Veddel tram tunnel
| Veddel tram tunnel | ||||
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| use | Tram tunnel, today bus tunnel | |||
| place | Hamburg-Veddel | |||
| length | 220 m | |||
| Number of tubes | 1 | |||
| construction | ||||
| start of building | September 27, 1938 | |||
| business | ||||
| release | November 24, 1949 | |||
| location | ||||
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| Coordinates | ||||
| North portal | 53 ° 31 '38 " N , 10 ° 1' 21" E | |||
| South portal | 53 ° 31 ′ 31 ″ N , 10 ° 1 ′ 19 ″ E | |||
Map with all coordinates: The Veddel tram tunnel is a 220 meter long tunnel in Hamburg - Veddel . Originally built to allow a tram line to pass under a motorway slip road without crossing , the tunnel has been used by buses and taxis since the tram service was closed. That is why it is now called the Veddel bus tunnel .
history
The Hamburg tram crossed the Norderelbe in the middle of the New Elbe Bridge . When the southern end of the bridge was to be connected to the motorway to Bremen (today A 255 ), it was necessary that the tram could cross the south-facing lane of the motorway without crossing so as not to obstruct car traffic.
For this purpose, the shell of the tunnel was constructed using the cut-and-cover method in 1938/39 . The closed frame construction made of reinforced concrete was erected on ten meter long concrete piles in order to have support in the soft ground. The beginning of the Second World War prevented the building from being completed, which was then converted into an air raid shelter by 1940 by installing partition walls, toilets and gas locks .
After the end of the war, work was resumed and the tunnel finally opened on November 24, 1949. It was the only level crossing between road traffic and trams in the Hamburg city area. The slightly S-shaped line was double-tracked, but could only be driven on at 15 km / h when viewed, as no signals were installed in the tunnel.
The tram line to Veddel was closed on May 22, 1977, a year and a half before the final shutdown of the tram in Hamburg. Since then, buses and taxis have been using the tunnel, which was extended to 220 meters in 1986 when the motorway was expanded.
North portal, the A 255 on both sides
South portal
Inside the tunnel
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Private homepage on local transport in Hamburg ( memento of the original from December 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
literature
- Sven Bardua: Under the Elbe, Alster and the city. The history of tunnel construction in Hamburg. Dölling and Galitz Verlag, Munich and Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86218019-6 , pp. 88–90, 184.
- Ulrich Alexis Christiansen: Hamburg's dark underworld. The mysterious underground of the city. Ch. Links Verlag Berlin, 3rd edition 2015, ISBN 978-3-86153-837-0 , pp. 163–167.
