Dornbuschtunnel

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Dornbuschtunnel
traffic connection High-speed line from Hanover to Würzburg
place Burghaun
length 557 m
Number of tubes 1
construction
Client German Federal Railroad
start of building September 23, 1986 (attack)
business
operator DB network
release 1991
location
Dornbuschtunnel (Hesse)
Red pog.svg
Red pog.svg
Coordinates
North portal 50 ° 43 ′ 45 "  N , 9 ° 36 ′ 33"  E
South portal 50 ° 43 ′ 28 "  N , 9 ° 36 ′ 38"  E

The Dornbuschtunnel is a 557 m long railway tunnel on the high-speed line Hanover – Würzburg near the East Hessian community of Burghaun .

Location and course

The structure crosses under a forest between the Rimbach district of the Schlitz municipality and the Langenschwarz district of the Burghaun market town.

The gradient rises in a southerly direction. The route runs straight in the structural area.

View from the north portal of the Langenschwarz depot

The 748 m long Schwarzbach Viaduct connects to the tunnel to the north, and the Langenschwarz depot follows to the south .

history

The structure was created in place of a cut in order to avoid interruptions to transport routes. Another reason for building the tunnel was nature conservation.

The structure was planned at the beginning of 1984 with a length of 530 m at a cost of 16.4 million DM. Construction work should run from February 1986 to October 1987.

The structure was in planning section 16 of the middle section of the new line.

The tunnel was September 23, 1986 struck . After his tunnel godmother , it was called the Anne Tunnel during the construction phase . He was born on December 4, 1986 by beaten .

The valley crossed was re-profiled and an open-cut tunnel was then built. The valley was covered again in 1988 and re-cultivated until 1989.

The tunnel was put into operation in 1991 as part of the new Göttingen – Kassel section.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. 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 . 12-page leporello (10x21 cm), Frankfurt am Main, no year (approx. 1984).
  2. a b project group NBS Frankfurt of the Bahnbauzentrale (ed.): Integration into the landscape . 16-page brochure dated May 1991, p. 12.
  3. ^ 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 .