Büdinger tunnel
| Büdinger tunnel | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| use | Railway tunnel | |||
| traffic connection | Gießen – Gelnhausen railway line (two-track, but only one track) | |||
| place | Büdingen | |||
| length | 535 m | |||
| Number of tubes | 1 | |||
| cross-section | horseshoe-shaped | |||
| construction | ||||
| Client | Upper Hessian Railway Company | |||
| completion | 1870 | |||
| business | ||||
| operator | DB network | |||
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| Coordinates | ||||
| South portal | 50 ° 15 ′ 25 ″ N , 9 ° 7 ′ 16 ″ E | |||
| North portal | 50 ° 15 ′ 43 " N , 9 ° 7 ′ 19" E | |||
Map with all coordinates: The Büdinger Tunnel and the Effolderbach Tunnel are the only tunnels on the Gießen – Gelnhausen railway line .
Geographical location
The tunnel is located south of Büdingen and east of Vonhausen at route kilometers 58.41. It passes under a western branch of the Großer Reffenkopf - the Kreischberg, an elevation in the low mountain range on the eastern edge of the Wetterau , at the same time the watershed between Seemenbach and Gründau .
Building
It is a straight cut through the elevation. The tunnel was built from 1868 to 1870 with a horseshoe-shaped profile and designed for double-track operation. But initially only one track was laid, and it remained. The tunnel portals and the walls of the upstream embankment are lined with red sandstone .
Worth knowing
The tunnel is a cultural monument according to the Hessian Monument Protection Act .
The cuts in the railway line in front of the two tunnel portals are important geological outcrops . They give an insight into the fossil-bearing formations of the Zechstein and the Zechstein Sea .
literature
- Heinz Schomann u. a .: Railway in Hessen. Cultural monuments in Hessen. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen . Theiss publishing house. Stuttgart, 2005. Vol. 2.1, section 23. ISBN 3-8062-1917-6
- Thomas Keller and Nadine Siegling: The Büdinger Tunnel - by train across the sea floor . In: Monument Preservation and Cultural History 3/2011. Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse , pp. 2–8.
- Bernd Vielsmeier: Railway tunnel . In: Oberhessische Vertriebsbetriebe AG (OVAG) (Hrsg.): Connection to the wide world: On the changeful development of the railroad in Oberhessen , Friedberg 2014 (2015), ISBN 978-3-9815015-5-1 , pp. 219-223.
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.eisenbahn-tunnelportale.de/lb/inhalt/tunnelportale/3701.html
- ↑ Schomann, p. 412.
- ↑ Keller u. a.