Railway arch gallery
The railway arch gallery is a series of 40 murals in the city center of Dresden . The large-scale street art work , carried out using graffiti technology, was created between 2005 and 2007 on the occasion of the 800th anniversary of the Saxon state capital in 2006 . It extends over a length of almost 750 meters, but with several interruptions. The gallery's murals are located along the northwest side of the Könneritzstrasse , part of the 26er Ring , in the Wilsdruffer suburb . They are located on the facades of bricked-up arches of several elongated arched bridges , which are part of the Děčín – Dresden-Neustadt railway line in their higher inner-city section between Dresden Hauptbahnhof and Dresden-Neustadt station and are therefore owned by Deutsche Bahn . These are the more than 100 meters long city viaducts I, II and III, which are considered to be “significant in terms of urban development history” and are therefore protected as technical monuments in Dresden .
Of the 40 murals, 16 are related to Dresden and 10 to other Saxon locations, some of which are in the Dresden area. The other 14 murals are neutral and have no recognizable location reference. Almost all of the 40 works show aspects of the overarching theme of infrastructure, many of which are dedicated to public transport . The vast majority of the images show means of transport, mostly vehicles and their infrastructure. Electricity, water and gas supply as well as sewage disposal play a minor role. Most of the pictures are photo-realistic, sometimes collage-like representations, but there are also some illusionistic and comic-like works. Sometimes there are connecting elements to neighboring images. The images all have approximately the shape of segments of a circle with a chord length (width) of around nine and a height of four meters. They are framed by the sandstone arches of the viaducts with their gray-beige tones. The doors and ventilation grilles that are contained in almost every railway arch were also painted over.
structure
The railway arch gallery is divided into five parts, which are interrupted by passages or trips. It starts with arch 1, which is opposite the building at Kraftwerk Mitte 16. Between Part I (Arch 6) and Part II (Arch 7) the passage from the Mitte power plant to its visitor parking lot runs in an unnumbered arch , which is on the other side of the Děčín – Dresden-Neustadt railway line in the triangle of the Berlin – Dresden railway line that branches off there is located. Schweriner Straße runs under the railway line between Part II (Arch 13) and Part III (Arch 14) . Part III (wall picture 23) is followed by the Jahnstraße railway overpass, to which the Dresden Mitte train station connects to the northeast . 13 of the once 14 doors and windows on the ground floor of the former station building are also walled up and decorated with murals, which, however, do not belong to the railway arch gallery and also differ stylistically from it. The railway arch gallery continues in the northeastern station area with part IV (arch 24). Arch 31 is part of a passenger tunnel created during the station renovation in the 2000s and is therefore the only numbered arch that is not painted. The Friedrichstrasse railway overpass is located between part IV (arch 33) and part V (arch 34) . The railway arch gallery ends with arch 41 directly in front of the railway overpass over federal highway 6 ( Magdeburger Strasse ) at Ostra-Allee .
history
Already in the 1990s there was a few graffiti in the area of the later gallery. At that time, however, many of the railway arches were empty, only a few could be locked and served as storage. A problem at that time was the illegal dumping of waste in the open railway arches. In order to counter this and at the same time design the facility and provide areas for legal graffiti, the idea arose to wall up the bridge arches and the areas that were created To provide street art works. This followed the example of the Mitte train station, the facade of which had already been decorated with murals in the 1990s, which were redesigned after the station renovation carried out between 2001 and 2004. In June 2005, as a job creation measure coordinated by the Saxon Retraining and Further Education Center (SUFW), twelve long-term unemployed and apprentices began the masonry work, which was done with demolished bricks from the VEB Bramsch . In September 2005 the first design drafts were presented in the New Town Hall and ten of them were selected. At the end of the same month, work began on the ten arches in today's Part III between Jahnstrasse and Schweriner Strasse under the motto "Dresden - City of Technology". On November 25, 2005 the Verkehrsverbund Oberelbe presented the first completed pictures of the railway arch gallery to the public.
Then the work on parts I and II continued, finally parts IV and V were completed. The goal of designing all 40 arches by the city anniversary in 2006 was not achieved. Overall, the four participating graffiti artists, two of them from Dresden and two from Torgau , worked on the major project over a period of two years, but in between they were also busy with other works. The design options for the drafts were initially quite free. Soon, however, pure commissioned work developed by sponsors who took over 3500 euros for the preparatory work and the design of a sheet and were able to determine the motifs and bring in their logo. Original plans to depict aspects of the art city and the sports city of Dresden and to provide 13 more arches on the other side of the viaducts each with a motif from the then twelve Dresden twin cities and from Dresden itself were not implemented.
Legend
- Part / Location: Name the respective part of the series to which the mural belongs and the location of this part.
- Number / position: Mention the number of the railway arch in which the mural is located (in most cases legible on the keystone of the respective arch ). The link "Location" indicates the coordinates of the mural and leads to the map display. The basic sorting of the list follows the number.
- Image: Displays a photo of the mural.
- Client: Name the client of the mural.
- Subject: Identifies the subject of the mural and the objects depicted.
List of murals in the railway arch gallery
| Part / location | Number / location | image | Client | theme |
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| Part I, between Könneritzstrasse 16 and the pedestrian lights at the power plant in Mitte |
1 (location) |
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DB network | Railway : Railway wheel , steam locomotive , railway signal and double-track railway line with switch |
| Part I, between Könneritzstrasse 16 and the pedestrian lights at the power plant in Mitte |
2 (location) |
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Siemens Transportation Systems | Railway : Signal tower with mechanical signal box technology , Intercity on a track apron, electronic signal box technology and overhead line systems |
| Part I, between Könneritzstrasse 16 and the pedestrian lights at the power plant in Mitte |
3 (location) |
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DB network | Railway : catenary systems , single-track railway line |
| Part I, between Könneritzstrasse 16 and the pedestrian lights at the power plant in Mitte |
4 (location) |
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DB network | Railway : switches , rails , catenary systems and railway lines ( central projection , aligned with central vanishing point ) |
| Part I, between Könneritzstrasse 16 and the pedestrian lights at the power plant in Mitte |
5 (location) |
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Altstrehlen 1 e. V., Spike youth club | Youth culture : hand with spray can , DJ with turntable / mixer , breakdancer , skateboarder , female eyes and other spray cans |
| Part I, between Könneritzstrasse 16 and the pedestrian lights at the power plant in Mitte |
6 (location) |
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Freital Eder brickworks | Construction : Hole in brick wall reveals a road crossing in Freital , shell construction in brick construction, perforated brick |
| Part II, between the pedestrian lights at the Mitte power station and Schweriner Strasse |
7 (location) |
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Drewag - Stadtwerke Dresden | Electricity supply : five anthropomorphic light bulbs clinging to overhead line masts , behind them clouds with lightning |
| Part II, between the pedestrian lights at the Mitte power station and Schweriner Strasse |
8 (location) |
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Drewag - Stadtwerke Dresden | Water supply : marine animals (several fish and an octopus ), in the background unsteady water and at the edge the end of a water pipe |
| Part II, between the pedestrian lights at the Mitte power station and Schweriner Strasse |
9 (location) |
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Drewag - Stadtwerke Dresden | Gas supply : three comic- style mice with pieces of cheese , next to them yellow pipes |
| Part II, between the pedestrian lights at the Mitte power station and Schweriner Strasse | 10 (location) |
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Drewag - Stadtwerke Dresden | Gas supply : three comic- style mice , one of them in an impeller , next to them yellow pipes , above them a glowing light bulb |
| Part II, between the pedestrian lights at the Mitte power station and Schweriner Strasse | 11 (location) |
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Drewag - Stadtwerke Dresden | Water supply : marine animals (several fish and a crab ), unsteady water in the background and the end of a water pipe at the edge |
| Part II, between the pedestrian lights at the Mitte power station and Schweriner Strasse | 12 (location) |
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Drewag - Stadtwerke Dresden | Electricity supply : five anthropomorphic incandescent lamps clinging to overhead line masts , behind them clouds with lightning and an overhead line |
| Part II, between the pedestrian lights at the Mitte power station and Schweriner Strasse | 13 (location) |
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DB network | Railway : Front of a locomotive under the ceiling of a station hall, including a driver's desk , sections of a passenger stop and a marshalling yard, right and left systems for traction power supply ( central projection , aligned with central vanishing point ) |
| Part III, between Schweriner Strasse and the Jahnstrasse railway overpass | 14 (location) |
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DB network | Public transport in Dresden city center: western apron of Dresden Central Station (see photo ); plus in small pictures an electric locomotive, a steam locomotive and a double-decker coach of the Dresden S-Bahn |
| Part III, between Schweriner Strasse and the Jahnstrasse railway overpass | 15 (location) |
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Verkehrsverbund Oberelbe (VVO) | Public transport in Saxon Switzerland : a train of the Kirnitzschtalbahn , a regional tram; next to it typical rocks of the Elbe Sandstone Mountains |
| Part III, between Schweriner Strasse and the Jahnstrasse railway overpass | 16 (location) |
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Verkehrsverbund Oberelbe (VVO) | Public transport in the city center of Dresden: a train of the Dresden Airport S-Bahn ( Siemens Desiro Classic of Deutsche Bahn with the logo of Dresden Airport ), next to the Děčín – Dresden-Neustadt railway in its section in front of the Yenidze |
| Part III, between Schweriner Strasse and the Jahnstrasse railway overpass | 17 (location) |
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Verkehrsverbund Oberelbe (VVO) | Public transport in the east of Dresden: a vehicle of the Dresden suspension railway , one of the two Dresden mountain railways ; next to it the Elbe bridge Blaues Wunder with residential houses on Schillerplatz |
| Part III, between Schweriner Strasse and the Jahnstrasse railway overpass | 18 (location) |
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Verkehrsverbund Oberelbe (VVO) | Public transport in the city center of Dresden: a ticket machine of the Dresden public transport company , next to it the Golden Rider , a landmark of Dresden; in the background a train of the Dresden tram at a stop |
| Part III, between Schweriner Strasse and the Jahnstrasse railway overpass | 19 (location) |
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Verkehrsverbund Oberelbe (VVO) | Public transport in Meißen : a car of the Dresden S-Bahn , next to it a bus painted by the Meißen transport company , behind it the old town of Meißner with the Albrechtsburg and the Meißner cathedral |
| Part III, between Schweriner Strasse and the Jahnstrasse railway overpass | 20 (location) |
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Verkehrsverbund Oberelbe (VVO) | Public transport in the south of Dresden: a bus painted in the paintwork of regional transport Dresden at the Fritz-Foerster-Platz stop |
| Part III, between Schweriner Strasse and the Jahnstrasse railway overpass | 21 (location) |
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Verkehrsverbund Oberelbe (VVO) | Public transport in Moritzburg : a train of the Lößnitzgrundbahn at a stop, next to Moritzburg Castle |
| Part III, between Schweriner Strasse and the Jahnstrasse railway overpass | 22 (location) |
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DB network | Public transport in Dresden city center: a Deutsche Bahn train (tilting technology series 612 ) in Dresden-Neustadt station |
| Part III, between Schweriner Strasse and the Jahnstrasse railway overpass | 23 (location) |
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Funded together | Various: on the left a bus of the Dresden public transport company in front of the backdrop of the Semper Opera House and the Catholic Court Church , in the middle the Nossener Brücke thermal power station , on the right an ICE 3 in front of the backdrop of a harbor crane |
| Part IV, at Dresden Mitte station to the Friedrichstrasse railway overpass | 24 (location) |
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Vogtland Transport Association (VVV) | Vogtland region : on the left the Vogtland Arena ski jumping facility , next to it a cosmonaut as a reminiscence of the native Vogtlander Sigmund Jähn (first German in space), on the right below the Renaissance gable of the old and the tower of the new town hall of Plauen , on the right behind the Göltzschtal bridge with one overhead train and the Vogtland balloon ( tethered balloon , which was in operation near this bridge from 2001 to 2007), in front of it a Siemens Desiro Classic of the Vogtlandbahn , above the lettering "Vogtland" |
| Part IV, at Dresden Mitte station to the Friedrichstrasse railway overpass | 25 (location) |
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Central Saxony Transport Association (VMS) | Ore Mountains region : on the left a skier reminiscent of regional winter sports , on the right above a car of the Erdmannsdorf – Augustusburg cable car in front of the Augustusburg hunting lodge , in the center front an electric locomotive of the Deutsche Bahn , a Variobahn railcar of the Chemnitz tram and a regional bus, behind it the Karl -Marx-Monument as a landmark of Chemnitz , behind it a mountain landscape typical of the Erzgebirge, on the right the logo of the Verkehrsverbund Mittelachsen with reference to its website www.vms.de, above the words "Erzgebirge" |
| Part IV, at Dresden Mitte station to the Friedrichstrasse railway overpass | 26 (location) |
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Verkehrsverbund Oberelbe (VVO) | Dresden region: Radebeul , on the left the ravine above the house in the sun with a view of Dresden , on the lower left five pictograms for public transport in the Dresden region (railway, S-Bahn, tram, bus and ferry), in the middle the Belvedere to Wackerbarth Castle , on the right a moving train of the Dresden tram as a transition to Bogen 27 |
| Part IV, at Dresden Mitte station to the Friedrichstrasse railway overpass | 27 (location) |
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Verkehrsverbund Oberelbe (VVO) | Dresden region: Dresden , on the left a moving train of the Dresden tram as a transition to Bogen 26, on the right a bus of the Dresden regional transport ; behind it a pavilion of the Zwinger , the Frauenkirche , the Georgentor and the Hausmannsturm as well as the Catholic Court Church ; Above a logo of the city, on the right a moving S-Bahn Dresden train as a transition to Bogen 28 |
| Part IV, at Dresden Mitte station to the Friedrichstrasse railway overpass | 28 (location) |
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Verkehrsverbund Oberelbe (VVO) | Dresden region: Saxon Switzerland , on the left a moving train of the Dresden S-Bahn as a transition to Bogen 27, above a hiking trail sign from the area of the Schrammsteine , behind it the Elbe breakthrough valley with the Rathen district of Oberrathen, on the right typical rocks of the Elbe Sandstone Mountains , on the far right that Logo of the Verkehrsverbund Oberelbe |
| Part IV, at Dresden Mitte station to the Friedrichstrasse railway overpass | 29 (location) |
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Association for the local traffic area of Leipzig (ZVNL) | Leipzig region : on the far left the logo of the association for the Leipzig local traffic area , on the left a Siemens Desiro Classic ; Above it a male and a female face, which look in the direction of the depicted sights and lettering of the names of the following cities: Baroque castle in Delitzsch , the Alte Wache in Borna , the Völkerschlachtdenkmal in Leipzig, Hartenfels Castle in Torgau , the town hall in Grimma , St. Nicolai Church in Döbeln and the "Wilde Robert" , a narrow-gauge railway in Oschatz |
| Part IV, at Dresden Mitte station to the Friedrichstrasse railway overpass | 30 (location) |
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Verkehrsverbund Oberlausitz-Lower Silesia (ZVON) | Region Upper Lusatia - Lower Silesia or the German-Polish-Czech border triangle: on the far left the logo of the Upper Lusatia-Lower Silesia Transport Association , next to it the company mascot "Zvoni", a grasshopper; next to it again the slogan “Mobil im Dreiländereck.” On a map , the boundaries between the three countries can be found in a greatly simplified manner , which are shown with different background colors and the national symbols D, PL and CZ; in the German part on the left the head of a dinosaur as a reminiscence of the dinosaur park Kleinwelka , next to it the Alte Wasserkunst and the Michaeliskirche in Bautzen , next to it a half-timbered house , in the middle the König-Friedrich-August-Turm in Löbau , on the right below the Heffterbau in Zittau ; above the Peterskirche in Görlitz next to the Oberlausitz memorial hall in Zgorzelec ; in the Polish part also the Wang stave church in Karpacz (Krummhübel), in the Czech part the Ještěd (Jeschken) television tower ; between the two parts a snow-covered mountain peak (probably the Schneekoppe ), which symbolizes the Sudetes |
| Part IV, at Dresden Mitte station to the Friedrichstrasse railway overpass | 32 (location) |
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- | Cycle traffic : a group of cyclists on bicycles , including two high bicycles and a tandem , on a cycle path between two bushes against the background of a rainbow . This design was made because one under the arch 32 bicycle stands of the station Dresden Mitte is located. |
| Part IV, at Dresden Mitte station to the Friedrichstrasse railway overpass | 33 (location) |
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Dresden-Friedrichstadt Hospital | Health care : in the middle the Palais Brühl-Marcolini as the historic main building of the municipal hospital hospital Dresden-Friedrichstadt , on the right the baroque Neptune fountain , on the left a modern hospital building, in front of it a team of doctors during an operation |
| Part V, between Friedrichstrasse and the railway overpass at Bundesstrasse 6 | 34 (location) |
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City drainage Dresden | Wastewater disposal : on the left a residential building in which the bathtub, toilet, shower and washing machine can be seen as facilities emitting dirty water , including the sewer system , in the background a section of the Dresden old town silhouette with the Saxon estate , Catholic court church and Hausmannsturm ; on the right three water droplets symbolizing a cycle (in line with the logo of Stadtentwässerung Dresden ), once green plants as a symbol for nature, once a bathing female figure as a symbol for the water users and once several clarifiers next to the Elbe as well as a historic Erlwein building Dresden-Kaditz sewage treatment plant ; on the far right the company mascot "Ulli-Gulli", a raccoon leaning on a household suction cup |
| Part V, between Friedrichstrasse and the railway overpass at Bundesstrasse 6 | 35 (location) |
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Saxon inland ports of the Upper Elbe | Freight shipping in the Alberthafen Dresden-Friedrichstadt : on the left a dock worker , on the right a truck loaded with an ISO container ; in addition, three harbor cranes that load and unload several cargo ships ; In the background the harbor bridge in the middle , on the right and left the loading tracks of the Dresden port railway , on the right a diesel locomotive of the DR class V 180 |
| Part V, between Friedrichstrasse and the railway overpass at Bundesstrasse 6 | 36 (location) |
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Dresden Airport | Aviation at Dresden Airport : Terminal building with a bridge over the airport driveway to the parking garage, on the right part of the apron with aircraft parked there , in the background an aircraft taking off |
| Part V, between Friedrichstrasse and the railway overpass at Bundesstrasse 6 | 37 (location) |
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Elbe Flugzeugwerke | Aviation : cockpit of an aircraft with various operating and control elements, through the windows a cloudy sky and a river valley with wooded slopes can be seen at the bottom right |
| Part V, between Friedrichstrasse and the railway overpass at Bundesstrasse 6 | 38 (location) |
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Elbe Flugzeugwerke | Aviation : 152 on the apron of an airfield with four people. The 152 was the first German passenger jet aircraft developed in the 1950s and the most important aircraft construction project in the GDR . It was manufactured by VEB Flugzeugwerke Dresden, the forerunner of Elbe Flugzeugwerke . |
| Part V, between Friedrichstrasse and the railway overpass at Bundesstrasse 6 | 39 (location) |
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IABG | Aviation : Structural load test on the large-capacity aircraft model Airbus A380 in a hangar at Dresden Airport , carried out by IABG and IMA Dresden (see photo ) |
| Part V, between Friedrichstrasse and the railway overpass at Bundesstrasse 6 | 40 (location) |
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Automobile Manufactory Dresden | Automotive industry : on the left the CarGoTram , a freight tram , in front of the Kronentor (corresponds to the real route that leads over Ostra-Allee ); in the middle the Transparent Factory , a Volkswagen car factory on Straßburger Platz ; on the right a VW Phaeton , which was built in this plant from 2001 to 2016 |
| Part V, between Friedrichstrasse and the railway overpass at Bundesstrasse 6 | 41 (location) |
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Dresden Transport Company (DVB) | Dresden tram : Vehicle history of the Dresden tram from the beginnings to the modern age: on the left a horse-drawn tram from the Tramways Company of Germany Ltd. ("The Yellow"), next to it the railcar 309 ( GBS Berolina-Wagen , one of the museum vehicles of the Dresden Tram Museum ) of the German Tram Company in Dresden ("Die Rote") on the Plauen basic railway , in the middle the railcar 1716 ( Großer Hecht , Museum vehicle of the Dresden Tram Museum), next to it the railcar 2000 ( Tatra T4D , museum vehicle of the Dresden Tram Museum), on the right an articulated railcar NGT D12DD |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Saxony (ed.): Cultural monuments in the Free State of Saxony - Monument document: Obj.-Dok.-Nr. 09210320 , accessed January 6, 2018.
- ↑ cf. Photo by Siegfried Bregulla from 1997 , available at deutschefotothek.de .
- ↑ Anne Rakowski: The dirt mile becomes an art mile. “Bahnbögenbalerie” on Könneritzstrasse should be completed by the city's anniversary. In: Dresdner Latest News , ed. September 24, 2005, p. 15.
- ↑ Katrin Richter: Graffiti mile under bridge arches. In: Dresdner Latest News , ed. June 21, 2005, p. 12.
- ↑ OV : “Dresdner Bahnbögengalerie” is being built on Könneritzstrasse. In: dresden.de, September 22, 2005, accessed December 12, 2018.
- ↑ OV : Railway arches advertise local public transport. In: Dresdner Latest News , ed. November 26, 2005, p. 13.
- ↑ OV : Art out of cans makes eyesore disappear. Arches at the Mitte train station should be finished by the end of the year. In: Dresdner Latest News , ed. November 29, 2006, p. 15.
- ↑ Nick Leukhardt: Sprayed Art - From Torgau to the whole world. In: torgauerzeitung.com , May 25, 2018, accessed December 12, 2018.
- ↑ Christoph Springer: Sponsor images should follow views of partner cities. In: Dresdner Latest News , ed. July 18, 2007, p. 16.
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