Lengerich tunnel
| Lengerich tunnel | ||||
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| use | Railway tunnel | |||
| traffic connection | Wanne-Eickel-Hamburg | |||
| place | Lengerich | |||
| length |
First tunnel - 765 m Second tunnel - 581 m |
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| Number of tubes | 1 (one tube per tunnel) | |||
| business | ||||
| operator | DB network | |||
| release | First tunnel September 1, 1871 Second tunnel October 10, 1928 |
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| closure | First tunnel October 10, 1928 |
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| Coordinates | ||||
| Northeast portal | 52 ° 11 '36 " N , 7 ° 52' 44" E | |||
| Southwest portal | 52 ° 11 '22 " N , 7 ° 52' 23" E | |||
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The Wanne-Eickel-Hamburg railway near Lengerich runs through the 581 m long Lengerich tunnel . The tunnel is special in several respects: On the one hand, the Lengerich tunnel is the northernmost railway tunnel in Germany that runs beneath a mountain range . On the other hand, one of its two tunnel tubes represents a ruined investment .
In the 1920s, the railway line from the Ruhr area to Hamburg was to be expanded to a total of four tracks.In the course of the preparatory work, the existing 765 m long tunnel, built by the Cöln-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft beneath the Teutoburg Forest , was passed through today's parallel structure replaced. The original tunnel was repaired and then shut down in order to use it for the two additionally planned tracks in the following years. The Second World War prevented the four-track expansion of the railway line, instead an underground relocation was set up in the old tunnel under the code name “Partridge” (Project A1). For this purpose, a satellite camp of the Neuengamme concentration camp was established between March 18, 1944 and April 1, 1945 . The two parallel tunnels have a horizontal distance of their axes of 29 meters; in the vertical , the new tube is about one meter lower than the old one. Because of the deeper southern incision, the new tunnel is still shorter.
The listed first tunnel tube of the Lengerich Tunnel still exists today, but the entrances are closed due to the dilapidation and acute danger of the tunnel collapsing.
literature
- Detlev Höhn: At the bend in the runway. Railways in Lengerich. (PDF; 1.5 MB) Article in DGEG magazine Eisenbahn-Geschichte No. 30, pp. 4–10. ISSN 1611-6283
- Railways in Westphalia, From the beginnings to the present, page 195 f., Author: Wolfgang Klee, ISBN 3-402-05260-1
- Norbert Ortgies / Ursula Wilm-Chemnitz: Days in the tunnel. The A1 Lengerich subcamp 1944–1945, Osnabrück / Tecklenburg 2001 (Books on Demand GmbH), ISBN 3-8311-2413-2
Web links
- Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung: Historians from Münster work on the history of the Lengerich subcamp
- Brief overview of the Lengerich subcamp Neuengamme concentration camp
- Report on the relocation of the Partridge underground in the Lengerich tunnel
- Partridge underground relocation in the Lengerich tunnel
- Images of the tunnel portals
- u. A. Report on the relocation of the Partridge underground in the Lengerich tunnel
- U-relocation A1 partridge at the Osnabrücker Bunkerwelten
- U-shift partridge on LostAreas.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial: List of satellite camps - Lengerich. Retrieved September 13, 2018 .
- ^ Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial: Exhibition folder main exhibition on Lengerich. (PDF) September 13, 2018, accessed on September 13, 2018 .