Timeline, Facts & Figures
August 2001
International design competition with a pre-qualification tender with nine invited participants;
winners: netzwerkarchitekten with Heike Klussmann /Art, Dr. Alexander Hentschel / Structure and Belzner Holmes / Lighting
Jury / Expert judges: Christoph Ingenhoven, Düsseldorf / Prof. Peter Kulka, Köln / Walter von Lom, Köln / Prof. Volkwin Marg, Aachen / Brigitte Hoppe-Johnen, Amt für Verkehrsmanagement, Düsseldorf / Prof. Ernst Kaspar, Aachen
December 2001
Competition by invitation to choose additional artists with sixteen participants, winners: Ralf Brög, Ursula Damm, Enne Haehnle, Manuel Franke, Thomas Stricker
April 2003
Final preliminary design, defining the geometries of the underground stations in consultation with the engineers
February 2006
Completion of the architectural design planning phase with a more in-depth planning stage in consultation with the artists.
from March 2006
Beginning of planning phase for the execution and details / "extended shell"
March 2007
Planning permission and authorization
November 2007
Start on construction of tunnels and cut-and-cover construction of the stations
August 2009
Life-size models made of the art-in-architecture concepts
December 2011
Completion of tunnel drilling
June 2012
Start of icing method used for cutting under the Kaufhof
June 2014
Completion of structural work on the stations
November 2012 to December 2015
Completion of construction on the stations
May 2015
Start of test drives
February 20-1, 2016
Opening and launch
Construction costs
843.6 million Euros, supported by the City of Düsseldorf, the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and the German Federal government
Route length
3.4 km double-track tunnel
Quantities of steel
22,000 tons
Amount of concrete
240,000 cubic meters
Number of installed panels for the “continuum”
approx. 6,700
Inner tunnel diameter
8.30 m
Length of platforms
90 meters
Estimated passenger volume
Weekdays: 53,100 people
Wehrhahn Lines
U 71, U 72, U 73 and U 83
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