Copper smelting tunnel
| Copper smelting tunnel | ||||
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| use | Railway tunnel | |||
| traffic connection | Railway Hochspeyer – Bad Münster am Stein also Alsenztalbahn or Alsenzbahn | |||
| place | Winnweiler | |||
| length | 82 m | |||
| Number of tubes | 1 | |||
| construction | ||||
| Client | Society of the Palatinate Northern Railways | |||
| business | ||||
| release | May 16, 1871 | |||
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| Coordinates | ||||
| North portal | 49 ° 34 ′ 34 " N , 7 ° 50 ′ 50" E | |||
| South portal | 49 ° 34 '32 " N , 7 ° 50' 53" E | |||
Map with all coordinates: The copper smelting tunnel is the shortest of a total of four railway tunnels along the Alsenz Valley Railway between Hochspeyer and Bad Münster am Stein .
location
The tunnel is located in the district of the local community of Winnweiler . In the immediate vicinity is the eponymous residential area Kupferschmelz , which belongs to the Hochstein district . The railway line also crosses the Alsenz not far from the south portal .
history
Around 1860 there were first efforts to build a railway line along the Alsenz . In combination with the Maximiliansbahn and the Ludwigsbahn section immediately west of Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, this was to serve as a transit route in the north-south direction. The route in the southern area was initially unclear. For example , the city of Otterberg , which lies further to the west, aimed for a route over its terrain. The responsible engineers rejected this, however, and advocated a route via Enkenbach to Hochspeyer , as this was topographically simpler. After the Hochspeyer-Winnweiler section had already been opened in 1870, the gap to Bad Münster was closed six months later . At the time, it was the second shortest of its kind along the route after the Hochstein Tunnel . After the latter was blown up in 1970, it is the shortest in the Alsenz Valley.
Web links
literature
- Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways (= publications of the Palatinate Society for the Advancement of Science . Volume 53 ). pro MESSAGE, Ludwigshafen am Rhein 2005, ISBN 3-934845-26-6 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 173 f .
- ↑ eisenbahn-tunnelportale.de: Pictures of the route: 3320 (KBS 672 / KBS 272) . Retrieved July 2, 2015 .