Federal motorway 241
Bundesautobahn 241 in Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Operator: | Federal Republic of Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Overall length: | 32 km (historical) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Status: | rededicated on Aug. 24, 2006 to | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The federal motorway 241 (abbreviation: BAB 241 ) - short form: Autobahn 241 (abbreviation: A 241 ) - was a motorway in the German state Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and has been the northern section of the A 14 since 2006 .
history
Engineers were already considering a motorway connection from Wismar via Schwerin, Magdeburg and Leipzig to Dresden in a map from around 1958 . However, most of these plans were not implemented during the GDR era. After the completion of the transit motorway from Hamburg to the Wittstock / Dosse triangle - the Wittstock – Berliner Ring section of today's A 24 had existed since the Berlin – Rostock motorway was built - the Politburo made the decision in November 1982 to connect the Wismar international port to this transit route . Although the new construction and renovation of other routes in the GDR would have been more necessary in terms of transport policy, because even analyzes at the time only forecast a very low level of utilization, the machines and workers concentrated in the north-west of the GDR at the time should continue to be used there without great effort. Even before the completion of the originally planned 55 kilometers of route, the work was stopped for cost reasons. The approximately 20-kilometer-long motorway ended in 1986 with one lane in each direction of travel at today's Schwerin-Ost junction, which was still called Schwerin-Süd until after the fall of the Wall. Only about half of the route had been built with four lanes by 1984. From then on, people spoke of the "Schwerin connection". The second carriageway was completed in 1992 according to GDR plans, which did not provide for any hard shoulder. The section between the Schwerin-Ost and Schwerin-Nord connections was released in 2000 after three years of construction work and provided with hard shoulder.
Until it was renamed the A 14, the Autobahn 241 ran for a length of 32 kilometers from the Schwerin triangle on the A 24 in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district in a northward direction, past Schwerin and the Schwerin Inner Lake, to the Schwerin-Nord junction near Cambs . The former A 241 was never used very heavily, as Schwerin from the A 24 via the Ludwigslust junction ( B 106 , since January 1, 2016 L 72, junction renamed to Wöbbelin in April 2013 ) or Hagenow ( B 321 ) on a shorter one Way to get there. In addition, after each completed section of the A 241, Wismar could only be reached via sometimes very narrow avenues , which is why the B 106 was preferred here too.
On August 24, 2006, the section between the Wismar cross and the Jesendorf junction was opened to traffic. The construction costs for this eleven-kilometer section were around 50 million euros. At the same time, the completed parts of the A 241 were renamed the A 14 to make it clear that a connection to the existing A 14 in Saxony-Anhalt and Saxony is planned. In future, the A 14 will run from the Kritzow junction near Wismar to the Nossen triangle ( A 4 ). Further construction was delayed due to financial and above all environmental problems. The first cut of the spade for the last section was on October 30, 2007. On December 21, 2009, traffic was opened for the motorway, which is now continuously passable between the A 20 and A 24.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Planning map from 1958 on autobahn-online.de
- ↑ Axel Doßmann: Limited mobility. A cultural history of the motorways in the GDR. Klartext Verlag, Essen 2003, ISBN 3-89861-153-1 .
- ↑ A 14 Closing the gap between Wismar and Schwerin. Schweriner Volkszeitung , December 21, 2009, accessed December 21, 2009 .