Federal motorway 59

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	Bundesautobahn 59 in Germany
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	Basic data
Operator:	Federal Republic of Germany
Start of the street:	Duisburg ; ( 51 ° 33 ′ N , 6 ° 44 ′ E )
End of street:	Motorway junction Bonn-Ost ; ( 50 ° 43 ′ N , 7 ° 10 ′ E )
Overall length:	69 km
State :	North Rhine-Westphalia;
Development condition:	2 × 2 and 2 × 3 lanes
	A 59, junction with A 42. A gas pipeline from the former steel works, now the Duisburg-Nord Landscape Park, crosses the motorway.
	State of North Rhine-Westphalia
	Under construction; In planning; Traffic control system ;

The federal highway 59 (abbreviation: BAB 59 ) - short form: Autobahn 59 (abbreviation: A 59 ) - consists of three interrupted sections in North Rhine-Westphalia . The most northerly runs from the lower Lower Rhine directly to the city limits between Dinslaken and Duisburg parallel to the Rhine as a north-south urban motorway through Duisburg. Another stretch of road leads from the south of Düsseldorf to Leverkusen . Finally, the A 59 connects Cologne with Bonn-Beuel , at the Bonn-Ost junction it changes into the Rheinuferstraße B 42 on the right bank of the Rhine , which is still a yellow motorway as far as Bad Honnef .

course

Section Dinslaken - Duisburg - Düsseldorf

The northern section of the A 59 begins southwest of Dinslaken and runs as the "north-south road" through Duisburg, the expressway built by the city between 1957 and 1977 parallel to federal highway 8 ( city motorway ) with up to 100,000 vehicles per day today originated.

Duisburg main station , the A 59 runs deep in front of the building

Between the Duisburg junction (A 40) to the south of the main train station (Duisburg-Buchholz junction), it has 6 lanes. The route of the A 59 in front of Duisburg main station is below the station forecourt and was laid out in the 1920s for underground trams .

The northern section of the A 59 ends at the Duisburg-Süd motorway junction on the A 524 , which merges into the federal highway 288 to the west. Since the completion of the B 8n on June 1, 2012, it has been an extension of the A 59 in a southerly direction to the center of Düsseldorf . The existing connection to the B 288 was therefore no longer sufficient and has to be converted into a motorway junction. This cloverleaf-shaped connection was originally supposed to be completed in 2013 with the extension of the A 524 to the A 59. However, there were considerable delays in the construction of the Duisburg – Krefeld and Breitscheid – Düsseldorf route, because subsoil investigations had to be carried out and some of the soil had to be replaced. At the end of November 2014, the cross was completely opened to traffic with the release of the last driving relationship.

The A 59 was not realized between the Duisburg-Süd junction and Düsseldorf-Stockum. Instead, the four-lane B 8n was implemented, which has been continuously drivable since 2012, so that there is a direct, approximately 25 to 30 km long motorway-like connection between the centers of the major cities of Duisburg and Düsseldorf.

Accident at the Love Parade 2010

For the Love Parade on July 24, 2010 in Duisburg, the motorway was closed as planned from 8 a.m. for 24 hours from the Duisburg motorway junction in the direction of Düsseldorf, the opposite direction from the Wanheimerort junction. After the accident, the blocked section served as a temporary treatment area for the injured, a staging area for vehicles, a landing area for rescue helicopters and as an escape route to the hospitals further south in the city. For this purpose, the closure of the motorway was extended to the Duisburg-Süd motorway junction.

Section Düsseldorf – Leverkusen

The middle section of the A 59 is the route between the Düsseldorf-Süd motorway triangle and the Leverkusen-West junction. The motorway here is built with four lanes with hard shoulder. At the former Düsseldorf-Süd junction, extensive preliminary construction work can still be seen for the continuation of the A 59 as Düsseldorf's east bypass (ramps, bridge piers for the main carriageway). In 2014, a comprehensive renovation of the triangle began, which can only be completed after the six-lane expansion of the A 46, which is planned from mid-2018 ^{[out of date]} .

Section Heumar-Bonn

The A 59, also known as "airport highway" because from between Cologne and Bonn Heumar on the motorway junction Porz directly at the Cologne / Bonn airport passes to Bonn. The Heumar triangle needs to be rebuilt and expanded. The first work (demolition of the bridge over the B8) began in 2019; the overall measure is expected to be completed in 2029. DEGES is responsible for the renovation and expansion .

The six-lane expansion of the 15-kilometer section between Cologne-Porz and the Sankt Augustin-West triangle as well as the expansion of the following three kilometers to the Bonn-Nordost triangle to eight lanes without hard shoulder is listed as an "urgent need" in the federal transport infrastructure plan. The six-lane expansion of the Bonn-Nordost triangle section to the Bonn-Ost junction has already been completed, but initially only the hard shoulder was upgraded as a third lane. In a later construction phase, the standard cross-section of a six-lane motorway with hard shoulder is to be implemented; construction for this is scheduled to start at the end of 2022 or beginning of 2023.Template: future / in 2 years

Planning history and construction

Bundesautobahn 59 was formed from three different projects, which initially developed independently of each other in terms of subject matter and timing: In Duisburg, a road construction project developed in the 1920s was taken up again at the beginning of the 1950s and modified into an urban motorway project. Parallel to the federal highway 8, but also to the already constructed route of the Autobahn 3 Oberhausen-Cologne, a freeway-like relief road grew from the center of Duisburg in a north and south direction with urban construction load. The first section of this project was completed in 1957, the last in 1977 under the direction of the city of Duisburg (cf. Nord-Süd-Straße Duisburg ).

Between Düsseldorf and Leverkusen, a four-lane replacement federal road EB 8 was planned as early as the early 1960s to relieve the road 8, which was built between 1968 and 1973.

Construction of the federal highway 42 between Bad Honnef and Königswinter began as early as the first half of the 1950s. While this four-lane road came under traffic in 1958, the planning already extended to Bonn-Beuel and Sankt Augustin. In the 1960s, the project of the new federal highway 8 between Cologne-Gremberg and Sankt Augustin was created, which connected to the Sankt Augustin - Bad Honnef section to the north. The main sections of this line were built between 1968 and 1978.

In the requirement plan of the law on the expansion of federal highways from 1971 to 1985 from June 30, 1971, the uniform route, later referred to as the "Federal Highway 59", was still not included. However, the following federal road construction projects were planned, which were to be implemented on the later route of the A 59:

Short name	section	Urgency level	expansion
B 8	east of Wesel (junction B 70 / B 58) - cross with the B 1120 (later: A 40 ) north of Dinslaken	II	four-lane
B 8	Cross with the B 1120 (later: A 40) north of Dinslaken - northern beginning of the Duisburg city motorway at the Duisburg-Fahrn AS	I.	four-lane
B 8	southern beginning of the Duisburg city motorway at the Duisburg-Wanheimerort junction - Duisburg-Süd junction (B 288) - Düsseldorf-Stockum (triangle with the B 9, later: A 44 )	I.	four-lane
B 8:	Düsseldorf-Lierenfeld - Kreuz Düsseldorf-Süd with the B 326 (later: A 46 )	I.	four-lane
B 8	Düsseldorf-Garath - Kreuz Monheim-Süd (with the B 229z, later: A 54 ) - Kreuz Leverkusen-West ( A 1 )	ongoing project	four-lane
B 8n	Kreuz Leverkusen-West (A 1) - triangle at the AS Leverkusen ( A 3 ) - parallel course with the directional lane south west to the A3 and directional lane north east to the A3 to the triangle Heumar (A 3 / A 4 ) - AD Porz	I.	four-lane
B 8n	AS Lind - triangle Bonn-Beuel	ongoing project	four-lane
B 42	AS Bonn-Bad Beuel-Ost - Kreuz Bonn-Ost (with the B 56z, later: A 56 ) - AS Königswinter	I.	four-lane
B 42	Bad Honnef - Linz (triangle with the B 266, later: A 31 )	I.	Extension by 2nd lane

The Cologne-East motorway junction was planned for this traffic management in the early 1970s and built with appropriate bridge structures for another motorway.

As early as 1972, the entire route from Wesel to Bad Honnef or Linz was given the uniform internal name “Autobahn 170”.

With the restructuring of the federal motorway network, which was introduced with effect from January 1, 1975, the A 170 was renamed "Federal Motorway 59".

The network plan issued by the Federal Minister of Transport as of January 1, 1976 contained some changes compared to the requirement plan of 1971: In the Wesel area, the connection to the B 58 and B 473 was not planned to the east of Wesel, but to the west of the city. To the north of Düsseldorf, the A 59 should not run to Stockum, but rather run east past Düsseldorf Airport at Kaiserswerth to the Düsseldorf-Nord junction. The connection between the Leverkusen-West junction and the Porz triangle was not established. The southernmost section between Bad Honnef and Linz could not be found on the network map. It is noteworthy that from 1974 to 1980 the Osttangente Düsseldorf was to be found in maps, but this section was not included in the network maps and requirement plans of the federal government. It was not until the first half of the 1980s that planning gradually disappeared from the atlases. The route of the Osttangente was based on the Düsseldorf-Eller - Lierenfeld - Grafenberg / Flingern - Rath railway line. A triangle with the A 44 was to be created north of Düsseldorf-Rath. The A 59 should be on the same route as the A 44 between this triangle and another triangle near Lichtenbroich.

The requirement plan of the law amending the law on the expansion of federal trunk roads from 1971 to 1985 from August 5, 1976 now contained the following sub-projects in the course of the A 59:

section	comment	Urgency level
east of Wesel (junction B 70 / B 58) - junction with the A 40 north of Dinslaken - northern beginning of the Duisburg city motorway at the Duisburg-Fahrn junction	Yes	four-lane
southern beginning of the Duisburg city motorway at the Duisburg-Wanheimerort junction - Duisburg-Süd junction (B 288)	Ib	four-lane
Junction Duisburg-Süd - Düsseldorf-Lichtenbroich (triangle with the A 52)	four-lane	possible further need
Düsseldorf-Eller - Kreuz Düsseldorf-Süd with the A 46	Yes	four-lane
Kreuz Leverkusen-West (A 1) - triangle at the AS Leverkusen (A 3) - parallel course with the directional lane south west to the A 3 and directional lane north east to the A 3 to the triangle Heumar (A 3 / A 4)	Ib	four-lane
AD Heumar - AD Porz	Yes	four-lane
AS Bonn-Bad Beuel-Ost - AS Königswinter	ongoing project	four-lane
Bad Honnef - Linz	Triangle with the A 31; Urgency level Ib south of the Bad Honnef exit, otherwise possible additional needs

In the second law amending the law on the expansion of federal highways from 1971 to 1985 from August 25, 1980, the following projects were also found:

section	comment	Urgency level
east of Wesel (junction B 70 / B 58) - junction with the A 40 north of Dinslaken - northern beginning of the Duisburg city motorway at the Duisburg-Fahrn junction	I.	four-lane
southern beginning of the Duisburg city motorway at the Duisburg-Buchholz junction - Duisburg-Süd junction (B 288)	I.	four-lane
Düsseldorf-Lierenfeld - Kreuz Düsseldorf-Süd with the A 46	I.	four-lane
Kreuz Leverkusen-West (A 1) - triangle at AS Leverkusen (A 3)	I.	four-lane
AD Heumar - AD Porz	I.	four-lane
AK Bonn-Ost - AS Königswinter	ongoing project	four-lane

The following projects were only included as new federal road construction projects:

Short name	section	Urgency level	expansion
B 8	Junction Duisburg-Süd - Düsseldorf-Lichtenbroich (triangle with the A 52)	II	two-lane
B 42	Bad Honnef - Linz (triangle with the A 31)	I.	two-lane

The Third Act on the Amendment of the Highway Extension Act of April 21, 1986 made further deletions and changes. The following were also planned:

section	was standing	expansion
AS Dinslaken-West - northern beginning of the city motorway at AS Duisburg-Fahrn	urgent need	four-lane
southern beginning of the Duisburg city motorway at the Duisburg-Buchholz junction - Duisburg-Süd junction (B 288) - Düsseldorf-Stockum	urgent need	four-lane

The following projects were only included as new federal road construction projects:

Short name	section	expansion	was standing
B 8	east of Wesel (junction B 70 / B 58) - AS Dinslaken-West	two-lane	further need
	Kreuz Duisburg-Nord - Kreuz Duisburg	six-lane	further need
	Cross Duisburg - AS Duisburg-Hochfeld	six-lane	ongoing project
	Triangle Porz - Triangle Bonn-Beuel	six-lane, partly eight-lane	urgent need

The following projects were only included as new federal road construction projects:

Short name	section	expansion	Urgency level
B 8	Junction Duisburg-Süd - Düsseldorf-Lichtenbroich (triangle with the A 52)	two-lane	I.
B 42	Bad Honnef-Linz (triangle with the A 31)	two-lane

The Third Act on the Amendment of the Highway Extension Act of April 21, 1986 made further deletions and changes. The following were also planned:

Short name	section	expansion	was standing	Only more than a federal road construction project
	AS Dinslaken-West - northern beginning of the city motorway at AS Duisburg-Fahrn	four-lane	urgent need
	southern beginning of the Duisburg city motorway at the Duisburg-Buchholz junction - Duisburg-Süd junction (B 288) - Düsseldorf-Stockum	urgent need	four-lane
B 8	east of Wesel (junction B 70 / B 58) - cross with the B 510 (formerly A 40) north of Dinslaken	two-lane	further need	x
B 8	Cross with the B 510 (formerly A 40) north of Dinslaken - AS Dinslaken-West	two-lane	urgent need	x
B 42	Bad Honnef-Linz (triangle with the A 31)	two-lane	further need	x
A 59	Junction Duisburg - AS Wanheimerort	six-lane

According to the fourth law amending the law on the expansion of trunk roads of November 15, 1993, the following construction projects remained in the requirements plan:

section	was standing	expansion	comment
AS Dinslaken-West - northern beginning of the Duisburg city motorway	ongoing project	four-lane
southern beginning of the Duisburg city motorway at the Duisburg-Buchholz junction - Duisburg-Süd junction (B 288) - Düsseldorf-Stockum	partly ongoing project or urgent need	four-lane
B 8 east of Wesel (junction B 70 / B 58) - AS Dinslaken-West (two lanes)	urgent need	two-lane	New federal road construction project
Kreuz Duisburg-Nord - Kreuz Duisburg	six-lane	further need
Cross Duisburg - AS Duisburg-Hochfeld	six-lane	ongoing project
Triangle Porz - Triangle Bonn-Beuel	six-lane	urgent need	partly eight-lane
Kreuz Leverkusen - Kreuz Heumar	urgent need	eight-lane	Expansion of the Cologne Ring

List of traffic handovers

The individual sections of the A 59 were completed as follows:

year	section	km	comment
1957	AS Duisburg-Duissern - AS Duisburg-Zentrum	1 km	as a communal road
1958	AS Königswinter - Bad Honnef	5.3 km	Dedicated as B 42
1959	AS Duisburg-Zentrum - AS Duisburg-Hochfeld	1 km	as a communal road
1962	AK Duisburg (Ruhrdeich) - AS Duisburg-Duissern	1.6 km	as a communal road
1963	AS Duisburg-Meiderich - AK Duisburg (Ruhrdeich)	2.6 km	as a communal road
1967	AD Bonn-Beuel - AS Bonn-Beuel-Ost	2 km	Dedicated as B 42
1968	AD Porz - AS Lind	7.6 km	Dedicated as B 8
1968	AK Düsseldorf-Süd - AS Düsseldorf-Garath	4.9 km	Dedicated as B 8
1969	AS Duisburg-Fahrn - AS Duisburg-Meiderich	4.8 km	as a communal road
1971	AS Düsseldorf-Garath - AS Monheim	6.2 km
1972	AS Lind - AD St. Augustin-West	8.8 km
1973	AS Monheim - AK Leverkusen-West	8.0 km
1974	AD St. Augustin-West - AD Bonn-Beuel	2.3 km
1975	AS Duisburg-Hochfeld - AS Duisburg-Wanheimerort	3.8 km	as a communal road
1977	AS Duisburg-Wanheimerort - AS Duisburg-Buchholz	1.4 km	as a communal road
1978	AS Bonn-Beuel-Ost - AK Bonn-Ost	3 km
1982	AD Heumar - AD Porz	3.7 km
1985	AS Duisburg-Walsum - AS Duisburg-Fahrn	2.2 km
1991	AS Duisburg-Buchholz - AS Duisburg-Rahm	3.9 km
1994	AS Dinslaken-Hiesfeld - AS Duisburg-Walsum	1.6 km
1996	AS Dinslaken-West - AS Dinslaken-Hiesfeld	1.3 km

The following projects, which are on the route originally planned for the A 59, have been implemented:

year	section	km	comment
1984	AK Bonn-Ost - AS Königswinter	5.2 km	Dedicated as B 42
2002	OU Düsseldorf-Kaiserswerth	5.1 km	Dedicated as B 8, of which approx. 1.5 km on the former route of the A 59
2009	OU Düsseldorf-Wittlaer, 2nd construction phase	3.1 km	Dedicated as B 8
2012	OU Düsseldorf-Wittlaer, 1st construction phase	1.4 km	Dedicated as B 8

Individual evidence

↑ Years of construction completed: Minister Groschek clears the six-lane expansion of the A59 in Duisburg for traffic. State Office for Road Construction North Rhine-Westphalia, April 15, 2014, accessed on April 15, 2014 .

↑ Philipp Wahl: Straßen NRW opens the last section of the B 8n to traffic on Friday. WAZ Online, May 31, 2012, accessed June 7, 2014 (press release).

↑ Martin Kleinwächter: The south motorway junction in Duisburg will be completed in summer. WAZ Online, January 24, 2014, accessed June 7, 2014 (press release).

↑ A year and a half behind schedule: the Duisburg-Süd motorway junction. WAZ Online, March 5, 2014, accessed June 7, 2014 (press release).

↑ A59 / A524 / B288: Duisburg-Süd motorway junction is completely passable. State Office for Road Construction North Rhine-Westphalia, November 25, 2014, accessed on November 25, 2014 .

^ The expansion plan for the new Duisburg-Süd intersection. In: Der Westen.de. Retrieved August 27, 2012.

↑ StraßenNRW opens the last section of the B8n to traffic. In: Der Westen.de. Retrieved August 27, 2012.

↑ Emily Senf: Autobahn triangle: will be built by 2017. Rheinische Post Online, February 6, 2014, accessed on June 7, 2014 (press release).

^ A46, A59: Conversion of the Düsseldorf-Süd motorway junction. In: Strassen.NRW.de. Retrieved March 4, 2018 .

↑ Birgit Wanninger: A46 / A59: Large construction site at the Düsseldorf-Süd triangle continues. Retrieved March 4, 2018 .

^ Philipp J. Meckert: 240,000 cars every day. By 2029: This woman will save Cologne's largest traffic jam. In: Express.de . December 29, 2019, accessed December 29, 2019 .

↑ A 3 / A 4 / A 59: Reconstruction of the Heumar motorway triangle. In: DEGES .de. Retrieved December 29, 2019 .

^ A59: Expansion between Cologne-Porz and Bonn-Nordost. In: strassen.nrw.de. State Office for Road Construction NRW , accessed on December 29, 2019 .

↑ Holger Willcke: Transport in Bonn and the region. Planning for A59 expansion begins. In: General-anzeiger-bonn.de . July 25, 2013, accessed December 29, 2019 .

↑ Hannah Schmitt: Houses in Sankt Augustin are being demolished. That means the expansion of the A59 for Meindorf. In: General-anzeiger-bonn.de. June 26, 2019, accessed December 29, 2019 .

^ Duisburg old town: streets and the history of the naming. Citizens' newspaper Duisburg, accessed on June 7, 2014 (Internet article ).

↑ Decision of the BGH on the amount of the compensation for a plot of land ceded to the Federal Republic of Germany. Jurion, January 26, 1978, accessed June 7, 2014 (Internet contribution).

↑ Slow expansion of the Rheinstrasse: B 9 and B 42 in the undergrowth of paragraphs. Die Zeit Online, January 3, 1969, accessed on June 7, 2014 (press release).

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

↑ 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).

↑ 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).

^ 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).

↑ 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).

↑ The Great Shell Atlas. Mairs Geographischer Verlag, Stuttgart 1974/75, p. 31.

↑ The Great Shell Atlas. Mairs Geographischer Verlag, Stuttgart 1980/81, p. 31.

↑ The Great Shell Atlas. Mairs Geographischer Verlag, Stuttgart 1982/83, p. 31.

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

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

↑ ^a ^b Federal Law Gazette 1986, Part I, p. 537.

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

Web links

Commons : Bundesautobahn 59 - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Detailed route description of the federal highway 59
www.a59.nrw.de , information about the Autobahn 59 from Straßen.NRW
Current projects on Autobahn 59 from Straßen.NRW

[1] rmerly Beuel-Ost triangle

[2] Years of construction completed: Minister Groschek clears the six-lane expansion of the A59 in Duisburg for traffic. State Office for Road Construction North Rhine-Westphalia, April 15, 2014, accessed on April 15, 2014 .

[3] Philipp Wahl: Straßen NRW opens the last section of the B 8n to traffic on Friday. WAZ Online, May 31, 2012, accessed June 7, 2014 (press release).

[4] Martin Kleinwächter: The south motorway junction in Duisburg will be completed in summer. WAZ Online, January 24, 2014, accessed June 7, 2014 (press release).

[5] A year and a half behind schedule: the Duisburg-Süd motorway junction. WAZ Online, March 5, 2014, accessed June 7, 2014 (press release).

[6] A59 / A524 / B288: Duisburg-Süd motorway junction is completely passable. State Office for Road Construction North Rhine-Westphalia, November 25, 2014, accessed on November 25, 2014 .

[7] The expansion plan for the new Duisburg-Süd intersection. In: Der Westen.de. Retrieved August 27, 2012.

[8] StraßenNRW opens the last section of the B8n to traffic. In: Der Westen.de. Retrieved August 27, 2012.

[9] Emily Senf: Autobahn triangle: will be built by 2017. Rheinische Post Online, February 6, 2014, accessed on June 7, 2014 (press release).

[10] A46, A59: Conversion of the Düsseldorf-Süd motorway junction. In: Strassen.NRW.de. Retrieved March 4, 2018 .

[11] Birgit Wanninger: A46 / A59: Large construction site at the Düsseldorf-Süd triangle continues. Retrieved March 4, 2018 .

[12] Philipp J. Meckert: 240,000 cars every day. By 2029: This woman will save Cologne's largest traffic jam. In: Express.de . December 29, 2019, accessed December 29, 2019 .

[13] A 3 / A 4 / A 59: Reconstruction of the Heumar motorway triangle. In: DEGES .de. Retrieved December 29, 2019 .

[14] A59: Expansion between Cologne-Porz and Bonn-Nordost. In: strassen.nrw.de. State Office for Road Construction NRW , accessed on December 29, 2019 .

[15] Holger Willcke: Transport in Bonn and the region. Planning for A59 expansion begins. In: General-anzeiger-bonn.de . July 25, 2013, accessed December 29, 2019 .

[16] Hannah Schmitt: Houses in Sankt Augustin are being demolished. That means the expansion of the A59 for Meindorf. In: General-anzeiger-bonn.de. June 26, 2019, accessed December 29, 2019 .