The tunnel is 730 meters long. It is pitch black in the tunnel and quite cool even in summer. You should therefore bring a good lamp and a sweater. Seen from the east portal.....the first half is roughly gravel, after an intermediate wall the second half of the subsoil is developed as a cycle path. To protect the bats, the tunnel is only accessible from May to September.

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May 23, 2023

The Bettingberg Tunnel is a now unused railway tunnel on the disused Lohr–Wertheim railway line. The length of the tunnel is 730 meters. The tunnel is a listed building. Construction of the tunnel began in 1879 and was completed in October 1881. By 1882, a supply line to supply water to the city of Wertheim was built from a source in the Bettingberg tunnel. In 1976 the route through the tunnel was closed. A stone lion's head is placed above both portals.

For some time there was a plan to convert the tunnel into a cycle path from Kreuzwertheim to Streitfeld. Opening the tunnel to hikers and tourists was also discussed between the community and nature conservation associations. However, this was rejected because the structure, as an important wintering site for pug bats, is not accessible from October to May.

Source: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bettingbergtunnel

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July 19, 2025

The Lohr–Wertheim railway, also known as the East Spessart Railway, was a branch line in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg. It ran largely along the Main River from Lohr am Main to Wertheim. In Wertheim, it connected to the railway lines to Miltenberg and Lauda.

Operation of the 37.1-kilometer-long line began on October 1, 1881, by the Royal Bavarian State Railways; 1.6 kilometers of the line lay within Baden territory. However, as early as 1885, the Bavarian Railway Administration described the line as one of the least frequently used lines in its network, a situation that remained largely unchanged in the decades that followed.

Passenger service between Lohr Stadtbahnhof and Wertheim was discontinued on May 30, 1976, followed by the Lohr Bahnhof–Lohr Stadt section on May 22, 1977. Freight traffic still operates there today, primarily to supply the local glassworks (as of 2020). Freight traffic between Lengfurt-Trennfeld and Wertheim was discontinued on May 26, 1979, and between Lohr Stadt and Lengfurt-Trennfeld on September 29, 1991. The line was dismantled in 1980/81 and 1993, respectively.

The three tunnels of the railway line – the Bettingberg Tunnel, the Kaffelstein Tunnel, and the Schlossberg Tunnel in Wertheim – were closed in 1980/81. After the line was closed, the Bettingberg Tunnel was used by Daimler-Benz AG for a time to test its track-guided bus.

Source: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahnstrecke_Lohr-Wertheim

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