Theater tunnel
| K 818 theater tunnel | ||||
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 Theater tunnel west portal
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| Official name | Theater tunnel | |||
| use | Road tunnel | |||
| traffic connection | K 818 | |||
| place | Frankfurt am Main | |||
| length | 415 m | |||
| Number of tubes | 1 | |||
| cross-section | Rectangular profile | |||
| construction | ||||
| start of building | 1971 | |||
| business | ||||
| release | Spring 1974 | |||
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| Coordinates | ||||
| East portal | 50 ° 6 ′ 35 " N , 8 ° 40 ′ 38" E | |||
| West portal | 50 ° 6 ′ 29 " N , 8 ° 40 ′ 21" E | |||
Map with all coordinates: The Theater Tunnel is a 415 meter long two-lane road tunnel in Frankfurt am Main . It connects Berliner Straße in the old town with Gutleutstraße in the Bahnhofsviertel . It runs under Weißfrauenstrasse and Willy-Brandt-Platz and crosses under Neue Mainzer Strasse and Untermainanlage .
history
The theater tunnel was built between 1971 and 1974 when the B underground line was built together with the Theaterplatz underground station . It opened in the spring of 1974. From 1994 to 2002 the Tunnel Rave took place in August every year, a two-day techno party in the style of the Sound of Frankfurt . This techno party, which took place for the first time in August 1994 on the occasion of the 1200th anniversary of Frankfurt am Main, was organized by the local music club Batschkapp in cooperation with the event manager Matthias Grein. For the premiere of the Tunnel Rave in 1994, the techno DJs Sven Väth , Marusha and Mark Spoon played in the specially closed theater tunnel .
From 2007 to 2008 the tunnel was modernized and, above all, the fire protection was renewed according to the current state of the art.
construction
The speed limit in the tunnel is 50 kilometers per hour. The tunnel is video-monitored by the tunnel control center of the State of Hesse, and around 14,000 vehicles pass through it every day. The clearance height is 4 meters.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rafael Barth: Techno parties with obstacles. Techno in Frankfurt. In: faz.net. August 24, 2009. Retrieved March 29, 2017 .
- ↑ Anniversary chronicle : Batschkapp - 20 years and not a bit quiet ... , chapter: Techno in der Straßenröhre , 1996, 40 pages. Idea & conception: Klaus Fischer and Thomas Hirschbiegel. Editorial address: Lenaustraße 91, Frankfurt / Main. Publisher: Frankfurter Kulturzentrum eV, pp. 31–35
- ↑ Construction work on the theater tunnel is nearing completion at par.frankfurt.de , the former website of the City of Frankfurt am Main, accessed on March 25, 2017