Imsweiler tunnel
| Imsweiler tunnel | ||||
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| use | Railway tunnel | |||
| traffic connection | Railway Hochspeyer – Bad Münster am Stein also Alsenztalbahn or Alsenzbahn | |||
| place | Imsweiler | |||
| length | 368 m | |||
| Number of tubes | 1 | |||
| construction | ||||
| Client | Society of the Palatinate Northern Railways | |||
| business | ||||
| release | May 16, 1871 | |||
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| Coordinates | ||||
| North portal | 49 ° 36 ′ 7 " N , 7 ° 48 ′ 35" E | |||
| South portal | 49 ° 35 ′ 57 " N , 7 ° 48 ′ 28" E | |||
Map with all coordinates: The Imsweiler Tunnel is the second longest of a total of four railway tunnels along the Alsenz Valley Railway between Hochspeyer and Bad Münster am Stein after the Altenhof Tunnel .
location
The tunnel is located at route kilometer 22.2 in the area of the municipality of Imsweiler . It is mainly used to shorten a loop of Alsenz . A few 100 meters further south, federal highway 48 crosses the railway line; The Imsweiler stop is immediately adjacent.
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. The route in the southern area was initially unclear. For example , the city of Otterberg , which lies further to the west, aimed for a route over its terrain. The responsible engineers rejected this, however, and advocated a route via Enkenbach to Hochspeyer , as this was topographically simpler. The construction of the Imsweiler tunnel turned out to be very difficult because the construction workers had to fight against Melaphyr . After the Hochspeyer-Winnweiler section had already been opened in 1870, the gap to Münster was closed six months later.
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literature
- 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 .