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Krefeld News

The city has invented new traffic rules for personal transportation:

The underground tunnel of Krefeld-Oppum's railway station has got a new wall (a bit inspired by
the outside of a house on Berlin's Potsdamer Platz) :

(click on image to enlarge)
note: image taken on day 1 of the installation ; due to not being bulletproof
some wall segments already have been damaged by hooligans

Tennisball sized ice created a major damage to roofs, top-windows and cars in the Krefeld region on May-30-2008

if your browser does not support shockwave flash animations, click here to view a single image (taken from a safe indoor position)

a bird that hasn't made it

restaurant employee inspecting/repairing roof
typical damage of a car (click on one of the 2 images to enlarge)





Words

  • "UDU" = "unter der Uhr" - famous central meeting point
  • "Kriewelsch" = name of local 'slang' , mainly used by "Matthes and Schäng"






    Major attractions:

    Cinemaxx
    (near the main station)



    to the Official City Council Website


  • this page has been updated on August-06-2008