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WELCOME TO THE TUNNEL AREA OF THE WARNOW TUNNEL

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The tunnel area provides all information on the tunnel, its history, the employees and our mascot otter Oskar. You can find figures-data-facts and construction phases as well as information on environmental protection or sustainable development. In our gallery you will find impressions and events relating to the Warnow Tunnel.

Figures-Data-Facts

Construction start: 1.12.1999
Opened: 12.09.2003 (Construction time: 45 months)
Length: 790 m
Width: 22.5 m
Height: 8.5 m
Average height: 4.5 m 
(for heavy goods transports and abnormal load 4.35m)
Lanes: 4 (each 3.50 m wide + 1.05 m wide emergency lanes)
Composition:
• 6 steel concrete elements (each 120 m long with a weight of 20,000 t )
• 80,000 m3 concrete
• 9,000 t steel reinforcement
• 30,000 t road surface
• 70,000 l paint
• 35 km electric cable
Weight (total): 200,000 tonnes
Tunnel users: Approx. 11,100/daily (12.08.2014: 40,000,000 total)
Did you know
Each tunnel element has a child from Rostock as a godfather:
Werner, Anita, Rafael, Nadine, Ole and William – together the initial letters spell out the river name Warnow.
The tunnel also has a patron saint – Saint Barbara
St. Barbara is not only the patron saint of mountain and hut folk, she is also the patron saint of the Warnow Tunnel. If you travel from the direction of Lütten-Klein/Warnemünde, you can see her just before the tunnel entrance. heilige_barbaraAccording to tradition, Barbara of Nikomedien is a Christian virgin who found martyrdom. However, her existence is not confirmed. Knowledge about her is based on verbal legends which were then written down in some form.
She is a symbol of strength and steadfastness.

 

 

 

 

 

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