Federal motorway 33

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	Bundesautobahn 33 in Germany
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	Basic data
Operator:	Federal Republic of Germany
Start of the street:	Belm ; ( 52 ° 18 ′ N , 8 ° 7 ′ E )
End of street:	Bad Wünnenberg ; ( 51 ° 34 ′ N , 8 ° 43 ′ E )
Overall length:	115.4 km
of which in operation:	104 km
of which in planning:	11.4 km
State :	Lower Saxony; North Rhine-Westphalia;
Development condition:	four-lane
	The A 33 at Hövelhof
	State of Lower Saxony
	State of North Rhine-Westphalia
	Under construction; In planning; Traffic control system ;

The federal autobahn 33 (abbreviation: BAB 33 ) - short form: autobahn 33 (abbreviation: A 33 ) - connects the A 30 in the north with the A 44 in the south and thus serves the routes Netherlands / northwest Germany - Hesse / Thuringia .

course

A 33 begins northeast of Osnabrück in Belm by from the highway-like developed B 51 passes. It leads east past Osnabrück, crosses the A 30 at the Osnabrück-Süd motorway junction and then runs along the towns of Georgsmarienhütte , Hilter am Teutoburger Wald , Bad Rothenfelde and Dissen am Teutoburger Wald . Driving in the direction of Bielefeld there are striking inclines at Borgloh / Kloster Oesede and shortly before Hilter and a steep incline before Dissen. The newest section of the A 33 then runs from Borgholzhausen to Halle (Westphalia) . The motorway leads past Steinhagen to Bielefeld-Brackwede , where the city center of Bielefeld can be reached via the Ostwestfalendamm , then via the Bielefeld junction , which connects the A 33 with the A 2 , via the towns of Bielefeld-Sennestadt , Holte-Stukenbrock Castle , the Senne and Hövelhof military training area towards Paderborn . There the motorway lying on a rampart runs between the districts of Elsen in the west and Schloss Neuhaus in the east and past Paderborn itself. Then it enters the Paderborn plateau , passes Borchen - there are steep inclines here - and finally crosses the A 44 ( Dortmund - Kassel ) at the Wünnenberg-Haaren motorway junction . The A 33 ends there and merges seamlessly with the B 480 , which continues via Brilon into the Sauerland .

particularities

There is a 700-meter-long noise protection tunnel between the Dissen / Bad Rothenfelde and Dissen-Süd junctions. The A 33 was built here in a trough and then enclosed .

The kilometrage of the A 33 counts from Bad Wünnenberg at km 0 in the direction of Osnabrück to exit (15) Borgholzhausen at km 74.5 upwards and from then on from km 91 downwards. The northern end of the autobahn after the exit (6) Osnabrück-Widukindland is approx. 62 km. The reason for this, according to the Lower Saxony road construction authority (Mail is available), is that the autobahn was planned as a replacement federal road 68 (EB 68) in the 1960s , according to this planning should branch off from the B213 at Cloppenburg in Stapelfeld and the zero point of the original planning is therefore here. It is currently still uncertain whether a new kilometer will be carried out after the completion of the last construction phase up to the A1.

The reason why the kilometering at AS (15) Borgholzhausen changes as described above is unknown. As a result, there may be two sections of the motorway that, according to the signs, are located on identical sections of the motorway, but are in different places and run in different directions.

history

planning

Plans for an expressway between Osnabrück and Bielefeld with a continuation to today's A 44 (Dortmund – Kassel) can already be seen in maps from 1937. At the beginning of the 1960s there were finally the first concrete plans as a replacement federal road 68 (EB 68). The lines for the project were determined in partial sections. The route from the B 61 near Bielefeld to the state border with Lower Saxony was determined in the line on September 19, 1968. The line determination for the section from the B 61 to the A 2 in the city area of Bielefeld took place on March 23, 1973. In the requirements plan of the law on the expansion of federal highways in the years 1971 to 1985 from June 30, 1971, the later was divided essentially as A 33 designated route train in the following projects:

designation	section	expansion	Urgency level
B 68	Hesepe near Bramsche (Bundesstrasse 218) - Wallenhorst - Haste	four-lane	I.
B 68	Osnabrück north bypass (Haste - Dodesheide - Belm / Bundesstrasse 51)	four-lane	II
B 68	Osnabrück east bypass (B 51 - Osnabrück-Süd junction)	four-lane	I.
B 68 / B 68n	Cross Osnabrück-Süd - Bielefeld / B 61	four-lane	II
B 68n	Bielefeld / B 61 - Paderborn-Elsen	four-lane	I.
B 1n	Paderborn-Elsen - Paderborn Center	four-lane	I.
B 480	Paderborn Center - Kreuz Wünnenberg / Haaren	four-lane	I.

In 1971, these projects were combined to form a uniform route for a federal motorway, which was given the internal name “Autobahn 218”.

With the restructuring and new numbering of the network of federal motorways, which was introduced with effect from January 1, 1975, the project was given the new name "Federal Motorway 33". In addition, a modified route was planned in the Osnabrück area, which branched off the route of the B 68 from Hesepe via Bramsche at Wallenhorst, which should cross the A 1 a few kilometers north of the Osnabrück-Nord AS and bypass Osnabrück on a route further north.

The law amending the law on the expansion of federal trunk roads from 1971 to 1985 from August 5, 1976 left the planned route unchanged, but the urgency of the project was reassessed:

designation	section	was standing
B 51	Hesepe - Osnabrück-East	further need
B 51	Osnabrück-Ost - Kreuz Osnabrück-Süd	ongoing project
	Cross Osnabrück-Süd - Harderberg (one-way)	Yes
	Cross Osnabrück-Süd - Harderberg (2nd lane)	further need
	Harderberg - Dissen-Süd: (one-way)	Stage Ib
	Harderberg - Dissen-Süd (2nd lane)	further need
B 61	Dissen-Süd - Bielefeld	further need
B 61	Bielefeld - Holte Castle	Stage Ia
	Holte Castle - Paderborn-Sennelager:	Stage Ib
	Paderborn-Sennelager - Paderborn-Elsen	ongoing project
	Paderborn-Elsen - Paderborn Center	Stage Ia
	Paderborn Center - Borchen (1st lane)	Stage Ia
	Paderborn Center - Borchen (2nd lane)	Stage Ib
	Borchen - AK Wünnenberg / Haaren (2nd lane)	Stage Ib

With the second law amending the law on the expansion of federal highways from 1971 to 1985 from August 25, 1980, the Hesepe - Bramsche - Osnabrück-Nord junction was canceled. The urgency of the sections of the A 33 changed again:

designation	section	was standing
B 51	Osnabrück north bypass	Stage II
B 51	Osnabrück-Ost to Harderberg	ongoing project
	Harderberg - Steinhagen	Level I.
B 61	Steinhagen - Bielefeld	Stage II
B 61	Bielefeld - Stukenbrock / Senne	Level I.
	Stukenbrock / Senne - Kreuz Wünnenberg / Haaren	ongoing projects or already completed

In the third law amending the Act on Highway Expansion of April 21, 1986, the section Hesepe - Kreuz Osnabrück-Nord was deleted. The urgency has now been classified as follows:

section	urgency
Osnabrück north bypass	further need
Harderberg - Borgholzhausen	ongoing project
Borgholzhausen - Bielefeld junction (A 2)	urgent need
Cross Bielefeld - Cross Wünnenberg / Haaren	ongoing projects or already completed

The fourth law amending the law on the expansion of trunk roads of November 15, 1993 brought no changes in the route layout or the classification of urgency.

In the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan 2003, the planned route remained, but all remaining construction sections were assigned to urgent needs:

designation	section	urgency
	Osnabrück North (A 1) - Osnabrück / Belm North	Urgent need with a special nature conservation planning mandate
	Osnabrück / Belm North - Osnabrück / Belm South	urgent need
	Osnabrück / Belm Süd - Osnabrück-Schinkel	urgent need (2nd lane)
	Borgholzhausen - Halle (Westphalia) / Steinhagen	Urgent need with a special nature conservation planning mandate
	Halle (Westphalia) / Steinhagen - Bielefeld junction (A 2)	urgent need
B 61	Feeder Bielefeld / Brackwede	urgent need
B 61	Feeder Bielefeld / Ummeln	urgent need

Open to traffic

The following sections have so far been opened to traffic:

designation	section	year	km
B 51	Schinkel-Ost - AS Osnabrück-Lüstringen (1st lane)	1966	2 km
B 51	AS Osnabrück-Lüstringen - AS Osnabrück-Fledder (1st lane)	1967	1.9 km
	AS Paderborn-Sennelager - AS Paderborn-Schloß Neuhaus	1980	4.7 km
	AS Paderborn-Schloß Neuhaus - AS Paderborn-Zentrum	1981	4.2 km
B 51	Schinkel-Ost - AS Harderberg	1983	7.4 km (of which 3.9 km by adding the 2nd lane)
	AS Stukenbrock-Senne - AS Paderborn-Sennelager	1983	8.1 km
	South of Borchen junction - Wünnenberg-Haaren junction	1983	6.3 km
	AS Harderberg - AS Borgloh / Oesede Monastery	1986	4.3 km
	AS Borgloh / Kloster Oesede - AS Hilter	1988	6.7 km
	AS Paderborn-Zentrum - south of AS Borchen	1989	7.5 km
	AS Schloß Holte-Stukenbrock - AS Stukenbrock-Senne	1990	7.8 km
	AK Bielefeld - AS Schloß Holte-Stukenbrock	1993	6.0 km
	AS Hilter - AS Dissen / Bad Rothenfelde	1996	3.3 km
	AS Dissen / Bad Rothenfelde - AS Dissen-Süd	2001	3.4 km
	AS Dissen-Süd - AS Borgholzhausen	2001	3.8 km
	AS Bielefeld center - AK Bielefeld	2012	6.4 km
	AS Künsebeck - AS Bielefeld center	2018	7.9 km
	AS Halle (Westphalia) - AS Künsebeck	2019	5.4 km
	North of AS Osnabrück-Widukindland - Schinkel-Ost	2019	2.0 km (of which 1.4 km by adding the 2nd lane)
	AS Borgholzhausen - AS Halle (Westphalia)	2019	7.4 km

Closing the gap between Bielefeld and Borgholzhausen

The gap between the A 2 at the Bielefeld and Borgholzhausen junction was made in three sections. Here, too, the A 33 replaces the B 68, which was unable to cope with the traffic , especially in the urban area of Halle (Westphalia) .

Bielefeld cross under construction

The first 6.4-kilometer construction section between the A 2 and the B 61 (junction Bielefeld-Zentrum / Ostwestfalendamm ) in southern Bielefeld was built on June 16, 2007, after the Münster Higher Administrative Court in February and March 2007 directed three against the planning approval decision Had rejected requests for interim relief. The opening of this section was initially planned for 2010, but was delayed until December 5, 2012. The costs amounted to 125 million euros.

For the second section from Bielefeld via Steinhagen to Halle- Künsebeck there was a planning approval decision of the Detmold district government since June 2007 . In August 2009 , the Federal Administrative Court , which since a change in the law in December 2006 has had the first and last instance for lawsuits in connection with certain large infrastructure projects, dismissed a lawsuit by nine residents of the route against the construction as unfounded. The section extends from the Bielefeld-Zentrum junction via the Steinhagen junction to the Künsebeck junction. The groundbreaking ceremony took place on September 25, 2009. The construction time was initially calculated to be three years, and the 7.9 kilometer long section, which cost around 123.4 million euros, was finally approved on April 4, 2018.

The third construction phase between Halle (Westphalia) and Borgholzhausen has been approved since June 2011 and has been under construction since December 17, 2012. The Tatenhauser Wald nature reserve , which falls under the EU Habitats Directive , had a particularly slow effect in the planning of this section . After the discovery of a Bechstein bat colony in December 2010 in the Casum area near Borgholzhausen, planning was further delayed. On October 12, 2011, the environmental associations from Ostwestfalen-Lippe - officially represented by the North Rhine-Westphalian state association of the Federation for the Environment and Nature Conservation Germany - filed a lawsuit against the plan approval decision, since essential conditions of nature and species protection were not sufficiently taken into account. No further lawsuits, for example from residents, were brought. The lawsuit was heard by the Federal Administrative Court in October 2012 and dismissed on November 6, 2012. The costs for the 12.6 kilometer section amount to around 140 million euros, including over 30 million euros for nature, environmental and species protection measures.

The last construction phase was released in two parts: the eastern part between the junctions Künsebeck and Halle (Westphalia) on January 11, 2019 and the remaining part to Borgholzhausen on November 18, 2019.

Further construction up to the A1

North of Osnabrück, the A 33 is to be extended from the end of the autobahn at Belm to the A 1 at Wallenhorst ; this section is also known as the A 33 north . The procedure is operated by the Lower Saxony state authority for road construction and transport - Osnabrück division.

The currently favored route should run almost exclusively through agriculturally used areas and forests. Between the current end at Belm (transition from the B 51) and the motorway triangle with the A 1, a new junction is to be built in the village of Icker . With the gap between Bielefeld and Borgholzhausen being closed in 2019, a further increase in traffic is to be expected on the entire A 33, so that closing the gap to the A 1 is now considered to be particularly urgent.

The approximately two-kilometer section between the end of the expansion at Schinkel-Ost and Belm was under construction from 2013 and has been open to traffic since mid-2019. The section was built together with the Belm bypass on federal highway 51. The course of the existing federal road follows for around 1.4 km, here only the second lane had to be added.

For the section between Belm and the A1, a regional planning procedure was initiated in January 2008 at the request of the state authority for road construction and traffic by the district of Osnabrück , which is intended to prepare the plan approval procedure. In January 2009 it was concluded with the state planning determination of the preferred variant. In May 2009 the state authority applied to the Federal Ministry of Transport to carry out the route determination procedure, which was concluded in December 2012 with the route determination.

This section is to be 11.4 km long and run for around 2.4 km through forests protected by the Habitats Directive , which is delaying planning. Nature conservation is to be taken into account, among other things, by building several green bridges .

Above all, environmental associations criticize the plans for further construction. A long litigation is unlikely, however, since legal action against a planning approval decision would only be possible before the Federal Administrative Court. The start of construction on the northernmost section of the A 33 is currently not expected until 2021 at the earliest.

Upon completion, the intersection of the A 33 and the A 1 will be between the Bramsche and Osnabrück-Nord junctions. The motorway triangle will be assigned the number 69 on the A1. This was already taken into account at the time the number was assigned for the junctions: The Bramsche junction of the A 1 has the number 68 and the subsequent Osnabrück-Nord junction was assigned the number 70.

Traffic load

The nationwide traffic census in 2015 showed over 34,000 vehicles per day for the A 33 between Bielefeld and the Wünnenberg-Haaren junction . Between Schloß Holte-Stukenbrock and Kreuz Bielefeld , as well as near Paderborn, there were around 50,000 vehicles.

After the gap on the A 33 between Bielefeld and Borgholzhausen was closed in 2019, it is estimated that traffic on the entire connection between the Wünnenberg-Haaren junction and the Osnabrück-Süd junction will increase noticeably. This is due to the fact that the A 33 will lose its importance as a regional motorway and will become significantly more important as a connection from western Lower Saxony to Hesse and Thuringia. Together with the A 30 and A 44, the A 33 will be the middle part of a new north-west-south-east axis in western Germany.

Since a significant increase in road freight traffic is expected by 2030, the proportion of truck traffic will also increase along the entire route. In order to counteract the noise nuisance caused by the increased volume of traffic for residents and nearby towns, so-called noise-reducing Porous Mastix Asphalt (PMA) was and will be used in the future when the roadways are renewed, for example between Paderborn-Elsen and Borchen or at Hövelhof . This should contribute to reducing the noise by at least 2 dB. In addition, additional noise barriers will be installed, as a large part of the noise will be caused by truck traffic in the future.

Web links

Commons : Bundesautobahn 33 - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Detailed route description of the federal highway 33

Web links to close the gap between Bielefeld and Borgholzhausen

Project page at Straßen.NRW
Justification of the BUND for the resistance against the gap closure between Borgholzhausen and the A 2 ( Memento of July 3, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
Künsebeck online collection of newspaper articles and photos for planning the A 33 near Halle (Westphalia)
Südwestfeld Private website with many photos on the progress of construction on the A 33 near Bielefeld and Steinhagen

Web links for the further development of the A1

Citizens' Dialogue A 33 North Website of the State of Lower Saxony u. a. with planning details and pro / con arguments

Project website of the Lower Saxony State Authority for Road Construction and Transport

Stop A33 North Action alliance against the construction of the A33 North

Individual evidence

^ Westphalia sheet: Hundreds of guests expected. The first groundbreaking of the A 33 begins at 4.30 p.m. - Old motorway map from 1937 emerged ( memento from January 6, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )

^ Chamber of Commerce and Industry East Westphalia to Bielefeld : Chronology of the A33 gap closing between Bielefeld and Lower Saxony. (PDF; 79 kB) Archived from the original on October 30, 2011 ; Retrieved November 23, 2013 .

↑ Federal Law Gazette 1971, Part I, p. 873.

↑ Construction work on federal trunk roads in 1972. Expansion of federal trunk roads in 1971. Federal Minister of Transport, Road Construction Department, accessed on June 18, 2016 .

↑ Chamber of Commerce and Industry Ostwestfalen zu Bielefeld: Chronology of the A33 gap closing between Bielefeld and Lower Saxony ( Memento from October 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive )

^ Structure and numbering of the federal highways. Planned overall network. Federal Minister of Transport, Road Construction Department, June 15, 1974, accessed on September 18, 2013 (map excerpt).

↑ Federal Law Gazette, 1976, Part I, p. 2093.

↑ Federal Law Gazette 1980, Part I, p. 1614.

^ Federal Law Gazette 1986, Part I, p. 537.

↑ Federal Law Gazette 1993, Part I, p. 1877.

↑ ^a ^b Invitation for journalists: A33: Ceremonial clearance Halle - Borgholzhausen | Streets.NRW. Retrieved November 17, 2019 .

↑ Detmold District Government, A 33 motorway, accessed: November 20, 2011.

↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: radiobielefeld.de The gap in the A33 has begun, accessed : August 27, 2011.

↑ http://www.strassen.nrw.de/projekte/a33/lueckenschluss-bielefeld-borgholzhausen.html#a33luebiea4

^ Action against planning approval for the Bielefeld - Osnabrück motorway in the Bielefeld - Steinhagen section unsuccessful , BVerwG press release of August 12, 2009.

^ Groundbreaking ceremony for section of the A 33 ( Memento from May 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

↑ New A33 section opened: traffic opened in both directions ; New Westphalian.

↑ A33: The gap is getting smaller | Streets.NRW. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on April 6, 2018 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.

↑ Press conference on "Plan approval procedure A 33 Section 7.1 Halle / Borgholzhausen"

↑ T-Online ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Bat colony delays expansion of the A 33, accessed: November 20, 2011.

↑ nw-news.de of October 12, 2011 Environmental associations complain against A-33 gap closure, accessed: October 12, 2011.

↑ die-glocke.de of October 27, 2011 No further lawsuit against closing the gap, accessed: November 20, 2011.

^ Action alliance A 33 immediately

↑ nw-news: First groundbreaking at the last A 33 gap ( Memento from November 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

↑ A-33 - Closing the gap takes time: Construction will take six years ( Memento from November 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

^ Streets.NRW: A33: Closing the gap between Bielefeld and Borgholzhausen. Retrieved July 5, 2018 .

↑ The deadline for closing the gap on the A33 is set. In: a33-sofort.de. September 18, 2019, accessed September 18, 2019 .

↑ Nds. Ministry of Economy, Labor and Transport: Start of construction of the Belm bypass in the course of the B 51 - Behrens: "Citizens will be relieved of noise and exhaust gases in the future." , Mw.niedersachsen.de, June 17, 2013, accessed on August 12, 2019.

↑ Ramsauer in an interview: Closing the gap ( Memento from December 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive )

↑ Citizens' Dialogue A 33 North: Planning status. (No longer available online.) Lower Saxony State Authority for Road Construction and Transport, archived from the original on August 17, 2013 ; accessed on March 17, 2014 .

↑ Traffic volume map 2015 Ministry of Transport of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.

↑ Porous Matrix Asphalt (PMA). Landesbetrieb Strassen.NRW, accessed on September 16, 2019 (German).

↑ Hoevelhofer prepare action. Neue Westfälische (Zeitung), accessed on September 16, 2019 .

[1] Westphalia sheet: Hundreds of guests expected. The first groundbreaking of the A 33 begins at 4.30 p.m. - Old motorway map from 1937 emerged ( memento from January 6, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )

[2] Chamber of Commerce and Industry East Westphalia to Bielefeld : Chronology of the A33 gap closing between Bielefeld and Lower Saxony. (PDF; 79 kB) Archived from the original on October 30, 2011 ; Retrieved November 23, 2013 .

[3] Federal Law Gazette 1971, Part I, p. 873.