Ervěnický koridor

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European route 442 in the area of ​​Ervěnický koridor. The waves in the road surface are the result of the subsidence. (2009)

Ervěnický koridor (German: Seestadter Korridor , after the former town of Ervěnice ) is the name of a dam through the open- cast brown coal mine of the Czechoslovak Army (lom Československé armády) between Most and Chomutov in the Czech Republic . The Ústí nad Labem – Chomutov railway line , the 442 European route (Silnice I / 13) and the piped Bílina river run across the dam .

In 1983, the dam was poured across the large open-cast mine between Most and Chomutov within six months. At the time of its construction, the structure, with a height of 150 meters, was the highest railway embankment in the world. Due to sustained subsidence of the heaped material of up to half a meter per year, extensive restrictions on rail traffic applied until the end of the 1990s. The maximum speed for train traffic was limited to 40 km / h until then.

The total cost of the Ervěnický koridor was 1,288,289,000 crowns . In terms of overall length, the Ervěnický koridor is still the most expensive transport structure ever built in the Czech Republic.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pavel Schreier: Naše dráhy ve 20. století , Mladá fronta, Praha 2010, ISBN 978-80-204-2312-2 , p. 139

Coordinates: 50 ° 30 ′ 41 ″  N , 13 ° 30 ′ 23 ″  E