Kirchheim tunnel
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 Kirchheim tunnel (south entrance) and Aula-Talbruecke
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| use | Railway tunnel | |||
| traffic connection | SFS Hannover – Würzburg | |||
| place | Kirchheim | |||
| length | 3,819.5 m | |||
| Number of tubes | 1 | |||
| construction | ||||
| Client | German Federal Railroad | |||
| start of building | 1984 (attack) | |||
| completion | 1986 (carbon copy) | |||
| business | ||||
| operator | DB network | |||
| release | 1991 | |||
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| Coordinates | ||||
| North portal | 50 ° 50 ′ 58 " N , 9 ° 35 ′ 30" E | |||
| South portal | 50 ° 48 ′ 57 " N , 9 ° 35 ′ 13" E | |||
Map with all coordinates: The Kirchheim tunnel (also Kirchheim tunnel ) is a 3819.5 m long railway tunnel on the high-speed line Hanover – Würzburg . It is located east of the Hessian municipality of Kirchheim and therefore bears his name.
course
The tunnel runs in a north-south direction, on the eastern edge of Kirchheim. The Wälsebachtal bridge connects to the north and the Aula valley bridge to the south .
The gradient drops continuously to the south in the tunnel.
The federal motorway 4 crosses the northern section of the tube in an east-west direction.
As one of the few tunnels on the new line, the structure has an emergency exit .
history
planning
The structure was planned at the beginning of 1984 with a length of 3790 m. The costs were calculated at 108.4 million DM.
In the planning and construction phase, the structure was part of planning section 15 in the middle section of the new line.
construction
Construction began in February 1984. The tunnel was on 3 October 1984. struck . At that time, twelve drives were running in the 111 km long central section of the new line. The planned length of the tunnel at that time was 3790 m. According to his godmother , the tube was also called Tunnel Maria during the construction phase .
The breakthrough followed in April 1986. The realized length was 3819.5 m.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Bundesbahndirektion Frankfurt (M), project group NBS Frankfurt am Main of the Bahnbauzentrale (publisher): New routes 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)
- ^ A b Walter Engels: The central section of the new Hanover – Würzburg line . In: The Federal Railroad . tape 60 , no. 5 , 1984, ISSN 0007-5876 , pp. 401-410 .
- ^ Deutsche Bundesbahn, Project Group H / W Mitte (Ed.): Brief Information No. 4/84 . Frankfurt, October 5, 1984, 2 A4 pages.