Gipp tunnel
| Gipp tunnel | ||||
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 South portal of the Gipp tunnel in the background
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| use | Railway tunnel | |||
| traffic connection | Mannheim – Saarbrücken railway , Palatinate Ludwig Railway | |||
| place | Weidenthal | |||
| length | 217 m | |||
| Number of tubes | 1 | |||
| construction | ||||
| Client | Palatine Ludwig Railway Company | |||
| start of building | 1845 | |||
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| operator | Deutsche Bahn | |||
| release | August 25, 1849 | |||
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| Coordinates | ||||
| North portal | 49 ° 25 ′ 18 ″ N , 7 ° 59 ′ 12 ″ E | |||
| South portal | 49 ° 25 ′ 13 ″ N , 7 ° 59 ′ 20 ″ E | |||
Map with all coordinates: The Gipp tunnel is one of a total of twelve tunnels on the Mannheim – Saarbrücken railway that emerged from the Palatinate Ludwig Railway . Originally laid out as a single track, the line was expanded to double tracks a few years later.
location
The tunnel is located at kilometer 61.9 in the middle of the residential area of Weidenthal, not far from the local train station and the platforms of the local community stop. District road 38 to Elmstein runs directly above its north portal . The Köpfle Tunnel connects to the north .
history
On December 21, 1837, the Bavarian King Ludwig I gave the green light to the construction of a main line in an east-west direction from the Rheinschanze to Bexbach . Between Neustadt and Frankenstein numerous hills and foothills had to be overcome for the ascent. Among them there were some within Weidenthal. This required the construction of a total of 217 meters long tunnel in this area. Traffic from Ludwigshafen to Neustadt had already been opened in 1847, and in 1848 the Homburg – Frankenstein section followed in two stages . On August 25, 1849, the gap between Frankenstein and Neustadt including the Gipp tunnel was closed. Carriages had previously taken over the traffic between the two sections of the route. In July 1856, the Ludwig Railway was then consistently double-tracked.
Since the main line from Mannheim to Saarbrücken has always been of great importance for long-distance traffic, it was gradually electrified from 1960. The Gipp tunnel had to be widened for electrification. This delayed the completion of the electrical operation, which could finally be started on March 12, 1964 on the entire length.
Web links
literature
- Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways (= publications of the Palatinate Society for the Advancement of Science. Volume 53). New edition. pro MESSAGE, Ludwigshafen am Rhein 2005, ISBN 3-934845-26-6 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ kbs-670.de: The course book route 670 - route - operating points . Retrieved February 18, 2014 .
- ^ Klaus Detlef Holzborn: Railway Reviere Pfalz . 1993, p. 82 .
- ^ Eisenbahn-tunnelportale.de: Line 3280: Köpfl-Tunnel . Retrieved October 19, 2013 .
- ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 53 .
- ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 96 .
- ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 113 ff .
- ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 146 .
- ↑ Fritz Engbarth: From the Ludwig Railway to the Integral Timed Timetable - 160 Years of the Railway in the Palatinate . 2007, p. 23 f . ( Online (PDF)). Online ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Klaus Detlef Holzborn: Railway Reviere Pfalz . 1993, p. 88 .
