Dicke-Ibach Staircase

The thickness Ibach staircase is a Wilhelminian style staircase that was built in 1897. It connects the Barmen Anlagen park with the higher Joseph-Haydn-Straße.

The three-flight staircase changes direction in the opposite direction, so that the staircase has a Z-shaped floor plan. The walls of a castle-like viewing platform rise between the lower platform and the two upper flights of stairs, with a small tower-like pavilion in the inner corner.

Below the turret on the west wall there is a plaque with the inscription: "Friedr. Wilh. Dicke - Rudolf Ibach - 1897" in memory of the donors of the stairs. Friedr. Wilh. Dick was the owner of the company Kaiser & Dicke, which had its headquarters at Weberstrasse 2. Rudolf Ibach was a partner in the well-known company "Rud. Ibach Sohn, Hof-Pianoforte-Fabrikant Sr. Majesty des King and Emperor", which was founded in 1794.

The Dicke Ibach staircase is part of the Barmen facilities, which were created by the Barmer Beautification Association. The staircase is significant in terms of urban planning as it represents an important link between the Barmer Anlagen and Joseph-Haydn-Straße and at the same time sets an urban accent with its tower-like pavilion. The construction of the sophisticated staircase, which draws on the forms of castle architecture and Gothic, is typical of buildings in public parks of that time.

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"It is definitely one of the most beautiful in the valley and is unofficially considered the staircase that decorates most local living rooms and bedrooms as a photo motif - with a happy bride and groom in the foreground. "The Dicke Ibach staircase is a popular wedding backdrop," confirms Kurt Rudoba from the Barmer Beautification Association (BVV). It's easy to understand: the Wilhelminian-style staircase with the three flights laid out in a kind of "Z" and its tower-shaped pavilion at the upper end is a gem, in front of which the Barmer grounds stretch out green and wide. Original It was intended to give the residents of the villa district to the east direct access to the Barmen facilities as a useful staircase. That was in 1897, when Friedrich Wilhelm Dicke and Peter Adolph Rudolph Ibach, board members of the BVV, which had been founded 33 years earlier, had the staircase built and donated it. In the name are The two founders are still immortalized today, as well as in a stone inscription halfway up the stairs."
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Lively activity or heavenly silence, both possible in the extensive Barmer facilities. Between impressive monuments and sculptures, there is also a good deal of historical knowledge. If you want to give your soul a few hours leisurely stroll through a green lung, you will find that too.