Rott tunnel
| Rott tunnel | ||||
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 The eastern tunnel portal
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| use | Railway tunnel | |||
| traffic connection | Düsseldorf-Derendorf – Dortmund Süd railway line | |||
| place |
Wuppertal (residential area Rott ) |
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| length | 351 m | |||
| Number of tubes | 1 | |||
| construction | ||||
| Client | Rhenish Railway Company | |||
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| release | 1879 | |||
| closure | December 17, 1999 | |||
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| Coordinates | ||||
| 51 ° 16 ′ 17 ″ N , 7 ° 11 ′ 5 ″ E | ||||
| 51 ° 16 ′ 20 " N , 7 ° 11 ′ 25" E | ||||
Map with all coordinates: The Rott tunnel is a 351 m (according to other sources 364 m) long railway tunnel in Wuppertal . It is located on the Düsseldorf-Derendorf – Dortmund Süd railway line ("Wuppertal Northern Railway"), which opened in 1879 and has since been closed, between the Wuppertal-Loh train station and the Wuppertal-Rott stop . The Rott stop was directly at the eastern tunnel portal. It is one of seven tunnels on the section between Mettmann and Gevelsberg West station . Both tunnel portals have been protected as architectural monuments since September 10, 1992 .
Inside Look (2009)
West portal (2009)
Outsides project
In 2006 the Brazilian street artists Os Gêmeos & Nina created the army of lost souls in the tunnel as part of the Wuppertal Outsides project . Murals with thirty human-sized figures showed women, men and children as sad creatures, whose desolation and forlornness impressively staged the gloomy atmosphere of the old tunnel. The work of art was destroyed in 2010 due to the conversion of the 22 kilometer long route of the disused northern railway into a pedestrian and cycle path.
Web links
- Entry in the Wuppertal monument list
- Lothar Brill: Tunnel portals
- Michael Kettler: Tunnel ( Memento from January 10, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Frank Lämmer (ed.): We come at Night: A Corporate Street Art Attack. Die Gestalten Verlag , Berlin / London 2008. Contains the film documentation They come at night ISBN 978-3-89955-216-4 pp. 44 to 57 as a DVD supplement .
- ↑ Lars Mader: Art simply milled away. In: Rheinische Post (RP online), August 25, 2012.