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| WUPPERTAL |
| 1. Schwebewahn |
| One of the city's greatest
attractions is the suspended monorail(in German, Wuppertaler
Schwebebahn), which was established in 1901. The tracks are
8m above the streets and 12m above the Wupper River. |
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| 2. Historische Stadthalle(Concert
Hall) |
The Historische Stadthalle
Wuppertal is located in an impressive building, built in 1900.
This histroic center for 2000 guests is one of the city's landmark
and stands on a green hill overlooking the town. It is an architectural
gem which has crowned the town since 1900. |
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| 3. Zoo Wuppertal |
| In a nicely landscaped
Zoo Wuppertal, about 5,000 animals from about 500 species from
all continents live on the park's 20 had areal. The zoo was
founded in 1879. The highlights include brand new enclosures
for tigers and lions, a group of elephants, polar bears, orang-utans,
chimps, gorillas, penguins, and the tapirs. |
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| 3. Botanischer Garten |
| The Botani Garden is in
the middle in the city on the western of the park area of the
Hardt. It is on a height about 90 meters over the valley of
the Wupper. The actual area of the garden possesses 230 x 70
meters. On the area are at least partial accessible building
with Orangerie and Elisenturm. |
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| 4. Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden |
It is the Sculpture park
with exhibition hall, founded by sculptor Tony Cragg who has
been living in Wuppertal for over 20 years. In a lovely landscape,
visitors can see his sculptures.
(Im Jahr 2006 erwarb Tony Cragg einen 15 Hektar großen verwilderten
Privatpark mit der denkmalgeschutzten Villa Waldfrieden am Rande
des Christbuschs im Wuppertaler Wohnquartier Hesselnberg, dem
ehemaligen Wohnsitz des 1989 verstorbenen Unternehmers Kurt
Herberts, um dort in einem Skulpturenpark eigene Werke sowie
die Werke anderer Kunstler auszustellen. Zu sehen sind 19 Bronzen,
Stahl- und Metall-Werke von Tony Cragg.) |
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| 5. Von der Heydt
Museum |
| The Von-der-Heydt Museum
in Elberfeld, Wuppertal is one of the finest galleries with
impressive collection of international art from the 16th century
to the present. Amongst the artists present here are: Max Beckmann,
Edgar Degas, Pablo Picasso, August Macke, Franz Marc, Wassily
Kandinsky, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Gustave Courbet, etc. It
is located in the remains of the town's neo-Renaissance City
Hall. |
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| 6. Friedrich-Engels-Haus(1820-1895)
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| The Engels-Haus was built
in 1775, commissioned by Johann Caspar Engels(1715-1787) in
late Baroque style by Eberhard Haarmann. The Haus, near the
Friedrich-Engels-Allee, is today with the Museum for Early Industralization,
the so-called histroic center. |
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