Kruiner tunnel

(L 700) Kruiner tunnel
	View from Ennepetal towards the dam with the Kruiner tunnel, which the road and railway line cross together
use	Road tunnels , rail tunnels
traffic connection	Landesstrasse 700 Ennepetalbahn; railway line Elberfeld – Dortmund
place	Gevelsberg
length	89 m
Number of tubes	1
cross-section	9.36 m high; 10.30 m wide
Largest coverage	31 m
construction
start of building	May 14, 1846
completion	1882
business
release	September 1, 1882
location
Coordinates
West portal	51 ° 18 ′ 38 " N , 7 ° 20 ′ 30" E
East portal	51 ° 18 ′ 36 " N , 7 ° 20 ′ 34" E

Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap

The Kruiner Tunnel is an 89 meter long combined rail and road tunnel in the North Rhine-Westphalian city of Gevelsberg in Germany . It cuts through the embankment of the Elberfeld – Dortmund railway line and is located south of Gevelsberg city center near the city limits of Ennepetal . The Ennepetalbahn and the L 700 run through the tunnel, and federal road 7 until 2015 .

The tunnel has been a listed building since 1988 and is listed under number 91 in the Gevelsberg List of Monuments .

history

Train passing through the tunnel in the direction of Ennepetal, 2006

Cars stopping in front of the north portal with the signal system activated

South portal

Construction work on the Elberfeld – Dortmund railway began in 1845. The Wuppertal - Schwelm section was put into operation in October 1847. The difficult terrain delayed further construction. Between Ennepetal and Gevelsberg, a 340 meter long and up to 120 meter wide railway embankment had to be built in the area of today's tunnel , which also crosses the Ennepe next to the tunnel. The necessary areas could only be acquired after expropriations , so that the construction of the dam and the tunnel did not begin until May 1846. The approximately 500,000 m³ of earth came from the cut at the Martfeld house near Schwelm and had to be laboriously brought in by wheelbarrows by thousands of workers .

Since its completion, the tunnel has been crossed by the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn and in the tunnel by the Ennepetalbahn and the L 700. In addition, from 1907 to 1956 there was a single-track connection of the Ennepe tram from Voerde to Haßlinghausen . Later, road and rail traffic in the tunnel were separated by a guardrail . Only one lane was available for traffic in both directions; from 1961 traffic was regulated by traffic lights .

In 1992 the track was also equipped with a road surface, and since then road traffic has been able to use the full traffic area in the tunnel and pass it in two lanes. When trains of the Ennepetalbahn pass the tunnel today, traffic lights are blocked for the duration of the train journey.

Web links

Commons : Kruiner Tunnel - collection of images, videos and audio files

supporting documents

↑ Construction of the Bergisch-Märkische route , accessed on December 25, 2015
↑ ^a ^b The miracle building in Ennepetal-Milspe , accessed on December 25, 2015

[1] Construction of the Bergisch-Märkische route , accessed on December 25, 2015

[wunder-2] The miracle building in Ennepetal-Milspe , accessed on December 25, 2015