Hochstein tunnel
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Hochstein tunnel Iron smelting tunnel
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| use | Railway tunnel | |||
| traffic connection | Railway Hochspeyer – Bad Münster am Stein also Alsenztalbahn or Alsenzbahn | |||
| place | Winnweiler | |||
| length | 45 m | |||
| Number of tubes | 1 | |||
| construction | ||||
| Client | Society of the Palatinate Northern Railways | |||
| start of building | 1860s | |||
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| release | May 16, 1871 | |||
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| Coordinates | ||||
| South portal | 49 ° 35 ′ 3 " N , 7 ° 50 ′ 25" E | |||
| North portal | 49 ° 35 ′ 6 " N , 7 ° 50 ′ 23" E | |||
Map with all coordinates: The Hochstein Tunnel , also known as the Eisenschmelz Tunnel , was a railway tunnel on the Alsenz Valley Railway from Hochspeyer – Bad Münster between the Winnweiler and Imsweiler stations that existed from 1871 to 1970 . Along the route, it was the shortest and at the same time one of the shortest on the Deutsche Bundesbahn. In 1970 it was ripped open. Nearby is the similarly short copper smelting tunnel , which is still in operation.
location
The tunnel was located in the district of the local community Winnweiler . In the immediate vicinity is the Eisenschmelz residential area belonging to the Hochstein district . Not far from the former tunnel, the railway line also crosses the Alsenz .
history
Around 1860 there were first efforts to build a railway line along the Alsenz . In combination with the Maximiliansbahn and the Ludwigsbahn section immediately west of Neustadt, this was to serve as a transit route in a north-south direction. After the Hochspeyer – Winnweiler section had already been opened in 1870, the gap to Münster was closed six months later. The tunnel was the shortest along the route. In 1970 it was ripped open.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Rainer Schedler: From Trier via Saarbrücken to Kaiserslautern . 2000, p. 1118 .
- ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways (= publications of the Palatinate Society for the Advancement of Science . Volume 53 ). pro MESSAGE, Ludwigshafen am Rhein 2005, ISBN 3-934845-26-6 , p. 173 f .
- ^ Eisenbahn-tunnelportale.de: Tunnel portals - pictures of the route: 3320 (KBS 672 / KBS 272) . Retrieved July 6, 2015 .
- ↑ klauserbeck.de: Hochspeyer -0.20 - Bad Münster am Stein 48.93 . Retrieved July 6, 2015 .