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Created in 1925, this painting exudes a sombre mood with its grey-black sky. In the foreground on the left, a broken fence can be seen next to a pile of brown earth. A path leads from the foreground to the middle ground, disappearing behind a hill on the right. The eponymous underpass lies in the shade in the centre of the painting, a wide path beneath a bridge that is not too high. The underpass was built following a serious railway accident in Kitzingen. The railway embankment was excavated to make way for it. To the right is the red signal box, which Grossberg has depicted in a reduced manner, as he has done with the other buildings. The two larger buildings are Wilhelminian style houses. The one on the left belonged to the freight forwarder Samuel Hausmann. Both properties were destroyed during the bombing of Kitzingen on 23 February 1945.

The underpass and the signal box building still exist today. They are located south of Kitzingen railway station. However, the surrounding landscape has changed radically.