Braunhauser Tunnel

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Tunnel monument near Braunhausen

The Braunhausen Tunnel was a 293 m long railway tunnel on the north-south route in Hesse ( Germany ).

geography

The double-track tunnel was located in the Hersfeld-Rotenburg district, directly west of Braunhausen and a little south of Asmushausen , both of which are northeastern districts of Bebra . It was built on the north-south line in the section between the stations of Bebra and Neu-Eichenberg ( Bebra – Göttingen railway line ). The tunnel was located directly northwest of the small road bridge leading over the railway line on the side road “Im Sambach” coming from the southern exit of Braunhausen, in the area of ​​the route kilometers from 174.5 to 174.7.

history

The Braunhäuser Tunnel was built between 1873 and 1875, the preparatory work began in 1872. When the north-south route was electrified by the Deutsche Bundesbahn in 1961 , the profile of the tunnel was too small for the installation of the overhead line .

The planning calculated that cutting the tunnel would be cheaper than widening the profile. For this purpose, the line in the area of ​​the construction site was temporarily converted to single-track operation and the track in the tunnel was provided with a massive protective shield. Rail traffic continued during the work. During the work, after prolonged rainfall in May 1962, the new embankments began to slide. The following landslide spilled the track and the line had to be closed for a few days. In the end, the problem could only be dealt with by shallower embankments, for which much more material had to be removed than planned. This drove the costs beyond those of the originally estimated profile expansion of the tunnel. During the removal of the overburden and the demolition of the tunnel structure, a total of around 550,000  m³ of earth and rock material were moved with large construction vehicles. Finally, the approximately 1 m thick brick masonry was blown up, for which the route was again temporarily closed. Ultimately, the newly created embankments were planted with trees and bushes on both sides of the route. Electrical operation began in spring 1963 .

Today only a fragment of the portal and a monument made of stones from the former south portal bear witness to the tunnel - the latter bears the inscription “ 1873–1875 - Braunhäuser Tunnel - removed in 1962 ”.

literature

  • Rolf Brüning: With steam on the north-south route between Main and Fulda = color picture rarities from the Dr. Rolf Brüning 9. Hövelhof 2014, p. 60f.

Web link

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.werra-meissner-bahnen.de/inhalt/eisenbahnen/3600-00-braunhaeuser-tunnel.html report on the removal of the Braunhauser tunnel
  2. ^ Brüning.

Coordinates: 51 ° 0 ′ 11.9 ″  N , 9 ° 49 ′ 28.9 ″  E