Oil Mountain in Wuppertal

10 April 2019 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  5 minutes

Ölberg Panorama © Carsten Hahn/cc-by-sa-2.0-de

Ölberg Panorama © Carsten Hahn/cc-by-sa-2.0-de

Ölberg is the local place name for a residential district of the Wuppertal district Elberfeld, which forms the southern half of the Elberfeld Nordstadt. The name goes back to the fact that even in the 1920s in this quarter mainly occupied by workers – in contrast to the immediately west subsequent bourgeois Brill quarter – many houses were not connected to the public grid and the apartments were mainly illuminated with oil or kerosene lamps were.   read more…

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