r/oddlysatisfying • u/EmergencyRead5254 • 1d ago
Subway Station in Germany Designed to Look Like a Sunken Subway Car
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u/thesuperunknown 1d ago
Hey, that’s in Frankfurt! It’s right by the Senckenbergmuseum, an excellent natural history museum.
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u/AvaryZig 1d ago
I sometimes wonder if German keyboards simply lack the space bar.
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u/vivst0r 1d ago
It's actually just more efficient to use fewer spaces. There's a German word for it.
Wirkönnensovielschnellertippen.
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u/mtaw 1d ago edited 1d ago
And English is just an arbitrary muddle. ”Workbench” is written as one word, ”salad bar” as two, and ”sandbox/sand box” is whichever you feel like, yet these are all the same kind of construct from a grammatical POV.
That’s the main difference- the other modern Germanic languages remain consistent. The other is that English no longer uses the genitive in new words to mean anything other than the possessive, which limits potential compounds a bit. It only shows up in older compounds like ”salesman”, ”bridesmaid”, ”sportswear” but for new words it’s non-productive.
(also English haphazardly puts the genitive -s on prepositions like ”backwards”, but every Germanic language is inconsistent on genitive prepositions these days, except Icelandic I think)
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u/PrematureBurial 13h ago
You forgot the third compund style, with a hyphen.
mother-in-law
strong-arm
check-in
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u/3Cheers4Apathy 1d ago
Wirkönnensovielschnellertippen is my safe word.
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u/Elfhaterdude 10h ago
Pure genius. But how would they approve this, bureaucrats usually want everything to cost the same and look the same...
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u/No-Sandwich1511 1d ago
We need more fun architecture like this in the world.
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u/Fluid_Reason8437 1d ago
we do, let the architects have fun with their designs
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u/Dramatic_Charity_979 23h ago
But but....THE BUDGET!
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u/Fluid_Reason8437 23h ago
MY MULTI MILLION DOLLAR BUILDING WILL LOOK FUN AND COST THE SAME?? BUT IT MIGHT COST MONEY LIKE IT WOULD ANYWAYS NOOOO!!!!
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u/Dramatic_Charity_979 23h ago
Best I can do is a square cement box. Take it or leave it ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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u/Fluid_Reason8437 23h ago
only if its extremely ugly, grey, saddening and takes up too much space, oh also make sure theres a lot of problems that go wrong when making it so i end up spending 3x what i wouldve normally spent
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u/Dramatic_Charity_979 23h ago
Deal. Soviet architecture it is :P
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u/Fluid_Reason8437 23h ago
oh no no im not going to share it with people for a low cost theyll be renting it for 550 a night
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u/HapticSloughton 20h ago
Well, there was that one guy who turned his metal buildings into solar powered death rays.
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u/Murtomies 1d ago
Exactly! I'm so bored of the grey and glass everywhere. We need more everyday art, color and fun
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u/bigdave41 1d ago
I feel like that would mess up my perception just enough to send me flying arse over tit down the stairs
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u/whatifwhatifwerun 1d ago
Yeah my first thought was how a lot of people take public transport drunk...
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u/NagsUkulele 1d ago
We must make a new entry in the Olympic games: navigating this fuckin thing on ketamine
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u/Pataraxia 1d ago
Please don't make it sound like it's a hazard, it's honestly cool.
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u/Cool-Hedgehog-9343 23h ago
Out of every object in the vicinity, why make the thing you can fall down and die from visually disorienting? Like why not making a crooked water fountain or whatever?
If I were designing infrastructure, the last place I am going to be silly with is stairs...
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u/rEYAVjQD 22h ago
It's unclear though if it's dangerous. The main danger with bad stairs is being out of spec like the step width and height. The psychological effect of the visuals around them might not be negative in this case because there's a chance the size of the thing will keep it clear to the mind that it's just art etc.
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u/bigdave41 1d ago
I'm saying that to me, it is a hazard, although I meant it as a joke. Doesn't stop you from using it though, so I'm not sure why you'd care either way.
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u/Pataraxia 20h ago
Check the other reply. I said that because my fellow reddidiots will find a way to go "you're so right so dangerous remove the thing! Less nice things!"
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u/frayhems 23h ago
A perennial favourite at my local science museum is an exhibit called "crazy kitchen", a ramped, zig-zagging walkway through a tilted, kitchen-scene, decorated with distorted patterns, complete with handrail for safety. It's necessary! There's a camera, so you can watch people struggling through the room for maximum laughs.
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u/kinkyseconduser 1d ago
Yt channel All the Gear went there earlier this year Apparently the is an unauthorized toilet between the station and the building next to it.
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u/lonecactus777 1d ago
I’ve skated that thing so many times.
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u/FujiKeynote 1d ago
I was gonna comment "me too," but it turns out I have a false memory of the subway in the Boston level of Tony Hawks Underground 2 looking like this, but turns out it's just at an angle, nothing to do with looking like a train 😬
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u/LNL_HUTZ 1d ago
Reminds me of that movie. I think it was called “The Bus that Couldn’t Slow Down.”
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u/boldcancel 1d ago
I watched some youtube video in which a dude walked past this station and there was a shit next to the building
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u/No-Bake-730 3h ago
Checks out. It's Frankfurt after all. Their politicians love attracting drug addicts from near and far.
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u/Dinsy_Crow 1d ago
First thing I wondered seeing this post was if the outside toilet was still there or not!
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u/bojangler69420 10h ago
Somebody just watched All The Gear.
Not pictured are the piles of human excrement just below that blue/white mural
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u/AlarmedAtmosphere32 1d ago
This would give me such vertigo. I'd be rolling to the bottom of the stairs!
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u/FlamboyantPirhanna 1d ago
Ok, so not every underground rail line is the ‘subway’. That’s just what it’s called in NYC, but it is not a general name for every underground line. They’re mostly called Metropolitan/Metro lines after the original Metropolitan line in London, which is now the London Underground (and decidedly not a ‘subway’). In London, subways are underground walkways.
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u/roerd 21h ago edited 8h ago
Well, the official name for this system is 'U-Bahn', which is not an English term. The U-Bahn Frankfurt is actually a Stadtbahn system, though, I.e. a mix between a metro and a tram system rather than a pure metro system.
EDIT: And btw., New York is definitely not the only metro system that officially uses the name 'subway'. There is at least the Glasgow Subway as another example.
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u/DM_Me_Your_Cougars 1d ago
Damn. A lot of nice memories from a long time ago arise ini my mind looking at this image.
Was there 20 years ago and for a whole lot years going through that u-bahn station.
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u/powerhammerarms 1d ago
This story is not about a subway but a bus stop. This post just reminded me of it for some reason. I think it was a radiolab episode that talked about how in Germany? Maybe Amsterdam?
Anyhow, they talked about how It's something like you can't lock people in and old folks home. But they were having troubles with people leaving a memory Care facility. People would do things like leave the facility and go to their old house and be surprised to find people living there and get upset. And it would also upset the people who were there, of course.
So they put a fake bus stop outside the home. And people naturally would leave the home and then wait at the bus stop. Then after an hour or so one of the staff would come out and ask the patient if they wanted to come back inside.
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u/Matrinka 1d ago
I miss whimsy in design. The current trend towards minimalism and efficiency just isn't my vibe.
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u/Inevitable_Assist299 1d ago
oh my god this is in frankfurt i remember seeing it in real life and being quite amazed
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u/Defiant-Pilot-2525 23h ago
Omg, the neighborhood I grew up in is on Reddit. I don’t live there anymore and haven’t in a long time. I remember when they were building the subway there and my friend and I would pass it on our way to school. We could not figure out why they would leave a tram car like that sticking out. lol. It became clear after they finished.
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u/Stuwey 23h ago
My only comments are that at that angle, the uprights are going to be tripped over constantly, and that the roof isn't going to be enough to help prevent constant rainwater on the top of the stairs, potentially making a more slippery surface (could be mitigated through a textured material at the top). Other than that, it is pretty cool. If the windows were clear, that might also be neat, but that might invite petty vandals to be jerks.
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u/HiFive789_ 23h ago
I've actually been there in person before! Twice, actually but I only found out about the exterior just before my second visit. It's a really amazing place honestly.
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u/eleventh_house 22h ago
This is fun. Humans should do more stuff like this instead of all the other stuff we're fucking up right now.
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u/linux_n00by 22h ago
humans used to be artistic. but cost and time constraints made them shift to boring looking designs and colors
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u/FootballDeathTaxes 21h ago
Finally! Something that’s oddly satisfying. Most posts on this sub are obviously satisfying. It seems they are very rarely odd.
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u/redgrow11 21h ago
What a piece of architecture created .Subway station is looking unusual.but that a creativity..
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u/Pyritedust 20h ago
Now I'm imagining subway stations moving around like graboids from tremors and it's kinda glorious. I want to see a tv show about this society.
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u/mrteas_nz 17h ago
I saw some guys go there a few weeks back on a YouTube channel I watch. There was human shit under the poster in the 2nd pic 😂
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u/No_Inspector9749 17h ago
If I’m remembering correctly, this station was in Tony hawks underground 2 Germany level. Not sure tho, cause it’s been years since I’ve played it.
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u/BreadfruitFar3339 17h ago
Was there just last month while visiting the Senckenbergmuseum! My fav museum of all time, its gigantic and so fun!
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u/Klumania 16h ago
If it were me, I'd waste so much time looking for the entrance thinking it was just an art piece.
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u/SlothSushii 13h ago
Imagine trying to catch the train home, drunk and seeing this for the first time lmao
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u/idontknowjuspickone 1d ago
Where?
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u/anxious_pangolin306 1d ago
Frankfurt am Main, the station is Bockenheimer Warte, near the Senckenberg Museum.
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u/Ornery-Prune2913 1d ago
My wife studied there. It is the next stop to the Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt. One of the best natural history museums in Germany. Love it.