Bundesstrasse 174

This article describes the federal highway 174 in Germany. For the street of the same name in Austria see Innsbrucker Straße .

Bundesstrasse 174 in Germany
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Basic data
Operator:	Federal Republic of Germany
Start of the street:	Chemnitz ( 50 ° 50 ′  N , 12 ° 55 ′  E )
End of street:	Marienberg ( 50 ° 33 ′  N , 13 ° 14 ′  E )
State :	Saxony
Development condition:	two-lane
Bundesstrasse 174 at the train station in Reitzenhain
Course of the road Free State of Saxony Independent city of Chemnitz Center Bahnhofstrasse  via the Dresden – Werdau railway line Lutherviertel Bernsdorf Zschopauer Strasse / Südring End of Chemnitz Adelsberg Chemnitz-Kleinolbersdorf-Altenhain Erzgebirgskreis (190 m)  Schwarzbachtal Bridge Amtsberg Zschopau -Nord S 235 Zschopau valley crossing Zschopau -Süd S 228 Hohndorf / Großolbersdorf bypass  Großolbersdorf OT Hohndorf K 8173 S 227 Grossolbersdorf Wolkenstein OT Heinzebank Marienberg bypass  (110 m)  Lautengrund viaduct (174 m)  Hüttengrund viaduct (62 m)  via Obere Gebirgsstraße (134 m)  Old Rafts Viaduct at Gelobtland S 219 Marienberg OT Reitzenhain S 216  S 218 Black Pockau Border crossing Reitzenhain ( DE ) - Hora Svatého Šebestiána ( CZ ) Continue on  → Chomutov Under construction In planning Traffic control system  Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap map

The federal highway 174 (abbreviation: B 174 ) is a German federal highway in the Free State of Saxony . Together with the federal motorway 72 / federal road 95 and the Rychlostní silnice 7 in the Czech Republic, it is the direct connection between Leipzig and Prague .

course

The B 174 begins in the city center of Chemnitz on Bahnhofstrasse and heads south-east to Amtsberg and Gornau / Erzgeb. past via Zschopau . Here the river of the same name is crossed on a 408 m long bridge (new construction 1994-97). The section from Chemnitz to Zschopau is built like a motorway. Via Heinzebank the street reaches Marienberg and leads from here to Reitzenhain . The connection to the Czech Republic is established via the border crossing to Hora Svatého Šebestiána ( Sebastiansberg ) . On the Czech side, the road runs as Rychlostní silnice 7 (expressway R7) via Chomutov ( Komotau ) to Prague.

From the city center of Chemnitz, the road first follows an Old Pleistocene Chemnitz terrace . A significant climb begins at Schenkenberg . Geographically, the B 174 leaves the Ore Mountains Basin at this point and the northern edge of the Ore Mountains begins .

In the Amtsberg district of Dittersdorf there is a non-crossing connection to the B 180 that runs from Frankenberg / Sa. to Stollberg / Erzgeb. leads, at the Heinzebank the B 101 crosses from Berlin to Aue and in Marienberg the B 171 crosses from Selva to Schmiedeberg .

Zschopau around 1617: "D" marked "Prague" street

Coming from Chemnitz, the street reached Marienberg through the Zschopauer Tor in earlier centuries

history

Original fragment (coat of arms) of the Zschopauer distance column from 1727

The course of the road largely follows an old trade route that connected the area around Halle / Leipzig via the Reitzenhainer Pass (840 m above sea level) with Prague. When Marienberg was founded, the road originally leading via Zöblitz and Blatno ( Platten ) to Chomutov ( Komotau ) was relocated in 1521. It now led via the new mountain town and the border village Reitzenhain to Bohemia. Near Reitzenhain a memorial stone with the inscription At the former Umspanne 1400–1823 reminds of the formerly existing horse changing station.

A document issued in 1449 states that the road leading from Chemnitz via Zschopau to Bohemia along the sections "[...] leading across open fields should be paved with trees, bushes, ditches, stones or other" noticeable "signs - in one Width that three loaded rescue vehicles can drive next to each other with a good gap between them [...] ” .

Wildeck Castle has probably secured the important crossing ( ford ) over the Zschopau since the beginning of the 12th century . A bridge at this escort station has been occupied since 1516. The wooden construction, which was destroyed several times by ice drifts, was replaced by a stone bridge in 1812-15. In 1813, during the construction phase, 14,000 teams of the Allied Austrian, Russian and Prussian armies passed the bridge in the run-up to the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig .

As early as 1711, a mail service leading from Chemnitz via Marienberg to Prague was set up. During the reign of Augustus the Strong in the first half of the 18th century, the post and trade routes were marked with Kursächsische post mile columns . The distance columns in Marienberg (1727) and Zschopau as well as the quarter milestone near Reitzenhain (1724) still bear witness to this time.

At the beginning of the 19th century, the road to the Chaussee was expanded . In 1939 what was then Reichsstrasse 174 was extended to Prague via Chomutov ( Komotau ), Louny ( Laun ) and Slaný ( Schlan ). The Reitzenhain border crossing was closed after the restoration of Czechoslovakia after the end of the Second World War and only reopened in 1978. In the 1970s, the route from Zschopau (Zschopautal) to Hohndorf through the Tischau valley was expanded to three lanes, and road straightening was carried out in the further course to the border crossing.

Expansion after 1990

4-lane new construction of the B 174 at the end of the town in the southeast of Chemnitz

After the reunification and peaceful revolution in the GDR , the idea of ​​expanding the federal highway to a motorway is said to have arisen in the early 1990s . A name in circulation for this is A 74. However, no corresponding construction project has been identified in any of the federal traffic route plans since 1992.

In 1997, the first section of the expansion of the road with the four-lane Gornau / Zschopau bypass was put into operation over a length of 6.9 km including the 408 m long Zschopau valley crossing . The road south of Marienberg to the entrance to Reitzenhain was expanded by the beginning of 2000.

The importance of the B 174 increased further in the course of the EU expansion in 2004 . The increase in importance resulted primarily from the opening of the Reitzenhain border crossing to truck traffic, which resulted in a drastic increase in traffic, especially heavy goods traffic. More than 1,800 trucks drive through individual sections every day. This could only be partially absorbed by the existing route, so that various further expansion measures have been implemented in recent years. After the border controls were discontinued, the border crossing was rebuilt until 2005. The previous control buildings were demolished. The two-lane 9.5 km long bypass Marienberg was opened in 2007. The opening of the four-lane 4.4 kilometer long road between Gornau and the entrance to Chemnitz took place on November 19, 2013. From mid-2012 to December 12, 2014, the extension took place over a length of 908 meters between the entrance to Chemnitz and the inner city Südring . The construction costs amounted to around 20 million euros. Noise barriers as well as sidewalks and cycle paths were built next to the road.

Further expansion and new construction measures are planned for the coming years:

• Hohndorf / Großolbersdorf bypass: urgent need in the requirement plans for federal trunk roads from 2004, implicitly confirmed in 2010, in the federal transport infrastructure plan 2030 (length approx. 4.2 km) and in the 2016 amendment to the trunk road expansion law, preferred variant confirmed in June 2018
• Reitzenhain bypass over a length of approx. 1.7 km: urgent need in the requirement plans for federal trunk roads from 2004, implicitly confirmed in 2010, in the BVWP 2030 and in the 2016 amendment to the trunk road expansion law, preliminary planning

State of development

section	Stripes	Dividing strip	comment
Chemnitz-Mitte - Chemnitz-Südring	2	No
Chemnitz-Südring - Chemnitz-Georgistraße	4th	No	not free of intersections
Chemnitz-Georgistraße - S 228 Zschopau-Süd	4th	Yes	motorway-like
S 228 Zschopau - S 227 Hohndorf	3	No
S 227 Hohndorf - Reitzenhain border crossing	2	No

See also

• List of federal highways in Germany
• List of streets in Saxony
• List of motorway-like roads
• Erzgebirge passes

literature

• Thomas Siegert: New construction of the Zschopau viaduct in cantilever . in: TU Dresden (ed.): 6th Dresden Bridge Construction Symposium - proceedings, Dresden 1996, pp. 107–118 ( digitized version )

Web links

Commons : Bundesstrasse 174  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Geoportal Sachsenatlas: Course of the B 174 in Saxony.
• Website for the Marienberg bypass ( memento of February 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Chemnitz to Zschopau four-lane motorway-like, Zschopau to Hohndorf three-lane, Marienberg to Reitzenhain z. T. three-lined
2. ^ Sächsisches Landesinstitut für Straßenbau (Ed.): The historical development of the road network in Saxony . Rochlitz 1997, p. 4 .
3. ^ Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm Simon: Historical-geographical-topographical news from the mountain town of Zschopau . Dresden 1821, p. 51 ff .
4. ↑ Manual road traffic census 2015: http://www.bast.de/DE/Statistik/Verkehrsdaten/2015/Bundestrassen-2015.pdf
5. ↑ BMVBS / SMWA (ed.): B 174 - New construction of the Marienberg bypass . Open to traffic. Berlin / Dresden 2007.
6. ↑ Ceremonial traffic opening of the B 174 Chemnitz to Gornau  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 19, 2013  
7. ↑ FL: Building rights for the expansion of Zschopauer Straße (B 174) in Chemnitz. In: mef-line.de. Regional television Mittelerzgebirge MEF GmbH, February 4, 2010, accessed on April 11, 2012 . 
8. ↑ Freie Presse December 10, 2014, p. 2
9. ↑ ^{a b} Results of the review of the requirement plans for the federal railways and federal highways. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Bmvi.de, November 10, 2010, archived from the original on December 8, 2015 ; accessed on November 27, 2015 (corrected version). 
10. ↑ ^{a b} Federal Law Gazette. (PDF) Retrieved May 3, 2017 . 
11. ↑ Green light for B 174 - weekend mirror . In: WochenENDspiegel . June 15, 2018 ( wochenendspiegel.de [accessed November 8, 2018]).