New Fehrbach tunnel

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New Fehrbach tunnel
use Railway tunnel
traffic connection Kaiserslautern – Pirmasens railway line
place Pirmasens
length 887 m
Number of tubes 1
construction
Client German Reichsbahn
business
operator Deutsche Bahn
release 1939
location
New Fehrbacher Tunnel (Rhineland-Palatinate)
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Coordinates
North portal 49 ° 13 ′ 32 "  N , 7 ° 35 ′ 53"  E
South portal 49 ° 13 ′ 13 ″  N , 7 ° 35 ′ 20 ″  E

The New Fehrbacher Tunnel is a railway tunnel of the Biebermühlbahn . The 1939 traffic passed building is after at the Palatine Ludwig Railway situated Heiligenberg Tunnel the second longest currently operated railway tunnel in the Palatinate . It was created in 1939 as part of the expansion of the line between the Pirmasens Nord and Pirmasens Hauptbahnhof stations . Since the 1960s, it has been used exclusively for traffic to Pirmasens.

location

The tunnel is located in the district of the independent city of Pirmasens next to the old Fehrbach tunnel . It serves to cross under the watershed between the Steinbach and the Blümelsbach . It crosses under the Bundesstraße 10 , the urban Zweibrücker Straße and an industrial area. To the northwest lies the eponymous district of Fehrbach .

history

The branch line from Biebermühle to Pirmasens , which was built in 1875 and connected to Kaiserslautern in 1904 and 1913, was to be given greater performance by building a second track. The second track should be given a separate route. There were a total of three options to choose from: One should lead via Petersberg and do without a tunnel. The second should initially run parallel to the existing route, cross it shortly before the Fehrbach tunnel and finally receive a 400 meter long tunnel in which it rises. The third variant, which the Reichsbahn finally implemented, ran almost parallel to the old route, but began earlier with the ascent to Pirmasens and thus received a more even and flatter gradient. She received a tunnel that runs parallel to the old one. In 1939 the commissioning including the so-called New Fehrbacher Tunnel took place ; the construction costs amounted to 5.6 million Reichsmarks.

After commissioning, the tunnel served uphill trains. Due to war damage to the track, it could only be reopened in the 1950s; during this time the traffic was back on the old route. Since the 1960s, the new route has been used exclusively for rail traffic to Pirmasens.

literature

  • Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways (= publications of the Palatinate Society for the Advancement of Science. Volume 53). New edition. pro MESSAGE, Ludwigshafen am Rhein 2005, ISBN 3-934845-26-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Heinz Sturm: The Palatinate Railways . 2005, p. 182 ff .
  2. queichtalbahn.beepworld.de: Chronicle from 1874 to 2000 . (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 16, 2013 ; Retrieved October 9, 2013 .