Federal motorway 565
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Bonn - Geislar ( 50 ° 46 ′ N , 7 ° 8 ′ E ) |
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County ( 50 ° 35 ′ N , 7 ° 2 ′ E ) |
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| Overall length: | 26 km | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| of which in operation: | 26 km | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Course of the road
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Map with all coordinates: The Bundesautobahn 565 (abbreviation: BAB 565 ) - short form: Autobahn 565 (abbreviation: A 565 ) - connects the Autobahns 59 and 61 between the Autobahn triangle Bonn-Nordost and the Autobahnkreuz Meckenheim . It crosses the Bonn city area from northeast to southwest and is therefore one of the most important traffic axes for both commuters and inner-city traffic.
Between the Bonn- Lengsdorf junction and the Bonn-Nord junction , the A 565 crosses the densely populated urban area in four lanes, sometimes with no hard shoulder in the trough or with a bridge . With over 100,000 vehicles per day (peaking over 8,000 vehicles per hour), this section is one of the most heavily traveled four-lane motorway sections in Germany and is therefore prone to congestion.
The as national highway 484 and B 56 unconverted section between junctions Lohmar and Sankt Augustin and the B 257 between county and Altenahr were originally developed as a motorway.
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The A 565 begins on the A 59 at the Bonn-Nordost motorway triangle (until 03/2009: Beuel -Ost) in the Beuel district of Bonn and heads west past the Geislar district and the Bonn-Beuel junction (previously: Bonn-Beuel-Nord ). Then the Rhine is crossed on the Friedrich-Ebert-Brücke ("North Bridge"), whose foreland bridges run along the Graurheindorf harbor. West of the Rhine, the motorway runs along the Bonner flag factory into the city district of Bonn over a 660 m long elevated road to the Bonn- Auerberg junction and on to the Bonn-Nord junction with connection to the A 555 in the direction of Cologne and to the distribution circle, which is the commercial center of the north city opens up. From there, the motorway leads south with the Bonn- Tannenbusch junction immediately following and again over a 630 m long elevated road, the so-called " Millipede ", through the industrial and commercial areas of the Weststadt to the Bonn- Endenich junction , where the " Endeicher Ei “with the federal highway 56 the Autobahn is transferred. At AS Bonn- Poppelsdorf , the A 565 curves in a south-westerly direction into the Hardtberg district .
At the opening, the Endeich and Poppelsdorf junctions were a double junction. Due to many accidents, however, this was rebuilt a few years later. Old bridge structures still bear witness to the former function. The entrance and exit from the Endeicher Ei from and to the A 565 from the Meckenheim direction became unusable in favor of the Poppelsdorf junction, from which you can continue to drive in the direction of Beuel. The part of the Bonn-Poppelsdorf branch running to Reuterstraße as well as the independent connection from Endeicher Ei to Reuterstraße was signposted on October 8, 2009 as a motor road. However, it is still signposted in blue and dedicated as a federal motorway.
The Bonn- Lengsdorf junctions follow in the direction of Meckenheim , which initially represented the provisional end of the route. Within one ear of AS was a residential building whose owner did not want to relocate. After his death, the house was demolished in spring 2019. The plan is to build a larger rainwater collection point there. The motorway separates Hainstrasse (north) from Lengsdorfer Hauptstrasse (south), which was formerly known as the B 257 from the intersection of Euskirchener Str./Erich-Hoffmann-Str. branched off from the old B 56 (Euskirchener Straße) and led to Meckenheim.
This is followed by the Bonn-Hardtberg junction, which leads to Konrad-Adenauer-Damm, an important expressway in Hardtberg.
The motorway continues in a southerly direction between the districts of Brüser Berg in the east and Ückesdorf in the west, past Röttgen through the Kottenforst, which is part of the Bonn urban area . After about 7 km, the Meckenheim -Nord junction follows , which is still in the area of the city of Bonn. This AS also served as a provisional end. The motorway leads in an arc past the Meckenheim district of Merl and the junction of the same name, which is also partly in Bonn's urban area on the edge of the Kottenforest. The Meckenheim motorway junction with a connection to the A 61 is located near the Altendorf district, which also belongs to Meckenheim . The A 565 continues around 300 meters across the border with Rhineland-Palatinate to the Grafschafter district of Gelsdorf , where it joins the federal highway 257 . This is still a short stretch with hard shoulders and unplaned AS before it flows into a normal road outside of town.
State of development
Most of the A 565 has four lanes. Between the triangle Bonn-northeast and the city of Bonn the highway is six lanes and, however, in the further course to Bonn Auerbergland and between Bonn-Auerbergland and the cross Bonn-Nord also exist 6 lanes, of which the outer two as long acceleration and deceleration traces for the connection points are designed. In addition, the A 565 in the direction of Meckenheim from Bonn-Lengsdorf to behind Bonn-Hardtberg has three lanes ("crawl lane " because of the steep incline). A hard shoulder was only added after the motorway opened.
Some of the junctions, especially in the densely built-up urban area of Bonn, are only designed as half junctions . At the Bonn-Tannenbusch junction there is an entrance and exit to the south. Traffic to the north is routed via the distribution circle and the Bonn-Nord motorway junction. The Bonn-Endeich junction is fully developed, but the ramps in a southerly direction do not lead to the motorway, but to the Reuterstraße motorway slip road at the Bonn-Poppelsdorf junction. In this area there are parallel lanes that would allow the connection, but are unused. The area of these two nodes is a combination of a double junction and a motorway triangle in the shape of a trumpet. At the Meckenheim-Nord junction, the motorway can only be used from and in the direction of Bonn.
As a preliminary construction work there is a bridge between Bonn-Hardtberg and Meckenheim-Nord, where the A 565 should once be connected to the planned A 56 . The cross would then have been called Kreuz Bonn-West.
At the Meckenheim junction you have to switch to the turning lane in order to follow the further course of the A 565. The course of the road leads to the A 61 towards the south ( TOTSO ).
On the right bank of the Rhine, the speed limit is 100 km / h. The speed limit between Bonn-Auerberg and Bonn-Lengsdorf is mostly 80 km / h. From Bonn-Lengsdorf to the Meckenheim-Merl junction, 120 km / h was allowed. This limit was raised to 130 km / h in 2007, but at the same time extended to the Meckenheim junction. In the Meckenheim-Merl area and in front of the Meckenheim junction, 100 km / h applies.
A special feature of the A 565 is the traffic sign 142 StVO ("Wildwechsel"), although there are wild fences.
The Gelsdorf junction has had this name since 2010. Before it was called " Grafschaft ", which was misleading, however, since "Grafschaft" as the name of a municipality does not name a specific place.
history
The oldest section of the A 565 was built in 1959 as the B 9 motor vehicle road, which as a branch from the motor vehicle road to Cologne (at the level of today's Bonn-Nord intersection with today's A 555) led over the millipede to endsich and at the level of today's "Endeicher Ei “Provisionally ended. In the second stage, the section, which was then still a federal highway EB 56 without hard shoulder, was led in a trough between Endeich and Poppelsdorf to the then city limits at the Lengsdorf exit. The Poppelsdorf junction was designed as a trumpet-shaped motorway triangle with another expressway in the trough. This connecting piece was provisionally connected to Reuterstraße, but was later to be connected to the then planned B 9n city motorway on the lowered railway line through the so-called Reutertunnel . With the exception of the southern connections of the exit at Endeich, which were shut down due to the risk of accidents and which led through the Poppelsdorf triangle at the same level, this section is still in the state of development at that time.
The next extension took place in 1967 as part of the “Nordtangente”: the B 56n was extended from the Bonn-Nord junction over the new Rhine bridge to the Beuel triangle, where it was connected to the A 170 (now A 59 ) “airport motorway” currently under construction .
With the opening of the Hardtberg ascent from Lengsdorf to traffic and the continuation through the Kottenforst to today's Meckenheim-Nord junction, the B 9n / B 56n / B 257n was upgraded to the A 221 motorway in 1971. The Hardtberg junction was only completed after the autobahn opened. In 1973 the section from Gelsdorf to the Meckenheim motorway junction followed, and in 1975 the gap between the Meckenheim and Meckenheim-Nord junction was closed.
The motorway has been known as the A 565 today since 1974. At the same time, a hard shoulder was built in the places where it was possible. Nevertheless, the standard is not yet consistently at today's motorway level.
On November 28, 2005, a first expansion section was released on two kilometers between the then so-called motorway triangle Bonn-Beuel (now Bonn-Nordost) and the Friedrich-Ebert-Brücke , where the former hard shoulder is now a third lane. Extensive slope stabilization and substructure reinforcements had to be carried out for this purpose. The bituminous superstructure was completely renewed and the signage was changed from individual signs on the edge to sign gantries.
Before the Second World War , excavation began on a section of the Bonn-Trier motorway between Bonn- Ippendorf and Meckenheim. Unlike today, however, the route of the Cologne – Bonn – Trier motorway should lead past Meckenheim south of Rheinbach towards Todenfeld and Tondorf near Bad Münstereifel . In the WDR documentary How the Autobahn Came into the Rhineland, contemporary witness Josef Schmitz from Villiprott describes the clearing work for the Autobahn and the construction of a motorway service station in Villiprott based on the model of an existing service station near Siegburg. However, the construction of the motorway near Villiprott was stopped at the beginning of the war and never resumed later. A US military map from 1951 lists the clearing as a "proposed motorway". A Michelin map from 1952 also shows the course. In aerial photos, the curved curve in the Kottenforst 500 m northwest of Wachtberg-Pech with a dead straight continuation to the north towards Ippendorf and southwest to the current course of the A 565 near Meckenheim can still be seen today. On the southern outskirts of Ippendorf, a parking lot and a forest aisle remind of the construction work.
Expansion plans
A complete six-lane expansion of the heavily used section in Bonn was postponed for a long time in favor of the planning for the southern bypass. Since this project is unlikely to be realized in the next few decades, at the end of December 2005 local politicians from both major parties again brought up an expansion of the A 565. For the six-lane expansion of the section between the Endeich junction and the Bonn-Nord junction, the city of Bonn had a feasibility study carried out in 2006 that considers two expansion variants to be feasible:
- Replacement of the current bridge structure between Poppelsdorf and Tannenbusch (" Centipede ") with a new, shorter bridge and expanded dams (costs around € 121 million)
- Lowering of the motorway in a trough (costs around € 155 million)
In addition, an increase in the capacity of the Bonn-Nord junction by means of a "high-flyer" bridge from the A 555 from Cologne to the A 565 towards Friedrich-Ebert-Brücke and an additional turning option from the A 565 from Poppelsdorf to Potsdamer Platz is proposed. However, an expansion of the motorway by 2020 is currently not considered realistic because of the high costs, especially since it is not included in the federal transport infrastructure plan.
To harmonize the traffic flow, the installation of a traffic control system between the Bonn-Nordost triangle and the Bonn-Hardtberg junction is planned, which is currently under construction. It has already been completed between Bonn-Poppelsdorf and Bonn-Lengsdorf.
For the expansion from four to six lanes with an additional hard shoulder , Straßen.NRW is also planning to use a third of the Lenné Park previously used by the Institute for Crop Science and Resource Conservation at the University of Bonn (INRES); the space requirement arises from the legislator's requirement to discharge and treat waste water that occurs on the motorway.
Web links
- Detailed route description of the federal motorway 565
- Result of the feasibility study for the expansion (City of Bonn)
- Result of the feasibility study for the expansion of the engineering office Schüßler-Plan (pdf) (2.56 MB)
Individual evidence
- ^ Rolf Kleinfeld: Enclosed house in Bonn is being demolished . Bonner newspaper printer and publishing house H. Neusser GmbH. December 12, 2019. Retrieved April 12, 2019.
- ↑ Landesarchiv NRW Findbuch 420.18.01 Rhenish associations of municipalities / traffic, description unit 574
- ↑ Christoph Keller: A piece of motorway history in the Kottenforst - To the planning of the Reichsautobahn Cologne – Bonn – Trier. In: Bonner Heimat- und Geschichtsverein eV (Hrsg.): Bonner Geschichtsblätter . No. 64 . Bonn 2014, p. 213-230 .
- ↑ How the Autobahn came to the Rhineland ( Memento of the original from December 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; in the series Doku am Freitag ; by Carsten Günther, editor: Susanne Spröer; WDR television ; First broadcast: January 30, 2009.
- ↑ Germany 1:25 000 Sheet 5308 Fourth Edition GSGS at landkartenarchiv.de , accessed on April 23, 2019
- ↑ digitized on landkartenarchiv.de
- ↑ For example, Google Maps , accessed 18 July 2009
- ↑ Press release Straßen.NRW - November 15, 2009 ( Memento of the original from May 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Lenné News. In: Lenné-Gesellschaft Bonn eV January 20, 2020, accessed on February 24, 2020 .
