Suspension monorail (Schwebebahn) audioguide

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.

The historic town hall offers breathtaking acoustics and a fantastic ambience.

Since Wuppertal's main station at Döppersberg was completely rebuilt, it offers an attractive sight – not only for train passengers.

The river divides to the left and makes room for the local and regional court.

Wuppertal and Elberfeld were not always on good terms.

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 merger between Elberfeld and Barmen has never been a love marriage.

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.

The turning system of the monorail is a technical masterpiece