Berthold-Beitz-Boulevard
The Berthold-Beitz-Boulevard is the currently partially built, a total of around three kilometers long main street that divides the Krupp belt in Essen's west quarter in a north-south direction and is being built by the city of Essen. The boulevard can be seen as an extension of the inner city ring and will be expanded to four lanes, with a shared footpath and cycle path. Some of the tracks have their own for the tram line 109 of the Ruhrbahn .
The street was named after the former chief representative of Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation and Honorary Chairman of the Supervisory Board of ThyssenKrupp AG , Berthold Beitz , while he was still alive . For naming, guidelines of the city of Essen and the state of North Rhine-Westphalia that exclude the naming of public streets and squares after living personalities have been suspended. The namesake died on July 30, 2013.
First construction phase
First section
The groundbreaking ceremony for the 700 meter long section of the Berthold-Beitz-Boulevard between the Pferdebahnstrasse and the Altendorfer Strasse took place on April 4, 2007 in the presence of 140 invited guests. This was followed by the official naming of the Berthold-Beitz-Boulevard on May 15, 2007. This first tree-lined section of the Berthold-Beitz-Boulevard was opened on April 24, 2009 in the presence of Berthold Beitz, the then State Minister for Building and Transport , Lutz Lienenkämper , and the then Mayor Wolfgang Reiniger . This construction phase cost around 38 million euros, of which the state of North Rhine-Westphalia took over 26.35 million.
A railway bridge, which was part of a section of the former Osterath – Dortmund Süd railway line operated by the Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft , lay parallel to the Pferdebahnstraße . In 2010, the section of the Ruhr rapid cycle route (RS1) was opened on the railway line. The old railway bridge had already been removed so that cyclists and pedestrians had to cross the new Berthold-Beitz-Boulevard with the help of a set of traffic lights. In February 2020, work began on a new bridge that will close the interruption of the cycle expressway. This steel bridge will be 82 meters long and six meters wide.
Second part
The second section, around 600 meters long, between Altendorfer Strasse and Frohnhauser Strasse was opened to traffic on October 16, 2009. It cost around 3.5 million euros over a construction period of around 18 months. The route for tram line 109 has been prepared in the middle of the four lanes. Its expansion will cost another 11 million euros. The state of North Rhine-Westphalia paid nine million euros for the construction costs, the rest was shared between the city and the Rhein-Ruhr transport association .
On February 14, 2011, the 1.6 km long section of track was approved by the Ministry of Transport in Düsseldorf . The route begins on Altendorfer Straße, runs on its own track bed over Berthold-Beitz-Boulevard, where it joins the new Frohnhauser Straße stop in the south . There it leads in flowing traffic to Martin-Luther-Straße, where it changes to the previous route. According to the Council decision (1955/2010 / 6A), the start of construction was initially scheduled for autumn 2012. The groundbreaking ceremony for the completion of the tram route took place in the presence of Mayor Reinhard Paß on February 17, 2014. The total costs of the 1.3 kilometer long track section with the four-lane expansion of Frohnhauser Strasse in this area amounted to around 14 million euros. With the new, shorter route, which went into scheduled operation on October 20, 2014, route 109 avoids the heavily frequented Altendorfer Strasse / Helenenstrasse intersection, where another four tram lines already operate. With the section over the boulevard, a tram line was built again in Essen for the first time after the end of the Second World War and after several closures in the 1960s and 1970s.
Third section
Work on the 750 meter long, four-lane section between Pferdebahnstraße and Bottroper Straße began on December 6, 2010. The official opening took place on December 15, 2011, so that since then the two districts of the north and west quarters have been connected. A large part of this route leads east of the former Krupp locomotive and wagon construction factory over the Thyssen-Krupp site and meets the Bottroper Strasse / Berthold-Beitz-Boulevard / Bamlerstrasse intersection on Bottroper Strasse, which was opened to traffic one day later. The costs for this section of the Berthold-Beitz-Boulevard amounted to around seven million euros and were financed with funds from the city of Essen and the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Second construction phase
This provides for the expansion and renovation of the Bamlerstrasse / Gladbecker Strasse intersection and the expansion of Bamlerstrasse between Bottroper Strasse and Feilenstrasse / Kleine Hammerstrasse.
To this end, the main committee of the city of Essen decided unanimously on January 23, 2013 that Bamlerstrasse, so named in 1927, between Bottroper Strasse and Gladbecker Strasse, would be renamed Berthold-Beitz-Boulevard on April 16, 2013. Only the spur road leading north into the M1 industrial park has retained the name Bamlerstrasse, named after the meteorologist and free balloon driver Karl Bernhard Bamler .
The preparatory work will begin in February 2020 with the felling of 17 trees that will be replanted elsewhere. In mid-2020, the former railway bridge, which still leads over Berthold-Beitz-Boulevard, will be demolished. After the four-lane expansion has been completed, a new and longer foot and cycle bridge will be built here.
Third construction phase
In the third construction phase, plans envisage an expansion of the entire Berthold-Beitz-Boulevard to a length of about three kilometers from Bamlerstrasse, crossing Altendorferstrasse and Frohnhauser Strasse, north of the main railway line further to Hans-Böckler-Strasse ( Bundesstrasse 224 ), and here then at a new intersection, Hachestrasse. Continuing across the forecourt of the main train station , Hollestrasse will eventually also be included in the construction project as far as Steeler Strasse.
For the new traffic routing from the Frohnhauser Straße junction in a southerly direction to the railway line, the city of Essen decided on February 19, 2020 to demolish a small office building, an old bunker and a former timber warehouse. The cost of this is given as 750,000 euros, of which the city bears 262,500 euros itself.
Fourth construction phase
This provides for an above-ground route for the tram route from Frohnhauser Strasse to Hans-Böckler-Strasse and further over Hachestrasse and Essen Central Station to Steeler Strasse.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Erwin Dickhoff: Essener streets . Ed .: City of Essen - Historical Association for City and Monastery of Essen. Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8375-1231-1 , p. 68 .
- ^ Berthold-Beitz-Boulevard is open. In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung of April 24, 2009, Essen local section
- ↑ Radio Essen: News from April 29, 2020
- ↑ Press release: Extension of the Berthold-Beitz-Boulevard and new construction of the line for line 109. City of Essen, February 18, 2014, accessed on October 21, 2014 .
- ↑ New railways, new route - the "109" rolls over the Berthold-Beitz-Boulevard. WAZ media group, October 19, 2014, accessed on October 21, 2014 .
- ↑ Green light for route across Beitz Boulevard. WAZ media group, February 15, 2011, accessed on October 21, 2014 .
- ↑ Press release: Berthold-Beitz-Boulevard opened between Pferdebahnstrasse and Bottroper Strasse. City of Essen, December 15, 2011, archived from the original on July 8, 2012 ; accessed on October 21, 2014 .
- ↑ Press release: Berthold-Beitz-Boulevard: Second construction phase. City of Essen, December 6, 2010, archived from the original on March 2, 2013 ; Retrieved January 25, 2013 . 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.
- ↑ There is a risk of long traffic jams on Bottroper Strasse in Essen. WAZ media group, May 15, 2011, accessed on January 25, 2013 .
- ^ Local news radio Essen from January 24, 2013
- ↑ Preparatory work for the four-lane expansion of the Berthold-Beitz-Boulevard ; In: Press release of the City of Essen from February 7, 2020
- ↑ Three buildings have to give way: preparation for the third construction phase of the "Berthold-Beitz-Boulevard" measure ; In: Press release of the City of Essen from February 20, 2020
Coordinates: 51 ° 27 ′ 36 ″ N , 6 ° 59 ′ 20 ″ E