Köpfle tunnel
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Köpfle tunnel Köpfl tunnel / Köpp tunnel
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 South portal of the tunnel
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| use | Railway tunnel | |||
| traffic connection | Mannheim – Saarbrücken railway , Palatinate Ludwig Railway | |||
| place | Weidenthal | |||
| length | 158 m | |||
| Number of tubes | 1 | |||
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| 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 ′ 23 " N , 7 ° 59 ′ 4" E | |||
| South portal | 49 ° 25 ′ 20 ″ N , 7 ° 59 ′ 9 ″ E | |||
Map with all coordinates: The Köpfle Tunnel - occasionally also the Köpfl Tunnel or Köpp Tunnel - is one of a total of twelve tunnels on the Mannheim – Saarbrücken railway line that emerged from the Palatinate Ludwigsbahn . Originally laid out as a single track, the line was expanded to double tracks a few years later. The tunnel's striking north portal is a listed building.
location
The tunnel is located at the level of route kilometers 61.6 and 61.7 in the Weidenthal district . Not far from it is the Gipp tunnel . There is a light signal at its south portal in the direction of Saarbrücken.
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 158 meter long tunnel in this area. Traffic from Ludwigshafen to Neustadt had already been opened in 1847, and in 1848 the Frankenstein – Homburg section followed in two stages . On August 25, 1849, the gap between Neustadt and Frankenstein including the Köpfle 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 Köpfle 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.
Building
On the side of its north portal there are tower attachments, as well as a console frieze as well as a battlements and a stepped gable . The south portal is rather simple.
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 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b eisenbahn-tunnelportale.de: Line 3280: Köpfl-Tunnel . Retrieved October 19, 2013 .
- ↑ a b c General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (Ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Bad Dürkheim district. Mainz 2020, p. 99 (PDF; 5.1 MB).
- ↑ 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 .