Bundesstrasse 221

This article describes the Bundesstraße 221 in Germany. For the street of the same name in Austria see Wiener Gürtel Straße .

Bundesstrasse 221 in Germany
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Basic data
Operator:	Federal Republic of Germany
Start of the street:	Straelen ( 51 ° 25 ′  N , 6 ° 16 ′  E )
End of street:	Alsdorf ( 50 ° 52 ′  N , 6 ° 10 ′  E )
Overall length:	74 km
State :	North Rhine-Westphalia
Development condition:	two lanes
Course of the road State of North Rhine-Westphalia Kleve district south of Straelen Straelen-OT Broekhuysen Herongen L 140 (2)  Straelen   District of Viersen Nettetal -OT Leuth (2)  Kaldenkirchen replaced by (3)  Kaldenkirchen-Süd L 29 Bracht L 387 bypass  Brüggen bypass  L 37 L 373 L 372 (3)  Niederkrüchten Niederkrüchten bypass L 126 L 372 District of Heinsberg Arsbeck bypass  L 367 Wildenrath bypass  Wassenberg bypass L 19 K 9 L 117 Rur Local bypass HS interruption Heinsberg-OT interruption Heinsberg bypass  L 367 Schleiden bypass  (4)  Heinsberg Geilenkirchen bypass  L 164 Übach-Palenberg City region Aachen Alsdorf Under construction In planning  Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap map

The national highway 221 (abbreviation: B 221 ) is a federal highway in Germany .

course

The federal road leads from the B 58 in Straelen ( Kleve district ) southwards via Heinsberg and Geilenkirchen to Alsdorf ( Aachen city region ), where it ends at the B 57 .

history

At the beginning of the 1950s, the main road ran only between Straelen and Geilenkirchen. The extension to Alsdorf only took place in the following years.

Arsbeck bypass

In August 2008, construction began bypass of Wegberg- Arsbeck , which is sign-posted as B 221n. The construction costs were estimated at around 9.9 million euros. This section of the route was released on August 12, 2010. The determination of the route goes back to the year 1978. The town center of Arsbeck should be relieved by 75 percent by the new building.

Planning

Numerous other bypasses are being planned.

The 1.6 km long Wegberg-Wildenrath bypass , which was planned in the 1960s to 1970s, has been approved since June 1, 2011. It currently ends at a feeder road that leads to an industrial park. A small section of the B 221n with a feeder to a roundabout that leads to Wildenrath to the old B 221 and to Dalheim was completed in autumn 2010. On December 7, 2015, construction began on the subsequent Wassenberg bypass . Completion and traffic release took place in December 2019. This is followed by the Heinsberg-Unterbruch bypass , for which the planning approval process is still ongoing.

The Brüggen-Genholt section, which is also planned, is further north.

Web links

Commons : Bundesstrasse 221  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wegberg: bypass is released. RP Online, August 10, 2010, accessed August 31, 2010 . 
2. ↑ B221 n: Now we are building. RP Online, accessed June 7, 2009 . 
3. ↑ Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan 2003, Appendix North Rhine-Westphalia ( Memento from June 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 102 kB)
4. ↑ B221: Ceremonial opening of the Wassenberg bypass to traffic. State Office for Road Construction North Rhine-Westphalia, December 9, 2019, accessed on December 13, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Three years of construction for the B221n bypass. In: Aachener Zeitung. October 26, 2015, accessed December 7, 2015 .