Suspension monorail (Schwebebahn) audioguide: Recent Episodes
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Let our audio guide join you on your suspension railway ride. Just listen to the audioguide on your phone and learn everything about the landmarks, tourist attractions and famous personalities of Wuppertal along the way.
The people of Wuppertal like to celebrate in their districts. And they like to haggle at flea markets. The “Vohwinkeler Flohmarkt” even made it into the Guiness Book of Records as the largest one day flea market.
Living at eye level with the Schwebebahn is of course something completely unique. Thanks to new sound-damping rails the residents can enjoy more silence than they used to.
For the construction of the Sonnborn junction at the end of the 60s, an unimaginable effort was made.
Wuppertal’s home to soccer is the Zoo Stadium. Up to 25,000 soccer fans can watch the local team play here.
The Wuppertal Zoo offers a variety of exotic animal species and attractions that are unique in the world – including the largest predator enclosure ever built in a German zoo.
Wuppertal has given the world many famous and important people – including Alice Schwarzer and Johannes Rau.
The only skyscraper in Wuppertal is the almost 200 meters high smokestack of the former thermal power station.
Not only at Arrenberg, which you are now passing, things looked bleak at the beginning of the industrial age. Today many colourful projects make the city worth living in.
In the 50s, some people wanted an opera house to be built on the mountain to your left. Then it became a public swimming pool.
Since Wuppertal's main station at Döppersberg was completely rebuilt, it offers an attractive sight – not only for train passengers.
Vorwerk, Barmenia or Wuppertal Institute – the city is known for its successful companies.
At the Junior University, the children of Wuppertal have the opportunity to do research like the grown-ups.
The magnificent opera house is home, among other things, to the Pina Bausch dance theater. Only a few meters away you find the house of the Engels family.
The station Wertherbrücke is one of three rebuilt to fully replicate the original status and appearance.
It was the bleachers who laid the foundation for Wuppertal’s long and illustrious history of textile manufacturing.
Until just a few decades ago the Wupper was one of Europe’s most badly polluted rivers. Fortunately, that has changed.
Anyone who dies in Wuppertal is likely to be buried in one of its more than fifty cemeteries.
There are plenty of church towers in Wuppertal. And also a lot of religious communities.
“Down with this giant monstrosity!”, the citizens demanded after the construction of the suspension railway. But the emperor changed everything.
Today you are travelling on the “Mono-railed suspended railway after the Eugen Langen system”, the exact wording of his patent.
The inventor Eugen Langen gave the first impulses for the realisation of the Wuppertal suspension monorail.
A warm welcome to you on your round trip with the "Schwebebahn"! Sit back and enjoy one of the most exclusive travel experiences in the world with our audio guide.