Tauern tunnel (motorway)
| Tauern tunnel | ||||
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 North portal of the Tauern tunnel after the two-tube expansion
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| use | Road tunnel | |||
| traffic connection | Tauern Autobahn A 10 | |||
| place |
Flachauwinkl or Zederhaus |
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| length | 6546 m | |||
| vehicles per day | Ø 21,687 (2017) | |||
| Number of tubes | 2 | |||
| construction | ||||
| Client | Tauernautobahn AG | |||
| start of building | January 28, 1971 | |||
| completion | 1st tube: 1975 2nd tube: 2010 |
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| business | ||||
| operator | ASFINAG | |||
| toll | yes, special toll route | |||
| release | 1975 | |||
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| Coordinates | ||||
| North portal | 47 ° 14 ′ 25 " N , 13 ° 25 ′ 21" E | |||
| South portal | 47 ° 10 ′ 53 ″ N , 13 ° 26 ′ 22 ″ E | |||
Map with all coordinates: The Tauern tunnel is a 6546 meter long road tunnel on the Tauern A 10 motorway . Together with the Katschberg tunnel , it is an important part of the route from Villach to Salzburg .
The section between Katschberg and Tauern tunnels, including the passage through the two tunnels themselves, is a so-called special toll route and currently costs EUR 12.50. Like all other special toll routes in Austria, this section is exempt from the vignette requirement.
location
The Tauern tunnel crosses under the Radstädter Tauern between Radstadt im Ennspongau and Tamsweg im Lungau . The north portal of the Tauern tunnel is near Flachauwinkl , the south portal near Zederhaus . It is located below Mosermandl and Pleißlingkeil in the main ridge of the mountain group, about eight kilometers west of the Tauernpasshöhe near Obertauern , one of the more important Alpine crossings between Brenner and Pyhrn .
history
Construction 1975
Originally, the Tauern tunnel - like the Katschberg tunnel - was planned as a two-tube motorway tunnel. For cost reasons and because of the lower than expected volume of traffic, only one of the two tubes was completed in 1975, which is 6401 m long. The plans for the second tube were given up in the meantime in 1988.
Tunnel fire in 1999
On May 29, 1999 at around 4:50 a.m., after a traffic accident, a devastating fire broke out in the Tauern tunnel , in which twelve people were killed and another 42 were injured. The cause of the accident was an Austrian truck driver who, while asleep, drove his vehicle into a column of cars waiting in front of a construction site traffic light. Three cars were pushed onto a truck loaded with 24,000 cans of spray paint and completely crushed. Leaking fuel ignited and burned 16 trucks and 24 cars. Due to the enormous heat development of up to 1200 ° C , extinguishing work could only begin twelve hours after the accident.
The tunnel was so badly damaged that it had to be closed for three months. The damage was put at 28 million euros. In the course of the lock, remedial measures beyond the removal of the fire damage, including a. on the tunnel lining, lighting, signal systems and ventilation system.
On June 27, 2001, the driver of the truck was sentenced to two years imprisonment (21 months on probation) in the second instance for negligent public endangerment.
A memorial plaque on the Flachau motorway chapel today commemorates the accident .
Expansion 2006–2010
In 2004, the average daily traffic was 17,000 vehicles, a quarter of which were trucks (4,353).
As a result of the fire disaster of 1999, the planning for a second tunnel tube was resumed, which was then built from July 2006, more than 30 years after the first tube. The first demolition was officially set for September 15, 2006. On July 8, 2008, at 2:32 p.m., after 22 months of tunneling, the second tube, which is 6546 meters long, was punctured . The 1.3 million cubic meters of rock material will be used in part to fill the level of the new Tauernalm service area in Flachau and for noise protection measures. The construction and renovation costs amounted to 197 million euros. The new tube was released on April 30, 2010. After that, the first tube was completely renovated and during this time traffic was only directed through the new tube.
On June 30, 2011, the renovated tube of the Tauern tunnel was opened to traffic with a ceremony at the north portal. Since then, both tubes have been freely available to traffic, and after the expanded Katschberg tunnel had already been opened a good two years earlier, all tunnels on the Tauern motorway can now be used with two tubes .
Former tunnel - zinc wall mining gallery
Even before the A 10 Tauern tunnel was built, there was a possibility to cross the Niedere Tauern . The tunnel, which connects the federal states of Salzburg and Styria , dates from the time when zinc , silver , cobalt and lead were mined there , beginning in the 13th century . A more precise dating of the tunnel in the zinc wall is not possible. The unlit tunnel is located at an altitude of 2300 m, is no more than 300 m long, fairly flat and was made accessible by the Austrian Alpine Club (ÖAV) . As early as 1984, the “Zinkwand-Vöttern” tunnel educational trail was built by the PES on the Schladming side.
Access can take place as part of a 2-day round tour from Hinterweißpriach (Lungau) that is only snow-free from midsummer (toll access for cars from Diktlerhütte). Orientation for the card is required to partially unmarked and very steep paths, possibly via ferrata for the cable Insurance, forehead or flashlight and spare lamp are necessary helmet is recommended.
literature
To the tunnel fire:
- Road Safety Board: The Tunnel Accident (PDF; 65 kB)
- Ulrich Schneider, Johannes Horvath: Fire protection in tunnels . Bauwerk Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-89932-037-9 ( ulb.tu-darmstadt.de [PDF; 355 kB ]).
Web links
- Toll tariffs for the Tauern and Katschberg tunnels on the ASFINAG website
- The old Tauern tunnel - article in " Der Standard " from April 4, 2006
- Information from ASFINAG on the expansion of the Tauern tunnel
- ASFINAG press release on the release of the 2nd tube of the Tauern tunnel
Individual evidence
- ↑ Permanent counting stations - traffic statistics 2017 ( memento of the original from March 25, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (ZIP; 2.4 MB). In: asfinag.at , accessed on March 24, 2018.
- ↑ Special and video tolls. Asfinag, accessed June 7, 2014 .
- ↑ a b Fire in the Tauern tunnel in 1999 . feuerwehr-flachau.at . Retrieved March 26, 2011.
- ↑ Fire under control . Spiegel Online . May 29, 1999. Retrieved March 26, 2011.
- ^ Tauern tunnel: commemoration of the catastrophe. May 29, 2019. Retrieved May 29, 2019 .
- ↑ ASFINAG: start of construction of the second Tauern tunnel tube in around 2.5 years. In: Lungauer Nachrichten. July 10, 2001, accessed November 30, 2013 .
- ↑ ASFINAG: A 10 Tauern Autobahn: 2nd Tauern tunnel tube fully on schedule. Start of construction: August 2006
- ↑ Finally light at the end of the Tauern tunnel . In: Salzburger Nachrichten. From town and country . July 9, 2008, p. 6/7 .
- ↑ Faster and more expensive through the eye of the needle. In: FOCUS online. June 29, 2011, accessed June 30, 2011 .
- ↑ http://www.taurachsoft.at/erzweg/wolfskron/neuzeit_1850_bis_2000.htm The Lungauer Bergbau-Chronik (1800–2000), Taurachsoft / Holger Belzer, accessed December 7, 2015.
- ↑ Zinc wall round. (PDF; 404 kB) styria-alpin.at, August 30, 2010, accessed on November 22, 2012 .
- ↑ http://derstandard.at/1757488/Der-erste-Tauerntunnel Bernd Orfer: The first Tauern tunnel, spectacular beautiful weather route for hikers with a head for heights, April 4, 2006, previously: print edition 7./8. August 2004; accessed December 7, 2015.
