Busserl tunnel
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Gumpoldskirchen tunnel Busserl tunnel
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 South portal of the tunnel
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| use | Railway tunnel | |||
| traffic connection | Southern runway | |||
| place | Traiskirchen | |||
| length | 165 m | |||
| Number of tubes | 1 | |||
| cross-section | two-pronged | |||
| construction | ||||
| Client | Vienna-Raab Railway -Gesellschaft | |||
| start of building | 1841 | |||
| completion | 1841 | |||
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| operator | ÖBB Infrastructure AG | |||
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| Coordinates | ||||
| North portal | 48 ° 1 ′ 55 ″ N , 16 ° 16 ′ 29 ″ E | |||
| South portal | 48 ° 1 ′ 51 ″ N , 16 ° 16 ′ 24 ″ E | |||
Map with all coordinates: A tunnel of the southern railway in Lower Austria on the route between Gumpoldskirchen and Pfaffstätten in the municipality of Traiskirchen is known under the name Busserltunnel , while it is hardly known under the official name Gumpoldskirchner Tunnel . It was built in 1841 on the Vienna-Gloggnitz railway, making it the oldest railway tunnel in Austria. It has a length of 165 m (87 fathoms ), a height of 7.6 m (24 feet) and is double-tracked.
Since the tunnel is not located in a mountainous area, but only a small ridge that Katzenbühel crosses under , legends are still entwined with the reason for the building. On the one hand, they did not want the valuable Weinrieden in Gumpoldskirchen to be destroyed by the railway, which was viewed with skepticism at the time. On the other hand, it is said to have been built by Emperor Ferdinand I for the fun of the Freud . Officially, however, on the one hand a cost reduction and on the other hand a possible higher speed of the railway due to the straightening was stated.
According to the Latin inscription Recta sequi ( sequence of straight lines ) visible on the tunnel portal , it is likely that the tunnel had a technical reference character for the technicians who were still inexperienced in tunneling at the time.
The tunnel structure was arched with stone blocks because it was feared that locally produced bricks would not withstand the expected pressure.
The tunnel got the name Busserltunnel from the fact that because of the brief darkness while driving - about 10 seconds at 60 km / h, even less at today's speeds - there is just time for a Busserl (Bavarian, Austrian slang for kiss ) in the Remained dark. Arthur Schnitzler said: "That was the luck of a chance meeting in a railway coupé." The name is already mentioned in the Baedeker travel guide from 1857 and recorded in the register.
Mention in the literature
Johann Nestroy makes fun of the tunnel in his play Railway Marriage:
- Ignaz: A tunnel where one is necessary, that’s nothing that has to be, that’s got to be, but then they laboriously laid four shoes of Weingartengrund on a flying buttress so that they could only go underground, that’s a Riesenwerck. (Act I, Scene 3)
Individual evidence
- ^ Phil. Volk: The railway from Vienna to Gloggnitz. In: Allgemeine Bauzeitung , year 1842, p. 202. (Online at ANNO ). .
- ^ Austrian Railways. Vienna-Raab Railway. In: Wiener Zeitung , No. 229/1841, August 20, 1841, p. 1713, bottom right. (Online at ANNO ). .
- ↑ Railway stations, stations of a life (PDF; 2.4 MB) Niederösterreichische Wirtschaft dated January 19, 2007, accessed on February 21, 2009
- ^ Karl Baedeker: Germany and the Austrian Upper Italy. Part 1. Austria, South and West Germany, Venice and Lombardy . 7th edition. K. Baedeker, Coblenz 1857, p. 34 ( online in Google Book Search [accessed October 18, 2015]).
- ^ Jürgen Hein: Johann Nestroy; Pieces 32. pp. 247-248.
Web links
- The tunnel at weinpanorama.at
- Images of the tunnel portals
- Tunelovacie sústavy ( Slovak )
- Herbert F. Patera: The tragedy in the Busserl tunnel. In: Neuigkeits-Welt-Blatt , October 18, 1925, pp. 6-7 (online at ANNO ). (see note and graphic on page 1)