Federal motorway 56

Bundesautobahn 56 in Germany
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Basic data
Operator:	Federal Republic of Germany
State :	North Rhine-Westphalia
Development condition:	Planning rejected , but partially as and executed

The Federal Highway 56 (abbreviation: BAB 56 ) - Short form: Highway 56 (abbreviation: A 56 ) - was a planned in the 1970 highway by the federal border Germany / Netherlands at Waldfeucht about Jülich , Düren , Euskirchen , Bonn after Waldbroel lead should.

Construction work

On the A 565 , the A 1 and the A 44 , as preliminary construction work, among other things, for the planned motorway intersections with the planned A 56, partly a bridge and partly almost the entire cross were built. At Bonn-Ückesdorf the A 565 runs over a bridge ( ) that is almost completely dug in and has no function today. The B 56n at the double junction Euskirchen ( ) only uses approx. 40% of the width of the bridge, which is oversized for a federal road. Between the junction and Euskirchen a “ soda bridge ” spans a dirt road ( ). AS Jülich-West ( ) on the A 44 was built as an incomplete motorway junction with two tangents and two clover leaves. Only the pillars of the bridge of the A 56 over the A 44 were built.

The Soda Bridge near Euskirchen as preliminary construction of the originally planned A 56. In the background, the end of the B 56n Zülpich - Kreuz Frauenberg on the left.

The planned course of the A 56 west of the Rhine crossing can be easily followed on the borehole map of the North Rhine-Westphalia Geological Service based on the location of the publicly accessible (green) boreholes that were carried out as part of the preparatory route exploration.

Completed sections

On the route planned for the Federal Motorway 56, sections of the route were opened to traffic as preliminary work:

• In 1972 the Bonn Rhine Bridge was completed with four lanes over a length of 2.0 kilometers with a connection to Bundesstraße 9 on the western side of the Rhine and Bundesstraße 42 on the eastern side of the Rhine. In 1978, the section between the Bonn-Beuel-Süd junction and the Bonn-Ost junction with a length of 1.3 kilometers followed on the eastern side of the Rhine. This entire section was initially referred to in the federal government's road construction reports as " Bundesstrasse 56 " (1972), "A 56 / B 56n" (1974), "A 56 / B 56n / B 56z" (1975), " A 451 " (1976) and "A 562" (from 1977). It finally received the dedication as the 562 federal motorway .

• In 1986 the section between Zülpich and the Frauenberg motorway junction (A 1, today: Euskirchen double junction) with a length of 6.3 kilometers was brought under traffic as a single lane and dedicated to the B 56n. Up until 1984, this route had been designated as the first carriageway on the A 56 in the federal government's road construction reports.

• From 1998 to 2005 the section of the A 562 between the Bonn-Bad Godesberg junction and the new provisional junction to Nahum-Goldmann-Allee / August-Bebel-Straße on the railway line on the left bank of the Rhine was built as an underpass under the B 9 ( junction A562 / B9 ).

Planning history

In the requirement plan of the law on the expansion of federal highways in the years 1971 to 1985 of June 30, 1971, the route, later dedicated as federal freeway 55, was not included as a project to build a new freeway, but was already envisaged as a freeway-like, four-lane federal road construction project. It was divided into the following sections:

• B 56n: Federal border D / NL near Waldfeucht - southwest of Heinsberg ( Bundesstraße 221 ) in urgency level III
• B 56n: south-west of Heinsberg (B 221) - Heinsberg-Dremmen (cross with the planned B 1109, which was later implemented as federal motorway 46 ) - south-west of Linnich (cross with the B 57n , which was later given the project name of federal motorway 51 ) - Jülich- Koslar (cross with the B 1 , the later federal motorway 44 ) - west of Niederzier - Arnoldsweiler (cross with the federal motorway 4 ) in urgency level II
• B 56n: Arnoldsweiler (junction with the A 4) - west of Merzenich ( Bundesstrasse 264 ) in urgency level I.
• B 56n: west of Merzenich (B 264) - west of Vettweiß - north-west of Zülpich ( Bundesstrasse 265 ) in urgency level II
• B 56n: northwest of Zülpich (B 265) - Euskirchen-Frauenberg (cross with federal motorway 1 ) - north of Euskirchen - Swisttal-Miel (cross with federal motorway 61 ) in urgency level I
• B 56: Swisttal-Miel (cross with the A 61) - north of Witterschlick - Bonn-Röttgen - Bonn-Poppelsdorf - Bonn-Beuel (cross with the federal motorway 59 ) in urgency level I
• B 56z: Bonn-Beuel (cross with the A 59) - Dambroich (cross with the federal motorway 3 ) in urgency level I
• B 56z: Dambroich (cross with the A3) - southeast of Hennef (cross with the federal motorway 31 ) in urgency level II
• B 478n: southeast of Hennef (junction with A 31) - Waldbröl (transition to the four-lane B 256) in urgency level II

Between Waldbröl and Freudenberg , the two-lane new construction of the B 478 to the federal motorway 45 near Freudenberg was planned, but only in urgency level III. While in 1972 these plans were still included in the plans of the federal government as a federal road construction project, in 1973 the status of at least the federal border D / NL - Bonn (A 3) section changed to a federal motorway project under the internal name "Autobahn 204".

With the restructuring of the network of federal motorways, which was introduced with effect from January 1, 1975, the route train federal border D / NL - Jülich - Düren - Euskirchen - Bonn - Waldbröl received the new name as "Federal Motorway 56".

Even after the law amending the law on the expansion of federal highways from 1971 to 1985 from August 5, 1976, the A 56 was included in the requirement plan. However, the urgency of the individual sections has been changed:

• Federal border D / NL - Jülich - Düren (cross with the A 4) as a possible further requirement
• Düren (intersection with the A 4) - Zülpich (B 265) single lane in urgency level Ib, 2nd lane as a possible further requirement
• Zülpich (B 265) - Euskirchen (B 51) single lane in urgency level Ia, 2nd lane as a possible additional requirement
• Euskirchen (B 51) - Swisstal-Miel (junction with the A 61) single-lane in urgency level Ib, 2nd lane as a possible additional requirement
• Swisttal-Miel (junction with the A 61) - Bonn-Poppelsdorf (B 9) as a possible further requirement
• Bonn-Poppelsdorf - Dambroich (cross with the A3) in urgency level Ia
• Dambroich (cross with the A3) - Waldbröl as a possible further requirement

The requirement plan of the second law amending the law on the expansion of federal highways from 1971 to 1985 from August 25, 1980 still provided for the A 56, but only between the federal border D / NL - Heinsberg - Jülich - Düren - Zülpich - Euskirchen (cross with the A 1). The rest of the route was canceled as a federal motorway plan. The section Jülich (cross with A 44) - Düren - Zülpich was assigned to urgency level I, the section federal border - Jülich (cross with the A 44) assigned to level II. The construction of the Zülpich - Euskirchen line (cross with the A1) was included as an ongoing project. In addition, on the former route of the A 56 between Euskirchen and Waldbröl, the following plans for building new federal roads were included in the requirement plan:

• B 56n: Cross with the A 1 near Euskirchen - Swisttal-Miel (two-lane)
• B 56n: Witterschlick - Bonn-Röttgen ( Bundesautobahn 565 ) (two lanes)
• B 56n: Bonn-Röttgen - Bonn-Poppelsdorf (four lanes)
• B 56: Bonn-Beuel - Dambroich (triangle with the A 3) (two-lane)

All four of the aforementioned projects were assigned to urgency level I.

With the third law amending the Federal Highway Code of April 21, 1986, the end of the federal highway 56 came. Only on the former route, the following federal road construction projects remained in the requirement plan:

• B 56: Puffendorf ( Bundesstrasse 57 ) - Jülich-Koslar - west of Niederzier (B 56 old), two lanes, as an additional requirement
• B 56: Düren (B 264) - Zülpich, two-lane, as an additional requirement
• B 56n: Kreuz Euskirchen (A 1) - east of Euskirchen (B 56 old), two lanes, as an urgent need
• B 56n: Witterschlick - Bonn-Röttgen ( Bundesautobahn 565 ), two lanes, as an additional requirement
• B 56n: Bonn-Röttgen - Bonn-Poppelsdorf, four lanes, as an additional requirement
• B 56: Bonn-Beuel - Dambroich (triangle with the A 3), two lanes, as an urgent need

The A 56 was not included in the requirement plan even after the fourth law amending the law on the expansion of trunk roads of November 15, 1993. The following federal road construction projects, which were on the previously planned route of the A 56, remained in the requirements plan:

• B 56: OU Düren (B 264), two-lane, as an urgent need
• B 56: Kreuz Euskirchen (A 1) - east of Euskirchen (B 56 old), two lanes, as an urgent need
• B 56: OU Swisttal-Miel, two-lane, as an urgent need
• B 56: Witterschlick - Bonn-Röttgen ( Bundesautobahn 565 ), two lanes, as an additional requirement
• B 56: Bonn-Röttgen - Bonn-Poppelsdorf, four lanes, as an urgent need
• B 56: Bonn-Beuel - Dambroich (triangle with the A 3), two lanes, as an urgent need

The 2003 Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan did not result in any new addition to the A 56. Only the following federal road construction projects were planned as part of the B 56:

• B 56: OU Swisttal-Miel (2.6 km, two-lane, urgent need)
• B 56: OU Düren (6.9 km, 2.6 km of which are four-lane, urgent need)
• B 56: OU Euskirchen-Kuchenheim and OU Ludendorf-Essig (9.2 km, two-lane, urgent need)

The construction of the Bonn south bypass was initially deleted from the requirements plan. This was done in particular with a view to “the measures being given no realistic chances of implementation in view of considerable local resistance.” In the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan 2030 from 2016, the southern bypass is again listed with the urgency “Further need”, it bears the project name B 56-G40 NW and should be 11.5 km long at a cost of 683.4 million euros.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ aerial photo of AS Jülich-West on the pages of the Aachener Zeitung; from April 30, 2019
2. ↑ Boreholes in NRW . Geological Survey North Rhine-Westphalia. Accessed January 31, 2019.
3. ↑ Federal Law Gazette 1971, Part I, p. 873
4. ↑ Construction work on federal trunk roads in 1972. Expansion of federal trunk roads from 1971 to 1985. Annex to the road construction report 1972. Federal Minister of Transport, Road Construction Department, accessed on March 31, 2013 (map excerpt). 
5. ↑ Der Große Shell-Atlas, Mairs Geographischer Verlag, Stuttgart 1973/74, sheet 41f.
6. ^ Structure and numbering of the federal motorways. Planned overall network. Federal Minister of Transport, Road Construction Department, June 15, 1974, accessed on September 18, 2013 (map excerpt). 
7. ↑ Network of federal motorways and federal highways. Status January 1, 1976. Federal Minister of Transport, Road Construction Department, accessed on March 31, 2013 (map excerpt). 
8. ↑ Federal Law Gazette, 1976, Part I, p. 2093
9. ↑ Federal Law Gazette 1980, Part I, p. 1614
10. ^ Federal Law Gazette 1986, Part I, p. 537
11. ↑ Federal Law Gazette 1993, Part I, p. 1877
12. ↑ The southern bypass - that's it. Association Livable Siebengebirgsregion e. V., accessed on May 2, 2014 (website from opponents of the project). 
13. ↑ Carsten Schultz: Bundesverkehrswegeplan Well-known reactions in the region In: Bonner Rundschau March 16, 2016