Albvorland tunnel

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Albvorland tunnel
traffic connection New Wendlingen – Ulm line
length 8176 m
Number of tubes 2
construction
Client Deutsche Bahn
start of building 2016
completion Mid-2019 (planned)
business
release December 2022 (planned)Template: future / in 2 years
location
Albvorland tunnel (Baden-Württemberg)
Red pog.svg
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Coordinates
West portal 48 ° 39 ′ 43 "  N , 9 ° 22 ′ 22"  E
East portal 48 ° 37 ′ 48 "  N , 9 ° 28 ′ 11"  E

The Albvorland tunnel is a 8,176 m long railway tunnel under construction on the new Wendlingen – Ulm line in Baden-Württemberg . Among other things, it should pass under the Lindorf district of the city of Kirchheim unter Teck as well as the federal motorway 8 with the Kirchheim-Ost junction in the area of ​​the industrial park Dettingen unter Teck . The structure is part of the 11 km long plan approval section 2.1a / b of the new line. The tunnel, which will in future be continuously passable at 250 km / h, will be one of the 10 longest railway tunnels in Germany after its completion .

The drive for the south tube began on November 9, 2017. The drive for the north tube started in January 2018.

On October 29, 2019, the completion of the machine tunneling was celebrated.

course

The 8176 m long structure lies between construction kilometers 26.077 and 34.253. He is in the area of ​​the districts Wendlingen am Neckar , Kirchheim unter Teck , Lindorf and Dettingen unter Teck . Among other things, the structure crosses under the Federal Motorway 8 in a grinding cut (km 32.259 to approx. 33.9). In addition, a high pressure gas line and a NATO fuel line will be underpassed.

The gradient rises continuously in changing inclines towards the east portal.

The tunnel crosses layers of the Lower and Middle Black Jurassic . The largest overburden is around 65 m. The smallest cover is 9.50 m. Water pressures of up to 45 m water column are expected. Damming rings are intended to prevent the groundwater from running longitudinally.

At both portals 50 and 80 m long structures with 6 to 9 m² side openings against the tunnel bang are planned (km 26.077 to 26.127 and 34.173 to 34.253).

View of the west portal of the Albvorland tunnel, which is under construction. The freight train connection will be in the left (northern) area, parallel to the north tube (construction status May 2019).

The freight train connection from Wendlingen runs in the western portal area of ​​the Albvorland tunnel in an independent, 203 m long GZA tunnel and then threads into the Ulm – Stuttgart track of the Albvorland tunnel in a trumpet-shaped widening area (km 26.250 to approx. 26.300). The permissible speed is 80 km / h throughout.

The two single-track tubes are connected by crosscuts 14 to 24 m long, 4.6 m wide and 4.0 m high.

history

planning

According to the planning status of 1991, a short tunnel was planned, which should begin east of Oberboihingen and end after crossing under the federal highway 297 west of Dettingen unter Teck . The route to Weilheim an der Teck should then run above ground. The freight train connection should thread into the new line towards Ulm in front of the east portal of the tunnel.

According to the planning status from 1995, the tunnel was planned to be 4910 m long. In 2004 a length of around 7.9 km was planned. In 2007 the planned length was 8,175 m.

Later the structure was planned to be almost 10 km long. A dam is to be placed in front of the structure to the west.

The public hearing took place in January 2010. In mid-February 2012, Deutsche Bahn submitted documents to the Federal Railway Authority for the sixth change to the plan. From March 12 to April 11, 2012, the changed plans were available. Compared to the previous plan, a bridge on Steigäckerstraße that had been planned over the western pre-cut was omitted and was (newly) replaced by a footpath and cycle path over the west portal. In the course of the consultation process that began in 2009 and was completed in March 2014, the Salzäcker intermediate attack was removed from the planning and the building site facility area at the west portal was moved away from residential developments.

As part of a plan change made around 2012, a freight train transfer connection that was planned between kilometers 26.6 and 26.9 and which could be driven at 80 km / h was removed from the planning and replaced by a transfer point east of the tunnel that could be driven at 100 km / h (km 34, 8 to 35.2). The transition in the tunnel was classified as critical by the specialist authorities that were heard. a. there were doubts about the smoke-tightness of the doors, especially in the area of ​​the overhead contact line. The intended double-leaf swing gate should only be closed in the event of an incident. According to the Deutsche Bahn, adapting the fire protection and rescue concept does not allow such a connection in the tunnel. The relocation of the track change is part of an 89 million euro optimization package on the new line.

In an internal paper from the beginning of March 2012, Deutsche Bahn expected the planning approval decision in Section 2.1 from 2014, with the start of construction in 2015 and the commissioning of the new line in December 2021. Deutsche Bahn expected that in May 2012 Planning approval decision for the end of September 2012. In mid-2013, she expected the planning approval decision by 2014 at the latest. In spring 2014, she expected it by the beginning of 2015. After the implementation planning , construction work should begin in 2016.

The planning approval decision was finally issued on March 23, 2015. It has been legally binding since June 1, 2015.

View from the west portal of the Albvorland tunnel, which is currently under construction, in May 2019. The northern track of the Wendlinger curve runs between the new line and the freight train connection and merges into the line to Stuttgart in front of the Neckar bridge (in the background).

In the 2016/2017 feasibility study for the Great Wendlinger Bend, one variant (variant 6) suggested an underground extension from the Albvorland tunnel towards Oberboihingen. In most of the other variants, including both preferred variants, the track of the Große Wendlinger curve crosses under the western pre-cut area of ​​the Albvorland tunnel.

After expert appraisers employed during construction had discovered more and more widely distributed occurrences of lizards in the area of ​​the future west portal , a plan change became necessary. This was approved on March 31, 2017. The start of construction has been delayed for some measures by up to 18 months.

Complex plan change procedures for species protection in the foothills of the Alb were specified in January 2018 to justify the postponement of the commissioning of the new line to 2022.

The tunnel is planned and implemented using Building Information Modeling .

Tendering and awarding

The planning and construction of the tunnel were put out to tender on February 13, 2015. Offers should be received by March 20, 2015.

Eight bidders took part in the competition for the Europe-wide tender. The contract, which also includes the construction of the freight train connection and the Kleine Wendlinger curve , was awarded to Implenia on December 18, 2015 for 378 million euros . In October 2018, the order value, after supplements, was 482 million euros.

The planned contract term for the completion of the building is 46 months.

construction

In the course of the construction preparation the Bonackerhöfe (Aussiedlerhöfe between Wendlingen and Lindorf) were demolished.

According to the postponement of the planning approval, the planned start of construction was also delayed several times from the original (status: 2012) in mid-2014 to the beginning of 2016. One of the first measures was to bypass Steigäckerstraße (in the area of ​​the west portal).

An information center near Wendlingen planned for 2017 will not be realized for cost reasons. A lookout point is to be created at the west portal.

Of the 3.2 million cubic meters of excavated material, 1.9 million cubic meters were to be heaped up to form noise barriers. The wall planned between the districts of Lindorf and Ötlingen was rejected by the Stuttgart regional council at the end of 2010 after an objection by the Esslingen district farmers' association, which spoke out against these walls with reference to the scarcity of arable land. Instead, it is now planned to remove most of the excavated material via the A8. The planned wall should be 90 m wide and up to 18 m high. By dispensing with the wall, around 20 hectares of arable land remain.

In 2015, Deutsche Bahn considered using a tunnel boring machine (TBM) to build the tunnel. With conventional tunneling, a 314 m long intermediate approach should be created at the level of the Kirchheim-West motorway exit, the tunneling should take place in both directions and the overburden should be removed via a 3.8 km long conveyor belt along the motorway.

Two TBMs are now being used for the construction. Both machines are each driving a tube from the east portal towards the west. While the machine in the south tube drives to the west portal, the last 200 m in the north tube, with the area of ​​the freight train connection, are to be built conventionally in the opposite direction (from the west portal). Their cutting wheels have a diameter of 10.87 meters. They are around 120 m long, weigh 2300 t and have an output of 4400 kW each. The largest single piece is the drive with a weight of 220 t. The machines built by Herrenknecht were accepted by Implenia in March 2017. The price per machine is € 15 million. The machines were then dismantled and transported to Kirchheim unter Teck and reassembled there. The tunneling work began on October 6, 2017. The south tube is to be driven completely by TBM, in the north tube a counter-advance of about 300 meters from the west portal is planned.

To set up the machines, a 1200 t special crane was built, the delivery of which cost half a million euros.

The 54,000 segments required for the tunnel expansion will be manufactured in a dedicated plant north of Autobahn 8 . To this end, a 172 m long, 36 m wide and 12 m high hall was built in the Kirchheim industrial park in seven months. Segments require a drying time of 28 days. The Technical Committee of the Dettinger Municipal Council gave the approval to create a storage area of ​​almost 15,000 square meters south of the A8 for drying the segments.

There are six temporary connection points for construction site traffic on the A8.

The motorway bridge that connects Kirchheim unter Teck with the district of Nabern will be closed to the general public during the construction period. A bridge was built further west for pedestrians and cyclists and was opened on April 10, 2017.

In the summer of 2017, a field path in the Dettingen district was converted into a construction site road over a distance of 1200 meters. It connects the construction site with the B 465 . In addition, a traffic light system will be installed on the B 465. A driveway to the federal motorway 8 during the construction period is being converted due to frequent accidents.

The machines are named S-1024 and S-1025 . In the summer of 2017, a total of 568 readers of the Teckboten and the Nürtinger Zeitung took part in a naming competition for the two machines. The winning names are Sibylle and Wanda . The name Sibylle refers to Sibylle von der Teck . The name Wanda is an acronym for Wendlingen am Neckar through the Alb foreland .

The symbolic start of construction took place on October 6, 2017. Among the speakers were rail board member Ronald Pofalla , the Baden-Württemberg Minister of Justice Guido Wolf and the parliamentary state secretary Norbert Barthle . The sponsor of the tunnel is the Baden-Württemberg Minister for Economic Affairs, Nicole Hoffmeister-Kraut ; the tunnel is also known as the Nicole tunnel during its construction period . After the speeches, Hoffmeister-Kraut named the two machines. More than 10,000 people gathered information on the construction site open day on October 7, 2017. Guided tours of the two tunnel boring machines were also offered.

The drive for the south tube began on November 9, 2017, and the drive for the north tube was to begin “a few weeks” later. At the end of June 2018, the underpass of the motorway was completed.

Each of the two machines is supposed to advance about 20 meters per day. Around 700 people will work on the tunnel during the construction period. These include 50 miners and around 80 engineers.

At the end of September 2018, the "Mountain Festival" was celebrated at the segment production. While the production of a segment initially took more than half an hour, this value was less than ten minutes at halftime under good conditions.

In October 2018, the tunnel boring machines had covered half of the distance. The machines were located in the area between Rabailen and the Kirchheim suburb of Lindorf.

Due to an unexpectedly high proportion of pyrite when driving the Albvorland and Boßler tunnels, Deutsche Bahn sees cost risks of 140 million euros. Around four million tons of pyrite-containing excavated material was produced in the Albvorland Tunnel. The mudstone is partially compacted in order to reduce the escape of sulphate and is partially used in clay brick production.

The drive should be completed in spring 2019. The completion of the machine tunneling was celebrated on October 29, 2019. The tunneling of the new line was almost completed.

The track construction should take place in 2021.

security concept

Originally dry fire-fighting water pipes were approved and commissioned . In 2018, a switch to partially filled extinguishing water pipes became known.

costs

In mid-2014, the federal government considered the costs of around 270 million euros communicated in a newspaper report in April 2014 to be plausible. When the financing agreement for the new line was concluded in April 2009, structural costs of around 16.5 million euros per kilometer and tube were expected for the Albvorland tunnel. For the entire planning approval section 2.1, costs of 798.7 million euros are estimated at the 2010 price level.

The entrepreneur Martin Herrenknecht criticized in August 2012 that a more cost-effective machine tunneling was not allowed in the tender. The Herrenknecht company later submitted an offer.

Web links

Commons : Albvorlandtunnel  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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