The Fehmarnbelt tunnel in LEGOLAND®
Northern Europe's largest construction site is located on southern Lolland. It is here, just east of Rødbyhavn, that Sund & Bælt is building the Fehmarnbelt tunnel between Denmark and Germany. The tunnel, which is the world's longest immersed tunnel, is being built with large hollow concrete boxes called tunnel elements that are assembled on the seabed. A bit like LEGO® bricks!
In Miniland you can see a replica of the huge construction site, which takes up more than 600 hectares - or 850 football pitches. In the Miniland exhibition you can see how raw materials are shipped to the huge factory and how the finished tunnel elements are lowered to the seabed.
The Femern Miniland includes the tunnel factory, the work harbour, tunnel elements and the descent to the tunnels in Denmark and Germany. You can also see the future toll plaza, the tunnel workers' town, the apprentice campus and famous local attractions such as the new Pilen viewpoint.
BRICKTASTIC FACTS:
- The project will take around 4,000 hours to build and will feature 21 beautiful models.
- There have been 35 modellers working on the project, which will consist of more than 800.000 LEGO® bricks
- It took almost 605 hours to build the big boat, Vox Amelia, and for that model alone, approximately 73,500 bricks were used.
IMPRESSIVE FACTS:
- The Fehmarnbelt tunnel is 18 kilometres long. It is the world's longest immersed tunnel and the longest tunnel that accommodates both cars and trains.
- The tunnel is built with concrete boxes called elements. Each tunnel element is 217 metres long and weighs 73,500 tonnes. That's the equivalent of 14,000 elephants.
- It only takes 7 minutes by train and 10 minutes by car to travel through the Fehmarnbelt tunnel.
- The Fehmarnbelt tunnel is being built by the state-owned company Sund & Bælt, which is also responsible for the Great Belt Bridge and the Øresund link. The construction is user-financed. The revenue from traffic goes towards repaying the loans that have financed the construction.
- The Fehmarnbelt construction project employs over 3,500 workers and hundreds of skilled young apprentices are being trained as part of the construction process.
- The construction of the tunnel requires as much steel as 50 Eiffel Towers.
- More than 15 million cubic metres of sand, soil and rock have been excavated to make room for the tunnel under the seabed. That's the equivalent of six Keops pyramids!
- The Fehmarnbelt tunnel is being built with respect for nature. The excavated material from the seabed will become a new beach park of over 250 hectares.
