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Sonnborner Straße station

train station in Germany

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ20718138 ↗
Source-derived summary

Sonnborner Straße station is an intermediate station on the Wuppertal Suspension Railway in Westphalia, Germany. It was opened on 24 May 1901 and is within walking distance of Wuppertal-Sonnborn station.

Editorial summary

“Sonnborner Straße station” enters the record as train station in Germany. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Sonnborner, Straße and station can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1901—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Sonnborner, Straße and station.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Sonnborner Straße station” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Sonnborner, Straße and station provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q20718138. Authority coordinates are 51.238, 7.097. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1901.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Sonnborner Straße station”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Sonnborner Straße station primary sources, Sonnborner Straße station archive and Sonnborner research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Sonnborner Straße station”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Sonnborner Straße station” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.