Alsenz tunnel
| ALsence tunnel | ||||
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| use | Railway tunnel | |||
| traffic connection | Railway Hochspeyer – Bad Münster am Stein also Alsenztalbahn or Alsenzbahn | |||
| place | Alsenz | |||
| length | 284 m | |||
| Number of tubes | 1 | |||
| construction | ||||
| Client | Society of the Palatinate Northern Railways | |||
| business | ||||
| release | May 16, 1871 | |||
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| Coordinates | ||||
| North portal | 49 ° 43 ′ 30 " N , 7 ° 49 ′ 0" E | |||
| South portal | 49 ° 43 ′ 20 " N , 7 ° 48 ′ 59" E | |||
Map with all coordinates: The Alsenz tunnel is the second shortest of a total of four railway tunnels along the Alsenz Valley Railway between Hochspeyer and Bad Münster am Stein .
location
The tunnel is located at kilometer 37.6 in the area of the local community Alsenz . The local Kalkofer Straße runs over it . At its north portal is the street Am Tunnel . A few hundred meters further north is the Alsenz train station .
history
Around 1860 there were first efforts to build a railway line along the Alsenz . In combination with the Maximiliansbahn and the Ludwigsbahn section immediately west of Neustadt, this was to serve as a transit route in a north-south direction. The route in the southern area was initially unclear. For example , the city of Otterberg , which lies further to the west, aimed for a route over its terrain. The responsible engineers rejected this, however, and advocated a route via Enkenbach to Hochspeyer , as this was topographically simpler. After the Hochspeyer- Winnweiler section had already been opened in 1870, the gap to Münster was closed six months later. At the time, it was the third shortest of its kind along the route after the Hochstein Tunnel . After the latter was blown up in 1970, it is the second shortest in the Alsenz valley.
Web links
literature
- Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways (= publications of the Palatinate Society for the Advancement of Science . Volume 53 ). pro MESSAGE, Ludwigshafen am Rhein 2005, ISBN 3-934845-26-6 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 173 f .
- ↑ eisenbahn-tunnelportale.de: Pictures of the route: 3320 (KBS 672 / KBS 272) . Retrieved July 2, 2015 .