Autostrada A6 (Poland)

Autostrada A6 in Poland
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Basic data
Operator:
Start of the street:	Kołbaskowo ( 53 ° 20 ′  N , 14 ° 25 ′  E )
End of street:	Rzęśnica ( 53 ° 25 ′  N , 14 ° 46 ′  E )
Overall length:	29.2 km
Voivodeship :	West Pomerania
Requirement for use:	Truck route toll
Development condition:	2 × 2 lanes
The A6
Course of the road Continue on  → Berlin  Kołbaskowo (PL) - Pomellen (DE) West Pomeranian Voivodeship MOP Kołbaskowo (1)  Szczecin Zachód (not applicable in future) (1)  Szczecin Zachód MOP (207 m)  Western Oder (227 m)  East-Oder (2)  Radziszewo (3)  Szczecin Klucz   Together with (154 m)  Smoczna (4)  Szczecin Podjuchy (242 m)  Klęskowo (5)  Szczecin Kijewo (5)  Szczecin Kijewo (6)  Szczecin Dąbie Chełszcząca (17)  Rzęśnica     Continue on → Goleniów , Świnoujście → Goleniów, Gdańsk     Under construction In planning  Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap map

The Polish Autostrada A6 is a largely completed, partly also to be modernized, toll-free motorway section , which bypasses Szczecin from west to east. The A6 has a total length of around 30 kilometers and serves as a continuation of the German Autobahn 11 coming from Berlin . The modernization of the former Reichsautobahn, which has been ongoing since the 1990s, should be completed by the end of 2019. Completion has been delayed, however, after the GDDKiA terminated several construction contracts due to financial difficulties facing the construction company .

history

The autobahn was built in the “ Third Reich ” up to its current end near Lenz (Stargard / Massow exit), with the last few kilometers only being one-lane. Originally an extension to Elbing and thus a connection to the autobahn to Königsberg (Prussia) starting there was planned. This was a difficult undertaking at first, because East Prussia was separated from the rest of the state by the separation under the Versailles Treaty and was thus an exclave . The Polish government refused to build a highway through its territory. After the conquest of Poland in World War II , the line to Rummelsburg and in two short sections in the former corridor and south of Danzig were put under construction, but all work was stopped due to the war in 1942.

In the network plan for the Polish motorways and expressways from 1945, a continuation of the route into the Gdansk area is planned. This connection is now realized as S6 .

Construction and planning

The (future) section of the A6 between the Kijewo and Rzęśnica junctions before modernization

The GDDKiA plans to upgrade the section between the nodes Kijewo and Rzęśnica to the motorway . To achieve this, further modernization work is necessary. These were divided into several stages.

First, the modernization of the road surface and the lighting was carried out on a 2.2 km long section that begins about one kilometer east of the existing Kijewo motorway junction and ends about 500 meters east of the newly planned Szczecin-Dąbie motorway junction. The works began on September 12, 2011 with the signing of the contract with the construction company Budimex and ended with the handover on December 21, 2012. The construction costs amounted to 15 million zlotys .

The next stage involved the construction of a new Szczecin-Dąbie motorway junction. The tender was launched in February 2012. After several protests from various construction companies, the contract between GDDKiA and Eurovia Polska was signed on July 2, 2013. The end of the construction work was planned for July 2014, the opening took place on June 17, 2014. The construction costs amounted to 16 million zlotys.

One of the next stages of the remodeling is one of about a kilometer long motorway section, the east begins one kilometer of the node Kijewo and ends with this, and the node Kijewo itself. In addition, the conversion of the node Rzęśnica to be grade- node and the construction of a wildlife crossing west of the Rzęśnica node planned. Finally, the remaining 3.5 km long section, which begins about 500 meters east of the Szczecin Dąbie junction and ends at the Rzęśnica junction, is to be modernized. All of these stages were planned to be completed by the end of 2019. ^[outdated]

In addition, the section of the S3 and S6 between the Rzęśnica and Goleniów Północ junctions was also originally intended to be expanded into a motorway . This would make the entire section, starting at the German border, to the Goleniów-Północ motorway junction, where the A6 should split into the S3 and S6, accessible as a motorway. This has since been given up due to funding difficulties. This section will remain signposted as an expressway .

See also

• Autostrada (Poland)
• Reichsautobahn Berlin – Königsberg

Web links

Commons : Autobahn A6  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Private website on the former Reichsautobahn Berlin-Königsberg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} 44 kilometry dróg w przetargu - powstaną kluczowe odcinki A6, S3, S10 i DK 13 (GDDKiA) (Polish)
2. ↑ Eugeniusz Buszma: "Przegląd komunikacyjny" No. 3-4 September-October 1945th ( Memento of 18 December 2007 at the Internet Archive ) (Polish)
3. ↑ Decision of the Council of Ministers of May 15, 2004 (Polish)
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Ograniczony remont berlinki. Czynna jedna nitka (Polish)
5. ↑ Mamy nowe 2.2 km by car. Ruch puszczono w piątek ( Memento of the original dated February 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Polish) 
6. ↑ Węzeł Szczecin Dąbie (Tczewska) na autostradzie A6 oddany do ruchu (GDDKiA) (Polish)
7. ↑ Umowa na węzeł Tczewska podpisana, przekazano również plac budowy (GDDKiA) (Polish)
8. ↑ Na czas przebudowy pojedziemy jedną jezdnią autostrady pomiędzy Kijewem, a Rzęśnicą (GDDKiA) (Polish)
9. ↑ Szczecin: W 2012 najważniejszą inwestycją GDDKiA była przebudowa A6 (Polish)
10. ^ A6 Kijewo - Rzęśnica (GDDKiA)
11. ^ Nowa autostrada od Kołbaskowa do Kijewa . gazeta.pl (Polish)