used as a restaurant.

Since the establishment of the line S 8 of the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn on 29 May 1988, the station no longer used for long distance traffic and it is now only served by S-Bahn trains. It is served by S 8 services between Mönchengladbach Hauptbahnhof and Hagen Hauptbahnhof (some terminating at Wuppertal-Oberbarmen and some running to Dortmund Hauptbahnhof as line S 5). It has also been served since December 2003, by line S 9 to Bottrop (some running to Haltern am See).

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