The Tausendfüßler (German: millipede) was an elevated street in Düsseldorf.

Etymology and names. The term 'millipede' is widespread in popular and scientific literature, but among North American scientists, the term 'milliped' (without the terminal e) is also used. Other vernacular names include 'thousand-legger' or simply 'diplopod'. The science of millipede biology and taxonomy is called diplopodology: the study of diplopods. The Armored Mawdad is the first boss in Pikmin 3, and the boss of the Garden of Hope. It is a massive, centipede-like beast with a multitude of small gecko-like legs, a large head, yellow eyes, a bluish-green underbelly, a gaping mouth, and large curved mandibles. The boss crawls about, trying to dodge the player's attacks, and is able to climb up the sides of walls as a means of fleeing.

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• Approximately 12,000 millipede species have been described. Estimates of the true number of species on earth range from 15,000 to as high as 80,000. Few species of millipede are at all widespread; they have very poor dispersal abilities, depending as they do on terrestrial locomotion and humid habitats.

Construction[edit]

The concept of the bridge was a kind of swinging Y: The traffic flowed (only in only direction) from the north on three tracks in a soft curve. In the middle of the bridge the traffic split. Two tracks went to the east and followed the curve in direction to the Düsseldorf main station, two other tracks (the incoming middle track was split) followed a soft curve in the other direction, together with the first curve an S-curve in southern direction.

Its length was 536 meters, 391 meters on its main direction north to south, 145 meters in the east direction.On its three-tracks part it has a width of 25 meters.

It was constructed in the years 1961 to 1962, following a concept of automotive mobility in Düsseldorf from the 1950s.

The Tausendfüßler belongs to a building ensemble from the early 1960s together with the Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf (City Theatre) and the Dreischeibenhaus (a skyscraper).

The architect of the Tausendfüßler was Friedrich Tamms, a professor on architecture and a member of city council.

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In December 1993 the Tausendfüßler was listed in the list of city monuments in the category Technical monuments, buildings and equipment for road.

Demolition[edit]

It was demolished in 2013, as part of the Kö-Bogen project.

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Tausendfüßler at Structurae
• 'Tausendfüßler'. brueckenweb.de (in German).
• Planning after demolition on duesseldorf.de (German)

Coordinates: 51°13′33″N6°46′58″E / 51.22583°N 6.78278°E

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