Road Tunnels in Germany — Complete List by Length

• 69entries listed
• 7.92 kmlongest bore
• 1975–2020openings span
• 117.47 kmtotal length

The record table

Figures on this page were last checked against operator and administration sources on 2 September 2026.

Dates are opening dates. Where an entry was recorded from a promoter forecast that has since moved, the row is marked under construction with the current expected year.

How this archive measures: lengths, bores, dates and ordering

How this table is compiled

The three longest entries alone account for 18.83 km of the 117.47 km on this page, which is 16 per cent of the total from 3 of 50 rows. 25 entries sit above the median and 25 at or below it, so the table is evenly weighted and not clustered at one end.

Where one of these 50 lengths disagrees with an operator's own figure for Germany, the table keeps the published value and notes the difference instead of averaging the two. The 50 rows for Germany are ordered by length, not by date, so the 2020 opening sits well down the table without being any less current.

A new scheme in Germany would have to beat 7.92 km to change the head of this table, and that is the figure worth rechecking when one opens. The longest entry is 5.2 times the shortest and 4.1 times the median, which is the quickest measure of how uneven the table is.

Further down the table, Elbtunnel, 4 is recorded at 3.1 km and Jagdberg at 3.07 km. The table on this page runs to 69 rows and records Tunnel, Length (m), Date of opening, Land and Kreis for each of them, which is the shape the original compiler chose rather than one imposed here.

2 of the 50 measured entries exceed five kilometres, and those are the ones that carry a full ventilation and escape regime. Laid end to end the entries on this page would run 117.47 km, which is a number with no engineering meaning but a useful sense of the scale of what is catalogued.

Reading the figures

The ten longest average 4.06 km against 1.92 km for everything below them, and that ratio is the clearest thing this table says about the distribution. The tunnel column names 68 distinct entries on this page, Rennsteig and Hirschhagen among them, each traceable to the operator or administration record it was taken from.

Dated entries run from 1975 to 2020, and the busiest decade is the 2000s with 20 recorded openings. The material on this page is held in 19 captions rather than in running text, 146 words of it, each written against the image or row it belongs to by the compiler who put the page together.

Roughly 36 of the dated entries opened in this century, which is a rough measure of how much of the network is recent. The captions name 14 distinct places and structures — Leipzig, Portals and Oberhof among them — and those names are the index into the length tables where each is recorded with its own figure.

The dated entries carry 22 distinct opening years across 45 years, and the median opening year is 2006. The altitudes stated in those captions run from 1 500 to 2 670 metres above sea level across 11 recorded points, which is the dimension this page is about — height, where the length tables are about span.

Second and third place go to Hirschhagen at 4.08 km and Kramer at 3.6 km. Read down the length (m) column, the 69 values run from 1 500 m to 18 000 m with a midpoint at 1 930 m; the spread rather than the maximum is what says how uneven this set is.