Kehrenberg tunnel
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 View from the Körle Ost depot to the south portal of the tunnel
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| Official name | Kehrenberg tunnel | |||
| traffic connection | High-speed line from Hanover to Würzburg | |||
| place | Grains | |||
| length | 2400 m | |||
| Number of tubes | 1 | |||
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| Client | German Federal Railroad | |||
| business | ||||
| release | 1991 | |||
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| Coordinates | ||||
| South portal | 51 ° 11 '18 " N , 9 ° 31' 14" E | |||
| North portal | 51 ° 12 '16 " N , 9 ° 29' 55" E | |||
Map with all coordinates: The Kehrenberg tunnel is a 2400 m long railway tunnel on the high-speed line Hanover – Würzburg in the area of the North Hessian municipality of Körle . The structure accommodates two tracks that can be driven at speeds of up to 250 km / h as planned.
course
The gradient rises continuously to the south in the tunnel.
The Schwarzenbach valley bridge closes to the north, and the Trockene-Mülmisch valley bridge with the Körle Ost station follows to the south .
history
Planning and construction
The structure was in planning section 13 in the middle section of the new line.
In 1984 it was calculated at 58.0 million DM with a length of 2366 m.
The tunnel was on 11 June 1986 struck . According to its godmother , it was called the Sieglinde Tunnel .
business
On September 17, 1999, a 16-year-old boy was hit by a train in front of the tunnel and killed.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Bundesbahndirektion Frankfurt (M), project group NBS Frankfurt am Main of the Bahnbauzentrale (publisher): New lines Hanover-Würzburg from Kassel to Fulda, Cologne - Rhine / Main in the directorate area . Leaflet with 12 pages (10x21 cm), Frankfurt am Main, no year (approx. 1984).
- ^ Walter Engels: The middle section of the new Hanover – Würzburg line . In: The Federal Railroad . tape 60 , no. 5 , 1984, ISSN 0007-5876 , pp. 401-410 .
- ↑ ICE route, 16-year-old hit by locomotive - dead . In: Frankfurter Rundschau , September 18, 1998, p. 28.