Federal motorway 19

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	Bundesautobahn 19 in Germany
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	Basic data
Operator:	Federal Republic of Germany
Start of the street:	Rostock ; ( 54 ° 8 ′ N , 12 ° 7 ′ E )
End of street:	Wittstock / Dosse ; ( 53 ° 8 ′ N , 12 ° 27 ′ E )
Overall length:	123 km
State :	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania; Brandenburg;
Development condition:	four-lane
	The A 19 at Drewitzer See
	State of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
	State of Brandenburg
	Under construction; In planning; Traffic control system ;

The federal autobahn 19 (abbreviation: BAB 19 ) - short form: autobahn 19 (abbreviation: A 19 ) - connects the Hanseatic city of Rostock with the autobahn A 24 near Wittstock / Dosse . The entire A 19 is part of the European route 55 .

course

The Autobahn 19 begins in the north of Rostock at the eastern exit of the Warnow tunnel , south of the Rostock overseas port , runs east of the city towards the south, crosses the A 20 at the Rostock junction , runs through the Rostock district , crosses the Recknitz here , runs east of the Krakower See and cuts through the Mecklenburg Lake District in the district of the same name . The state border to Brandenburg is crossed north of Wittstock / Dosse . South of the city, the A 19 ends at the Wittstock / Dosse junction on the A 24.

The A 19 becomes important for international traffic thanks to its direct access to the Rostock overseas port (one kilometer from the A 19). There are ferry connections to several states on the Baltic Sea, such as Gedser in Denmark , Trelleborg in Sweden , Helsinki in Finland , Tallinn in Estonia and Ventspils in Latvia .

During the holiday travel wave there are sometimes traffic jams on this motorway, as the traffic to the Baltic Sea beaches , such as. B. to Rügen , Graal-Müritz or Kühlungsborn runs over this route. Alternative routes to Rügen are the A 11 (from Berliner Ring ), then A 20 and finally the B 96 .

The section between the Röbel and Wittstock / Dosse junctions is 24 kilometers long and has the greatest distance between two junctions in Germany. Another junction is planned between these (Wredenhagen), but this has not yet been built.

history

After the 1950s, when motorization was only slowly increasing in the GDR, the first step was to develop and maintain country roads. According to a letter from the SED leadership written in 1958, all necessary measures should be initiated to cope with the expansion of the motorway network to begin in the GDR. Among other things, it was about a project as far as the Rostock district . As early as autumn 1959 , Walter Ulbricht in the People's Chamber was impressed by a motorway on which the working people could get to the Baltic Sea. In 1961 the plans were suddenly put on hold. For several years there was an isolated single-lane section in the north-east of Rostock between trunk road 105 (now the federal highway) and the seaport .

However, an economic boom and increased traffic loads made it necessary to restart the project at the end of the 1960s. Construction began in 1970 and the work was carried out by VEB Autobahnbaukombinat . With the change of power at the top of the SED, housing construction in particular was promoted in the GDR. The construction work on today's A 19 should be stopped. In negotiations with Günter Mittag they at least achieved a slower construction. After eight years of construction, the last section of the Berlin-Rostock motorway was finally opened to traffic in 1978. After the fall of the Wall , the A 19 roadway was gradually improved and equipped with hard shoulder and parking facilities.

The following approvals were given in detail:

year	from	to	comment
1963	AS Rostock-Überseehafen	AS Krummendorf
1963	AS Krummendorf	AS Rostock-Ost	second lane only in 1973
1973	AS Rostock-Ost	AS Rostock-Süd	second lane only in 1974
1973	AS Rostock-Süd	AS Kessin
1974	AS Kessin	AS Laage
1975	AS Laage	AS Krakow
1976	AS Wittstock	AD Wittstock / Dosse	to AS Neuruppin on the (today's) A 24
1977	AS Röbel	AS Wittstock
1978	AS Krakow	AS Röbel

The designation as a motorway in the Rostock area was changed several times after 1990: Junction points in the area of the Überseehafen were then no longer considered a motorway. With the completion of the Warnow tunnel, the original course of the motorway was changed again: Originally it led directly there via today's road to the overseas port .

Bulky pile 2011

On April 8, 2011, due to a sandstorm, there was a pile-up on Autobahn 19 near Kavelstorf . Around 80 vehicles in total (both directions of travel) drove into each other, of which around 30 caught fire, including a dangerous goods transporter. This hitherto most serious traffic accident in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania resulted in eight deaths, 22 seriously and 52 slightly injured, of which 44 had to be admitted to hospitals.

literature

Axel Doßmann: Limited mobility. A cultural history of the motorways in the GDR. Klartext Verlag, Essen 2003, ISBN 3-89861-153-1

Web links

Commons : Bundesautobahn 19 - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Detailed route description of the federal motorway 19

Individual evidence

↑ After the pile-up on the A 19: Rescue lasts until late at night. RP Online , April 8, 2011, accessed April 8, 2011 .
↑ Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: Eight dead in a pile-up. Focus Online , April 8, 2011, accessed April 8, 2011 .
^ Fatal mass accident on the A 19: Identity of the eight fatalities not yet clarified. Stern.de , April 9, 2011, accessed April 9, 2011 .
↑ Mass crash on the A 19: clean-up work will take days. Focus Online , April 9, 2011, accessed April 9, 2011 .
↑ Press release 2011 traffic accident statistics. (No longer available online.) Police Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , April 10, 2012, archived from the original on April 14, 2015 ; Retrieved April 10, 2015 .

[1] After the pile-up on the A 19: Rescue lasts until late at night. RP Online , April 8, 2011, accessed April 8, 2011 .

[2] Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: Eight dead in a pile-up. Focus Online , April 8, 2011, accessed April 8, 2011 .

[3] Fatal mass accident on the A 19: Identity of the eight fatalities not yet clarified. Stern.de , April 9, 2011, accessed April 9, 2011 .

[4] Mass crash on the A 19: clean-up work will take days. Focus Online , April 9, 2011, accessed April 9, 2011 .

[5] Press release 2011 traffic accident statistics. (No longer available online.) Police Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , April 10, 2012, archived from the original on April 14, 2015 ; Retrieved April 10, 2015 .