Richthof tunnel

Richthof tunnel
	An ICE 1 leaves the north portal
traffic connection	SFS Hannover – Würzburg
length	3510 m
Number of tubes	1
construction
Client	German Federal Railroad
start of building	1983
business
operator	DB network
release	1991
location
Coordinates
North portal	50 ° 46 ′ 13 ″ N , 9 ° 36 ′ 10 ″ E
South portal	50 ° 44 ′ 22 " N , 9 ° 36 ′ 29" E

Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap

The Richthof Tunnel is a 3,510 m long railway tunnel on the high-speed line Hanover – Würzburg south of the Hessian market town of Niederaula .

course

The structure lies between the Fuldatalbrücke Solms to the north and the Schwarzbachtalbrücke in the south.

The gradient rises continuously to the south in the tunnel.

history

planning

The structure was in planning section 15 of the middle section of the new line.

construction

The structure was posted on December 8, 1983.

For the construction, the tunnel route was divided into a valley and driven from four sides. The valley was finally filled in with the masses from the excavation and an overburden of one to two meters was created in this area and then covered with grass . As an ecological compensation, a pond was also created in the newly created valley. The ecological effects had previously been examined in a 500 m wide strip along the future tunnel route.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Bundesbahndirektion Frankfurt (M), project group NBS Frankfurt am Main of the Bahnbauzentrale (publisher): New routes Hanover-Würzburg from Kassel to Fulda, Cologne - Rhine / Main in the directorate area . Leaflet with 12 pages (10x21 cm), Frankfurt am Main, no year (approx. 1984)
↑ Belter: Great progress in building the tunnels for the new lines . In: Der Eisenbahningenieur , 34, 1983, issue 12, p. 661 f.
↑ Erich Siems: Railway and landscape - a field of tension . In: Railway technical review . 35, No. 6, 1986, pp. 363-370.

[db-mitte-1984-1] Bundesbahndirektion Frankfurt (M), project group NBS Frankfurt am Main of the Bahnbauzentrale (publisher): New routes Hanover-Würzburg from Kassel to Fulda, Cologne - Rhine / Main in the directorate area . Leaflet with 12 pages (10x21 cm), Frankfurt am Main, no year (approx. 1984)

[ei-34-661-2] Belter: Great progress in building the tunnels for the new lines . In: Der Eisenbahningenieur , 34, 1983, issue 12, p. 661 f.

[etr-35-363-3] Erich Siems: Railway and landscape - a field of tension . In: Railway technical review . 35, No. 6, 1986, pp. 363-370.