00:00:00: If you’re interested in a really novel swimming experience, the edifice on the hill to your left is just the thing. Our indoor pool, marked for historic preservation, is almost as unusual as the suspension monorail.

00:00:15: Actually, in the fifties some of Elberfeld’s leaders wanted to build an opera house on top of the hill. The citizens finally decided they’d prefer a swimming pool with spectacular architecture.

00:00:27: And thus this building promptly received its nickname – The Swimming Opera – though the only singing you might hear there will be by people under the showers.

00:00:36: By the way - if you look up the street on your left directly in front of the entrance to the next station, you can catch a glance of the main building of the Bergische University. Approx. 23,000 young people study there.