Bundesstrasse 226

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Bundesstrasse 226 in Germany
Bundesstrasse 226
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Course of the B 226
Basic data
Operator: GermanyGermany Federal Republic of Germany
Start of the street: 51 ° 35 '  N , 7 ° 2'  E
End of street: 51 ° 23 '  N , 7 ° 27'  E
Overall length: 43 km

State :

North Rhine-Westphalia

Course of the road
State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Independent city of Gelsenkirchen
Junction GE-Buer-West forA52 B224
Locality Gelsenkirchen-Buer
Locality Gelsenkirchen alder
crossing GE-Münsterstr. B227
Independent city of Herne
Locality Herne - Our Fritz
Locality Herne-Crange
Motorway junction Herne-Crange A42
Locality Herne-Holsterhausen
District-free city of Bochum
Locality Bochum - Hofstede
Motorway junction Bochum- Hamme A40
Locality Bochum city center
Junction BO Sheffieldring
node Cross Bochum / Witten A448
Ennepe-Ruhr district
Autobahn beginning replaced by A448
Junction Witten -ZentrumA448B235
Locality Witten
Locality Weather (Ruhr) B234
bridge Harkortsee
Independent city of Hagen
Locality Hagen vestibule
Motorway junction Hagen-West A1 E37
crossing HA-Herdecker Str. B54

The federal road 226 (abbreviation: B 226 ) leads from Hagen to Gelsenkirchen . The places along the federal highway 226 are: Hagen, Wetter (Ruhr) , Witten , Bochum , Herne and Gelsenkirchen. The B 226 is located exclusively in the Ruhr area and also exclusively in the historic province of Westphalia .

Catchment area

With the exception of Wetter (Ruhr) and Witten, all cities on the B 226 can be described as large cities with well over 100,000 inhabitants. Bochum, the largest city on the B 226, currently has 380,000 inhabitants. From all places along the B 226 alone, there is a large catchment area of ​​over 1,100,000 inhabitants (as of March 2007), not including foreign travelers. But there are also rural passages.

history

The first paved artificial road ( Chaussee ) in the eastern Ruhr area was the country road from Bochum via Crengeldanz to Hörde and the Ardeystraße from Crengeldanz to Herdecke . 1799–1801 was followed by a feeder road from Crengeldanz via Witten to Bommern. This street belonged to the Witten house and was only bought by the city of Witten in 1865.

In 1844 the Wetterstrasse in the Ruhr Valley between Witten and Wetter was built as a private road; this road was not taken over by the city of Witten until 1911.

In 1925-27, the Ruhr coal district settlement association built the Ruhr dike in Witten as a connecting road in an east-west direction in order to employ the unemployed and to relieve the city center of through traffic. In 1931 the Ruhr Bridge, which is still in use today, was built in Wetter, which is located at the lower end of the Harkortsee .

Reichsstraße 226 , which was set up around 1937, linked the most important industrial cities of the eastern Ruhr area and used the newly built Ruhr dike in Witten.

Route

The Ruhr bridges at Harkortsee, 2007
The federal road 226 under the Ruhr viaduct in Witten , 2010

The beginning of the B 226 is that busy roundabout in the Hagen city ​​area, at which the B 54 branches off: north to Herdecke and Dortmund , south through the city center of Hagen. From this roundabout take the federal road runs 226 head west, crossing at the junction no. 88 "Hagen-West", the A 1 and reaches behind the Ruhrbrücke on Harkortsee place Wetter (Ruhr) . It is planned to relocate the course of the B 226 here to the left bank of the Ruhr, the construction work has not yet been completed. Wetter (Ruhr) is currently burdened with a traffic volume of up to 15,000 cars per day moving through the center of the town. After passing through Wetter (Ruhr), the B 226 has the characteristics of an overland connection, with buildings worth seeing on the way to Witten, 8 km away, in an area otherwise not characterized by buildings : Hohenstein hydropower station , Ruhr viaduct (Witten) .

On the right bank of the river Ruhr between Wetter (Ruhr) and Witten, the Elberfeld – Dortmund railway runs alongside the B 226 , on which InterCity trains stop in Hagen and Dortmund. The B 9 and the left Rhine route between Koblenz and Bingen are partially comparable with this section of the B 226. Both car and train travelers have views of the Ruhr meadows, the Ardey mountains and the situation on the opposite side of the Ruhr: the to Wetter (Ruhr) part of Wengern with a stop of the Ruhr Valley Railway and the Ruhr Valley Cycle Path .

Between Witten and Bochum , the B 226 no longer runs in the valley of the Ruhr, through the urban area of ​​Witten to junction no. 43 “Witten-Zentrum” of the A 448 . From here to the end of the A 448 expansion in Laer , it is replaced by this. The B 226 continues to Bochum, forms the ring around the city ​​center and leads north-west out of the city center.

From junction no. 33 "Bochum-Hamme" of the A 40 via the districts of Eickel , Holsterhausen and Crange, which belong to Herne , to the entrance to Gelsenkirchen-Erle , the B 226 has been expanded to four lanes. The Cranger Kirmes takes place every year in Herne-Crange , which always leads to the full closure of the B 226 in Crange at junction 33 of the A 42 of the same name in August . In the area of ​​Gelsenkirchen-Erle, the B 226 has been dismantled into a two-lane shopping street optimized for pedestrians.

In Gelsenkirchen-Buer , at junction no. 42 “Gelsenkirchen-Buer-West” of the A 52 , the B 226 ends after approx. 43 kilometers in a two-lane roundabout above the motorway. To the south, the B 224 branches off here , which leads to Gladbeck and Essen .

Shared use by trams

Between the city boundary Bochum / Herne and the center of Bochum, and between Altenbochum and Witten extending tram tracks tub Eickelmann - Bochum (line 306/316) and Bochum - Langendreer - Witten (lines 302/305/309/310) of the Bogestra on the B 226; partly flush with the street, partly on its own track. In Gelsenkirchen-Erle, the federal road is used by the tram route Gelsenkirchen-Hbf - GE-Erle - GE-Buer - GE-Horst (line 301) of the same company.

Web links

Commons : Bundesstrasse 226  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Bundesstrasse 226. In: Structurae
  2. ^ Bernhard Meier: Press release Landesbetrieb Straßenbau NRW ( Memento from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) .