Brenner motorway

This article covers the entire street across the Brenner. The Austrian A 13 is called the Brenner Autobahn , the Italian section is the Autostrada A22 .

Brenner motorway in Innsbruck

View to the south of the Europabrücke in the Austrian part of the Brenner motorway

The Brenner motorway is a motorway that leads from Innsbruck in Austria ( Brenner motorway , A 13) over the Brenner Pass to Modena in Italy ( Autostrada A22 ). It is part of the European north-south connection with Europastraße 45 . It was built in the 1960s and 1970s and was one of the first mountain highways in the world. In the north it is connected to the A 12 Inntal motorway and joins the Italian A1 in the south . The Brenner motorway is the most important and geologically most difficult section of the European motorway from Munich to Modena . At the Brenner Pass, it crosses the border between the Austrian state of Tyrol and the Italian province of South Tyrol .

literature

• Wittfrida Mitterer: Built landscape in motion. The Brenner motorway. A building of the century turns 50 . Weger, Brixen 2014, ISBN 978-88-6563-111-9 .
• Magdalena Pernold: dream road or transit hell ? A history of discourse on the Brenner autobahn in Tyrol and South Tyrol (1950–1980) . transcript, Bielefeld 2016, ISBN 978-3-8376-3525-6 .
• Magdalena Pernold: The Brenner motorway as an infrastructure for traffic and transit. For the delimitation of geographical traffic areas in the period of their realization . In: Andrea Bonoldi, Hannes Obermair (eds.): Transport and infrastructure - Trasporti e infrastrutture (=  history and region / Storia e regione 25/2 ). StudienVerlag, 2017, ISSN  1121-0303 , p. 64-81 .

Web links

Wiktionary: Brenner motorway  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

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