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Tuffi Bronze Statue

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    October 16, 2020

    In memory of the elephant Tuffi, who jumped from the moving suspension railway into the Wupper on July 21, 1950 at the age of four and survived.

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      September 19, 2020

      Tuffi (* 1946 in India; † 1989 in Paris) was an Asian elephant cow from the Althoff circus who jumped from the suspended suspension railway into the Wupper on July 21, 1950 at the age of four in Wuppertal.

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        In April 1991 bronze turtles moved into their new domicile, the Werth in the inner city of Barmer, in order to serve as a play area for children after the redesign of the pedestrian zone. The sketch came from Reinhold Baron, the metal workshop Karl Heinz Frotz produced the models for the bronze casting, which was obtained from the Uppendahl company from Weeze. One of the turtles was placed on its back to encourage children to do balance exercises. After animal rights activists complained that the children were being seduced into animal abuse, the turtle was turned back over. 200,000 DM were available for the play animals.

        In April 1992 a bronze elephant followed in the amount of the Sparkasse. He was nicknamed Tuffy.

        Source: denkmal-wuppertal.de/2015/12/spieltiere-auf-dem-werth.html

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          Location: Bergisches Land, Cologne District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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