Sulzhof tunnel
| Sulzhof tunnel | ||||
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 The south portal of the tunnel in April 1987. The overhead line is still missing.
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| length | 714 m | |||
| Number of tubes | 1 | |||
| construction | ||||
| Client | German Federal Railroad | |||
| start of building | 1983 | |||
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| operator | DB network | |||
| release | 1988 | |||
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| Coordinates | ||||
| 50 ° 29 ′ 45 " N , 9 ° 39 ′ 45" E | ||||
| 50 ° 29 '24 " N , 9 ° 39' 35" E | ||||
Map with all coordinates: The Sulzhoftunnel is a 714 m long railway tunnel on the high-speed line Hanover – Würzburg . It runs below the Sulzhof farmsteads , northwest of the Kerzell district of the East Hessian community of Eichenzell , and therefore bears his name.
The three farmsteads are located around 10 km southwest of the city center of Fulda in a remote valley.
course
The tunnel runs between route kilometers 241.2 and 242.0 in a south-westerly direction. The northern Fliedetalbrücke connects to the south, followed by the Fulda train station to the north after several smaller bridges and earthworks .
The north portal of the tunnel is below the south courtyard. On a dam , the route passes the other two farms north of the tunnel portal.
history
planning
The history of the three farms goes back to the 19th century. They originally housed a monastery of Cistercian .
In the course of the options I and II considered as part of the regional planning procedure in 1974 and 1975 , today's Sulzhof tunnel was not planned. The route should run further west at this altitude. According to the planning status of 1976, a tunnel was planned under the Kerzeller Laß "from around Sulzhof" of 1410 m length.
In 1982, what was then the Deutsche Bundesbahn bought one of the three farmsteads for 214,000 D-Marks (around 110,000 euros ; price as of 1982), outbidding a community living in the farmstead that had offered 80,000 D-Marks. The Federal Railroad then tried to sue the tenants. A flat-sharing community that lived in one of the three courtyards moved out, while those of the other two courtyards initially remained. Since the construction of the route, another courtyard can only be reached via a bridge. Construction workers moved into this courtyard. The former Federal Railroad tore down several outbuildings of the newly acquired courtyard and built barracks for construction workers on their foundations. As a result, project opponents and supporters lived next door to one another.
In 1984 the building was planned with a length of 660 m and costs of 22.2 million DM.
construction
In April 1983, preparations for the tunnel construction began. In the process, an area of state forest was cleared in order to accommodate a landfill for soil from the tunnel construction.
The tube was struck on June 21, 1983. The planned tunnel length was 660 m. When the tunnel was being cut, residents demonstrated with banners and funeral wreaths. During the construction phase, earth was also deposited in the Sulzhoftal.
In October 1984 the tunnel was on the verge of breakthrough.
The structure was in planning section 18 of the middle section of the new line.
Web links
- Photos of the tunnel portals on lothar-brill.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Kassel University of Applied Sciences (ed.): Through the mountain and across the valley. Via the new federal railway line Hanover - Würzburg . Work report of the Department of Urban Planning and Landscape Planning , Issue 79, Kassel 1988, ISBN 3-89117-035-1 , pp. 77-79.
- ↑ Engineer-Geological Institute Dipl. Ing. S. Niedermeyer: New line Hanover - Gemünden. Comparison of variants. Fulda - Hessian / Bavarian border km 210-250. Document from March 1975, p. 4 f.
- ↑ Around the DB route in the Fulda area . In: Fuldaer Zeitung , October 20, 1976.
- ↑ At 250 km / h into a new age . In: Der Spiegel . No. 43 , 1984, pp. 69-85 ( online ).
- ↑ a b Preparations for the construction of the express railway line in Sulzhoftal are in progress . In: Fuldaer Zeitung , No. 100, April 30, 1983.
- ^ A b Walter Engels: The central section of the new Hanover – Würzburg line . In: The Federal Railroad . tape 60 , no. 5 , 1984, ISSN 0007-5876 , pp. 401-410 .
- ↑ Belter: Great progress in building the tunnels for the new lines . In: Der Eisenbahningenieur , 34, 1983, issue 12, p. 661 f.
- ^ Deutsche Bundesbahn, Project Group H / W Mitte (Ed.): Brief Information No. 4/84 . Frankfurt, October 5, 1984, 2 A4 pages.
- ↑ Bundesbahndirektion Frankfurt (M), project group NBS Frankfurt am Main of the Bahnbauzentrale (publisher): New lines Hanover-Würzburg from Kassel to Fulda, Cologne - Rhine / Main in the directorate area . 12-page leporello (10 × 21 cm), Frankfurt am Main, no year (approx. 1984).