Burghauner Tunnel
| Burghauner Tunnel | ||||
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| use | Railway tunnel | |||
| traffic connection | Bebra – Fulda railway line (two-track) | |||
| place |
Burghaun , District of Fulda , Hesse |
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| length | 238 m | |||
| Number of tubes | 1 | |||
| business | ||||
| release | October 1, 1866 | |||
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| Coordinates | ||||
| North-Northwest Portal | 50 ° 42 ′ 44 " N , 9 ° 43 ′ 7" E | |||
| South-Southeast Portal | 50 ° 42 ′ 37 " N , 9 ° 43 ′ 12" E | |||
Map with all coordinates: The Burg Hauner tunnel in the Hessian Fulda district is a Opened 1866, 238 m long rail tunnel in the course of Bebra-Fulda railway between the breakpoint Burghaun (Fulda district) and the station Haunetal- Neukirchen ( district Rotenburg ).
Geographical location
The Burghauner Tunnel is located between the Burghaun district of Rothenkirchen in the north-northwest and the core town of Burghaun in the south-southeast. In the Haunetal natural area , it runs in the western roof of the Soisberger Kuppenrhön through an approximately 260 to 280 m above sea level. NHN high mountain spur , which is 2.8 km west-southwest of the Steinbacher Höhe ( 364 m ) and is surrounded by the Haune to the west . A few meters to the east, parallel to the tunnel, federal road 27 runs over the spur without a tunnel . The tunnel with a few meters of earth covering is located at kilometer 132.4 of the Bebra – Fulda railway line .
Tunnel length
The length of the Burghauner Tunnel is given differently in various publications as 234 over 236 to 238 m, the latter value being taken from the inscriptions on the signs in front of the tunnel portals.
history
Emergence
The Burghauner Tunnel owes its existence to the fact that the Fulda Valley, which is much cheaper for railway construction, was in the neighboring Grand Duchy of Hesse . In order to get around this, the Hessian engineers chose the complex route over the heights with 50 meters of lost incline and the expensive tunnel construction. The tunnel was opened to traffic as part of the opening of the Fulda – Hersfeld section on October 1, 1866.
1954 accident
On October 17, 1954, an accident occurred in the Burghauner Tunnel, which was also due to the fact that the B 27, which ran largely east and parallel to the railway line, still crossed the tracks with two level crossings (one north and one south of the tunnel) . On that day, when an express train hauled by a steam locomotive traveled south from Hamburg to Basel , the barriers to the northern level crossing were not closed. A truck loaded with sugar passed the crossing, was hit by the locomotive and pushed through the tunnel by it. The sugar was thrown into the driver's cab of the steam locomotive, where it ignited and seriously injured the stoker . It took several hours to clear the tunnel and road from sugar.
literature
- Wolfgang Klee: North-South. A main route through the ages, Motorbuch Verlag Stuttgart 1990, page 65ff
- Hans-Joachim Ritzau, Jürgen Höstel: The disaster scene of the present , about railway accidents in Germany, Vol. 2, p. 32, Ritzau KG - Verlag Zeit and Eisenbahn, Pürgen, 1983, ISBN 3-921304-50-4
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Information and photos on the Burghauner Tunnel , details page on the Burghauner Tunnel, on eisenbahntunnel-portal.de
- ↑ a b Frankfurt (Main) Hbf - missing length 6953 m - Fulda – Bebra – Göttingen , on rbd-erfurt.de
- ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ a b c d Home page for the Burghauner Tunnel and other tunnels with a rail route map, on eisenbahntunnel-portal.de
- ↑ Railway Atlas Germany , Schweers + Wall, Cologne, 2007 edition, ISBN 978-3-89494-136-9
- ^ Wolfgang Klee: North-South. A main route through the ages , Motorbuch Verlag Stuttgart, 1990, p. 69