Dietershan tunnel

Dietershan tunnel
place	Fulda-Haune-Tafelland; near Dietershan
length	7375 m
Number of tubes	1
construction
Client	German Federal Railroad
start of building	June 1983
completion	May 1987
business
operator	DB network
release	1991
location
Coordinates
North portal	50 ° 38 ′ 33 " N , 9 ° 40 ′ 6" E
South portal	50 ° 34 ′ 49 ″ N , 9 ° 41 ′ 31 ″ E

Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap

The Dietershan tunnel in the Fulda-Haune-Tafelland is a railway tunnel on the high-speed line Hanover – Würzburg in the Fulda district . With a length of 7,375 m, it is one of the longest railway tunnels in Germany .

course

The route of the Dietershan tunnel north-east of Fulda describes a gentle right-hand curve in a southerly direction. In its course, the tube , which leads through the eastern flank of the Mühlberg ( 435 m ) near Dietershan , crosses twice the federal motorway 7 and at the north portal of the tunnel, the state road 3378 ( Michelsrombach - Lehnerz ).

The gradient drops continuously to the south. In the tunnel, the route reaches the area of the city of Fulda. The overburden, the thickness of the rock overlying a tunnel, is between 15 and 85 m.

The southern section of the tunnel lies in an arc of 2,500 m radius, which can be driven through at 160 km / h. To the south, after a roughly 280 m long earthwork section, there is a 620 m long underpass in which the new line will be threaded between the two tracks of the existing Fulda – Bebra line .

The tunnel runs through red sandstone interspersed with clay interlayers.

A transfer point with four points was set up in the tunnel .

history

planning

In the course of the options I and II considered as part of the regional planning procedure in 1974 and 1975, today's Dietershan tunnel was not planned. The route was to run further west at this height and without a tunnel and cross the Fulda northwest of Lüdermünd .

The tunnel was part of variant III of the four variants of the spacious lines of the new line in the Fulda area. In this variant presented in 1976, the tunnel was planned with a length of 6,970 m. In June 1977 the planned length was 6.5 km.

Preparatory explorations began in 1980 to determine the mountain conditions to be expected. In 1982, a 320 m long exploratory tunnel was built as part of a test drive. A cross-section of 18 m² was excavated over a length of 220 m, which was expanded to 65 m² in two 50 m long sections. The bench was opened in one of the widenings over a length of 35 m.

At the end of 1983 a tunnel length of 7,340 m was planned, in 1984 7,345 m or 7,330 m.

The construction was calculated in 1984 with a cost of 190.0 million DM. The construction period should run until April 1987.

The structure marked the southern part of planning section 16 of the central section of the new line.

construction

Construction work began in May 1983.

The tunnel was driven from both sides. After the north portal was posted on November 24, 1982, the south portal followed on July 26, 1983. According to their sponsors , the northern section was referred to as the Liselotte Tunnel during the construction phase and the southern section as the Gerda Tunnel .

The lengths of the tee-offs were between one and two meters for the dome tunneling and between one and four meters for the bench tunneling.

Construction work ended in May 1987.

A working group of Holzmann and Ed was commissioned. Branch. (Graz).

The south portal in September 1987

business

The first major rescue exercise on the new line took place in the Dietershan tunnel on June 12, 1989. A train came to a halt 500 meters from the tunnel portal. Out of 50 "travelers", 20 were assumed to be capable of self-rescue. A tunnel rescue train was also used .

At the end of 2011, wild trap fences were erected at both tunnel portals .

Web links

Commons : Dietershan tunnel - collection of images, videos and audio files

Photos of the tunnel portals on eisenbahn-tunnelportale.de

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Bundesbahndirektion Frankfurt (M), project group NBS Frankfurt am Main of the Bahnbauzentrale (publisher): New routes Hanover-Würzburg from Kassel to Fulda, Cologne - Rhine / Main in the directorate area . Leaflet with 12 pages (10x21 cm), Frankfurt am Main, no year (approx. 1984)
↑ Deutsche Bundesbahn, project group Hannover – Würzburg center of the Federal Railway Directorate Frankfurt (ed.): The new line Hannover – Würzburg. The Kassel – Fulda section , brochure (46 pages), as of October 1984, page 14
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Testing of shotcrete techniques and their influence on the progress of construction of two tunnels on the new DB line Hanover – Würzburg . In: Research + Practice , Volume 30, pp. 52–58
↑ Deutsche Bundesbahn, project group H / W Mitte der Bahnbauzentrale (ed.): New line Hanover - Würzburg, planning area central, planning section (PA) 17: city area Fulda , Frankfurt am Main, no year, Laprello, 6 A4 pages (landscape format)
↑ Engineer-Geological Institute Dipl. Ing. S. Niedermeyer: New line Hanover - Gemünden. Comparison of variants. Fulda - Hessian / Bavarian border km 210-250. Document from March 1975, p. 4 f.
↑ ^a ^b Magistrat der Stadt Fulda, Urban Planning Office (ed.): DB new line: route comparison of variants I – IV in the city of Fulda . 22-page brochure dated July 1977, p. 6.
↑ Around the DB route in the Fulda area . In: Fuldaer Zeitung , October 20, 1976.
↑ Jürgen Mörschner, Manfred Baudendistel: sample propulsion in Dietershantunnel the Rail Line Hanover-Würzburg . In: DB Bahnbauzentrale Frankfurt / M. (Ed.): Railway construction for the 21st century: line expansion at the Deutsche Bundesbahn . Frankfurt am Main, approx. 1984, pp. 80-92.
↑ ^a ^b Belter: Great progress in building the tunnels for the new lines . In: Der Eisenbahningenieur , 34, 1983, issue 12, p. 661 f.
↑ Deutsche Bundesbahn, project group Hannover – Würzburg center of the Federal Railway Directorate Frankfurt (ed.): The new line Hannover – Würzburg. The Kassel – Fulda section , brochure (46 pages), as of October 1984, page 32
^ ^A ^b ^c Walter Engels: The middle section of the new Hanover – Würzburg line . In: The Federal Railroad . tape 60 , no. 5 , 1984, ISSN 0007-5876 , pp. 401-410 .
↑ Under no circumstances should a train stop in the tunnel . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , June 13, 1989.
↑ Wolfgang Riek: After the ICE accident in the Landrückentunnel: Still safety deficiencies . In: Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine (online edition), April 26, 2012.

[db-mitte-1984-1] Bundesbahndirektion Frankfurt (M), project group NBS Frankfurt am Main of the Bahnbauzentrale (publisher): New routes Hanover-Würzburg from Kassel to Fulda, Cologne - Rhine / Main in the directorate area . Leaflet with 12 pages (10x21 cm), Frankfurt am Main, no year (approx. 1984)

[db-1984-14-2] Deutsche Bundesbahn, project group Hannover – Würzburg center of the Federal Railway Directorate Frankfurt (ed.): The new line Hannover – Würzburg. The Kassel – Fulda section , brochure (46 pages), as of October 1984, page 14

[fp-30-52-3] Testing of shotcrete techniques and their influence on the progress of construction of two tunnels on the new DB line Hanover – Würzburg . In: Research + Practice , Volume 30, pp. 52–58

[db-mitte-oj-4] Deutsche Bundesbahn, project group H / W Mitte der Bahnbauzentrale (ed.): New line Hanover - Würzburg, planning area central, planning section (PA) 17: city area Fulda , Frankfurt am Main, no year, Laprello, 6 A4 pages (landscape format)

[igi-1975-5] Engineer-Geological Institute Dipl. Ing. S. Niedermeyer: New line Hanover - Gemünden. Comparison of variants. Fulda - Hessian / Bavarian border km 210-250. Document from March 1975, p. 4 f.

[fulda-1977-6-6] Magistrat der Stadt Fulda, Urban Planning Office (ed.): DB new line: route comparison of variants I – IV in the city of Fulda . 22-page brochure dated July 1977, p. 6.

[fz-1976-08-20-7] Around the DB route in the Fulda area . In: Fuldaer Zeitung , October 20, 1976.

[db-1984-80-8] Jürgen Mörschner, Manfred Baudendistel: sample propulsion in Dietershantunnel the Rail Line Hanover-Würzburg . In: DB Bahnbauzentrale Frankfurt / M. (Ed.): Railway construction for the 21st century: line expansion at the Deutsche Bundesbahn . Frankfurt am Main, approx. 1984, pp. 80-92.

[ei-34-661-9] Belter: Great progress in building the tunnels for the new lines . In: Der Eisenbahningenieur , 34, 1983, issue 12, p. 661 f.

[db-1984-32-10] Deutsche Bundesbahn, project group Hannover – Würzburg center of the Federal Railway Directorate Frankfurt (ed.): The new line Hannover – Würzburg. The Kassel – Fulda section , brochure (46 pages), as of October 1984, page 32

[bundesbahn-60-401-11] A ^b ^c Walter Engels: The middle section of the new Hanover – Würzburg line . In: The Federal Railroad . tape 60 , no. 5 , 1984, ISSN 0007-5876 , pp. 401-410 .

[faz-1989-06-13-12] Under no circumstances should a train stop in the tunnel . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , June 13, 1989.

[hna-2012-04-26-13] Wolfgang Riek: After the ICE accident in the Landrückentunnel: Still safety deficiencies . In: Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine (online edition), April 26, 2012.