Wildsberg tunnel

Wildsberg tunnel
traffic connection	High-speed line from Hanover to Würzburg
length	2708 m
Number of tubes	1
construction
Client	German Federal Railroad
start of building	July 1983
business
operator	DB network
release	1991
location
Coordinates
North portal	51 ° 6 ′ 4 " N , 9 ° 35 ′ 6" E
South portal	51 ° 4 ′ 37 " N , 9 ° 35 ′ 10" E

Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap

The Wildsberg tunnel is a 2708 m long railway tunnel on the high-speed line from Hanover to Würzburg . The building crosses under the Wildsberg near the small town of Melsungen in northern Hesse and therefore bears his name.

Location and course

The gradient drops in a southerly direction.

The tunnel is located in the area of the small town of Melsungen and the municipality of Morschen .

Fuldatalbrücke Morschen with the south portal of the tunnel (in the background)

To the north, the Pfieffetalbrücke connects to the structure, to the south the Fuldatalbrücke Morschen follows .

history

The structure was planned in 1984 with a length of 2730 m. The planned cost was 61.2 million DM. Construction began The tunnel was on 2 December 1983 in July 1983. struck .

Gisela Kohlhaas was the tunnel sponsor. In 1985, it triggered the last demolition with which the tunnel was broken through.

The structure was part of planning section 14 in the middle section of the new line.

The tunnel was put into operation in 1991 as part of the new Kassel-Fulda section.

Web links

Photos of both portals on eisenbahntunnel-portal.de .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Bundesbahndirektion Frankfurt (M), project group NBS Frankfurt am Main of the Bahnbauzentrale (publisher): New routes Hanover-Würzburg from Kassel to Fulda, Cologne - Rhine / Main in the directorate area . 12-page leporello (10x21 cm), Frankfurt am Main, no year (approx. 1984)
^ Walter Engels: The middle 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.
^ Lothar Horchler, Otto Wohlgemuth: CHRONICLE of the first 100 years. (PDF) TSV Altmorschen, 2006, p. 78 , accessed on May 12, 2018 (for title data see http://www.morschen-kloster-haydau.de/TSVChronik/ChronikEinzelteile/06chronikVorschen.pdf , table of contents see http: // www .morschen-kloster-haydau.de / TSVChronik / Inhaltchronik.html ).

Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap

[db-mitte-1984-1] Bundesbahndirektion Frankfurt (M), project group NBS Frankfurt am Main of the Bahnbauzentrale (publisher): New routes Hanover-Würzburg from Kassel to Fulda, Cologne - Rhine / Main in the directorate area . 12-page leporello (10x21 cm), Frankfurt am Main, no year (approx. 1984)

[bundesbahn-60-401-2] Walter Engels: The middle section of the new Hanover – Würzburg line . In: The Federal Railroad . tape 60 , no. 5 , 1984, ISSN 0007-5876 , pp. 401-410 .

[ei-34-661-3] Belter: Great progress in building the tunnels for the new lines . In: Der Eisenbahningenieur , 34, 1983, issue 12, p. 661 f.

[4] Lothar Horchler, Otto Wohlgemuth: CHRONICLE of the first 100 years. (PDF) TSV Altmorschen, 2006, p. 78 , accessed on May 12, 2018 (for title data see http://www.morschen-kloster-haydau.de/TSVChronik/ChronikEinzelteile/06chronikVorschen.pdf , table of contents see http: // www .morschen-kloster-haydau.de / TSVChronik / Inhaltchronik.html ).