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type	City position=center |image_flag = Flagge Wuppertal.svg|image_coa = DEU Wuppertal COA.svg	51	N	11	format=dms|display=inline,title}}|image_plan = North rhine w W.svg|plantext = Wuppertal within North Rhine-Westphalia|state = North Rhine-Westphalia	Düsseldorf (region)>Düsseldorf|district = urban|elevation = 100-350|area = 168.41|area_metro = |pop_urban = 608000(Bergisches Dreieck)|pop_metro = 11300000(Rhein-Ruhr)|postal_code = 42001-42399|area_code = 0202|licence = W|Gemeindeschlüssel = 05 1 24 000|divisions = |website = wuppertal.de|mayor = Uwe SchneidewindWahlergebnisse in NRW Kommunalwahlen 2020, Land Nordrhein-Westfalen, accessed 19 June 2021.|leader_term = 2020–25|Bürgermeistertitel = Oberbürgermeister|party = Greens|ruling_party1 = Greens|ruling_party2 = CDU|year = |_noautocat = }}(File:Wuppertal 7.18769E 51.23313N.jpg|thumb|Wuppertal from space)(File:Elberfeld-Mitte,_Wuppertal-0124.jpg|thumb|The center of Wuppertal-Elberfeld, north of the main station in 2019)(File:Wuppertal-100508-12833-Uferstraße.jpg|thumb|The Schwebebahn floating tram in Wuppertal-Barmen, suspended above the River Wupper)(File:Schwebebahn ueber Strasse.jpg|thumb|The Schwebebahn in Wuppertal-Elberfeld)(File:Wuppertal Stadthalle.JPG|thumb|Concert Hall (Stadthalle) Wuppertal)(File:280505 001 Engelshaus Barmen.jpg|thumb|Engels House (Historisches Zentrum))(File:Beyenburger Freiheit und Klosterkirche, Wuppertal 4.jpg|thumb|Wuppertal-Beyenburg)(File:Wuppertal Nützenberger Str 0117.JPG|thumb|Wuppertal University)Wuppertal ({{IPA-de|ˈvÊŠpɐtaːl|-|Wuppertal.ogg}}; {{lit.}} ”Wupper Dale“) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, with a population of 355,000. Wuppertal is the seventh-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia and 17th-largest in Germany. It was founded in 1929 by the merger of Elberfeld, Barmen, Ronsdorf, Cronenberg and Vohwinkel, and was initially “Barmen-Elberfeld” before adopting its present name in 1930. It is the capital and largest city of the Bergisches Land.The city straddles the densely populated banks of the River Wupper, a tributary of the Rhine. Wuppertal is located between the Ruhr (Essen) to the north, Düsseldorf to the west, and Cologne to the southwest, and over time has grown together with Solingen, Remscheid and Hagen. The stretching of the city in a long band along the narrow Wupper Valley leads to a spatial impression of Wuppertal being larger than it actually is. The city is known for its steep slopes, its woods and parks, and for being the greenest city in Germany, with two-thirds green space of the total municipal area. From any part of the city, it is only a ten-minute walk to one of the public parks or woodland paths.The Wupper Valley was, along with the Ore Mountains and before the Ruhr, the first highly industrialized region of Germany, which resulted in the construction of the Wuppertal Schwebebahn suspension railway in the then independent cities of Elberfeld and Barmen. The increasing demand for coal from the textile mills and blacksmith shops from those cities encouraged the expansion of the nearby Ruhr. Wuppertal still is a major industrial centre, being home to industries such as textiles, metallurgy, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, electronics, automobiles, rubber, vehicles and printing equipment. Aspirin originates from Wuppertal, patented in 1897 by Bayer, as does the Vorwerk Kobold vacuum cleaner.WEB,geschichtspuls.de/art1294-markenjubilaum-110-jahre-aspirin-kopfschmerzmittel, 110 Jahre Aspirin, May 22, 2011, GeschichtsPuls, Marvin Brendel, de, WEB,corporate.vorwerk.com/en/divisions/kobold-vacuum-cleaners/, Official website Vorwerk – Kobold vacuum cleaners, May 22, 2011, February 21, 2013,corporate.vorwerk.com/en/divisions/kobold-vacuum-cleaners/," title="web.archive.org/web/20130221032048corporate.vorwerk.com/en/divisions/kobold-vacuum-cleaners/,">web.archive.org/web/20130221032048corporate.vorwerk.com/en/divisions/kobold-vacuum-cleaners/, dead, The Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy and the European Institute for International Economic Relations are located in the city.WEB,eiiw.eu/index.php?id=3619&L=1, Official website European Institute for International Economic Relations, March 2, 2013, Barmen was the birthplace of Friedrich Engels. History (File:Einwohnerentwicklung von Wuppertal - ab 1871.svg|thumb|Population development)Wuppertal in its present borders was formed in 1929 by merging the industrial cities of Barmen and Elberfeld along with the communities of Vohwinkel, Ronsdorf, Cronenberg, Langerfeld and Beyenburg. The initial name Barmen-Elberfeld was changed in a 1930 referendum to Wuppertal (“Wupper Valley“). The new city was administered as part of Prussia’s Rhine Province.Uniquely for Germany, it is a “linear city”, owing to the steep hillsides along the river Wupper. Its highest hill is the Lichtscheid, which is {{convert|351|m|ft|abbr=on}} above sea level. The dominant urban centres Elberfeld (historic commercial centre) and Barmen (more industrial) have formed a continuous urbanized area since 1850. During the succeeding decades, “Wupper-Town” became the dominant industrial agglomeration of northwestern Germany. During the 20th century, this conurbation had been surpassed by Cologne, Düsseldorf and the Ruhr area, all with a more favourable topography.From 5 July 1933 to 19 January 1934 the Kemna concentration camp was established in Wuppertal. It was one of the early Nazi concentration camps, created by the Nazi Party to incarcerate their political opponents upon gaining power in 1933. The camp was established in a former factory on the Wupper in the Kemna neighborhood of the Barmen part of Wuppertal.During World War II, about 40% of buildings in the city were destroyed by Allied bombing, as were many other German cities and industrial centres (see Bombing of Wuppertal in World War II). However, a large number of historic sites have been preserved, such as: Ölberg, literally “Oil mountain”, Germany’s largest original working class district, is protected as a historic monument. The name came about during the 1920s as the district continued using oil lamps while the surrounding bourgeois residential quarters were electrified. In traditional use, the name “Ölberg” refers to the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. Brill is one of Germany’s largest districts of Gründerzeit villas, i.e. middle class mansions built by industrial entrepreneurs during the second half of the 19th century. The US 78th Infantry Division under Major General Edwin P. Parker Jr. captured Wuppertal against scant resistance on 16 April 1945.Stanton, Shelby, World War II Order of Battle: An Encyclopedic Reference to U.S. Army Ground Forces from Battalion through Division, 1939–1946, Stackpole Books (Revised Edition 2006), p. 147 Wuppertal became a part of the British Zone of Occupation, and subsequently part of the new state of North Rhine-Westphalia in West Germany. Population {{Historical populations|1610|2500|1800|12000|1822|23758|1852|39944|1871|71384|1885|106499|1900|156966|1910|170195|1919|157218|1925|167025|1929|414951|1933|408602|1939|401672|1946|325846|1950|363224|1956|406225|1961|420711|1970|418454|1980|393381|1985|376579|1990|383660|2000|366434|2011|342661|2015|350046|2018|354382|footnote=Population size may be affected by changes in administrative divisions.Source:(:de:Einwohnerentwicklung von Wuppertal){{Circular reference|date=August 2019}}}}Wuppertal currently has a population of about 355,000. The number of inhabitants more than doubled in 1929 as a result of the Barmen–Elberfeld merger. The economic boom of the 1950s and 60s saw the establishment of new industry headquarters and with it an influx of workers, including migrant workers from Turkey, Greece and Italy. Population numbers during these times of as-yet unparalleled growth peaked at about 423,000 in 1963; in the 1970s, a period of steady decline followed in the wake of industrial losses.As of 31 December 2022, the largest groups of foreign residents were:{| class=“wikitable“|From country|Number of residents
Turkey}}	11,575
Syria}}	7,415
Italy}}	6,870
Greece}}	6,130
Poland}}	5,870
Ukraine}}	5,387
Romania}}	2,835
Morocco}}	2,463
Serbia}}	2,197
North Macedonia}}	1,724
Iraq}}	1,593
Spain}}	1,439
Russia}}	1,354
Croatia}}	1,273
Netherlands}}	1,228
Kosovo}}	1,147

Main sights

In total, Wuppertal possesses over 4,500 buildings classified as national monuments, most exemplifying styles such as Neoclassicism, Eclecticism, Historicism, Art Nouveau/Jugendstil and Bauhaus. The American TV station CNN recommended Wuppertal as one of 20 places worldwide to visit in the year 2020 because of the Schwebebahn, the architectural diversity and the Nordbahntrasse, a {{convert|22|km|adj=on}} cycle route across the city 2020.CNN: 20 places to visit in 2020 weblink)Main sights include:

• Schwebebahn or floating tram. One of the city’s greatest attractions is the globally unique suspended monorail Wuppertaler Schwebebahn, which was established in 1901. The tracks are {{convert|8|m|ft|0|abbr=on}} above the streets and {{convert|12|m|ft|-1|abbr=on}} above the Wupper.
• Wuppertaler Schwebebahn Kaiserwagen A guided tour of the suspension railway in a special tram.
• Wuppertal Opera (Opernhaus Wuppertal).
• Concerthall Stadthalle, a fine piece of turn-of-the-century architecture with outstanding acoustics. Home of the Wuppertal Symphony Orchestra (Sinfonieorchester Wuppertal) (Stadthalle).
• Wuppertal Dance Theatre (Tanztheater Wuppertal), a world-famous centre of modern dance founded by the choreographer Pina Bausch.
• Engels-Haus, 18th century-architecturally typical of the region, it houses a permanent display of materials associated with the co-founder of modern Communism, Friedrich Engels.
• Wuppertal Zoo, a large, nicely landscaped zoo.
• Botanischer Garten Wuppertal, a municipal botanical garden.
• Arboretum Burgholz, an extensive arboretum.
• Von der Heydt Museum is an important art gallery with works from the 17th century to the present time. The first of Picasso’s works that ever appeared in public was displayed here.
• Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden, a sculpture park with exhibition hall, founded by sculptor Tony Cragg.

Wuppertal in the arts

• In the 1974 Wim Wenders movie Alice in the Cities, the main characters visit Wuppertal.
• Part of the action of (1984) of the comic book Yoko Tsuno series by Roger Leloup take place in Wuppertal and its .
• The play Die Wupper by Else Lasker-Schüler is set in Elberfeld.
• The 2000 movie The Princess and the Warrior, by Tom Tykwer, was filmed in Wuppertal.
• The 2001 movie {{ill|No Regrets (2001 film)|de|3=Nichts bereuen|lt=No Regrets}}, by Benjamin Quabeck, was filmed in Wuppertal.
• In the 2011 movie Pina, several of the dance sequences take place in and around Wuppertal. In several sequences, the elevated tram is used as a setting, as well as a backdrop.

Sports

Association football

In football, Wuppertal’s most popular club is Wuppertaler SV which currently play in the Regionalliga West, the fourth tier of the German football league system. Playing their home games at the city’s Stadion am Zoo, the club, which enjoyed its last season in a nationwide division during the 2009–10 season, looks back on a rich and eventful history since its establishment as the result of a 1954 merger between the two main Wuppertal clubs SSV 04 Wuppertal and TSG Vohwinkel 80. The club spent a total of seven seasons in the top flight of German football, three of which in the Bundesliga, which they were promoted to during 1972. In their first season in the nationwide first division, the club reached a remarkable fourth place and qualified for the UEFA Cup for the first and only time in its history. After a first-round defeat by Polish side Ruch Chorzów and another two widely unsuccessful Bundesliga campaigns, the club disappeared from the top flight again, though, and has yet to return.During 2004, the club merged with local rivals SV Borussia Wuppertal to form Wuppertaler SV Borussia, though the name change remained the only visible attribute of the merger with the club’s colours and crest remaining unaltered. The additional “Borussia” was scrapped again during 2013 due to fans’ demand amidst a change of leadership which was brought about to lead the club through necessary insolvency proceedings which have been completed as of September 2014.Another noteworthy Wuppertal football club is Cronenberger SC from the district of Cronenberg. Their greatest success to date is reaching the 1952 German amateur football championship final which they lost 5–2 against VfR Schwenningen. Today, they play one tier below WSV in the Oberliga Nordrhein.Famous players include Günter Pröpper who scored 39 of WSV’s 136 Bundesliga goals and West Germany international Horst Szymaniak, as well as Cronenberg’s Herbert Jäger who represented Germany at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki during his stay with the club.

Team handball

In handball, Wuppertal’s most successful team is Bergischer HC, playing in the top-tier Handball-Bundesliga which they were promoted to for the second time during 2013, reaching 15th place during the 2013–14 campaign and therefore staying among the top scorers for a second consecutive season. BHC originates from a 2006 cooperation between the management, squad and main sponsor of LTV Wuppertal and rivals SG Solingen from the nearby city of the same name. The club advertises itself as a representative of the entire Bergisches Land region. The team plays its home games at both Wuppertal’s Uni-Halle (3,200 seats) and Solingen’s Klingenhalle (2,600 seats).Wuppertal’s past most successful club are the aforementioned LTV Wuppertal. LTV spent most of their seasons in the second and third tiers, before they merged with Wuppertaler SV’s handball section in 1996 to form HSG LTV/WSV Wuppertal. The handball combination was promoted to the Bundesliga after its inaugural season, finishing 8th before dissolving again in 1998. However, the mere departure of Wuppertaler SV still allowed LTV Wuppertal, whose professional team were renamed HC Wuppertal, to play another three seasons in the Bundesliga before returning to the 2nd division and re-introducing its old name. After the establishment of BHC in 2006, LTV lost its financial base and was relegated several times, currently playing in the fifth-tier Verbandsliga.

Volleyball

In volleyball, SV Bayer Wuppertal was one of Germany’s leading men’s teams for many years during the 1990s and 2000s. The team was part of the well-known mass-sports club originating in Leverkusen and was promoted to the Bundesliga in 1978. Reacting to low attendances, the eponymous Bayer AG decided to relocate the volleyball team to Wuppertal in 1992, where there also was a Bayer-funded club. After the move, the club won various titles, including the German championship in 1994 and 1997 and the German Cup in 1995. In addition to that, they finished runners-up to Greek side Olympiacos S.C. in the 1995–96 European Cup Winners’ Cup, losing the final in five sets.After the wide-reaching retreat of Bayer AG from less popular professional sport during 2008, the club acquired the name Wuppertal Titans and later A!B!C Titans Berg. Land. However, the loss of their main sponsor eventually resulted in the team having to terminate during 2012. Presently, they once more play by the name of Bayer Wuppertal in the third-tier Regionalliga, unable to promote with their current financial set-up.

Basketball

Perhaps one of the most successful Wuppertal sports clubs was the women’s basketball team of Barmer TV (known as BTV Wuppertal between 1994 and 2000, BTV Gold-Zack Wuppertal between 2000 and 2002 and Wuppertal Wings internationally). An 11-time German champion and 12-time German Cup winner, they won a remarkable ten consecutive doubles between 1993 and 2002. During 1996, they even won the European Cup as the first and so far only German side, beating Italy’s SFT Como in the final. A year later, they narrowly missed out on back-to-back trebles, losing to French side CJM Bourges in the newly christened EuroLeague’s final.In 2002, the club withdrew from the Bundesliga due to financial troubles, their then-main sponsor Gold-Zack Werke filing for insolvency a year later. After a decade-long stay in amateur divisions, Barmer TV returned to the second-tier 2nd Bundesliga North in 2014.Wuppertal co-hosted the 1998 FIBA World Championship for Women as one of seven host cities.

Roller hockey

In roller hockey, Wuppertal club RSC Cronenberg are one of the most successful German teams, having won the German championship and the German Cup in both men’s and women’s competitions. In total, the men won 13 German championships and nine cups, the women ten championships and nine cups. Both teams play their home games at Alfred-Henckels-Halle.Wuppertal hosted several international tournaments, including the World Championship in 1997 (men) and 2004 (women) and the European Championship in 1992, 2010 (men) and 2011 (women).

Education

(File:GER Wuppertal Junioruni 005 2016.jpg|thumb|Junior Uni Campus, designed 2013 by the Wuppertal Architects Goedeking and Niedworok)(File:GER Wuppertal Unimensa 002 2014.jpg|thumb|View from the university canteen in direction of the west part of Wuppertal-Elberfeld)Four institutions of higher education are in Wuppertal.

• University of Wuppertal (Bergische Universität Wuppertal)
• FOM University of Applied Sciences
• Cologne University of Music, section Wuppertal
• College of Theology, Wuppertal/Bethel (Theologische Zentrum Wuppertal)

The privately financed Junior Uni is a unique German initiative to educate youth from the age of 4 to 18 in science outside the school program.WEB,www.junioruni-wuppertal.de, Official website Junior Uni Wuppertal – Bergisches Land, de, March 14, 2013,

Politics

Mayor

(File:2020 Wuppertal mayoral election (2nd round).svg|thumb|350px|Results of the second round of the 2020 mayoral election)The current Mayor of Wuppertal is Uwe Schneidewind of Alliance 90/The Greens, who was elected in 2020. The most recent mayoral election was held on 13 September 2020, with a runoff held on 27 September, and the results were as follows:{{election table}}! rowspan=2 colspan=2| Candidate! rowspan=2| Party! colspan=2| First round! colspan=2| Second round! Votes! %! Votes! %Alliance 90/The Greens}}| Uwe Schneidewind Alliance 90/The Greens/Christian Democratic Union of Germany>CDU| 50,218| 40.8| 52,439| 53.5Social Democratic Party of Germany}}| Andreas Mucke Social Democratic Party| 45,524| 37.0| 45,645| 46.5Free Democratic Party (Germany)}}| Marcel Hafke Free Democratic Party| 9,057| 7.4The Left (Germany)}}| Bernhard Sander The Left| 5,941| 4.8Independent politician}}| Panagiotis Paschalis Independent| 4,295| 3.5Free Voters}}| Henrik Dahlmann Free Voters| 4,045| 3.3Die PARTEI}}| Mira Lehner Die PARTEI| 4,020| 3.3! colspan=3| Valid votes! 123,100! 98.8! 98,084! 99.2! colspan=3| Invalid votes! 1,541! 1.2! 762! 0.8! colspan=3| Total! 124,641! 100.0! 98,846! 100.0! colspan=3| Electorate/voter turnout! 265,748! 46.9! 265,748! 37.2 Source: State Returning Officer

City council

(File:2020 Wuppertal City Council election.svg|thumb|350px|Results of the 2020 city council election)The Wuppertal city council governs the city alongside the Mayor. The most recent city council election was held on 13 September 2020, and the results were as follows:{{election table}}! colspan=2| Party! Votes! %! +/-! Seats! +/-Social Democratic Party of Germany}}| Social Democratic Party (SPD)| 35,653| 28.9| {{decrease}} 1.1| 23| {{increase}} 4Christian Democratic Union of Germany}}| Christian Democratic Union (CDU)| 29,790| 24.2| {{decrease}} 4.9| 20| {{increase}} 1Alliance 90/The Greens}}| Alliance 90/The Greens (Grüne)| 24,121| 19.6| {{increase}} 4.6| 16| {{increase}} 6Free Democratic Party (Germany)}}| Free Democratic Party (FDP)| 8,871| 7.2| {{increase}} 1.7| 6| {{increase}} 2The Left (Germany)}}| The Left (Die Linke)| 8,152| 6.6| {{decrease}} 1.4| 5| ±0Alternative for Germany}}| Alternative for Germany (AfD)| 7,529| 6.1| {{increase}} 3.7| 5| {{increase}} 3| Voters’ Association for Wuppertal (WfW)| 3,581| 2.9| {{decrease}} 1.8| 2| {{decrease}} 1Die PARTEI}}| Die PARTEI (PARTEI)| 3,346| 2.7| New| 2| New Pro Wuppertal| 1,761| 1.4| {{decrease}} 1.1| 1| {{decrease}} 1 Human Environment Animal Protection}}| Human Environment Animal Protection (Tierschutz)| 365| 0.3| New| 0| New V-Partei³| 36| 0.0| New| 0| New! colspan=2| Valid votes! 123,205! 98.9! ! ! ! colspan=2| Invalid votes! 1,364! 1.1! ! ! ! colspan=2| Total! 124,569! 100.0! ! 80! {{increase}} 14! colspan=2| Electorate/voter turnout! 265,748! 46.9! {{increase}} 1.9! ! Source: State Returning Officer

Transport

Railways

(File:Wuppertal Döppersberg 2018 129.jpg|thumb|Central Station)Wuppertal is well connected to the rail network. The town lies on the Cologne–Hagen and the Düsseldorf–Hagen railway lines, and is a stop for long-distance traffic. The central station is located in the district of Elberfeld. Regionalbahn trains and some Regional-Express trains also stop at Oberbarmen, Barmen, Ronsdorf and Vohwinkel. There are also S-Bahn stations in Langerfeld, Unterbarmen, Steinbeck, Zoologischer Garten and Sonnborn.The rail services that operate on the mainline through the valley are the RE 4 (Wupper-Express), RE 7 (Rhein-Münsterland-Express), RE 13 (Maas-Wupper-Express), RB 48 (Rhein-Wupper Bahn) and four Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn services: the S 7, S 8, S 9 and S 68 (peak hours only). Every 30 minutes, it is served by a long-distance (Intercity-Express, InterCity, EuroCity) service in each direction.With the exception of the line from Wuppertal to Solingen (operated as the S 7) and the Prince William Railway to Essen (now S-Bahn line S 9), all of the branch lines connecting to main line in the city of Wuppertal are now closed. This includes, among others, the Düsseldorf-Derendorf–Dortmund Süd railway (the Wuppertaler Nordbahn), the Burgholz Railway, the Wuppertal-Wichlinghausen–Hattingen railway, the Wupper Valley Railway and the Corkscrew Railway. Thus, there were once 31 stations in the Wuppertal area, including nine stations on the mainline. Nowadays only ten are serviced any more.Wuppertal Hauptbahnhof is the location of the lost luggage services for Deutsche Bahn.NEWS,www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/23/travel/germany-lost-luggage-auction.html, The Secret Afterlife of Lost German Luggage, Emory, Sami, December 25, 2019, The New York Times, December 26, 2019, Meichsner, Andreas, en-US, 0362-4331, The Wuppertal Suspension Railway, a suspended monorail, serves the city and its surroundings. It has operated since 1901, with new cars added beginning in December 2016. In 1950, a young elephant named Tuffi was put aboard the Wuppertal Schwebebahn (monorail), as a promotion for the Althoff Circus. The swinging tram upset the elephant, and she trumpeted, charged, and plummeted {{convert|40|ft|m|order=flip|abbr=on|0}} into the river below. Tuffi suffered minor injuries; she lived until 1989. In 1999, the Schwebebahn had its thus far only fatal accident.Between 1873 and 1987, Wuppertal was served by its own tram network.

Twin towns – sister cities

{{See also|List of twin towns and sister cities in Germany}}(File:Wuppertal Johannes-Rau-Platz 2018 002.jpg|thumb|150px|Signpost with twin towns)Wuppertal is twinned with:WEB, Partnerstädte,www.wuppertal.de/tourismus-freizeit/stadtportrait/partnerstaedte/102010100000009929.php, wuppertal.de, Wuppertal, de, 2019-11-23, {{div col|colwidth=20em}}

• {{flagicon|ENG}} South Tyneside, England, United Kingdom (1951)
• {{flagicon|FRA}} Saint-Étienne, France (1960)
• {{flagicon|GER}} Tempelhof-Schöneberg (Berlin), Germany (1964)
• {{flagicon|ISR}} Beersheba, Israel (1977)
• {{flagicon|SVK}} KoÅ¡ice, Slovakia (1980)
• {{flagicon|GER}} Schwerin, Germany (1987)
• {{flagicon|NIC}} Matagalpa, Nicaragua (1987)
• {{flagicon|POL}} Legnica, Poland (1993)

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Sister suspension railway

• {{flagicon|JPN}} Shonan Monorail, Japan

The Wuppertal Suspension Railway is twinned with Shonan Monorail since 2018. The Shonan Monorail is located in Kanagawa, Japan and connects the cities between Kamakura and Fujisawa. Both suspended railways made a campaign of their twinning in 2018.WEB, Our partner: Shonan Monorail,schwebebahn.de/en/shonan-monorail, www.schwebebahn.de, August 2, 2023,

Notable people

{{Category see also|People from Wuppertal}}(File:Friedr. Bayer 1863.jpg|thumb|100px|Friedrich Bayer 1863)(File:Engels 1856.jpg|thumb|100px|Friedrich Engels)(File:Else Lasker-Schüler 1875.jpg|thumb|100px|Else Lasker-Schüler 1895)(File:Johannes rau 2004-05-16 berlin-RZ.jpg|thumb|100px|Federal President Johannes Rau in 2004)

• Ian Ashley (born 1947), British-German Formula One driver
• Christian Lindner (born 1979), politician
• Pina Bausch (1940–2009), choreographer known for her work with the Wuppertal Dance Theater, died in Wuppertal
• Friedrich Bayer (1825–1880), founder of the Friedrich Bayer paint factory, later Bayer AG
• Greta Bösel (1908–1947), concentration camp guard executed for war crimes
• Gyles Brandreth (born 1948), English writer, broadcaster, actor, and former British Conservative Member of Parliament
• Arno Breker (1900–1991), sculptor
• Peter Brötzmann (born 1941), free jazz musician
• Rudolf Carnap (1891–1970), philosopher of science
• Udo Dirkschneider (born 1952), singer and songwriter
• Rudolf Dreßler (born 1940), politician and ambassador
• George Dreyfus (born 1928), Australian bassoonist, composer
• Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850–1909), psychologist who studied memory
• Friedrich Engels (1820–1895), philosopher, historian, coauthor of The Communist Manifesto (with Karl Marx)
• Kurt Franz (1914–1998), SS Officer, major perpetrator of genocide during the Holocaust, died in Wuppertal
• Daniel Gerlach (born 1977), journalist
• Hans Grüneberg (1907–1982), British geneticist, born in Wuppertal.
• Marco Goecke, (born 1972) choreographer
• Vincenzo Gualtieri, professional boxer
• Christoph Maria Herbst (born 1966), actor and comedian
• Carolina Hermann (born 1988), figure skater
• Felix Hoffmann (1868–1946), scientist, synthesized aspirin while working at a Bayer facility in Wuppertal
• Raimund Hoghe (1949–2021), choreographer, dancer, film maker, journalist, and author
• Werner Hoyer (born 1951), politician (FDP), President of the European Investment Bank
• Ignaz Kirchner (1946–2018), actor
• Linda Kisabaka (born 1969), middle-distance runner
• Hans Knappertsbusch (1888–1965), orchestra conductor
• Peter Kowald (1944–2002), free jazz musician
• Hans Peter Luhn (1896–1964), computer scientist
• Else Lasker-Schüler (1869–1945), expressionist poet
• Harald Leipnitz (1926–2000), actor
• Ulrich Leyendecker (1946–2018), composer
• Reimar Lüst (1923–2020), astrophysicist
• Hans Moller (1905–2000), painter
• Steffen Möller (born 1969), satirist and actor in Poland
• Sylkie Monoff, singer-songwriter
• Simone Osygus (born 1968), swimmer
• Siegfried Palm (1927–2005), cellist, director of Hochschule für Musik Köln, general manager of Deutsche Oper Berlin
• Julius Plücker (1801–1868), physicist
• Kolja Pusch (born 1993), footballer
• Johannes Rau (1931–2006), politician (SPD), former Federal President of Germany.
• Hans Reichel (1949–2011), composer, recording artist, and inventor of the Daxophone
• Emil Rittershaus (1834–1897), poet
• Alice Schwarzer (born 1942), one of the leaders of the German second wave feminism
• Annette Seiltgen (born 1964), operatic singer
• Hans Singer (1910–2006), British economist
• Ilse Steppat (1917–1969), actress
• Rita Süssmuth (born 1937), former President of the German Parliament
• Horst Tappert (1923–2008), actor
• Helmut Thielicke (1908–1986), theologian
• Stephen Timoshenko (1878–1972), Russian engineer and academician
• Bettina Tietjen (born 1960), television presenter
• Tom Tykwer (born 1965), movie director and composer
• Günter Wand (1912–2002), composer and orchestra conductor
• Ute Vinzing (born 1936), operatic soprano
• Henrik Freischlader (born 1982), blues guitarist, singer, songwriter, producer
• Wolf Hoffmann (born 1959), metal guitarist, initiator of the musical band Accept
• Armin T. Wegner (1886–1978), soldier, medic, human rights activist
• Mathilde Wesendonck (1828–1902), poet, author, artist, muse of Richard Wagner

Gallery

Wuppertal Friedrichstraße 0003.jpg|Typical steep street in WuppertalCragg Skulpturenpark 05.JPG|Sculpturepark Waldfrieden - Tony Cragg Points of View (2008)Burgholz45.jpg|View of Burgholz woods with typical Bergisches farmerhouseoelberg wuppertal.jpg|Panoramic view of the Ölberg quarter in WuppertalWuppertal - Johannes-Rau-Platz - Bauernmarkt 2012 01 ies.jpg|City Hall Wuppertal-BarmenWuppertal Schauspielhaus 2005.jpg|The theatre - Das Wuppertaler SchauspielhausSchwimmoper an der Südstraße im Wohnquartier Elberfeld-Mitte im Stadtbezirk Elberfeld der kreisfreien Stadt Wuppertal in Nordrhein-Westfalen A1.jpg|The swimming arena “Schwimmoper“Elisenturm Wuppertal.jpg|ElisenturmZoo Gaststätten Wuppertal 001.jpg|Zoo WuppertalWuppertal kaiserwagen.jpg|Special tours with the historical ‘Kaiserwagen’Vohwinkeler-Flohmarkt-2.jpg|World’s largest ‘one day flea market’ Wuppertal Hardt 0142.jpg|Botanic garden and view over the cityWuppertal Hardt 0165.jpg|The public park ‘Hardt’ in the center Wuppertal_Schwebebahn_Generation_15.jpg|The newest generation of the SchwebebahnBurgholz28.jpg|The river Wupper in the woods of WuppertalBurgholz65.jpg|View from the Kiesberg woodsBergische Synagoge.jpg|“Neue Bergische Synagoge“Wuppertal_Beyenburg_-_Klosterkirche_02.jpg|Abbey Wuppertal-Beyenburg

See also

• Polizeipräsidium Wuppertal
• Wefelpütt

Notes and references

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External links

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• {{Official website}} {{in lang|de}}
• {{in lang|de|en}} Wuppertal, Information | Photos
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• {{Official websitewww.uni-wuppertal.de/en/}} of the University of Wuppertal

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