DETAILS OF TRIPPSTADT’S WATER SUPPLY TUNNEL

  Exit                                                                                                  Entrance/1^st &  2^nd collector

·        Main tunnel: 285.85 m. long; air shaft 29m. behind the entrance in dry-wall section.

·        197.87m. of the main tunnel in rock strata

·        1^st collector 29.8m. long  

·        2^nd collector 46.25 m. long with 2 air shafts (50 x 50 cm)

·        Entrance height – 418.52m.above sea-level

·        Exit height – 416.86 m. above sea-level

·        Gradient – 5.8% (corresponds to the minimum falling gradient in ancient times).

·        Profile height approximately 1.8m   (lowest point 1.55m. on the   Quellbachtal side and highest point 2.85m. on the Judenhuebel side).    

Many articles have been written about the Fauna ( bats and insects) and the Flora ( fungi and mosses - r - ) by various experts, so this would be repetition on my part.    ©Helmut  Çelim / 1999

 The first pioneers after a passage through the tunnel. Mr. Hans Krämer ( ? ) in the centre before the Exit and Mr. Karl-Heinz Neudecker front left. Photo: Rainer Dietrich - Kl. 

bibliography:

Manfred Gaude, Hans Klose, Erich Knust und Dieter Weber "Der Trippstadter Brunnenstollen" - Mitteilungen der Höhlenforschergruppe Karlsruhe Heft 5, 1985

Klaus Grewe "Der Fulbert - Stollen am Laacher See" Eine Ingenieurleistung des hohen Mittelalters, in Zeitschrift für Archäologie des Mittelalters 7, 1979, S. 107-142 ; " Licht am Ende des Tunnels" - Planung und Trassierung im antiken Tunnelbau, Mainz 1998

Hans Krämer, Franz Sitzenstuhl, im Trippstadt Kranz der Wälder, Oktober 1983 " Die Trippstadter Brunnenstollen" 1983 und 1987

 Karl Heinz Neudecker " Der Trippstadter Brunnenstollen"  April 1992

©Historisches Museum der Pfalz, Inventar Nr. HM 1986/16  Photo: Kurt Diehl Trippstadt - Karte / Ausschnitt - Amt Wilenstein evtl. 1764 - 1767