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unusual facts about Wuppertal-Oberbarmen–Opladen railway


Wuppertal-Oberbarmen–Opladen railway

The line ran between Lennep and Burscheid parallel to federal highway 51 and from Burscheid to Opladen parallel with former federal highway 232.


2010 Rink Hockey European Championship

All games were played at Wuppertal's Uni-Halle with a maximum capacity of 2,500 for rink hockey games.

The 2010 Rink Hockey European Championship or 2010 CERH European Championship was the 49th edition of the Rink Hockey European Championship, held between 5 and 11 September, in Wuppertal, Germany.

Abraham David Christian

Another important monograph on his work was published by Kehrer in 2003, in conjunction with his museum exhibition, The Language of Man, at the Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen and Von der Heydt-Museum Wuppertal in 2004, with essays by Thomas Deecke, Peter Friese, Hans-Jürgen Heinrichs and Richard Milazzo.

Anton Sistermans

He performed Beethoven's Kantate auf den Tod Kaiser Josephs II (cantata in memory of Joseph II) and Ninth Symphony in a concert in Wuppertal on 17 December 1892, which also included Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 and was conducted by Hans Haym.

Arne Paus

Also in 2011 an exhibition at The Norwegian Opera during the visit from Wuppertal Tanztheater with the performance of Pina Bausch "Vollmond".

Astad Deboo

He also trained with Pina Bausch in the Wuppertal Dance Company, Germany and with Alison Becker Chase of the Pilobolus Dance Company, and travelled through to Europe, Americas, Japan and Indonesia.

Axel Stein

Stein was born in Wuppertal, and works as an actor in German television and cinema productions.

Black-footed cat

Wuppertal Zoo acquired black-footed cats as long ago as 1957, and succeeded in breeding them in 1963.

Camp King

The hearing, known as the "Dulag Luft Trial", was convened in Wuppertal, Germany, beginning on November 26, 1945.

Cläre Tisch

Cläre Tisch, also "Kläre Tisch" or "Klara Tisch," (* January 14, 1907 in Elberfeld (today: Wuppertal); † (lost) November 1941 in Minsk, Belarus) was a German economist.

Clemens Weiss

Clemens Weiss has works in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Folkwang Museum (Essen), Hamburger Bahnhof (Berlin), New York Public Library (The Spencer Collection), Pushkin Museum (Moscow), Palace of Nations (Geneva), University of South Florida (Art Museum), Von der Heydt Museum (Wuppertal, Germany) and Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford (USA).

Dieter Klöcker

Dieter Klöcker (born April 13, 1936 in Wuppertal; died May 21, 2011 in Freiburg im Breisgau) was a German clarinetist known for rediscovering many forgotten masters of the 18th century.

Dompfeil

While the name of the pair of trains remained the same, the route has been changed several times and in 1979 "Dompfeil" was put in service in route Dortmund - Wuppertal - Cologne - Mainz - Mannheim - Stuttgart - München.

Düsseldorf-Bilk

Düsseldorf-Bilk station is now served only by the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn (slow regional trains) and is connected by the lines S 8, S 11 and S 28 to Neuss, Mönchengladbach, Kaarst, Wuppertal, Hagen, Erkrath, Mettmann, Dormagen, Cologne and other parts of Düsseldorf (Central station, Düsseldorf-Gerresheim,...).

Düsseldorf-Gerresheim

They connect with Düsseldorf Central Station, Düsseldorf-Bilk, Wuppertal, Neuss, Mönchengladbach, Hagen, Kaarst, and Mettmann.

Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis

The Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the district-free cities of Bochum, Dortmund and Hagen, the districts of Märkischer Kreis (with Schalksmühle and Halver) and Oberbergischer Kreis (with Radevormwald), the city of Wuppertal, the district of Mettmann (with Velbert) and the city of Essen.

Gottfried Grote

Born in Oberfrohna, Grote was from 1926 to 1935 organist and choir director of the Bach-Verein (Bach association) in Wuppertal, which later was named Wupperfelder Kantorei (Wupperfeld chorale).

Hans Andersag

Johann Andersag (better known as Hans Andersag) was a scientist born on February 16, 1902 in Lana (Meran), Italy and died August 10, 1955 in Wuppertal, Germany following bronchial cancer.

Heinkel He 162

This was despite the fact that the factory in Wuppertal making Tego film plywood glue — used in a substantial number of late-war German aviation designs whose airframes were meant to be constructed mostly from wood — had been bombed by the Royal Air Force and a replacement had to be quickly substituted, without realizing that the replacement adhesive would turn out to be highly corrosive to the wooden parts it was intended to be fastening.

Heinrich Hörlein

Philipp Heinrich Hörlein (June 5, 1882 in Wendelsheim in Rhenish Hesse – 23 May 1954 in Wuppertal), was a German entrepreneur, scientist, lecturer and Nazi Wehrwirtschaftsführer.

Herbert Runge

It stands just outside the away section of Wuppertal's Stadion am Zoo football stadium, home to former Bundesliga club Wuppertaler SV.

Herbert Wernicke

After starting out as set and costume designer in Landshut and Wuppertal, and directing his first play in Darmstadt, he directed his first opera, Handel's Belsazar, in 1978 in Darmstadt.

Jean Le Moal

Several retrospectives have been dedicated to Le Moal’s work, including at Musée de Lubeck and Musée de Wuppertal (1961), Musée de Metz and Musée de la Ville de Luxembourg (1963), Musées de Rennes, Chartres, Rouen, Dijon, Lille and Caen (1970–1971), "Espace lyonnais d'art contemporain" and Musées de Besançon, Esch-sur-Alzette, Dunkerque and Nantes (1990–1992).

Jeremy Maule

Jeremy Frank Maule (11 August 1952, Wuppertal, Germany – 25 November 1998, Cambridge) was a British scholar specialising in the history of the English language.

Johann Peter Lange

Johann Peter Lange (10 April 1802, Sonneborn (now a part of Wuppertal) - 9 July 1884, age 82), was a German Calvinist theologian of peasant origin.

Jürgen Hardt

Since 2003 he is chairman of the Wuppertal county branch of the CDU and since 2005 deputy chairman of the Bergisches Land district branch of the CDU.

Kemna concentration camp

These "big shots", as the SA called them, included Heinrich Hirtsiefer, a former Prussian Vice Minister President, Wilhelm Bökenkrüger, a former director of the Wuppertal employment office, and Georg Petersdorff, the secretary of the Düsseldorf and Cologne Reichsbanner Gaue.

Kottenbutter

This local, rustic specialty founded in the alimentary behavior of the grinder that worked in the area of the Wupper river in Remscheid, Wuppertal and Solingen.

Marion van de Kamp

Born in Wuppertal to Dutch parents she attended the drama school in Dresden, East Germany and worked at theaters in Meiningen, Görlitz, Plauen, Schwerin and Leipzig.

Messerschmitt Me 410

Several were built, but like many other attempts at wood construction by the German aviation industry late in World War II, the loss of the Goldschmitt Tego film factory in Wuppertal, in a Royal Air Force nighttime bombing raid, meant the acidic replacement adhesives available were too corrosive to the materials being bonded, and the wooden portions tended to fail.

Mohr Rocket

The Mohr Rocket was a sounding rocket developed by Ernst Mohr in Wuppertal, Germany.

Robert Walter Richard Ernst von Görschen

The “Inter-Allied Rhineland Commission” initially deported them into the unoccupied area around Wuppertal-Elberfeld and were placed, several days later in Königswinter and Altenkirchen /Westerwald.

Saltatio Mortis

1 April 2011: 10 Jahre Wild Und Frei (10 Years Wild and Free) Live CD/DVD recorded at the Stadthalle Wuppertal 15/10/2010, Napalm Records

Sieglinde Hartmann

Sieglinde Hartmann (born 1954 in Wuppertal, Germany) is a German medievalist, expert on the medieval poet Oswald von Wolkenstein and president of the Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft.

Silvana Koch-Mehrin

Esther Silvana Koch-Mehrin (born on 17 November 1970 in Wuppertal) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament with the Free Democratic Party of Germany.

Trevor Carson

He played two games in two days when appearing in Northern Ireland U21s in Wuppertal, Germany on 5 September 2008, with his side losing 3–0, before making a dash back to Chesterfield to play in a 1–0 win over Rotherham United.

Wolfgang Ziffer

Wolfgang Ziffer (October 26, 1941 - ) is a German voice actor and actor from Wuppertal.

Wuppertal-Oberbarmen station

All passenger trains stopping at the station are operated by DB Regio NRW, except for the Maas-Wupper-Express, which is operated by Eurobahn under a 16-year concession with effect from the December 2009 timetable change.


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