Federal Highway 256

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	Bundesstrasse 256 in Germany
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	Basic data
Operator:	Federal Republic of Germany
Start of the street:	Ohl ; ( 51 ° 7 ′ N , 7 ° 29 ′ E )
End of street:	Mayen ; ( 50 ° 21 ′ N , 7 ° 16 ′ E )
Overall length:	148 km
State :	North Rhine-Westphalia; Rhineland-Palatinate;
	Raiffeisen Bridge over the Rhine in Neuwied

The federal highway 256 (abbreviation: B 256 ) is a 148 kilometer long federal highway that extends from the Bergisches Land to the Moselle .

course

Bergisches Land

It begins on the B 237 in Ohl , a district of Wipperfürth in North Rhine-Westphalia , and initially runs southwards via Marienheide and Gummersbach to Vollmerhausen , where it meets the B 55 ( Cologne - Olpe ). Together with this it runs, graduated to the state road L 136, in an easterly direction through the Gummersbach districts of Niederseßmar and Derschlag .

In Derschlag the federal highways 55 and 256 separate from each other and get their federal highways dedications again. The B 256 turns south and crosses the A 4 , which has been expanded into an expressway . The crossing point (AS Reichshof / Bergneustadt ) was created as a fully-fledged motorway junction in the shape of a cloverleaf, as this section was part of the rejected plans for the A 451 . In 1978 this section was released. It continues in a southerly direction as an expressway towards Waldbröl (start of the B 478 to Hennef (Sieg) near Bonn ).

The upgraded route ends shortly before the village of Denklingen . The B 256 crosses Denklingen and continues to Waldbröl. Shortly before entering Waldbröl, it meets the Boxberg roundabout , which was inaugurated in 2017 and is the largest roundabout in the Oberbergischer Kreis . At the end of the von Waldbröl the start of the B 478 to Hennef (Sieg) and direction Bonn. The B 256 now crosses the municipality of Windeck , reaching the valley of the Sieg . It leaves it in a southerly direction and crosses the state border to Rhineland-Palatinate . The start of the B 62 to Siegen follows in Roth .

Westerwald

In the Westerwald , the federal road runs in a south-westerly direction through Altenkirchen , where it meets the B 414 (Altenkirchen- Wetzlar ) and the B 8 (Cologne-Frankfurt). About 25 kilometers further south-west, near Willroth, the B 256 crosses the A 3 at the Neuwied junction (No. 36). The town of Neuwied is reached after a further 20 kilometers.

Rhine crossing

At Neuwied, the B 256 has been expanded into an expressway and crosses the B 42 on the right bank of the Rhine in the form of a motorway junction , before it crosses the river over the Raiffeisen Bridge and meets the B 9 at Weißenthurm in the form of a motorway triangle . From the Neuwied basin, it flanks the Nette up to Mayen , where it ends at the B 262 near Kottenheim.

Conversions

On September 23, 2014 the bypass around Rengsdorf was completed after a good eight years of construction. The costs amounted to around 35 million euros.

The construction of a further, 3.4 km long bypass started in December 2009 in Kruft and ended in July 2014. On July 29, 2014, the ceremonial handover of the traffic took place by the Parliamentary State Secretary Dorothee Bär and State Secretary Heike Raab with the participation of the population.

On September 8, 2017, the roundabout at Boxberg in Waldbröl was inaugurated after a construction period of around 3 years. It rests on a new railway underpass for the Wiehl Valley Railway and, with a diameter of 45 meters, is the largest roundabout in the Oberbergischer Kreis. The construction costs amounted to 5.4 million euros.

Planning

Meanwhile, a south-west bypass of the B 256 for Waldbröl is planned, the district road 28n.

Historical meaning

After Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen , the section between his place of birth Hamm (Sieg) via his workplaces Weyerbusch and Flammersfeld to Rengsdorf and Neuwied was named Historic Raiffeisenstrasse on March 23, 1984 .

Web links

Commons : Bundesstrasse 256 - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Line coordination procedure for Kreisstraße 28 n - Waldbröl bypass on waldbroel.de from July 20, 2017, accessed on March 15, 2020

[1] Line coordination procedure for Kreisstraße 28 n - Waldbröl bypass on waldbroel.de from July 20, 2017, accessed on March 15, 2020