From left to right: Carsten Poralla, Managing Director Non-Aviation of Flughafen Stuttgart GmbH, Bernhard Bauer, Chairman of the Stuttgart-Ulm Rail Project Association, Winfried Hermann, Minister of Transport Baden-Württemberg, Dr. Arina Freitag, Tunnel Sponsor and Chief Financial Officer TenneT Holding BV, Dr. Volker Wissing, Federal Minister for Digital Affairs and Transport, Berthold Huber, Member of the Executive Board, Infrastructure Deutsche Bahn AG, Dr Frank Nopper, Lord Mayor of the City of Stuttgart, Herald Ruijerts, Director Investment, Innovative & Sustainable Transport European Commission, Jörg Rösler, Member of the Executive Board, Strabag SE (Copyright: Deutsche Bahn AG / Reiner Pfisterer)

DB finishes digging all 8 tunnels of the Stuttgart 21 project

Published on 18-09-2023 at 09:26

Local and Federal German officials and excecutives, as was well as European officials marking the finalisation of the Stuttgart tunneling Deutsche Bahn AG / Reiner Pfisterer

Deutsche Bahn (DB) has reached a milestone in the Stuttgart 21 project, the complete reorganisation of the Stuttgart rail node. 56.256 metres or approximately 56 kilometres of tunnel have now been dug, as the final tunnel breakthrough of the Stuttgart airport tunnel took place on 14 September 2023.