Federal Highway 553

Federal motorway 553 in Germany
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Basic data
Operator:	Federal Republic of Germany
Start of the street:	Bliesheim motorway junction ( 50 ° 46 ′  N , 6 ° 49 ′  E )
End of street:	Brühl -Nord ( 50 ° 51 ′  N , 6 ° 55 ′  E )
Overall length:	27.2 km
of which in operation:	13.2 km
of which in planning:	14 km
State :	North Rhine-Westphalia
Course of the road State of North Rhine-Westphalia (1)  Bliesheim cross   Erft Parking (with toilet) at the old house (2)  Brühl- South Phantasialand (3)  Brühl / Bornheim (4)  Brühl-Ost (5)  Brühl-Nord Transition in Cologne  Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap map

The Federal Highway 553 (abbreviation: BAB 553 ) - Short Form: Highway 553 (abbreviation: A 553 ) - begins at the junction Bliesheim as a continuation of A 1 in the straight orientation and leads from there to the north edge of Brühl . It replaces the federal highway 51 in this area .

history

The planning of the A 553 was also temporarily under the title A 533 .

The original plan was to extend the motorway to the A 4 in the south of Cologne. A cross connection to the east across the Rhine to the A 59 was also planned. At least the extension of the A 553 to the south of Cologne is no longer in planning.

Meschenich bypass

Traffic to the south of Cologne continues to use the heavily used federal highway 51 through Cologne- Meschenich or the Brühler Tangente (L 150 / Kerkrader Strasse), which leads to the A 555 Cologne-Bonn. The L 150 has now been expanded to four lanes between the A 553 and the A 555 in order to at least partially alleviate the congestion problem. In addition, the existing federal highway 51 is to be run as the B51n, bypassing the Cologne district of Meschenich, to the Cologne-Eifeltor junction on the A 4 and - in some cases, 4-lane - to close the gap at least in part. The latter also makes sense because the A 553 also drives to the Cologne-Eifeltor container station and this leads to considerable pollution of the population through truck traffic, especially in Cologne-Meschenich. The construction work for the Meschenich bypass officially started with a press conference for the symbolic groundbreaking on January 24, 2020.

Rhine clasp

In the draft of the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan 2030 (March 2016) the continuation of the A 553 from "AK Köln-Godorf" (link with the A 555 on the left bank of the Rhine ) to "AD Köln-Lind" (link with the A 59 on the right bank of the Rhine ) was called "Rheinspange" , still included as an additional requirement with planning rights , the project was upgraded to the urgent requirement category until its adoption (August 2016) . The continuation of the A 553 to Cologne-Porz-Lind should also include the construction of a new Rhine crossing, with which the Friedrich-Ebert-Brücke in Bonn and the Rhine bridge Cologne-Rodenkirchen should be relieved. This should either be designed as a bridge or a tunnel; In addition, according to the ideas of the citizens and politicians, a crossing for regional and supra-local rail and light rail traffic should also be considered. At a citizens' event on July 27, 2018, the North Rhine-Westphalian Transport Minister Hendrik Wüst announced that the link should be completed by 2030 . The exact route of the Rheinspange should be determined by 2020. However, there is massive resistance to a bridge, both from Wesseling and from the Cologne district of Porz-Langel on the right bank of the Rhine and the neighboring Niederkassel-Lülsdorf . There they are more in favor of a tunnel solution or reject the construction project as a whole. The project is controversial among the population from Wesseling, Niederkassel-Lülsdorf , and the Cologne district of Porz-Langel , through whose urban areas the extension of the A 553 would probably run. Several citizens' initiatives have been founded to try to prevent the construction of the Rhine crossing.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Expansion of Kerkrader Strasse. It starts on friday. In: Kölnische Rundschau Online, March 31, 2014, accessed on July 29, 2017 (report on the start of construction).
2. ↑ New streets in Meschenich: Last kilometer to the Eifeltor. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger. Retrieved March 27, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Information from the State Office for Road Construction NRW on the subject: B51n: Continuation of the Cologne-Meschenich bypass to the A4 junction Cologne-Eifeltor. Retrieved September 29, 2016.
4. ↑ Ceremonial first groundbreaking B51n, bypass Cologne-Meschenich , Landesbetrieb Straßenbau NRW, accessed on February 11, 2020
5. ^ Draft Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan 2030, March 2016. Website of the Federal Ministry of Transport. Retrieved October 11, 2016.
6. ↑ Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan 2030, as of August 3, 2016. Website of the Federal Ministry of Transport. Retrieved October 11, 2016.
7. ↑ project "Rhine clasp 553" on the website of the State Office Road NRW (call July 30, 2017).
8. ↑ Rhine crossing Tunnel instead of Rhine bridge between Lülsdorf and Godorf? In: Kölnische Rundschau Online, April 15, 2016, accessed on July 29, 2017.
9. ↑ Rhine bridge between Wesseling and Niederkassel: the chance has never been so great. In: General-Anzeiger (Bonn) Online from August 6, 2015, accessed on July 29, 2017.
10. ↑ The new Rhine bridge should be ready by 2030 , General-Anzeiger Bonn , July 27, 2018
11. ↑ route of the Rhine clasp 553 is only 2020, General-Anzeiger Bonn, 18 March 2019
12. ↑ CDU politicians call for tunnels instead of bridges as a Rhine clasp , General-Anzeiger Bonn, February 5, 2020
13. ↑ Damage to nature: Cologne politicians demand planning stop for new Rhine bridge. Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, accessed on April 30, 2020 . 
14. ↑ Between Cologne and Bonn: Much criticism of the planned Rhine bridge near Wesseling Report from the newspaper Kölnische Rundschau from February 8, 2018, accessed: February 9, 2018
15. ↑ Niederkasselers are afraid of the southern variant of the Rhine bridge. General-Anzeiger Bonn, accessed on April 30, 2020 . 
16. ↑ The threatening bridge shocks the Langeler. Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, accessed on April 30, 2020 . 
17. ↑ Citizens' initiative Porz-Langel against motorway crossing 553. Retrieved on April 30, 2020 . 
18. ↑ Citizens' Initiative Citizens Against the Bridge. Accessed April 30, 2020 . 

Web links

Commons : Bundesautobahn 553  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

• The project "Rheinspange 553" on the website of Straßen.NRW
• Detailed route description of the federal highway 553
• Project information system (PRINS) for the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan 2030 "A 553 AK Köln-Godorf (A 555) - AD Köln-Lind (A59)"