Federal motorway 11

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	Bundesautobahn 11 in Germany
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	Basic data
Operator:	Federal Republic of Germany
Start of the street:	Pomellen (district of Nadrensee ) ; ( 53 ° 20 ′ N , 14 ° 25 ′ E )
End of street:	Schwanebeck ; ( 52 ° 37 ′ N , 13 ° 34 ′ E )
Overall length:	110 km
State :	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania; Brandenburg;
Development condition:	four-lane
	Federal motorway 11 ; at the Finowfurt exit (km 30.0)
	State of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
	State of Brandenburg
	Under construction; In planning; Traffic control system ;

The federal motorway 11 (abbreviation: BAB 11 ) - short form: Autobahn 11 (abbreviation: A 11 ) - runs for 110.1 kilometers from the Polish border in Nadrensee in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania to the Barnim motorway triangle in Panketal near the city limits of Berlin in Brandenburg . It is part of the European route 28 .

course

The motorway begins at the Pomellen border crossing point to Poland, following the local A6 autostrada and initially runs 19 kilometers in a west-southwest direction through Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . The border with Brandenburg is crossed at the Schmölln junction . From here on, the A 11 bends in a south-southwestern direction and runs 91 kilometers through this state. At the Uckermark junction, the A 20 from Lübeck , Rostock and Stralsund crosses with the connection from the islands of Rügen and Usedom .

The Autobahn 11 ends at the Berliner Ring (A 10) near the north-eastern city limits of Berlin.

The kilometrage begins at the Barnim motorway triangle , the border crossing to Poland is at kilometer 109.9. However, the interchanges are numbered in ascending order from the border towards Berlin.

Federal motorway A11 near Althüttendorf, Uckermark

history

Warning sign on the Reichsautobahn Berlin-Stettin

The construction planning for the Stettiner Dreieck (today Kreuz Barnim) and the first four kilometers of carriageway including the overpass of Reichsstraße 2 began in April 1935. The construction was on the one hand a job creation project, on the other hand the economic upturn was to be propagated in the structurally weak region then as now .

The route from the Berliner Ring to Joachimsthal was opened on April 4, 1936, and the motorway to Stettin-Süd was open until September 27 of the same year. In 1937 the Oder bridges were completed and the route around Stettin opened . The Wandlitz junction (completed in 1971) was subsequently created to make the Waldsiedlung - a residential area for the members of the SED - Politburo of the former GDR - more accessible . Likewise, the Chorin junction was only built after 1945. This also explains the short distance for the Reichsautobahn to the Joachimsthal junction of approx. 1.5 kilometers.

The junction of the A 11 from the Berliner Ring, which is now integrated into the Barnim triangle, was called the Penkun junction or Prenzlau junction in the GDR and was renamed "Schwanebeck triangle" in the 1990s. The motorway triangle was used as a Bernau loop for car and motorcycle races from 1952 to 1973. The banked curve was demolished in the 1990s.

Until reunification in 1990, the West Berlin part of the transit motorway to Hamburg was called A 11. It is now called A 111 .

Redevelopment

Road condition at Penkun in December 2006

In 1991 the heavily frequented Gramzow junction on the B 198 (then known as AS Prenzlau) was completely rebuilt as the first major construction project after 1936. During the work, the junction was closed for several months. At the same time, the A 11 was fundamentally expanded in the area to around 500 m, including the creation of hard shoulder. The expansion was necessary because there were no acceleration and deceleration lanes available before.

Since 1996 the A 11 has been completely renewed on most of its route with a modern road surface and the widening of newly created hard shoulders. As a special feature, the A 11 in the area of the Schorfheide-Chorin biosphere reserve does not have a hard shoulder, although it was rebuilt after 2000. Until 2007 the highway had a desolate state of the road on some sections. For example, on the section between kilometers 95.0 and 101.0, since 2003 traffic has only been on one lane with one lane per direction of travel. The unused roadway still consisted of brittle concrete slabs from the 1930s. The renovated line was opened to traffic in December 2007.

On 5 May 2011 to 11 November 2013 was triangle Schwanebeck for Triangle Barnim rebuilt. This involved the fundamental expansion of the A 11 over the first three kilometers.

Since April 2, 2019, the section between the Uckermark motorway triangle and the Schmölln junction has been fundamentally expanded and the missing hard shoulder added.

particularities

There is a wildlife bridge between the Joachimsthal and Pfingstberg runs . The bridge is made of reinforced concrete, over which a special foil was placed and then covered with sand and topsoil. The cost of the construction, which was completed in May 2005, amounted to around three million euros . The route has been monitored by a camera since commissioning. Up to October 2006 2300 deer passages were counted. The bridge is used by fallow deer , roe deer , wild boar , rabbits , foxes , badgers , raccoon dogs and martens . Deer could not yet be observed.

According to the General Association of the German Insurance Industry , an emergency telephone column between Chorin and Werbellin in the direction of Berlin was the most frequently used emergency telephone column on German motorways with 199 emergency calls in 2010.

During the GDR era, the autobahn had a large number of other junctions, which were gradually shut down after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Because there were numerous state hunting areas and recreational areas of the GDR leadership on the A11, additional junctions were set up. The bunkers of Complex 5000 of the GDR leadership are all in the area of the A 11. After the fall of the Wall, these junctions were no longer needed because they were in sparsely populated areas and the main reason for their operation ceased to exist. They were gradually torn down.

Web links

Commons : Bundesautobahn 11 - Collection of images

Individual evidence

↑ Construction site information system Brandenburg-Berlin: Basic expansion of the A11 between the AD Kreuz Uckermark - LG and vice versa
↑ Märkische Oderzeitung from March 6, 2019: After more than 80 years - Reichsautobahn ready for the shredder
↑ Märkische Oderzeitung, October 18, 2006, p. 11
↑ Emergency call record from the A11 in ACE Lenkrad, issue 6/2011, p. 46

[1] Construction site information system Brandenburg-Berlin: Basic expansion of the A11 between the AD Kreuz Uckermark - LG and vice versa

[2] Märkische Oderzeitung from March 6, 2019: After more than 80 years - Reichsautobahn ready for the shredder

[3] Märkische Oderzeitung, October 18, 2006, p. 11

[4] Emergency call record from the A11 in ACE Lenkrad, issue 6/2011, p. 46