SCHÖN & SCHAURIG - Dunkle Geschichten aus Wuppertal

Do you have a preference for dark, eerily beautiful stories? Do you love dark, subterranean places and eerie occurrences? Then let Michael Malicke take you to dark Wuppertal. Experience how dark it used to be without public lighting and how long it took until gas lanterns shone everywhere. It's quite different at Ostersbaum: once a year, the 'Lichterzauber' lights up the many rather dark stairways of the Elberfeld district. People from all over the city are then drawn to this narrow, time-honoured quarter. Join city guide Jürgen Holzhauer on a nocturnal pub crawl that will bring to light new insights into hip pubs in the valley. Quite different is the look back at a dark chapter of justice. On the penultimate day of Bendahl prison, the mafia blew three of their criminals out of the prison. The difficult times during the war with the nightly bombing raids also feature in this book. And for many Wuppertal residents, the ride on the Samba Express through Burgholz up to Cronenberg is unforgotten. The shutdown took place overnight - citizen protests no longer helped.