Iron button tunnel
| Iron button tunnel | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| use | Railway tunnel | |||
| traffic connection | Lautertal Railway | |||
| place | Wolfstein | |||
| length | 91 m | |||
| Number of tubes | 1 | |||
| construction | ||||
| Client | Society of the Palatinate Northern Railways | |||
| start of building | 1882 | |||
| business | ||||
| release | 1883 | |||
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| Coordinates | ||||
| North portal | 49 ° 35 ′ 22 " N , 7 ° 36 ′ 18" E | |||
| South portal | 49 ° 35 ′ 19 ″ N , 7 ° 36 ′ 20 ″ E | |||
Map with all coordinates: The Eisenknopf tunnel is the only tunnel on the Lautertal Railway . It is located in the urban area of Wolfstein and is the only railway tunnel still in operation within the Kusel district . It is used to cross under the iron button, from which it owes its name.
location
For the time of its existence, the 91 meter long tunnel, which was always designed for one track, is located in the northern area of the core town of Wolfstein a few hundred meters north of the train station . He crosses under the eponymous iron button to shorten a loop of the Lauter in this area.
history
The first efforts to establish a railway connection along the Lauter go back to the 1860s. From Kaiserslautern, the planned route should lead to Lauterecken on the aforementioned river and then along the Glan to Staudernheim. These plans were in competition with initiatives that included a route along the Alsenz . Bavaria and Prussia gave preference to the latter, which was finally opened in 1871 along its entire length.
Although this made it clear that a railway line in the Lautertal would not have any supra-regional importance, the local communities continued to vehemently advocate a railway connection. After the plans for a full line at the beginning of the 1870s, the line was designed as a single-track secondary line. The client was the company of the Palatinate Northern Railways . The groundbreaking ceremony took place in 1882; the railway construction was divided into several sections by the companies involved, which were built at the same time. To the north of the planned Wolfstein station, the iron button had to be crossed under by means of a tunnel. Already in the summer of 1883 the line was largely completed. A test drive took place on September 17, 1883, the official opening two months later on November 15.
In 1902 a siding of KO Braun KG was built south of the tunnel portal , the location of which was in the immediate vicinity. In 1954 it received a second connection, which was located north of the tunnel. From the 1980s, the line was threatened with closure, but this was averted. Since freight traffic has since been abandoned, the two adjacent sidings have been dismantled accordingly.
literature
- Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways on Glan and Lauter . Self-published, Waldmohr 1996, ISBN 3-9804919-0-0 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.eisenbahntunnel-portal.de/lb/inhalt/tunnelportale/3302.html
- ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 16 .
- ^ Fritz Engbarth: 125 years of railways in Lautertal - Festschrift for the anniversary weekend from September 20 to 21, 2008 . 2008, p. 4 .
- ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 13 .
- ↑ Hans-Joachim Emich, Rolf Becker: The railways to Glan and Lauter . 1996, p. 124 .
- ^ Fritz Engbarth: 125 years of railways in Lautertal - Festschrift for the anniversary weekend from September 20 to 21, 2008 . 2008, p. 26th f .