Kaller tunnel
| Kaller tunnel | ||||
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| length | 472 m | |||
| construction | ||||
| building-costs | 300,000 thalers | |||
| completion | 1867 | |||
| business | ||||
| operator | DB Netz AG | |||
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| Coordinates | ||||
| West portal | 50 ° 32 ′ 53 " N , 6 ° 34 ′ 33" E | |||
| East portal | 50 ° 33 ′ 1 ″ N , 6 ° 34 ′ 53 ″ E | |||
Map with all coordinates: The Kaller Tunnel is a 472 m long, single-tube railway tunnel northeast of Kall in the Euskirchen district in southwest North Rhine-Westphalia . He is on the Eifel route . In contrast to most of the tunnels on the Eifel route, it has quite inconspicuous tunnel portals. Like the railway line, the tunnel is double-tracked on this section. In front of the north portal there is a radio mast for digital train radio . The closest tunnel is in Gemünd (Schleiden) on the Oleftalbahn .
history
In 1862 the construction of the Düren - Euskirchen - Kall line began. The breakthrough through the Felsberg between Kall and Scheven , which made the tunnel necessary, turned out to be particularly difficult . On August 8, 1867, the railway tunnel between Kall and Mechernich was officially opened. Its builder was the secret chief building officer Hartwig. The costs amounted to 300,000 thalers (equivalent to € 3.24 million). 1 1/3 million bricks and 1400 manhole pipes quarry stones were used. The amount of money for the auxiliary wooden fixtures was 30,000 thalers. During the construction of the tunnel, a worker died in an accident on August 30, 1866.
The tunnel was called "the golden gate" at the time, "through which a golden age for the Eifel passed". On September 6, 1867, the first train drove through the tunnel. Two years later, on October 1, 1875, Kalls was connected to the Eifel route in the direction of Kalscheuren . Carola Clasen , among others, elaborates on the opening of the tunnel in her crime novel Murder on the Eifel Express .
In the Second World War , the Wehrmacht blew up the tunnel in two places after the battle in the Hürtgenwald in order to stop the advance of the Allies . The reconstruction began after the end of the war and the restoration took place until 1947.
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.eisenbahn-tunnelportale.de
- ↑ 75 years of the Kaller Tunnel. wisoveg.de; The source is given there: Euskirchener Volksblatt of August 8, 1942.
- ↑ a b Josef Janssen: The Kanpf around the Eifeleisenbahn in the Schleiden district , in Eifelvereinsblatt 30th year 1929, issue No. 3, p. 39 ( dilibri Rheinland-Pfalz )
- ↑ The collapse of the Kaller tunnel. In: Euskirchener Volksblatt of August 30, 1941 on August 30, 1866
- ↑ The Kaller Tunnel. In: Carola Clasen: Murder on the Eifel Express. Detective novel from the Eifel. KBV, Hillesheim 2008, ISBN 978-3-940077-41-7 . Audiobook: 2009, ISBN 978-3-8368-0443-1 .
- ↑ Kaller Tunnel restored. In: Kölnische Rundschau November 14, 1947