Wilsecker tunnel
| Wilsecker tunnel | ||||
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 North portal of the tunnel
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| place | Wilsecker | |||
| length | 1268 m | |||
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| Coordinates | ||||
| North portal | 50 ° 2 ′ 0 ″ N , 6 ° 35 ′ 6 ″ E | |||
| South portal | 50 ° 1 ′ 22 " N , 6 ° 34 ′ 45" E | |||
Map with all coordinates: At 1268 meters, the Wilsecker Tunnel is the longest tunnel on the single-track Eifel line in Rhineland-Palatinate . It is located between route kilometers 127 and 129 on the section between Kyllburg and Bitburg in the Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm .
With its portals, the north and south portals, built around 1870, the Wilsecker Tunnel is one of the cultural monuments of the Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm.
The north portal is located south of the city of Kyllburg. The long tunnel then leads southwards under the village of Wilsecker . The south portal in front of the Bitburg-Erdorf train station still belongs to the Wilsecker district.
In the early morning of June 1, 2018, the RE12 / RE22 derailed at the exit of the south portal. There, a thunderstorm and subsequent flooding of the railway line had formed a scree slope on which the train drove. Since the passenger train was empty, nobody was harmed and the driver got away with a shock.
literature
- Hans Hermann Reck (arrangement): Bitburg-Prüm district. Verbandsgemeinden Kyllburg and Speicher (= cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Volume 9.1 ). Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 1991, ISBN 3-88462-081-9 .
Web links
- Entry on Wilsecker Tunnel - north portal in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region .
- Entry on Wilsecker Tunnel - south portal in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region .
- Lothar Brill: Line 2631: Railway tunnel and tunnel portals. In: eisenbahn-tunnelportale.de.
- Thorsten Pallien: Rhineland-Palatinate: A train is in the Wilsecker tunnel on flooded tracks. In: Spiegel Online . June 1, 2018 .
Individual evidence
- ^ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm. Mainz 2018, p. 65 (PDF; 4.4 MB).
- ↑ Train accident: regional train derailed on the Eifel line. In: Kölnische Rundschau . June 1, 2018, accessed June 1, 2018 .