Seefelder Strasse

State road B177 in Austria
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Basic data
Start of the street:	Zirl ( 47 ° 16 ′  N , 11 ° 15 ′  E )
End of street:	Scharnitz Pass ( 47 ° 24 ′  N , 11 ° 16 ′  E )
Overall length:	20.4 km
State :	Tyrol
Seefelder Strasse on the Zirler Berg
Course of the road Innsbruck-Land district (87)  Zirl-East   Inn Tiroler Strasse (1.2)  Zirl (5.5)  Entrance to  Leithen (6.1)  End of Leithen (7.1)  Reith near Seefeld (8.2)  Reith near Seefeld (9.4)  Seefeld South (9.5)  Karwendelbahn Seefelder Sattel ( 1185  m above sea level ) (11.0)  Seefeld Mitte ( 1220  m above sea level ) (12.3)  Seefeld north (13.4)  Karwendelbahn (17.0)  Leutasch (17.4)  Entrance to  Gießenbach (17.9)  Giessenbach (18.1)  End of Gießenbach (19.2)  Scharnitz (19.6)  Giessenbach (19.7)  Porta Claudia Tunnel (959 m) (20.8)  Isar (21.0)  Scharnitz (21.1)  Scharnitz Pass ( 955  m ) (21,195)  Austria-Germany border crossing Continue on  Mittenwald   Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap map

The Seefeld street ( B 177 ) is a 20.4 km long country road in the Austrian state Tirol . It connects the Inn Valley via the Zirler Berg and the Seefeld Plateau with the Seefelder Saddle , which runs past Seefeld in Tyrol , among other things , with Scharnitz and the Scharnitz Pass on the border with Germany . It is part of the European route 533 .

course

The Seefelder Strasse runs in the Northern Limestone Alps , between the Karwendel mountain ranges (max.  2749  m above sea level ) in the east, Mieminger Mountains (or: Mieminger chain ; max.  2768  m ) in the west and Wetterstein Mountains (max.  2962  m above sea level).  NHN ) in the northwest.

Initially, the road runs north-west from the Inn valley lying junction Zirl-Ost (about  590  m above sea level. A. ) the Inn Valley motorway (A 12) only east and then north past Zirl ( 622  m ), after which they% with a maximum of 16 pitch and only one hairpin turns over the south and east flanks of the Zirler Berg ( 1057  m ); there it is also called Zirlerbergstrasse . It then runs through Leithen ( 1009  m ) to Reith ( 1130  m ), which it passes to the east.

Then the road, which runs a bit to the north, leads east past Auland ( 1108  m ). There, Landesstraße 36 branches off from Seefelder Straße and leads through Seefeld, Mösern and Sagl (both in Telfs) to Telfs in the Inn Valley. The Seefelder Straße continues over the Seefelder Sattel ( 1185  m ) and passes Seefeld in Tyrol ( 1180  m ), in the east as a bypass . There, near the Seefeld Mitte junction, it reaches a little more than 1220  m .

From the Seefeld Nord junction, the road runs north-east, through the Scharnitz district of Gießenbach and later through the Porta Claudia tunnel through the mountain west of Scharnitz ( 964 m ) past Scharnitz ( 964  m ), after which it passes the Scharnitz Pass (also known as Scharnitzer ), which is on the Austrian-German border Called Klause ; 955  m ) reached. There it turns into the German federal highway 2 , which in Bavaria (first along the Isar) leads north to Mittenwald and then west to Garmisch-Partenkirchen . B 177 and B 2 form the shortest road connection between Innsbruck (Tyrol) and Garmisch-Partenkirchen (Bavaria).

The Karwendelbahn , which crosses the street several times in the frame of bridges, is laid out roughly parallel to Seefelder Straße .

history

Milestone in Reith near Seefeld

The route over the Seefelder Sattel and the Brenner Pass was already important as a trade route in pre-Roman times , among other things as one of the Amber Roads . After the conquest of the foothills of the Alps by Drusus and Tiberius in 15 BC. Chr. Was the burner ( via Alpes Norias ) a cart path created or used further. At the end of the 2nd century, under Septimius Severus, the roads were expanded to form a Roman road and, as Via Raetia, replaced the longer Via Claudia Augusta as the main traffic route between Augusta Vindelicorum and Northern Italy . The route is recorded in the Itinerarium Antonini as Route 275 as well as in the Tabula Peutingeriana .

Albert von Stade used the pilgrimage route 1236, hereinafter referred to as Via Romea , on his way back from Rome .

In 1332 the city of Innsbruck was given the task of maintaining the road "to the Scharnitz" against road tolls .

From the Middle Ages to modern times , the connection between Augsburg and Munich via Innsbruck to Verona and Venice , also known as the Via Imperii , and which is also shown on Erhard Etzlaub's maps, was of paramount importance as a trade route . By 1430, 6500 freight wagons were already using the route via Seefeld or 90% of the land traffic between Augsburg and Venice.

In 1664, a contract between Count Thurn und Taxis and the Bavarian Elector Ferdinand Maria established a new postal route for the Reichspost from Munich via the Seefelder Sattel to Innsbruck.

In the 18th century, however, the condition of the road had deteriorated so much that the route via Reutte or through the Achental was increasingly used and in 1775 the taxi post was directed via Kufstein and the Inn Valley.

Seefelder Straße in the general map from 1898/1905

In the Baedeker travel guide from 1855, the route above Zirl is described as “quite steep”, “in curves, through which magnificent views of the Innthal, the Martinswand and the southern mountains with its snow fields and glaciers (Stubayer Ferner ) to open. On the last ledge of the road a square tower, rubble of the castle questions stone . "

With the construction of the railway line between Rosenheim and Innsbruck in 1858 and the Brenner Railway in 1867, the road over the Seefelder Sattel lost further importance. With the rise of tourism at the end of the 19th century, this changed: in May 1891, the post office set up a daily bus service from Zirl (since 1883 the Arlbergbahn has been a stop ) via Seefeld to Partenkirchen , and in 1897 a private line connection was added. The road construction program of the State Office for Tourism in 1902 for the Zirl – Seefeld connection called for the "reduction of the greatest inclines on the Reichsstraße in order to ease the heavy traffic and prevent accidents".

For the Olympic Winter Games in 1964 a new route was built with bypasses of Reith, Auland and Seefeld and in 1974 the part north of Seefeld was given a flatter road layout, with the Schlossberg ( location ) and its castle ruins being demolished.

The Scharnitzer road is one of the former federal highways that were established by the Federal Law of July 8, 1921st Until 1938 the road was designated as B 67, after the annexation of Austria to the National Socialist German Reich it was led as part of Reichsstraße 2 until 1945 . From 1949 to 1971 it was designated as the B 185.

According to the Federal Roads Act of 1971, the Seefeld expressway S 13 was to replace Scharnitzer Strasse. However, this expressway was not built, which is why on April 1, 1983 the new federal highway 177 between Innsbruck and Scharnitz, called Seefelder Straße , was established. Since April 1, 2002, it has been under state administration as a road with priority , whereby it continues to use the "B" of the street name, but not the name "Bundesstraße".

Expansion planning

Porta-Claudia-Tunnel south portal (November 2018)

At the Scharnitz Pass, Seefelder Straße is endangered by avalanches due to the Marchklamm on the western flank of the Brunnensteinspitze, which lies on the state border . If there is enough snow, the road (and railway line) will be closed, a bypass is possible via the narrowly cut valley of the Leutascher Ache to Mittenwald . To remedy this, an avalanche gallery is to be built for 8.5  million euros .

To bypass Scharnitz, the center of which was passed by 18,000 vehicles on peak days  , the 959-meter-long Porta Claudia tunnel , which cost 19 million euros, was built; the breakthrough took place in December 2016. On November 10, 2018, the EUR 34 million project was officially opened.

traffic

The Seefelder Straße is closed between Zirl and Leithen in the north (uphill) for caravans with a permissible total weight of over 750 kg and on the entire route between Zirl and Scharnitz in both directions for trucks over 7.5 tons, destination and source traffic is excluded .

In 1980, an average of 6144 vehicles passed Scharnitz per day, in 1990 it was already 7457.

In the traffic census in 2000, a daily average of 6943 vehicles was determined for Scharnitz (300 of them for freight traffic and 267 for heavy traffic), for Reith 9270 (of which freight traffic: 650, heavy traffic: 408). The peak day is Sunday with 8457 (Scharnitz) and 10,630 vehicles (Reith).

In 2012, the daily average for Scharnitz was 7586 vehicles (including 348  trucks and 81  articulated trucks ), for Reith it was 10,085.

Scharnitz / №8038	… 0	…1	… 2	… 3	… 4	… 5	… 6	… 7	…8th	… 9
1980	6144	5509	5763	6023	5829	-	-	6806	6832	7457
1990						7297	7329	7041	7158	-
2000	6943	7235	7672	7911	7554	7335	7133	7512	7472	7695
2010	7807	7940	7586	8083	8137

References and comments

1. ↑ Office of the Tyrolean Provincial Government (Ed.): Statistisches Handbuch Bundesland Tirol 2019. Innsbruck 2019, p. 11 ( PDF; 14.2 MB )
2. ↑ Rupert Breitwieser, Andreas Lippert : Pass routes of the Celtic and Roman times in the Eastern Alps . In: Mitteilungen der Anthropologische Gesellschaft in Wien , 129 (1999), p. 127.
3. ↑ Gustav Parthey , Moritz Pinder (ed.): Itinerarium Antonini Augusti et Hierosolymitanum . Berlin 1848, p. 131; Hans Bauer: The Roman highways between Iller and Salzach according to the Itinerarium Antonini and the Tabula Peutingeriana. New research results on route guidance. Utz, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-8316-0740-2 , p. 14, online at books.google.de
4. ↑ Annales Stadenses , p. 339.
5. ↑ Otto Stolz: German Customs Tariffs of the Middle Ages and the Modern Era 1: Sources on the history of customs and trade in Tyrol and Vorarlberg from the 15th to the 18th century (German trading files of the Middle Ages and the Modern Era 10) . Wiesbaden 1955, cit. after Thomas Kühtreiber : Street and Castle. Comments on a multilayered relationship , p. 286, FN 61. In: Kornelia Holzner-Tobisch, Thomas Kühtreiber, Gertrud Blaschitz (eds.): The multilayered road. Continuity and change in the Middle Ages and early modern times , publications by the Institute for Reality Studies of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times 22, Vienna 2012, pp. 263-301.
6. ↑ Martin Kluger: Die Fugger in Augsburg , ISBN 978-3-939645-63-4 , p. 13 ( reading sample (PDF; 1.5 MB)).
7. ^ Grafschaft Werdenfels - On the history of the county , p. 7, in: Altbayern Series I, Issue 9: Grafschaft Werdenfels, Komm. Für Bayerische Landesgeschichte, Munich 1955.
8. ↑ With “R. Milser ”means the Milser ruins of the former Schlossberg Castle .
9. ^ Karl Baedeker : Handbook for travelers in Germany and the Austrian Imperial State , Koblenz 1855, p. 331 ( online ).
10. ↑ Communications of the German and Austrian Alpine Association , Vol. 17 (1891), p. 96.
11. ↑ Communications from the German and Austrian Alpine Club, Vol. 23 (1897), p. 169.
12. ^ Travel and tourist newspaper for Tyrol and Vorarlberg , from April 25, 1902, p. 8.
13. ↑ Federal Act of January 20, 1983, with which the Federal Roads Act 1971 is changed; BGBl. 63/1983
14. ↑ Envious look at neighbors: Tunnel around Scharnitz decided , reprint of the article from the Garmisch-Partenkichner Tagblatt of September 29, 2011 with a map of the avalanche line (PDF; 160.4 kB)
15. ↑ Local bypass and avalanche protection: compact solution not possible , from October 6, 2011, accessed on December 6, 2011, on merkur-online.de
16. ^ Announcement and project description , Office of the Tyrolean Provincial Government, Dept. of Traffic Law; from June 13, 2014, accessed on July 20, 2014 (PDF; 878 kB)
17. ↑ ^{a b} Tunnel stop for bypass Scharnitz , orf.at of August 11, 2016, accessed on December 26, 2016.
18. ^ Gebi G. Schnöll: Last blast for the bypass tunnel , rundschau.at of December 20, 2016, accessed on December 26, 2016.
19. ↑ Tunnel breakthrough for bypassing Scharnitz. In: tirol.ORF.at. December 13, 2016. Retrieved February 28, 2017 . 
20. ↑ Scharnitz bypass officially opened. In: ORF Tirol. ORF Tirol, November 10, 2018, accessed on November 10, 2018 . 
21. ↑ Ordinances No. 1365 and 1366 , in the Official Gazette for Tyrol 51/188 of December 19, 2007 (PDF, 127.6 kB), Ordinance business number 4-728-64-5-2007 , on the truck driving ban with explanations from 13. December 2007 (PDF; 455.08 kB)
22. ↑ ^{a b} Traffic Report 2000. (PDF; 949 kB) (No longer available online.) In: i-med.ac.at. Medical University of Innsbruck , p. 38 , archived from the original ; Retrieved April 12, 2016 . 
23. ↑ Transport in Tyrol - Report 2012 , Office of the Tyrolean Provincial Government, Section Transport Planning (PDF; 7.77 MB).
24. ↑ ^{a b} Office of the Tyrolean Provincial Government: traffic data 1995–2004. Retrieved April 12, 2016 . 
25. ^ ^{A b} Office of the Tyrolean Provincial Government: Publications Transport. Traffic data 2004–2014. Retrieved April 12, 2016 . 

Web links

Commons : Seefelder Straße  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

B177	Like the other former federal highways, Seefelder Strasse was part of the federal administration. Since April 1, 2002, it has been under state administration and continues to have the B in the number, but not the name Bundesstraße.