Effner tunnel

Effner tunnel
Isarring with Effnertunnel and Effnerplatz
use	Road tunnel
traffic connection	Middle ring
place	Munich
length	100 meters
vehicles per day	96000
Number of tubes	2
cross-section	43 m²
Largest coverage	2 m
construction
Client	State capital Munich
building-costs	approx. € 325 million
start of building	2003
completion	2010
business
release	December 20, 2006
location
Coordinates
Northwest portal	48 ° 9 ′ 8 ″  N , 11 ° 36 ′ 53 ″  E
Southeast portal	48 ° 9 ′ 10 "  N , 11 ° 36 ′ 50"  E

 Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap

The Effnertunnel is a road tunnel in Munich . The tunnel is part of the Effnerplatz and the middle ring . It has a length of 100 meters. The opening took place on December 20, 2006.

location

The Effner Tunnel is located a good three kilometers northeast of Munich city center in the Bogenhausen district . Together with the Richard Strauss Tunnel , it is part of a 2.5 kilometer long new “Mittlerer Ring Ost” line. The tunnel has two tubes.

course

At the end of the Isarring you will find the northwest access to the tunnel. The four-lane main direction of travel leads over the Mittlerer Ring towards Schwabing . The entrances and exits branch off to Effnerplatz. The tunnel leads under Effnerplatz. The south-eastern tunnel portal is after 100 meters. This is where Richard-Strauss-Straße begins, from which it connects via the Richard-Strauss-Tunnel. Here the route has a connection to the city districts of Ramersdorf-Perlach and Trudering-Riem .

history

Effnerplatz with Effner Tunnel (January 24, 2008)

→ Main article : Richard Strauss Tunnel

Before the tunnel construction

Before the tunnel was built, traffic on the Mittlerer Ring was routed through Effnerplatz. As a result, it was a bottleneck in the daily rush hour in the city of Munich.

Planning and construction of the tunnel

In the Mittlerer Ring Ost project, section 3 was the Effner tunnel. Before construction of the tunnel could begin, some preliminary work had to be done . This began in 2000. Supply lines were laid under the square from the future tunnel area. The trees on Effnerplatz were felled in early 2003 as an immediate preliminary construction work.

Construction work began on all three lots of the project at the same time. The tunnel ceiling was first built from 2003. For this purpose, several provisional lanes, footpaths and cycle paths had to be created in the intersection area. It had to be ensured that at least two lanes per direction of travel were available on Effnerplatz.

The work on the tunnel ceiling was completed by mid-2005. By the end of 2005, the excavation of the soil below was removed and the shell of the tunnel completed. The technical interior work was completed by autumn 2006. On December 20, 2006, the tunnel was opened to road traffic. The Mae West sculpture was erected on the tunnel ceiling in January 2011 .

Operation of the tunnel

Access from the Isarring to the Effner tunnel at night

The tunnel was initially operated with three lanes (two lanes to the northwest, one to the southeast). This was due to the limited space available at the Richard Strauss Tunnel construction site. It was not until the opening of the Richard Strauss Tunnel on July 20, 2009 that all of the tunnel's lanes could be fully used.

Namesake

→ Main article : Effnerplatz

Others

• The opening of the Effner tunnel improved the traffic situation in this area. Due to the higher volume of rush hour traffic, a new bottleneck for road traffic has arisen further north. The junction between Ifflandstrasse and Isarring ( Lage ) was controlled by a set of traffic lights until 2016, which often caused traffic to back up to the Effner Tunnel and beyond. The situation was alleviated at the end of 2016 by expanding this confluence area to three lanes. Another expansion option with a tunnel under the English Garden in this area is currently (2017) in the clarification phase.

Remarks

1. ^ Costs together with the Richard Strauss Tunnel

literature

• City of Munich Building Department (Ed.): Mittlerer Ring Ost. Construction progress 2003–2010 . Munich June 2003 ( ( page no longer available , search in web archives: muenchen.de )).

Web links

Commons : Effnertunnel  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Rücker + Schindele Consulting Engineers - planning, tendering and site supervision of industrial engineering - project reference Effner tunnel

Individual evidence

1. ^ The tunnel project in the English Garden is funded by the federal government. muenchen.de, accessed on April 23, 2017 .