Bielstein tunnel
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 Southwest side of the Bielstein tunnel around 1895
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| Official name | Bielstein tunnel | |||
| use | Railway tunnel (closed in 1965) | |||
| traffic connection | Rübelandbahn (formerly Harzbahn ; before that, Erzstufenbahn ) | |||
| place | Hüttenrode , Harz | |||
| length | 465.7 m | |||
| Number of tubes | 1 | |||
| cross-section | Various pending shutdown | |||
| Largest coverage | approx. 15 m | |||
| construction | ||||
| planner | Albert Schneider | |||
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| operator | first ore level railway then Rübeland railway | |||
| release | 1885 | |||
| closure | 1965 | |||
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| Coordinates | ||||
| Northeast portal | 51 ° 47 ′ 6 " N , 10 ° 55 ′ 18" E | |||
| Southwest portal | 51 ° 47 ′ 0 " N , 10 ° 55 ′ 1" E | |||
Map with all coordinates: The Bielstein tunnel in the Harz is a 465.7 m long, single-tube, closed and filled-in railway tunnel of the Rübelandbahn (formerly Harzbahn ; originally ore-level railway ) near Hüttenrode in the Harz district , Saxony-Anhalt .
Geographical location
The disused Bielstein tunnel is located in the Lower Harz in the Harz / Saxony-Anhalt nature park . It is located about 2 km north-northeast of Hüttenrode , a south-western district of Blankenburg , and about 1 km west-south-west of the Bielstein summit (approx. 405 m above sea level ) on the Rübelandbahn between the hairpin at Michaelstein station and the former Braunesumpf station on average 420 m height. Bundesstraße 27 runs a little southeast of the former tunnel .
History and description
The Bielstein Tunnel was built as part of the ore- step railway with a length of 465.7 m, which was laid out from 1872 to 1875 . When the Harz Railway was built from 1885, the tunnel profile was expanded and the Braunesumpf station was built. Because the tunnel profile had to be increased during the electrification of the Rübelandbahn (1960 to 1965) for the construction of an overhead line and the tunnel was in a poor state of construction, it was abandoned and later filled in. Southeast of the old tunnel, a realignment of the railroad track in a parallel to the current B 27 extending terrain nick created.
Otto Ebert Bridge and Bielstein Cliff
About 100 meters east of the Northeast portal Bielenstein tunnel is the Otto-Ebert-bridge ( 402 m 51 ° 47 '6.1 " N , 10 ° 55' 24.3" O ), which as a footbridge on forest road Herzogsweg on the Rübelandbahn leads and is included as No. 79 in the system of stamping points of the Harz hiking pin.
The Bielsteinklippe (approx. 385 m ) is located about 300 m southeast of the Otto-Ebert-Brücke and about 500 m southwest of the summit of the Bielstein .
gallery
A maintenance access is located near the former west portal; In the background you can see the bridge of the route over the B 27
East portal of the tunnel; The Herzogsweg runs above
Otto Ebert Bridge
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Saxony-Anhalt viewer of the State Office for Surveying and Geoinformation ( notes )
- ↑ The Rübelandbahn , on bahninfo.net
- ↑ a b Harzer Wanderadel: stamp point 79 / Otto - Ebert - Brücke (on Herzogsweg) (Otto-Ebert-Brücke) , on harzer-wandernadel.de
Web links
- Lothar Brill: Line 6864. Railway tunnel and tunnel portals. In: eisenbahn-tunnelportale.de. Retrieved March 23, 2015 .