Kreuzlibergtunnel

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Kreuzlibergtunnel
Kreuzlibergtunnel
South portal of the Kreuzliberg tunnel
use Railway tunnel
traffic connection Zurich – Baden railway line
place to bathe
length 988 mdep1
Number of tubes 1
construction
Client Swiss Federal Railways
completion October 1, 1961 (opening)
location
Kreuzlibergtunnel (Switzerland)
Red pog.svg
Red pog.svg
Coordinates
North portal 665425  /  258507
South portal 665402  /  257547

The Kreuzlibergtunnel is a 988 meter long railway tunnel in Baden in the canton of Aargau . It crosses under the Kreuzliberg (northernmost branch of the Heitersberg range ), the Schulhausplatz (central traffic junction in Baden) and the Schlossberg between the Wettingen train station and the Baden train station . The Zurich – Baden railway line runs through it . The two-track tunnel was built between 1957 and 1961 and replaced the Schlossberg tunnel , which was then converted for road traffic.

history

The railway line between Zurich and Baden , the oldest in Switzerland, was opened on August 7, 1847 by the Swiss Northern Railway . The route led over the Schulhausplatz and in an 80 meter short tunnel through the Schlossberg . On both sides of the oldest railway tunnel in Switzerland, there were two level crossings which, from the 1950s onwards, impeded the rapidly growing private motorized traffic. The "major railway relocation" proposed in 1953, which envisaged a complete relocation of the railway line underground and a new train station inside the Schlossberg, failed because of the costs that were perceived as too high.

On the other hand, the project of the “small railway laying”, a disentangling of the traffic flows through the construction of the new Kreuzliberg tunnel for the railway and the conversion of the Schlossberg tunnel for road traffic, was successful. Construction work on the Kreuzliberg tunnel began in October 1957 and lasted four years. On the one hand, unstable geological conditions had to be overcome under the Kreuzliberg; on the other hand, 35 buildings, including over a dozen commercial enterprises and commercial buildings in the area of ​​the portals, had to be demolished. They included a biscuit factory, a typewriter shop, a bakery and a book printer. On October 1, 1961, the tunnel went into operation, the former railway line gave way to the new route of the main road from Baden to Neuenhof .

Web links

Commons : Kreuzlibergtunnel  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Fabian Furter, Bruno Meier , Andrea Schaer, Ruth Wiederkehr: Stadtgeschichte Baden . here + now , Baden 2015, ISBN 978-3-03919-341-7 , p. 282 .
  2. Josef Lampe: The current status of the traffic rehabilitation and its further construction program . In: Baden New Years Papers . tape 37 . Baden-Verlag, Baden 1962, p. 4-8 .