Castle Röttgen Tunnel
| Castle Röttgen Tunnel | ||||
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 North portal of the tunnel (2009)
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| traffic connection | Airport loop Cologne | |||
| place | Cologne express | |||
| length | 1047 m | |||
| Number of tubes | 1 | |||
| construction | ||||
| Client | Deutsche Bahn | |||
| start of building | 2000 (preparation for construction) | |||
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| operator | DB network | |||
| release | 2004 | |||
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| Coordinates | ||||
| Northwest portal | 50 ° 54 ′ 18 " N , 7 ° 4 ′ 47" E | |||
| Southeast portal | 50 ° 53 '48 " N , 7 ° 5' 15" E | |||
Map with all coordinates: The Schloss-Röttgen-Tunnel is a 1,047 m long railway tunnel of the Cologne airport loop in Cologne-Eil . Among other things, it passes under the Röttgen Castle with the Röttgen Stud and therefore bears his name.
The building serves to protect the local landscape and the facilities of the stud with its pasture and paddock areas in front of it.
The tunnel accommodates two tracks that can be driven on at 130 km / h.
history
planning
According to the planning status from the beginning of 1992, no tunnel was planned in this area.
At the end of 1995 the tunnel was planned with a length of 400 m.
The documents for the planning approval were submitted in 1996. In the course of the planning approval process , the structure was extended. The planning approval decision was issued in the first half of 1998.
In mid-1999 and early 2000, the planned length of the structure was 517 meters each.
The tunnel was the subject of legal proceedings in which the operators of the Röttgen Stud feared that their breeding success could not be achieved due to the noise caused by the planned airport loop. After more than a year of legal dispute, the Higher Administrative Court followed an opinion by the lawyer and dressage rider Reiner Klimke . He took the position that the horses would get used to the noises of passing trains in a short time. The tunnel bang feared by the plaintiffs did not materialize. Even before the actual hearing, the Münster Higher Administrative Court had provisionally rejected a construction freeze requested by the plaintiffs in the spring of 1999 after a summary examination, after the lawsuit would in all probability have no prospect of success and therefore a delay in the construction work could not have been expected.
At the end of 2000, when the work in the other plan approval sections was already under way, the expected plan change decision for section 82 was still pending.
As part of a compromise, the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the foundation finally agreed to extend the Schloss-Röttgen-Tunnel by 530 to 1,047 meters. After completing the relevant plan amendment procedure, the Mehl-Mülhen-Stiftung finally withdrew the last of its three lawsuits before the Higher Administrative Court; the planning approval decision became effective on February 2, 2001. The direct additional costs amount to 7.7 million euros. The construction delay caused by the negotiations with the stud is stated by Deutsche Bahn to be around 18 months. As a result, the timely completion of the loop for the commissioning of the high-speed line (2002) was not possible.
construction
Preparatory work began in February 2000. The tunnel was to be built using the cut-and-cover method. As part of the construction work, privacy fences were also erected in order to avoid disturbances to the farm. In addition, the tunnel was built in sections to reduce the construction-related impairments.
The structure was finally driven along its entire length as a closed frame .
Installation
The structure and the airport loop were put into operation on June 12, 2004.
Since then, it has been used by long-distance, regional and S-Bahn trains.
Web links
- Photos of the tunnel on eisenbahn-tunnelportale.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c DB ProjektBau (Ed.): The new StartBahn . Brochure (16 A4 pages) as of June 1, 2004, Cologne 2004.
- ^ Deutsche Bundesbahn, Federal Railway Directorate Cologne, Main Department N., Press Office: New Cologne-Rhine / Main line: Section North Rhine-Westphalia . Brochure (20 A4 pages) from March 1992, Cologne 1992.
- ^ Deutsche Bahn AG, network division, project management for the Cologne – Rhein / Main line (publisher): route map for the new Cologne-Rhein / Main line . Map from November 1995, Frankfurt 1995.
- ↑ a b c d e Klaus Dickhut: Rail connection to Cologne / Bonn Airport . In: Railway technical review . 50, No. 10, 2001, pp. 594-601.
- ↑ a b Without an author: The planning stage . In: Eisenbahn JOURNAL: Tempo 300 - The new Cologne – Frankfurt line . In: Eisenbahn Journal , special edition 3/2002, ISBN 3-89610-095-5 , pp. 12-17.
- ↑ DBProjekt GmbH Cologne – Rhine / Main: New Cologne-Rhine / Main line: route map , Frankfurt, June 1999.
- ↑ a b Status of the tunnel work on the new Cologne – Rhein / Main line . In: DBProjekt Köln-Rhein / Main (Ed.): On the topic , ZDB -ID 2115698-0 , issue 1/2000, Frankfurt am Main, February 2000, p. 2.
- ^ DBProjekt Köln – Rhein / Main (Ed.): Green light for airport connection; Round table in the Westerwald; Tunnel construction: the miners get started . In: On the topic , ZDB -ID 2115698-0 , issue June 1999, Frankfurt am Main, p. 10 f.
- ↑ Rail connection makes Cologne / Bonn Airport a transport hub . In: On the subject , ZDB -ID 2115698-0 , edition 6/2000, December 2000, pp. 4-6.
- ↑ a b DB AG and City of Limburg conclude a contract; Foundation withdraws last lawsuit; Renovation at Frankfurter Kreuz completed . In: On the subject , ZDB -ID 2115698-0 , edition 1/2001, February 2001, p. 7 f.
- ↑ a b Deutsche Bahn AG (ed.): Seven fairy tale stories about the new DB line Cologne – Rhine / Main . Brochure, 36 pages, Berlin, no year (approx. 2002), p. 13.
- ↑ visitor day in the Siegauen tunnel; Start of construction of the Röttgen stud farm; Groundbreaking bypass; largest switch built in . In: On the subject , ZDB -ID 2115698-0 , edition 2/2001, April 2001, pp. 7–9.