Quirks of the Frankfurt U-Bahn
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- čas přidán 19. 05. 2024
- Frankfurt's U-Bahn system is every bit as functional as you'd expect it to be. But it does have some interesting quirks that an average tourist might miss, so I thought I'd show you a few of them. On the way we'll be looking at an abandoned road tunnel, a storeroom that never got built, a platform that proved too short, and a random dance floor.
Chapters:
00:00 A quirky U-Bahn
00:35 Bockenheimer Warte
02:19 Miquel-/Adickesallee
04:10 Schweizer Platz
05:02 Dom/Römer
05:50 Konstablerwache
06:39 Höhenstraße
Music:
"Hot Swing"
by Kevin MacLeod incompetech.com/
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"Bailando con el Viento"
by Luna Cantina
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Rewboss slowly turning into the German version of Geoff Marshall and I'm all for it.
The limit on when you can use the mirrors as the background for dances is so wonderfully German, thanks for sharing that
I don't understand, zis is just reasonable, isn't it? What is so special german about zis?😉
Frankfurt actually not looking like a complete hellscape in this is some great filming work!
You had me so excited thinking you were going to dance 😄. Vielen Dank, Andrew!
finally a Geoff Marshall video about the U-Bahn in Frankfurt 😀
😂
I came straight after his video 😂
or Jago Hazard 😄
@@annabelhollandor both. No Charles Tyson Yerkes on sight, though 🤔
@@Mainyehc That does make me wonder who the German @CharlesTysonYerkesOfficial equivalent is...
Given that Bockenheimer Warte station was built in the 1980's, I have feeling that those vaults for the museum were more meant to protect against (nuclear) bombs than they were meant to protect against natural disasters. We have to remember, the Fulda Gap leads to Frankfurt.
genau!
Not that part. The U4 uplink from Hauptbahnhof passing Senckenberg Museum was realized in the late 1990s. The older 1984 part of the station is the upper level with the eastbound and westbound U6/U7 lines.
No I didnt think you were going to dance BUT I would have enjoyed it even more!!
There is another mural at the Messe, commissioned to celebrate the twinning of Frankfurt and Toronto since 2021. Frankfurt is represented as an eagle, whilst Toronto is represented as a raccoon.
I’m born and raised in Frankfurt and thanks to you I learn new things!
I love this kind of stuff! Please do more. My favourite thing as a traveler is noticing the little details, not the grand spectacles. The religious icon was is an excellent example of this.
This is like a mix between a Geoff Marshall video and a Tim Traveller video - love it! 😀
Nice video, thanks. The station "Leipziger Straße" is even cooler with the stacking. There is a hole in the upper platform, with a bit of luck you can see both trains at the same time. And you can ride the glass elevator from street level right through the B-Level and the first platform to the second platform.
This's a nice video. As an expat I enjoy finding out these kind of hidden nice things. (last week I've finally visited Aschaffenburg's arsch and found it using your video)
Aw, nostalgia... I used to live near Miquel-/Adickesallee, often taking either bus or U-Bahn to the Computer Science Campus (Bockenheimer). Thanks for the video!
"Well, this is, after all, Germany". Perfect!
Great video! More like it, please!
Not a civil engineer, but I too would have rather seen more about the stacked rail lines than that piece of art.
The U4 tunnel has more stations like this. The crossing lines (Bockenheimer Warte, Konstablerwache, Hauptwache, Willy-Brandt-Platz) also all are built on two levels. On Hauptwache and Konstsblerwache even the regional commuter trains have their stops parallel to the U-Bahn.
I used to frequent Höhenstraße station a lot. I can confirm, very popular with dancers and TikTokers.
Yes, do make more like this one. I especially enjoyed this one. I lived in Frankfurt/Hoechst from late 1961 to early 1963. It was fun to visit the modern version of familiar locations with you.
I gotta say, as a Frankfurter you pronounced some complicated names very good
I did indeed enjoy this video, and would watch many more like it.
That was really interesting. Thanks for the video, rewboss!
5:30 those rescued stone carvings are beautiful! Danke Actually, all the artwork is dazzling! Dance? You bet!
The British dancing paradox: the phenomenon of British men who, in order to think that dancing is a good idea, must also be too drunk to stand up, let alone dance.
Oh thats neat video! it has surprisingly many informations that are new to me! Thank you rewboss!
That was amazing Andrew, great and interesting information. But that ending too! I was about to click away but then the music started and just stopped dead and couldn't believe my eyes! For about 10 seconds 😆Well done and thank you!
I've been following for 14 years! I never thought I would see my student dorm in one of your videos while sitting inside it. I love how you shared this very unknown information about the Miquelallee-Tunnel and how it's actually a "Bauvorleistung" vor the planned underground Autobahn
Genuinely intriguing video of an absolutely beautiful country. And what a dance floor! Danke @rewboss.
Wonderful video!
I spent ridiculous amount of time in Frankfurt U-Bahn a couple of years ago - and it’s great to learn about more reasons to visit.
Thank you for your nice little subway-guide through my Frankfurt ! 🦅
Vorschlag: Ein Beitrag über "U-Bahnhof Niddapark" (U1 und U9). Ansonsten: Großartige Arbeit, Andrew. Ja, und eine ausführliche Betrachtung der Geschichte "Drei vershiedene Bahnsteighöhen normalisieren" wäre auch spannend.
Suggestion: An article about "Niddapark underground station" (U1 und U9). Otherwise: Great work, Andrew. Yes, and a detailed look at the story of "normalising three different platform heights" would also be exciting.
Good video, but I was initially drawn to it because of the thumbnail. I thought the video would be about the Rossmarkt subway station near the Hauptwache, which housed a techno club from the 1990s to the early 2000s. The station had closed earlier and was later reopened as a club and bar.
enjoyed the video, thank you for the pleasent small documentary
I demand a dance demonstration!
Thanks, Andrew. Great vid. Cheers.
Love your videos!
this is fantastic. i know all these stations and still learned a lot :)
Yes, more videos about public transport, please. 😊
Excellent, I really enjoyed this. More of the same please!
I just want to let you know that I enjoyed it and I wouldn't mind if you maybe make some other like that!
Great video, very interesting
🏅 nice and informativ video, thank u Andrew.
Top! 👍🏾😎 Danke 🙂
lovely video!
Having museum/library vaults in or near U-Bahn tunnels... what could go wrong?
Hold my Kölsch😂🎉
I enjoyed this video.
Ich muss mir unbedingt mal die neue Altstadt ansehen ;)
keep it up ... this is great :-)
Nice video.
I didn't know that I needed to know that 😉😊
Thank you. I visited Frankfurt for a few days in 2017, staying opposite the main railway station - and total missed the fact that there was an U-bahn system. I may have domestic blindness.
Completion of the U4 section from Bockenheimer Warte to the Hauptbahnhof was delayed for several years when ground water seeped in. Some sections of the "U-Bahn" also run overground and only go underground in the inner city area. Some U-Bahn lines also replaced existing Strassenbahnlinien, e.g. from the Bockenheimer Warte to the Hauptwache - faster but less scenic.
One of the entrances to the city tunnels ("Industriehof") is still connected to the tram lines on a now defunct track from tram line 16 (turning to Bockenheimer Warte) passing by Frankfurt West.
@@migga86 Is that the track from Industriehof to Hausen? I haven't been down there for many years.
That's why it's actually not a U-Bahn, it's a Stadtbahn
@@expatexpat6531 The track from Industriehof goes to Hausen (now U6) and Praunheim (now U7). They separate shortly after they surface near Industriehof. When I went to school, these ends were the other way around. They kept their respective other end (Enkheim, Ostbahnhof) though.
@@nicolasblume1046 It's a U-Bahn in the sense of U-Bahn. A documentation with one of their longest employed drivers said the U stands for "Unabhängig" as in "independent of other road vehicles". The upper arms of U1-3 and U8 have train like bars at their outer city crossings.
I moved away from Frankfurt over a decade ago but I remember spending many of my teenage nights out at an U-Bahn styled club. U60something? Can't quite remember. Wonder if it still exists.
I liked this video
Yes, I honestly did think that. I was worried.
6:53 This reminds me on the Montreal station "Charlesvoix", where the tracks are equally stacked. This is a quirk there.
And the Police station is built where the Px/Commissairy use to be, as well as the Topper club.
Aha, a fellow former service member?
Miquel-/adickesallee, meine Station 😊
I mean, the whole U-bahn system in Frankfurt is quirky with its stretches in the middle of the road and in the street, with indicators on the train cars.
Definitely going up on /r/frankfurt! :D
i study here :p. our computer science department is due to move to riedberg (but it has been "due" for years and nothing of note has been done as of now), the campus and university library are still open though and i still go there for lectures
Coming to underground art, I recommend a tour of the Stockholm Tunnelbana.
Actually, takes a lot to beat the Mexico City metro.
not sure if it's difficult to reach from Aschaffenburg, but Kassel, a city that is also in Hesse, has a very stark contrast of the city centre, which is a hub for modern art and its remaining historical buildings like the UNESCO heritage site Bergpark WIlhelmshoehe, just like Frankfurt. I personally think It might be a good city for another destination video.
I wonder if Jago Hazard watches this channel. I think he would be intensely intrigued by this eclectic collection of historical factoids.
And a nice little drink on the Berger Straße to end the video. Do they still serve Jever at the place behind Rewboss?
1:00 It also seems to be unuasualy clean for me, but I only had to use the U-Bahn systems in Stuttgart so far. I only use the S-Bahn, ICE and Bus or I just walk
I remember that station from the Resident Evil movie
Which station?
Sorry I should have said, Bockenheimer Warte
@@LuminalSpoon Ah. Wait... it featured in the movie? Time for me to give Resident Evil another watch. Has been years.
Bockenheimer Warte m- ost interesting entrance
You can dance if you want to!
You can leave your friends behind.
'Cause your friends don't dance
and if they don't dance
then they're no friends of mine.
The amount of major U-Bahn stations named after major police stations is amusing.
The "Polzeipräsidium" is just an appendage, and was only added, when the Frankfurt Police Headquater was completed. The actual name is still Miquel-/Adickesallee. Colloquially the locals call the station just Miquel.
@@1989Nihil And, the Polizeipräsidium used to be somewhere else - just beyond the Mainzer Landstrasse on the way to the Messe.
5:53 Nächste Station: Kobstablerwache!
0:30 I've read Dom/Römer as Dom / Döner lol
I thought he would show something like the Dorian Gray beneath Frankfurt Airport. 🤪
Even in Hamburg and Pinneberg when digging tunnels..... We had St. Barbara and we had women as Patin. BTW also the digging machine were named with female names.
I was here! Hehe
Nice, thanks! 🙂
0:20 that looks to me like a classic railway coach, not a tram. Perhaps more American than European.
7:48 yes :-)
Da war ein Mehr-Eis-Plakat von Volt...
4:15 did I hear 'scythe' of the river? :D
02:08 Tell us more about the vault dwellers.
Is there a hidden hint for an upcoming Video about the Riederwaldtunnel? xD
Hah, and I thought you were talking about actual dance floors in subway stations. They did exist, actually two of them: one was a legitimate club and the other one was illegally used for "underground" raves. I think there was even a third one, but I am not sure and I've never been there.
If you're still talking about Frankfurt, Willy-Brandt-Platz station did have a direct access to a shopping centre which basically went bust and closed down; it's now a nightclub.
@@rewbossI think that’s a reference to Eschenheimer Tor Station. (Southern entrance to street level nowadays used as a temporary overnight shelter for homeless people who refuse to go to better - but more controlled - accommodations during the winter.)
U60311 😉
5:00 In Bergbaugegenden haben auch Protestanten ihre Heilige Barbara.
The tunnel saint is placed there because of the crossing underneath the river Main, iirc.
More train videos please
Miquel is the Catalan version of Michael, is Johannes von Miquel related to Catalonia in some way or is it just a quirky coincidence? Searching through Wikipedia, I found that he came from a French family that emigrated during the French revolution, his family could be originally from Northern Catalonia.
According to the German Wikipedia, the family had been living in Cahors since at least the 17th century. I'm not entirely sure, but I think Miquèl is one of the variants of the name in the Occitan language as well, and that would've been spoken in that region at the time. So while it's not impossible that the family moved there from Catalonia at some point, I'd probably first assume Occitan ancestry. :)
@@varana Makes sense, Occitan is the closest language to Catalan, a lot of things in Occitan are the same as in Catalan.
I use this ubahn everyday and all of this was news to me
6:09 I find it weird that the captions all use North-American style quotes instead of the styles normal for their language
You can't use the phrase "bringing something into the [fill in appropriate century] century" without adding "kicking and screaming"!
Why does it have to be dragged kicking and screaming? Can't it, just once, be led gently by the hand?
...to paraphrase Terry Pratchett.
Which Frankfurt?
I know I know I kid.
You could've titled this video “Secrets of the Frankfurt U-Bahn”, like one other Englishman making videos about quirks of the metro lines ;)
but he is the Andi traveller not the ...
Looks much better in the Video, than in reality.
Also doesn't smell in the Video, so that is a good plus.
Always see the Heilige Barbara in videos about Swiss tunnel building and wonder how atheist tunnel builders deal with the ritual \m/
Probably the same way I (atheist) deal with the wooden statue of St Florian in my house I inherited from my grandparents (catholic): Hoping there might be something about the superstition that it protects the house from fire. "Heiliger Sankt Florian / Verschon dies Haus, zünd and're an."
Rituals seem to be an important part of human psychology. Tunnelling is, even today, an insanely dangerous undertaking, and I think that ceremonies like this that remind us of that fact, even if they have their roots in religion, aren't a bad thing.
I thought it was about Mamma Mia behind you
yes yes I was. Something funny, like the chicken dance or something
Ähem... Yes? 😂
was ich mich grade frage: tut man als deutscher englischsprechern einen gefallen, wenn man sich bemüht deutsche ortsnamen englisch auszusprechen?
Miggel and A-digges
Des heeßt MICK-WELL!!!121!
@@Roberternst72 ok
ja und tanzt du jetzt noch?
The whole channel sometimes feels and looks like 15-years-ago-CZcams