Imperial fork
The Kaisergabel is a road structure in Hanover that connects the streets of Ritter-Brüning-Straße / Ricklinger Stadtweg and Göttinger Straße / Friedrich-Ebert-Straße. It connects the districts of Linden-Süd and Ricklingen .
Göttinger Straße and Friedrich-Ebert-Straße are part of the inner-city federal highway 6 . It connects the West Schnellweg via Frankfurter Allee with the Südschnellweg . The Ritter-Brüning-Straße merges into the Ricklinger Stadtweg and thus connects the Ricklingen district with the city center.
The Kaisergabel enables motor vehicles coming from the city center on Ritter-Brüning-Straße to change to Friedrich-Ebert-Straße in the direction of travel out of town and vice versa. There is no connection between Göttinger Straße and Ricklinger Stadtweg and vice versa.
The unwinding is free of elevation, has two lanes and is laid out according to expressway parameters. The structure is designed on both sides in such a way that the expressway could be continued in the tunnel or as an incision.
The Kaisergabel was one of the last structures in the expressway network in Hanover developed in the 1950s by Rudolf Hillebrecht based on the idea of a city suitable for cars . Neither the sub-tunneling plans nor further construction work on the inner city ring were implemented later.
The name "Kaisergabel" is derived from the Kaiser brewery in the immediate vicinity, which was closed in the 1980s and the "Kaiser Center" sports and fitness center has been located in the building since then.
literature
- The miracle of Hanover . In: Der Spiegel . No. 23 , 1959, pp. 56 f . ( online ).
Coordinates: 52 ° 21 ′ 9 ″ N , 9 ° 43 ′ 10 ″ E