At
the moment of the suspension railway construction there was not the town of Wuppertal at all. Barmen
and field Elber two independent towns in the valley were the Wupper. Both
towns had in 1880 together 189.489 inhabitants.
At that time with it the conurbation in the Wupper was the sixth-biggest town in the German empire. Dusseldorf had at the time only 95.458 inhabitants and food, the biggest town in the Ruhr area, had only about 80,000 inhabitants. Both towns in the valley of the Wupper grew steadily further. Until there was a number of inhabitants of about 400 000 about 1950, a number of inhabitants with which Wuppertal has remained till this day.