Hörschel road tunnel

Hörschel road tunnel
	The west portal of the tunnel (2013)
use	Road tunnel
place	Eisenach , OT Hörschel
length	230 m
Number of tubes	a
construction
start of building	1996
completion	1998
business
operator	State of Thuringia
location
Coordinates
	51 ° 0 ′ 33 " N , 10 ° 13 ′ 57" E
	51 ° 0 ′ 29 ″ N , 10 ° 14 ′ 7 ″ E

Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap

The Hörschel road tunnel is located in the west of Thuringia on the northern edge of the Hörschel district of Eisenach and is a road tunnel on the L 1021 state road between Eisenach and Herleshausen .

The tunnel was built between 1996–1998, it is about 230 m long and consists of a horizontal tunnel tube with a slightly curved line . The tunnel passes under a small wooded mountain spur at the foot of the Hörschelberg . A geologically significant fault zone had to be crossed with the “Hörschel basalt dike” in the shell limestone layers.

The reason for the tunnel construction was the start of operations at the Eisenach Opel factory , which relies on a smooth supply of supplier parts via the federal motorway 4 , Herleshausen exit and insisted on the expansion of the L 1021 state road.

In this context, the Werra crossing of the L 1021 and the tunneling of the Hörschelberg was necessary, as the topographical situation was further complicated by the motorway route (with Hörschel bridge over the Werra valley ), the Thuringian railway route with its own Werra bridge and the mouth of the Hörsel river .

In September 1998 the tunnel through the Hörschelberg near Hörschel, the new Werra bridge and the bypass road around Stedtfeld were officially opened to traffic.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

^ Geyer, Jahne, Storch: Geological sights of the Wartburg district and the independent city of Eisenach . In: District Office Wartburgkreis, Lower Nature Conservation Authority (Hrsg.): Nature conservation in the Wartburgkreis . Booklet 8. Druck- und Verlagshaus Frisch, Eisenach and Bad Salzungen 1999, ISBN 3-9806811-1-4 , The Werra breakthrough at Hörschel and the basalt passage at Hörschel station, p. 56-57 .
^ J. Wiefel: The engineering geological conditions during the construction of the Werra valley overpass near Hörschel . In: Contributions to the geology of Thuringia . New episode, issue 4. Jena 1997, p. 155-167 .

[Geyer-1] Geyer, Jahne, Storch: Geological sights of the Wartburg district and the independent city of Eisenach . In: District Office Wartburgkreis, Lower Nature Conservation Authority (Hrsg.): Nature conservation in the Wartburgkreis . Booklet 8. Druck- und Verlagshaus Frisch, Eisenach and Bad Salzungen 1999, ISBN 3-9806811-1-4 , The Werra breakthrough at Hörschel and the basalt passage at Hörschel station, p. 56-57 .

[Wiefel-2] J. Wiefel: The engineering geological conditions during the construction of the Werra valley overpass near Hörschel . In: Contributions to the geology of Thuringia . New episode, issue 4. Jena 1997, p. 155-167 .