Felbertauern tunnel
| Felbertauern tunnel | ||||
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 Portal of the Felbertauern tunnel in the Amertal on the Salzburg side in the Granatspitz group, 1,606 m above sea level. A.
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| use | Road tunnel | |||
| traffic connection | Salzburg-East Tyrol | |||
| place | Felbertauern | |||
| length | 5282 m | |||
| vehicles per day | 3530 (truck share 7%) | |||
| Number of tubes | 1 ( two-way traffic ) | |||
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| Client | Felbertauernstrasse AG | |||
| start of building | 1962 | |||
| completion | 1967 | |||
| business | ||||
| operator | ASFINAG | |||
| toll | € 4.50 to € 11 (car) € 4.50 to € 10 (motorcycle) |
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| release | 5th June 1967 | |||
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| Coordinates | ||||
| North portal | 47 ° 9 ′ 37 ″ N , 12 ° 32 ′ 7 ″ E | |||
| South portal | 47 ° 7 ′ 7 ″ N , 12 ° 30 ′ 17 ″ E | |||
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The Felbertauern tunnel is a crest tunnel on the Felbertauern Straße (B 108) through the Felber Tauern of the Hohe Tauern ( main Alpine ridge ), which connects the state of Salzburg with East Tyrol (state of Tyrol ) in a winter-safe manner. The Felbertauern tunnel is owned by Felbertauernstraßen-AG, which is 62% owned by the Republic of Austria , 37% owned by the State of Tyrol and 1% owned by the Tyrolean municipalities.
History, operation
The Felbertauern tunnel, completed in 1967, is operated as a one-tube tunnel with two-way traffic and is located at an altitude of 1607 to 1650 m . It is 5282 m long, making it the eleventh longest tunnel in Austria. Use of the tunnel's special toll route costs € 11 for a car , residents of Mittersill (Salzburg) pay € 4 to use the tunnel. Because of this unequal treatment and following a complaint by a German car driver, the EU Commission has twice warned of a fairer toll system. Driving in the tunnel by bicycle is not permitted, as the tunnel is a motor road in accordance with Section 47 of the StVO. The bike transport service offered costs € 18 for a maximum of 6 people with bikes.
The Felbertauernstrasse has a length of 36.3 km. The north ramp ( Salzburg ) is 16.5 km long and the south ramp ( East Tyrol ) 14.5 km. It leads through the Iseltal past Matrei in Osttirol (980 m above sea level), up into the Hohe Tauern and through the Felbertauern tunnel into the Amertal , after its confluence with the Felbertal through this down to Mittersill (790 m above sea level) in the Oberpinzgau .
53 percent of the route has three lanes and is at least seven meters wide throughout. The street is protected from avalanches and rockfalls by numerous galleries.
The south tunnel portal is 1632 m above sea level , the apex is 1650 m and the north portal is 1607 m . The gradient of the road on the East Tyrolean side is four to a maximum of seven percent and on the Salzburg side five to a maximum of nine percent. In the tunnel, the gradient is one percent in the southern half and two percent in the northern half.
Closed from May to July 2013 due to rock slide
On May 14, 2013 at 1:38 a.m., the Felbertauernstrasse on the southern ramp in the municipality of Matrei in East Tyrol was buried by a rock slide over a length of 95 m and the gallery in this section was destroyed. The road remained closed in both directions until July 26, 2013. (Exception: a bus shuttle from the tunnel south portal to the federal state of Salzburg for commuters who have to walk a 20-minute walk on the East Tyrolean side ).
Replacement road and new building at the south portal
According to reports in June 2013, the original (at least single-lane) road should be restored by the end of September 2013. Due to the nature of the terrain (loose excavation material from the time of tunnel construction), a new road was built (slope bridge) and the previous route in the area of the rock slide was abandoned. In order to make the Felbertauernstrasse passable again for traffic with as few restrictions as possible until the completion of this new route, a replacement road was built over the Schildalm. The road, which was completed in just six weeks and led from the south tunnel portal over three hairpin bends to the Matreier Tauernhaus , was open to traffic from July 27, 2013, so the Felbertauernstraße could again be used continuously from both directions. A traffic light control was installed so that the narrow road can also be used by coaches and heavy goods vehicles in single-lane operation. Until the opening of the bypass, there was only one large diversion via the Pustertal and the A22 Brenner motorway , the A10 Tauern motorway (Salzburg) or the ÖBB train loading between Böckstein and Mallnitz ( Tauernschleuse ).
The new route was opened on August 18, 2015, the official opening ceremony took place on September 5, 2015.
Web links
- www.felbertauernstrasse.at further information
- Lienz East Tyrol: Felbertauern replacement road on July 28, 2013 - 1.5 km long on YouTube
Individual evidence
- ↑ Toll tariffs from 01/01/2016 (PDF) ( Memento of the original from July 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed July 11, 2016
- ↑ Felbertauern: EU Commission warns again , ORFon on September 25, 2014
- ↑ Bicycle transport - Felbertauernstrasse AG. In: felbertauernstrasse.at. Retrieved March 15, 2018 .
- ^ Anton Kaindl: Emergency solution: bus route with hike via Felbertauern . In: salzburg.com , May 22, 2013, accessed on August 10, 2013.
- ↑ APA : After falling rocks: Felbertauern open again at the end of September . In: nachrichten.at , June 10, 2013, accessed on August 10, 2013.
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↑ Felbertauern replacement road open . In: tirol.orf.at , July 27, 2013, accessed on August 10, 2013;
Successful premiere for replacement road . In: kurier.at , July 29, 2013, accessed on August 10, 2013. - ↑ New Felbertauernstrasse opened , tirol.ORF.at, August 18, 2015, accessed on August 14, 2016.
Remarks
- ^ Breakthrough : April 11, 1964. - See: Felbertauern Tunnel: Breakthrough occurred . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna April 12, 1964, p. 1 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).