Federal motorway 36

Bundesautobahn 36 in Germany
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Basic data
Operator:	Federal Republic of Germany
Start of the street:	Braunschweig - Melverode ( 52 ° 14 ′  N , 10 ° 32 ′  E )
End of street:	Bernburg (Saale) ( 51 ° 48 ′  N , 11 ° 41 ′  E )
Overall length:	120.4 km
State :	Lower Saxony Saxony-Anhalt
Development condition:	four-lane
Federal motorway 36 near Lochtum
Course of the road State of Lower Saxony Transition from L 295 Braunschweig (1)  Cross Braunschweig-Süd Gas station Braunschweig- Melverode Start of the Autobahn (2)  Braunschweig- Heidberg (3)  Braunschweig- Stöckheim (4)  Wolfenbüttel- North Oker ( Oker Valley Bridge 250 m) (5)  Wolfenbüttel-Northwest Braunschweig – Bad Harzburg railway line (6)  Wolfenbüttel-West (7)  Wolfenbüttel-South (8th)  Flute (10 m)  Green bridge (70 m)  Road bridge Parking lot (with toilet) Werla Warne (Warnetalbrücke 130 m) Warning valley railway Parking lot (with toilet) Ziegenberg (9)  Schladen -North (10)  Schladen-South (11)  Lengde Oker ( Oker valley bridge 200 m) (12)  Vienenburg -North (150 m)  Braunschweig – Bad Harzburg railway line Halle – Vienenburg railway line (13)  Vienenburg-Ost (14)  North Harz motorway triangle Shamlah (Shamlah Bridge 40 m) Ecker (Eckertalbrücke 190 m) State of Saxony-Anhalt (15)  Abbenrode Parking lot (with toilet) Brockenblick Heudeber-Danstedt – Vienenburg railway line (16)  Stapelburg Ilse (Ilsebrücke 60 m) (17)  Ilsenburg / Veckenstedt (18)  Wernigerode -North Holtemme Heudeber-Danstedt – Vienenburg railway line (19)  Wernigerode-Center Parking lot (with toilet) Regensteinblick (20)  Halberstadt Birkental Bridge (143 m) (21)  Blankenburg -Mitte Halberstadt – Blankenburg railway line (22)  Blankenburg-Ost (23)  Thale (24)  Quedlinburg -Mitte Tank and rest area Mühlgrabenbrücke Magdeburg – Thale railway line Bode (bridge 150 m) (25)  Quedlinburg East Selke (Selke Bridge) Green bridge (26)  Hoym Frose – Quedlinburg railway line (27)  Aschersleben -West Halle – Vienenburg railway line (28)  Aschersleben center Parking lot (with toilet) Hasenwinkel (29)  Aschersleben-East (30)  Güsten Railway Schönebeck – Güsten (31)  Ilberstedt Köthen – Aschersleben railway line (32)  Bernburg motorway junction ( )   Crossing in Bernburg (Saale) / Köthen (Anhalt) Remarks:  Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap map

The federal motorway 36 (abbreviation: BAB 36 ) - short form: Autobahn 36 (abbreviation: A 36 ) - is a motorway in Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt between the cities of Braunschweig and Bernburg (Saale) . It emerged on January 1, 2019 from the 395 federal motorway and part of the 6 federal highway . It runs from the northern Harz motorway triangle near Vienenburg along the northern edge of the Harz Mountains and is therefore colloquially referred to as the northern Harz motorway .

The name of the federal motorway 36 is based on an older route plan that was rejected in 1980, which provided for a route from Bad Harzburg and Goslar via Bockenem ( BAB 7 ), Hameln and further as BAB 35 to Ostwestfalen-Lippe to BAB 2 .

course

The route of the A 36 is based on two predecessor routes, the 395 federal motorway between Braunschweig and Vienenburg (until October 2, 2001 Bad Harzburg ) , which was built between 1972 and 1994, and the four-lane federal highway 6 between Vienenburg and Bernburg (Saale), which was built between 2000 and 2011 . On your route you will find the UNESCO World Heritage Sites Goslar and Quedlinburg as well as the medium- sized towns Wolfenbüttel , Wernigerode and Aschersleben . The cities of Salzgitter , Bad Harzburg, Halberstadt and Staßfurt are also within reach .

Braunschweig - Vienenburg

The course of the federal motorway 36 begins at the motorway junction Braunschweig-Süd in the Braunschweig district of Heidberg-Melverode . However, the A 36 is not directly connected to the motorway junction with the A 39 , but only begins about 200 meters after the half-junction Braunschweig-Melverode. In between the road has four lanes and both lanes are structurally separated, so that the impression of a motorway is given, but it is not signposted accordingly. The reasons for this are that, on the one hand, in the acceleration / deceleration lane between the Braunschweig-Süd motorway junction and the Braunschweig-Melverode junction, there is an entrance and exit to a large car dealership including a petrol station, which cannot be made without crossing, and on the other hand Vehicles without a motorway permit will be able to reach the Braunschweig-Melverode junction, as the Melverode and Stöckheim districts would otherwise only be accessible via detours from the Braunschweig city center. In addition, there is no hard shoulder to the Braunschweig-Heidberg junction .

After leaving the Braunschweig urban area, the B 79 branches off at the Wolfenbüttel-Nord AS to Wolfenbüttel . From here the A 36 runs in an arc around the city of Wolfenbüttel next to the towns of Salzgitter - Thiede and Wolfenbüttel- Fümmelse , from here you can also see the Salzgitter AG blast furnaces in the west near Salzgitter- Drütte . This is followed by a passage first through the Fümmelser Holz , the western edge of the Oderwald and then past Klein Flöthe and Gielde through the Schladener area, before the A 36 past Lengde crosses the Harly and on the other side of the Oker meets the Vienenburger level . The route leads east past Vienenburg including Wiedelah .

The motorway junction Nordharz placed between 2 October 2001 and 31 December 2018, the end of the federal highway 395 and the beginning of B-6 new line to the east. From here branches off to the west with the Federal Highway 369 from the other side of Harlingerode and Bettingerode connects the cities of Bad Harzburg to the A 36 via the Bundesstraße 4 and Goslar via the Bundesstraße 6 . In a tight curve to the east, the A 36 continues to the east - now parallel to the Harz located a few kilometers to the south - and leaves the state of Lower Saxony after two kilometers via the Ecker .

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  View from the Sachsendamm tram stop over the course of the A 36

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  View north of the Warnetal on the Brocken

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  Vienenburg motorway triangle with junction of the A 369 towards Goslar / Bad Harzburg

Vienenburg - Bernburg (Saale)

Behind the border between Saxony and Anhalt, the A 36 first curves around the Schimmerwald and after Abbenrode and Stapelburg, over the Ilse and past Ilsenburg . From here, the view of the Brocken , the highest mountain in the Harz, is particularly striking, so that the PWC facility Brockenblick was named after it. The A 36 continues through the north-eastern Harz foreland to Wernigerode and immediately reaches the striking Regenstein Castle near Blankenburg (Harz) . The motorway finally follows Quedlinburg past the nature reserve Harslebener Berge and Steinholz , passes here over the Bode and Aschersleben and after a total distance of 119 kilometers west of Bernburg (Saale) reaches the federal motorway 14 and federal highway 6 .

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  Transition to the federal motorway 369 from the direction of Halle

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  For the federal road 6n usual departure signs at Abbenrode

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  Former federal highway 6n near Quedlinburg

State of development

Typical cross-section 26, as it prevails on the A 36 in the area A 369-A 14

The standard cross-section in the 4-lane section east of the Vienenburg triangle is 26 m (RQ 26.00), that is, four lanes of 3.50 m (two for each direction) are provided, plus a 3 m wide median. The hard shoulder is 2 m wide, the shoulder 1.50 m. Between the hard shoulder and the lane, as well as the overtaking lane and the median, 0.50 m wide markings are planned. Due to the RAS-Q, this cross-section was approved as the smallest possible cross-section of a motorway in Germany at the start of construction, but with the introduction of the RAA in 2008, roads must meet the standard cross-section 28 in order to be labeled as a motorway (the difference is 0, 50 m wider shoulder and the central reservation widened by a third).

In addition to the A 40 and the A 562, the A 36 is the only motorway in Germany with sections of a city or tram running in the middle, i.e. between the two lanes (between the Braunschweig-Süd motorway junction and the Braunschweig junction -Heidberg). In between there is the tram stop HEH-Kliniken (until 2008 Leipziger Straße ) at the junction Braunschweig-Melverode , from which a pedestrian tunnel under the motorway leads away.

The structural design of the Vienenburg motorway triangle forces motorway drivers coming from the east to use an exit if they wish to stay on the A 36. This design is also called TOTSO . This construction method was not chosen deliberately, as the triangle was originally intended for federal highway 6, which runs from west to east , with the junction of the end section of federal highway 395 , but since January 1, 2019, the route east of the triangle and north of the junction has been a highway .

The construction project from the Vienenburg / BAB 395 triangle to the Bernburg / BAB 14 junction was designated as the B 6n . A total of 111 bridge structures, 21 connection points and three P-WC systems have been erected on this route. Tank and rest areas were not included in the planning, but such a system was built since November 2011 directly at the Quedlinburg-Zentrum exit (today: Quedlinburg-Mitte) and opened in 2012.

history

Planning of the A 36 in 1976

Preliminary planning and original planning from 1971 to 1980

A first preliminary draft of a route between Seesen and Halberstadt can already be found in a network map drawn up by the planning committee of the Study Society for Automobile Road Construction in March 1926. The first planning approaches for the section between Braunschweig and Vienenburg can be found in April 1953 by a Braunschweig planning office Goslar / Bad Harzburg, as it was originally planned before 1980, was not included in the 1992 Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan.

1971-1986

In the 1971 plan for the expansion of the federal highways from 1971 to 1985, a motorway connection under the internal designation A 106 was planned between the Lemgo , Hameln, Alfeld , Goslar, Bad Harzburg area and the inner-German border . With the restructuring of the motorway numbering from January 1, 1975, the project between Hameln and the inner-German border was given the new designation Federal Motorway 36 for the first time , while the part of the previous A 106 located west of Hameln was modified and assigned to the new Federal Motorway 35 . Between Hameln and Bockenem, different routes existed in the plans via Elze or Alfeld. The problem with the planning is the crossing of the Ith near Salzhemmendorf and the Sack Hollow near Alfeld, which lie across the course of the route and can only be reasonably surmounted by complex tunnel and bridge structures.

In the Goslar area, too, the local route of the A 36 was replaced by a spacious northern bypass in the planning. According to the first law of August 5, 1976 amending the law on the expansion of federal trunk roads from 1971 to 1985 (Federal Law Gazette 1976, Part I, p. 2093), the A 36 was almost completely assigned to possible further needs. The section between Goslar ( B 82 ) and the B 4 north of Bad Harzburg had four lanes in urgency level Ia and was tackled in 1978. It was completed in 1982 and 1987 as the B 6 and, in consideration of the motorway plans up to the Goslar- Oker AS, built on a motorway cross-section with hard shoulder :

The costs for the construction of the federal highway 6n from Goslar to Bad Harzburg amounted (as of 1987) to 46.76 million  DM , which corresponds (as of 2019) to inflation-adjusted 41.62 million euros.

section	km	year	Construction	Current dedication
AD Bad Harzburg - AS Goslar-Oker / Vienenburg	4.2 km	Nov 25, 1982	four-lane (+ hard shoulder)
AS Goslar-Oker / Vienenburg - connection to B 241	5.0 km	25 Sep 1987	four-lane

Since 1986

With the Third Act of April 21, 1986 amending the Act on the Extension of Federal Highways (Federal Law Gazette 1986, Part I, p. 557), the original planning for the A 36 was not taken into account. On the other hand, the plans for federal highways 6, 82 and 239 changed. The extensive northern bypass of Goslar was replaced by a four-lane cross-city route. A guided tour south of the old B 82 was now planned between Goslar and Langelsheim. The Rhüden – Holzminden route was still included in the requirement plan as the B 82n (further planning). The B 239n Holzminden – Horn-Bad Meinberg was only included between Steinheim and Bad Meinberg (urgent need) and between Fürstenau and Vörden (urgent need, partly ongoing project); the Vörden – Steinheim route was not to be realized under the federal government's construction burden. The connection between Holzminden and Fürstenau was completely eliminated.

The requirements plan of the Fourth Act to Change the Long-Distance Road Expansion Act of November 15, 1993 (Federal Law Gazette 1993, Part I, p. 1877) also did not contain the earlier A-36 plan between Hameln and Goslar. To the west of Goslar, the OU Langelsheim / Astfeld was set as an ongoing project. The new construction of a B 82 between Rhüden and Holzminden was still included with a modified route (further requirement). The Fürstenau - Vörden route was set as an ongoing project. Between the area southwest of Steinheim and Horn-Bad Meinberg, the B 239n was planned for urgent needs. Between Vörden and Steinheim there was a new construction project with a different road construction agency, the route Holzminden - Fürstenau was canceled.

The 2003 Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan still did not include a motorway connection between Hameln and Goslar. The connection Bad Meinberg - Holzminden - Rhüden (B 239n / B 82n) is also not included in this plan. Only the construction of the two-lane and 8.2 kilometer long OU Langelsheim / Astfeld in the course of the B 82 was set as an ongoing or fixed project in the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan 2003, with 4.1 kilometers already being completed in 2000 and the remaining section in 2003 was handed over to traffic.

Independently of this, a short section of the unrealized connection from Bielefeld to Hameln planned as A 106 and later as A 35 had already been built in four lanes as B 66 at Ubbedissen in East Westphalia . It represents a rudiment of the former motorway planning, today's Bielefeld-Ost exit would then have become the intersection of the A 2 with the A 35/36 in the direction of Lippe, Weserbergland and Harz.

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  A route dedicated to the B 6 near Harlingerode , original planning of the A 36

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  B 82 near Langelsheim as an alternating three-lane road

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  As a route dedicated to the B 66 near Ubbedissen , original planning of the A 35 as a continuation of the A 36

Planning and construction of the route planned as Federal Motorway 36

Independently of the plans for the A 106 / A 36 , a route between Braunschweig and Vienenburg / Bad Harzburg, initially designed as the A 369 and later as the federal motorway 395 , and a federal road 6n , which was built between Vienenburg and Bernburg (Saale) in the motorway cross-section, developed. The section between Vienenburg and Bad Harzburg was dedicated to the 369 federal motorway .

1972-1994

→ Main article : Bundesautobahn 395

Route of the A 395 between 2001 and 2018

In the Bad Harzburg / Goslar area, an increasing traffic load became apparent from the 1960s onwards, which the existing federal highway 4 could no longer cope with. Until 1972 the four-lane stretch of road between Bad Harzburg- Westerode and Vienenburg was built under the project name A 369 . Due to the looming distortion of the old A-36 route, the name had to be changed numerically so that the motorway was given the designation A 395 . This was successively built from Braunschweig from the north and from Bad Harzburg from the south and the last section through the Oderwald was finally completed and released in December 1994. Due to the inner German border, which is partly only a few hundred meters further to the east, one was forced to build the route partly over the Harly . For the earthworks necessary here, material was also taken from the Vienenburger Lake, which was emerging at the time, in the early 1970s .

route	length	Open to traffic	earlier dedications
AK Braunschweig-Melverode - AS Braunschweig-Stöckheim	03.7 km	1984	(BS-Melverode - AS WF-Nord: until traffic clearance) (traffic clearance - December 31, 2018)
AS Braunschweig-Stöckheim - AS Wolfenbüttel-West	07.4 km	1980
AS Wolfenbüttel-West - AS Wolfenbüttel-Süd	01.7 km	1983	(Open to traffic - December 31, 2018)
AS Wolfenbüttel-Süd - AS Klein-Flöthe	07.4 km	June 1994
AS Klein-Flöthe - AS Schladen-Nord	05.2 km	Dec 1994
AS Schladen-Nord - AS Lengde	05.3 km	1988
AS Lengde - AS Vienenburg-Nord	04.3 km	1980
AS Vienenburg-Nord - AD Nordharz (- )	03.1 km	Nov 19, 1972	(November 2, 1972 - December 31, 1974) (January 1, 1975 - December 31, 2018)
Individual evidence:

1994-2011

After German reunification, the Bad Harzburg – Bernburg route was included in the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan 1992 as a four-lane motorway-like B 6n . In the requirements plan of the Fourth Act to Change the Long-Distance Road Expansion Act of November 15, 1993 (Federal Law Gazette 1993, Part I, p. 1877) was the B 6n starting at the Bad Harzburg triangle via Quedlinburg to the A 14 north-west of Bernburg and south-west of Bernburg connecting to the A 14 to Dessau in urgent need. The construction as a federal road was carried out for connection reasons: the design as a motorway-like federal road instead of a federal motorway allowed shorter distances between the route exits.

The connection from Vienenburg to Bernburg was built gradually between 1997 and 2011. The first section was planning section 3 between the Stapelburg and Wernigerode-Nord junctions in July 2000. The western connection to the then up to the Bad Harzburg triangle leading A 395 was realized by a short turn of the highway to the east was sent used as an approach to a turn in that direction. The resulting Vienenburg motorway triangle was opened to traffic on October 2, 2001 together with planning sections 1 and 2; At the same time - in order to enable a better connection of the new route - the A 395 between the AD Vienenburg and the AD Bad Harzburg was rededicated as the B 6, so that the signs resulted in a four-lane motorway between Goslar, Bad Harzburg and Bernburg.

The continuation up to the A 14 was gradually implemented in the 2000s and early 2010s. Until 2005, Wernigerode and Blankenburg, until 2007 also Quedlinburg and Aschersleben, could be developed in a contiguous course. Since July 11, 2007, 14 building permits existed for all 13 sections up to the federal motorway. With the completion of plan section 13.3 between the Ilberstedt junction and the A 14 on December 19, 2011, the construction work was completed. A continuation to the east via Köthen to the A 9 was only realized as a motorized road in the 2 + 1 system because the forecast traffic rate was too low (see also: Bundesstraße 6n: Bernburg – Köthen – A9 ).

The route between the AD Vienenburg and the AS Bernburg was designated as the B 6 and between the AS Aschersleben-West and the AS Bernburg also as the B 185 . In allusion to the Südharzautobahn ( A 38 ), the trivial name Nordharzautobahn or Nordharzschnellstraße was established from this point on .

A lawsuit has been filed with the Federal Administrative Court against the planning approval decision for area 13.3 (between Ilberstedt and the A 14). This litigation ended amicably on November 5, 2008 with a settlement proposed by the court.

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  Street festival for the opening of the B 6n between Blankenburg -Ost and Thale , 2005

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  The federal highway 6 near Abbenrode shortly before the Vienenburg motorway triangle , 2008

number	route	length	start of building	Open to traffic	Last dedication
01	- Lower Saxony / Saxony-Anhalt state border	02.7 km	Apr 2000	2001
02	State border Lower Saxony / Saxony-Anhalt - AS Stapelburg	06.2 km	Oct 1997	Oct 2, 2001
03	AS Stapelburg - east of AS Wernigerode Nord	08.1 km	Oct 1997	July 2000
04th	east of AS Wernigerode-Nord - K 1346 near Benzingerode	07.5 km	Apr 2000	July 2002
05	K 1346 near Benzingerode - AS Heimburg	05.0 km	Sep 2002	Dec 16, 2003
06th	AS Heimburg - east of AS Blankenburg-Nord	02.9 km	Sep 2002	Dec 2004
07th	east of J Blankenburg-Nord - AS Thale (bypass Blankenburg)	05.6 km	June 2004	Sep 30 2005
08.1	AS Thale - AS Quedlinburg-Mitte	09.0 km	2004	13 Sep 2006
08.2	AS Quedlinburg-Mitte - AS Quedlinburg-Ost	04.2 km	26 Sep 2005	Dec. 1, 2007
09.1	AS Quedlinburg-Ost - AS Hoym	10.3 km	Nov 1, 2006	Dec 6, 2007
09.2	AS Hoym - AS Aschersleben-West	04.3 km	2004	March 17, 2006
10	AS Aschersleben West - east of AS Aschersleben-Nord	05.5 km	Sep 2000	Dec 6, 2002
11	east of AS Aschersleben-Nord - Aschersleben-Ost	03.8 km	March 2003	Dec 18, 2003
12	east of AS Aschersleben-Ost - local connecting road Strummendorf	01.7 km	March 2004	Dec 17, 2004
13.1	Local connection road Strummendorf - east of AS Güsten	02.8 km	2005	Sep 2 2008
13.2	east of AS Güsten - AS Ilberstedt	05.7 km	June 30, 2008	Dec. 4, 2009
13.3	AS Ilberstedt -	03.5 km	Apr. 2010	Dec. 19, 2011
Individual evidence:

2011-2016

In 2011, the Leipziger Volkszeitung reported on plans by the state government of Saxony-Anhalt to propose the B 6n to be upgraded to the federal motorway, whereupon about a year later in November 2012 the B 6n between the A 14 and the state border Saxony-Anhalt / Lower Saxony was upgraded was officially requested. At that time, the state government did not provide any information on the possible numerical designation of this motorway.

Although the inclusion of the A 36 in the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan 2030 from February 2016 was discussed, even in the final version that has become public, a Federal Motorway 36 is not mentioned either in its originally planned route or as a "small" eastern implementation through the upgrading of the B 6n. On the other hand, an extension of the B 6n from Koethen to the east of the Bernburg junction, which is not to be stepped up, to the Federal Motorway 9 south of Dessau-Roßlau is included in the planning as firmly planned, with the section east of the Federal Motorway 9 being planned with four lanes.

Announcement of the upgrade of the B 6 to federal motorway 36

A 395 near Vienenburg, 2008

On June 27, 2016, after the deadline for the public participation procedure in the course of the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan 2030, the district council of the Harz district voted with a large majority in favor of upgrading the B 6, as a result of which the district administrator was commissioned to issue an opinion on the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan.

In March 2017, the upgrade of the B 6 from the A 395 near Vienenburg to the motorway junction near Bernburg (Saale) to the A 14 was finally announced, officially as the A 36 . According to Prime Minister Reiner Haseloff , final coordination between the responsible ministries of the federal government and the state of Saxony-Anhalt was necessary for the upgrade to the A 36 .

In order to carry out the upgrade, the signage must be changed. A review of the load-bearing capacity of the new sign gantries was announced at the end of January 2018 and cited as the reason for the delay until New Year 2019.

Incorporation of the federal motorway 395

Another decisive development was announced on July 21, 2017, when the Saxony-Anhalt Minister for State Development and Transport Thomas Webel announced that the A 36 also includes the A 395. Agreements with the state of Lower Saxony were necessary regarding the responsibilities of the motorway maintenance depots and departure numbering.

With this decision, a situation was avoided in which the A 36 in the Vienenburger Dreieck would have merged into either the B 6 in the Goslar / Bad Harzburg area or the A 395 in the direction of Braunschweig. A comparable situation exists with the A 46 and A 445 in North Rhine-Westphalia .

In September 2018, the Saxony-Anhalt Ministry of Transport announced that the reclassification of the route in the state of Saxony-Anhalt was to be carried out on January 1, 2019, and that an exemption for the use of smaller motorway signs was being sought. The responsible Lower Saxony ministry initially did not publish a schedule, but announced two weeks before the planned reallocation that a uniform upgrade would take place on January 1, 2019.

Upgrade of the B 6 to the A 369 as a feeder

→ Main article : Bundesautobahn 369

After the graduation of the A 395 south of the Vienenburg triangle in 2001, a 4.2 kilometer long section remained, which was to connect the new section of the B 6 Goslar-Harzburg with the B 6n, which was built in the 1980s. The responsible ministry in Lower Saxony therefore decided in January 2018 to upgrade this section to a motorway feeder to the A 36, which also inherits an old plan designation as the A 369 .

reception

Politics and business are placing particular hope in the status effect, as on the one hand the presence of a federal motorway instead of a yellow motorway would represent an additional, psychological location advantage for the northern Harz and on the other hand some navigation systems would indicate faster arrival times. Both should ultimately contribute to better economic and tourist marketing of the region. The Lord Mayor of Goslar, Oliver Junk, welcomed the upgrade as a relief for federal motorway 2 and described the associated permission to mark long-term goals as a “difference”.

The upgrade is criticized, among other things, by taxpayers' associations, who in particular doubt the necessity of the upgrade and consider the tax funds to be badly invested , since the speed of travel does not change. In general, critics doubt that the upgrading / reclassification of the route will have a concrete effect. The name and sign changes on the A 36 were discussed twice in the "The real madness" section of the NDR satellite broadcast extra 3 .

Current status

Braunschweig - Vienenburg - Bernburg section

The rededication of the BAB 395 between Braunschweig and the AD Vienenburg and the upgrading of the B 6 between the AD Vienenburg and AK Bernburg took place in both countries at the same time on January 1, 2019. At the same time, the B-6 section between the AD Vienenburg and the AD Bad Harzburg upgraded to BAB 369. In the part of Saxony-Anhalt, shortly after the upgrade in January, 44 new signs were put up between the state border and the AS Hoym, indicating the beginning and end of the autobahn, the rest of the section will be redesigned until mid-January. In total, the number of signs to be exchanged amounts to around 350; the rededication on subordinate streets is done by pasting them over. The complete exchange should only begin in mid-2019 and be completed by the end of 2019 ^{[out of date]} , as the European award process lasted until spring and the label holders have to be partially replaced due to the larger font. As of May 2020, only newly built traffic signs have been erected on access roads (such as the Halberstadt bypass opened in 2019); all previous signs, including the signs on the motorway, have not yet been renewed in Saxony-Anhalt. In the Lower Saxony part of the country, some of the signs in question were rededicated in December 2018 by pasting the numbers over, as there is already a motorway here. The sign gantries at AD Vienenburg will be redesigned in 2020/21 after road construction work on the BAB 369.

In addition, signs are currently being prepared as a diversion route for the A 2 and A 14 motorways, so that motorists from Braunschweig with the destination Halle and Leipzig are not directed via Magdeburg, but via the A 36.This will relieve the heavily congested sections of the A 2 hoped for in the Braunschweig – Helmstedt – Magdeburg area.

The company Tank und Rast announced in August 2019 that they wanted to build a new truck stop in Wernigerode. The project is proposed with construction costs of around ten million euros. The city of Wernigerode is making preparations for this in the urban development plan.

Renaming

Many junctions were renamed as part of the upgrade. In Lower Saxony, the exits at Vienenburg were standardized and the triangle with the A 369 to the North Harz motorway triangle was renamed , analogous to the South Harz motorway triangle near Sangerhausen ( A 38 / A 71 ). In Saxony-Anhalt, all connection points ending in -Zentrum in the cities of Wernigerode , Blankenburg , Quedlinburg and Aschersleben have been renamed to -Mitte . The Heimburg junction was also renamed Halberstadt for reasons of relevance .

Pasted signage, April 2019

Note on signs to be converted, October 2019

No.	Name (old)	Name (new)
12	AS Vienenburg	AS Vienenburg-Nord
13	AS Osterwieck / Vienenburg-Ost	AS Vienenburg-Ost
14th	AD Vienenburg	AD North Harz
19th	AS Wernigerode center	AS Wernigerode-Mitte
20th	AS Heimburg	AS Halberstadt
21st	AS Blankenburg center	AS Blankenburg-Mitte
24	AS Quedlinburg center	AS Quedlinburg-Mitte
28	AS Aschersleben center	AS Aschersleben-Mitte

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Due to the fact that the signposting in Saxony-Anhalt has not yet taken place (as of May 2020), the junction points there are still only provided with the old name and signposted.

Section Hameln - Goslar - Bad Harzburg

Individual local politicians such as Goslar's Lord Mayor Oliver Junk spoke out in favor of further construction at least up to the A 7 . According to the Lower Saxony Ministry of Economics, Labor and Transport from 2018, an expansion of the B 82 similar to a motorway is not planned for reasons of priority.

Others

• The construction of the future motorway segments cost (as of 2007) around 475 million euros, of which 150 million euros were borne by the European Union .
• As a result of the ongoing underground mining of salt in the region around Ilberstedt , the ground beneath the road foundation sank by almost 2.3 meters. A subsidence of the soil by up to seven meters by the end of the century is forecast, and salt mining is expected to take place by around 2050. Due to the resulting geological monitoring of the road, the autobahn is jokingly referred to as the “best-monitored road in Saxony-Anhalt”.

See also

• List of federal motorways in Germany

Web links

Commons : Bundesautobahn 36  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Detailed route description of the federal motorway 36
• Detailed route description of the federal motorway 36x (planning Hameln - Bad Harzburg)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Dennis Lotzmann: Bundesstrasse 6 becomes Autobahn 36.Retrieved on September 13, 2018 . 
2. ↑ In the new year, the B6 will become the North Harz motorway A36 at mdr.de, accessed on February 15, 2019.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Construction booklet 2011: Press release of the BMVBS of March 11, 2011 ( Memento of June 13, 2004 in the Internet Archive ; PDF; 6.2 MB)
4. ↑ Project description B 6n ( Memento from June 13, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
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