Rosenstein tunnel (1846)

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Rosenstein tunnel
use Railway tunnel
traffic connection Zentralbahn
place Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt
length 362 m
Number of tubes 1
construction
Client KWSt.E.
completion 1846
business
closure 1915
location
Rosenstein Tunnel (1846) (Baden-Württemberg)
Red pog.svg
Red pog.svg
Coordinates
North portal 48 ° 48 ′ 4 "  N , 9 ° 12 ′ 25"  E
South portal 48 ° 47 ′ 56 "  N , 9 ° 12 ′ 11"  E
Rosenstein Castle with the first railway tunnel in 1846

The Rosenstein tunnel is a former railway tunnel in the Stuttgart city area. From 1846 to 1915 it connected Stuttgart Central Station with Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt Station . Its successor of the same name is still in operation today.

Construction and operation

During the construction of the Württemberg Central Railway , the first railway tunnel in Württemberg was built directly under the central axis of Rosenstein Castle . This tunnel, planned by Carl Etzel , connected Stuttgart with Cannstatt. In principle, it would have been possible to bypass the Rosenstein, but the tunnel made the Cannstatter station better positioned and saved the palace garden from being cut up by the railroad. Nevertheless, its construction was controversial, as critics feared damage to the castle; However, King Wilhelm I gave his consent. The building permit was granted on March 14, 1844.

The tunnel was built using the mining method; Construction began on July 1, 1844, and was completed on July 4, 1846. Completion was delayed by a water and mud ingress caused by leaking pools in the castle area. The mud had to be removed from above, then the basins were sealed. This tunnel was 362 meters long and double-tracked from the start.

Reuse

After the new tunnel tubes were put into operation in November 1915, the old Rosenstein tunnel was decommissioned in 1916. From 1931 to 1965 it was used by three tenants to grow mushrooms . In the Second World War it served as an air raid shelter and was rented by Mahle GmbH until 1946 . The portal towards Bad Cannstatt was bricked up in 1966, and in place of the portal towards the main train station there are now underground EnBW facilities .

At the beginning of the 1990s, the tunnel was designed and abandoned as a railway facility. In 1992 the tunnel was transferred to the property of the Baden-Württemberg State Office for Property and Construction. It was also discussed as a location for a mineral museum. Occasionally it can still be viewed.

As part of the Stuttgart 21 project , excess water from the groundwater management system is routed to the Neckar through a water pipe installed in the tunnel.

Trivia

In his Venetian Epistle , Joseph Victor von Scheffel reports of a "missed opportunity that can never be made good" in the Rosenstein tunnel.

Web links

Commons : Rosenstein tunnel  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Albert Mühl, Kurt Seidel: The Württemberg State Railways . 2nd edition, Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart, 1980, ISBN 3-8062-0249-4 , pp. 40 f., 264.
  2. ^ A b Günter Dutt: A journey through 150 years of tunnel structures in Württemberg . In: Yearbook for Railway History, Volume 28, 1996, ISSN  0340-4250 , pp. 47-64.
  3. a b c Michael Petersen: Old Rosenstein tunnel: light at the beginning of the tunnel . Stuttgart newspaper . September 15, 2010. Retrieved January 7, 2015.
  4. The Rosenstein tunnel . Protective structures Stuttgart eV. Retrieved December 30, 2010.
  5. ^ Hail, humans and nature in the Stuttgart area
  6. Wolfgang Dietrich: Will the historic Rosenstein tunnel be preserved? . Stuttgart-Ulm rail project. December 5, 2012. Retrieved December 16, 2012.
  7. J. V. von Scheffel: Episteln (Stuttgart 1892), p. 268 ff. (Look for the text: "beyond the dark Stuttgart train station")