Eschede is a village and a municipality in the district of Celle, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approx. 15 km northeast of Celle. It is known for the 1998Eschede train disaster, in which a ICE train crashed. Celle is a district in Lower Saxony, Germany. ... With an area of 47,618 km and nearly eight million inhabitants, Lower Saxony (German Niedersachsen) lies in north-western Germany and is second in area and fourth in population among the countrys sixteen Bundesl nder (federal states). ... Map of Germany showing Celle Celle is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... This picture illustrates the destruction of the rear passenger cars. ... ICE train The InterCity Express or ICE is a type of high-speed train operated by DB Fernverkehr in Germany and neighboring countries, for example to Zürich, Switzerland or Vienna, Austria. ...
Eschede is also the seat of the Samtgemeinde ("collective municipality") Eschede, which consists of the following municipalities: An Amt (plural Ämter) is an administrative unit, which is unique to the German Bundesländer (federal states) of Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Brandenburg. ...
The Eschede train disaster was the worst train accident since 1967 in German history and the world's worst high-speed train disaster.
It happened on 3 June 1998, near the village of Eschede in the district of Celle, Lower Saxony (coordinates: 52.7166° N 10.1925° E).
Six kilometres south of Eschede, near Celle, a wheel rim lining a wheel on the third axle of the first car broke, peeled away from the wheel, and punctured the floor of the car, where it remained embedded.
The Eschede train disaster was the worst accident with a train involved in German history.
It happened in 1998 June 3, close to the village of Eschede in the district of Celle, Lower Saxony.
The locomotive was separated from the remaining train and an emergency braking was activated; this braking had almost no use, since the braking distance was too long due to the velocity.
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