Maness tunnel

Maness tunnel
South portal below Sihlhochstrasse
use	railroad
place	Zurich
Number of tubes	1
construction
completion	1927
business
operator	Sihltal-Zürich-Uetliberg-Bahn
location
Coordinates
Wiedikon station	681942  /  247281
South portal	681914  /  246793

 Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap

The Manessetunnel connects the Zurich Wiedikon and Giesshübel train stations . It is used to connect the Sihltal-Zürich-Uetliberg railway network to the left bank of the Zürichsee railway .

The tunnel is used for freight trains, occasional extra trains, especially the Zurich Museum Railway , and the transfer of rolling stock. Scheduled connections for passenger transport do not exist.

The approximately one kilometer long connecting track branches off the Seebahn route immediately after Zurich Wiedikon train station in the Ulmberg tunnel . The 520 meter long tunnel ends below the Sihlhochstrasse. The track then crosses Manesse-Strasse and ends in Giesshübel station.

The tunnel was built as part of the lowering of the Seebahn between Zurich main train station and Wollishofen train station in 1927. In 1971, the driveway to Sihlhochstrasse was built over the southern end of the tunnel . The name is derived from the Manesse-Strasse, which the tunnel crosses, or from Manesseplatz , which is close to the south portal, and goes back to the Manesse patrician family from Zurich .

In the summer of 2019, due to construction work between the main station and Selnau, the route will be temporarily used for passenger transport for the first time in the history of its existence.

swell

• Hans Waldburger / Hans Tempelmann: The Sihltalbahn, 100 years from the steam train to the modern S-Bahn line. [8], Minirex, Lucerne 1992, ISBN 3-907014-06-5

Web links

• Zurich's forgotten tracks , Tages-Anzeiger , February 24, 2010

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Through the city of Zurich in an almost forgotten tunnel , Tages-Anzeiger , July 10, 2019