Federal motorway 115

Bundesautobahn 115 in Germany
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Basic data
Operator:	Federal Republic of Germany
Start of the street:	Radio tower triangle ( 52 ° 30 ′  N , 13 ° 17 ′  E )
End of street:	Nuthetal motorway triangle ( 52 ° 18 ′  N , 13 ° 5 ′  E )
Overall length:	28 km
State :	Berlin Brandenburg
Course of the road State of Berlin from here on 6 lanes (1)  Triangle radio tower Avus service area (with AS) AVUS (65 m)  Messedammbrücke Grunewald (2)  Hüttenweg (3)  Spanish Avenue from here 4-lane Service area (with hotel) Grunewald (on the AS) (4)  Cross Zehlendorf former Dreilinden checkpoint State of Brandenburg from here on 6 lanes (5)  Kleinmachnow Teltow Canal (bridge 80 m) Parking lot (with toilet) Am Stern / Parforceheide Babelsberg service area Potsdam (6)  Potsdam-Babelsberg L 40 (7)  Potsdam-Drewitz German division 1945–1990 (8th)  Saarmund (9)  Triangle Nuthetal     Under construction In planning Traffic control system  Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap map

Bundesautobahn 115 in Berlin-Nikolassee , 2010

The Bundesautobahn 115 (abbreviation: BAB 115 ) - short form: Autobahn 115 (abbreviation: A 115 ) - which partly runs on the route of the old Berlin race track AVUS , connects the Berlin city ring at the radio tower triangle (A 100) in the southwest of the city with the Berliner Ring (A 10) at the Nuthetal triangle . As early as 1921, the AVUS was the first pure motor road in Germany to be opened to public transport. Two structures of the old AVUS racetrack have been preserved. It concerns the grandstand at the north end, which was completed in 1937, and the former administration building of AVUS GmbH , which began in 1935 and which was converted into a service area in 1977 . In 1940 the section from today's Zehlendorf motorway junction (called Zehlendorfer Kleeblatt ) through Parforceheide to today's Nuthetal triangle (with the Berliner Ring; originally Avus triangle ; Drewitz branch in GDR times ) was completed. The last section from the Zehlendorf junction to the old AVUS trunk line on Spanische Allee was completed in 1941.

During the division of Germany , today's Autobahn was the beginning of a transit route between West Berlin and West Germany . Originally, this motorway ran out of town from the city limits of Berlin west of its current course. The Allied or West Berlin control coming from Berlin took place after three kilometers through GDR territory at the Dreilinden checkpoint (Checkpoint Bravo), which at that time was located on the Teltow Canal in the Albrechts Teerofen district belonging to West Berlin . To the south of it was the GDR border crossing at Drewitz . This route ran counter to the border regime of the GDR, as the motorway changed several times between West Berlin and GDR territory. Therefore, the GDR moved this section of the motorway further east in 1969, so that the route from the Zehlendorf junction only ran on GDR territory. Since then, the Allied control has taken place at the new Dreilinden checkpoint in the immediate vicinity of the Zehlendorf cross, and that of the GDR at the new border crossing point (GüSt) Drewitz . The old section of the route was still used for filming after 1990 and was later largely dismantled.

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  Former motorway with border wall , view from the bridge over the Albrechts Teerofen road to the south, 1988

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  Former section of the A 115 on the Teltow Canal

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  Former Dreilinden service area

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  Part of the old course of the A 115 with the bridge of the old Potsdam railway

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  Signs for the border crossing in Albrechts Teerofen , 1988

In the south of Berlin, the A 115 leaves the city at the Dreilinden customs office . The bronze sculpture Berliner Bär , created by the artist Renée Sintenis , stands on the median of the city limits and welcomes visitors to the city and the returning Berliners.

Behind the city limits there are three monuments in the area of ​​the neighboring municipality of Kleinmachnow . You are in the immediate vicinity of the former GDR border and in front of the former Berlin border crossing point (GÜSt) Drewitz. Coming from Berlin first of all (right) a column bearing the GDR's national coat of arms . Shortly afterwards there is (left) a concrete base that supports a Russian-made snow blower . This monument is no longer recognizable from the motorway because of the noise barrier in front of it. Until the German reunification in 1990, a Soviet T-34 tank stood on the base , as a symbol of victory for the Red Army over the Third Reich . This memorial was originally located in West Berlin at Kreuz Zehlendorf and was moved to GDR territory in 1954.

In the further course, on the edge of the border crossing point that has been located there since 1969, today's Europarc Dreilinden , is the commanding tower of the GDR border security . This memorial indicates what the inner-German border , secured by multiple walls, looked like. Wall sections, chicanes and automatically deployable road barriers have been dismantled. Until 1972, travelers in transit from West Berlin, the Federal Republic of Germany and abroad could only pass through this checkpoint after long waiting times and sometimes harassing checks. This situation changed only after the transit agreement was concluded on June 3, 1972.

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  The stele once bore the GDR's national coat of arms .

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  In the place of the tank there is a pink snow blower.

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  There is now a permanent exhibition on the inner-German border in the command tower.

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  Tourist information board on the former border of the German division

From 1975 until German reunification , the West Berlin section of today's A 115 was called A 15 . This number has been used since 1990 for the " Spreewaldautobahn ".

Six-lane A 115 in Brandenburg south of the Teltow Canal

After 1990 the Autobahn in the Brandenburg section was renewed and expanded to three lanes in each direction, with the new junction 5 ( Kleinmachnow ) being created. Junction 6 ( Potsdam-Babelsberg ) was relocated to the south at the end of the 1990s to the level of Nutheschnellstrasse . The triangle between the Nuthetal and the Berliner Ring was extensively rebuilt between 2006 and 2009 for 34 million euros.

In 2011 and 2012, the Berlin section between the Spanische Allee junction and the radio tower triangle was completely renovated . The roadways were completely rebuilt and the bridge over Hüttenweg was replaced by a new building. The federal government invested 28 million euros for this.

Over the next few years, a replacement will be made for the bridge structure at the Zehlendorf cross that was built between 1938 and 1941. The new building will already take into account a planned six-lane expansion of the A 115 in this area. In the future, an expansion from the current four to six lanes is planned between the Hüttenweg junction and the city limits.

Web links

Commons : Bundesautobahn 115  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Detailed route description of the federal highway 115
• Checkpoint Bravo memorial
• The former Dreilinden-Drewitz border crossing on geschichtsspuren.de
• The old Avus section near Dreilinden
• The planned south curve of the Avus
• The history of the Avus ( Memento of February 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ AVUS, Mercedeshaus, grandstand, motorcyclists . Website of the district office of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf
2. ^ Reichsautobahn-Atlas of 1938 ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Katrin Bischoff: tanks for snow blowers. In: Berliner Zeitung , April 15, 2008
4. ↑ We build for you: A 10 - AD Nuthetal. (No longer available online.) State of Brandenburg, Landesbetrieb Straßenwesen, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved November 16, 2012 . 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.  
5. ^ Roads and bridges for Berlin - renewal of the A 115 (AVUS). Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment, accessed on November 16, 2012 . 
6. ^ Roads and bridges for Berlin: Kleeblatt Zehlendorf crossing structure - the project. Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment, accessed on November 3, 2016 .