Ivan Pass

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Ivan road tunnel south portal (2017)
Ivan station of the Narenta Railway at that time

The Ivan Pass ( Serbo-Croatian  Ivan sedlo / Иван седло ) is a mountain pass in Bosnia and Herzegovina and connects Sarajevo not far from Bosna with Mostar on the Neretva . It is located between Tarčin ( Hadžići municipality ) in the north and Bradina ( Konjic municipality ) in the south at the transition between Bosnia and Herzegovina .

The M17 main road with the 645-meter-long Ivan road tunnel and the standard-gauge railway line Sarajevo – Ploče with the 3221-meter-long Ivan railway tunnel run through the pass . The road tunnel originally served the narrow - gauge Narentabahn, which has since been discontinued .

This makes the single-tube tunnel the most important road connection between Bosnia and Herzegovina and the major cities of Sarajevo and Mostar. Only with the completion of the planned section of the Bosnian Autobahn 1 will this bottleneck be replaced by an efficient road link.

Web link

Commons : Ivan Sedlo  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Photo of the north portal . In: Wikimedia, August 14, 2010.
  2. ↑ Ploče Railway. Elmar Oberegger, 2006, accessed on August 5, 2014 .
  3. ↑ JP Autoceste FBiH: Koridor Vc - Autocesta (Bosnian, memento from February 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

Coordinates: 43 ° 44 ′ 41.3 "  N , 18 ° 2 ′ 21.8"  E