Frau-Nauses-Tunnel
| Frau-Nauses-Tunnel | ||||
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 North portal
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| use | Railway tunnel | |||
| traffic connection | Odenwaldbahn | |||
| place | Mrs. Nauses | |||
| length | 1205 m | |||
| Number of tubes | 1 | |||
| construction | ||||
| start of building | September 1868 | |||
| completion | December 24, 1870 | |||
| business | ||||
| operator | DB network | |||
| release | December 24, 1871 | |||
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| Coordinates | ||||
| North portal | 49 ° 49 ′ 14 " N , 8 ° 57 ′ 55" E | |||
| South portal | 49 ° 48 ′ 46 " N , 8 ° 58 ′ 37" E | |||
Map with all coordinates: The Frau-Nauses-Tunnel paves the way for the Odenwaldbahn to connect from the Rhine-Main area to the Hinterer Odenwald.
Geographical location
The tunnel passes under the ridge line of the watershed about 230 meters southwest of the roundabout , a conveniently located 290 m above sea level. NN high Bergsattels in the northern Buntsandstein-Odenwald near the summit of the Eichkopf ( 310.9 m above sea level ), southeast of Groß-Umstadt and northwest of Höchst in the Odenwald . Here lies the lowest point of the border of the catchment areas of the Gersprenz in the northwest and the Mümling in the southeast. The north portal of the tunnel is in the area of the former municipality of Frau-Nauses in the Darmstadt-Dieburg district , after which it was named; the opposite portal ends in the Hetschbach district (in the Odenwald district)
Building
The route of the tunnel and the tunnel ramps cut into the valleys on both sides runs in a straight line for about 2300 meters (you can already see the "light at the end of the tunnel" at the tunnel entrance) from the Wiebelsbach-Heubach train station in the south-southeast direction to Höchst Hetschbach , where you reach it Mümlingtal . Like the railway line , the tunnel is single-track , has a horseshoe-shaped cross-section, is 1205 meters long and still has its historic portals at both ends.
history
Construction work began in September 1868. These cost eleven lives and were completed by Christmas 1870. On December 24, 1871, the tunnel was inaugurated with the commissioning of the section from Wiebelsbach-Heubach to Erbach (Odenw) . In the keystone of the south portal is the year 1870.
The tunnel is a cultural monument due to the Hessian Monument Protection Act .
literature
- Heinz Schomann : Railway in Hessen . Railway buildings and routes 1839–1939. In: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Cultural monuments in Hessen. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Three volumes in a slipcase. tape 2.1 . Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8062-1917-6 , p. 436 ff . (Route 026).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Schomann, p. 447.
- ^ The German railway lines in their development 1835-1935 . Berlin 1935 = manual of the German railway lines . ND Mainz 1984, p. 88f (No. 56).
- ↑ Pictures of the tunnel portals
- ↑ Schomann, p. 447.