Bundesstrasse 29

This article describes Bundesstraße 29 in Germany. For the street of the same name in Austria see Manker Straße .

Bundesstrasse 29 in Germany
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Basic data
Operator:	Federal Republic of Germany
Start of the street:	Waiblingen ( 48 ° 49 ′  N , 9 ° 20 ′  E )
End of street:	Nördlingen ( 48 ° 52 ′  N , 10 ° 28 ′  E )
Overall length:	97 km
State :	Baden-Württemberg Bavaria
Development condition:	two-lane / four-lane see below
Bundesstrasse 29 at the Mögglingen-Ost junction in the direction of Aalen to the A 7
Course of the road State of Baden-Württemberg Ludwigsburg district Route planned for rededication to the B 29 (currently L 1115): Mundelsheim   Rems-Murr district Backnang Rems-Murr district Motorway (10)  Waiblingen triangle (11)  Weinstadt- Beinstein (12)  Wine town Rems (13)  Remshalden -West (14)  Remshalden-Ost (15)  Winterbach (16)  Schorndorf- West (260 m)  Grafenberg tunnel (615)  Schornbachtal (350 m)  Sünchen tunnel (17)  Schorndorf-Nord Wieslauf (18)  Urbach / Schorndorf-Ost Rems (19)  Plüderhausen Swabian-Franconian Forest Nature Park Ostalbkreis (20)  Waldhausen Rems (21)  Lorch -West Rems (22)  Lorch East Rems limes (23)  Schwäbisch Gmünd -West (24)  Schwäbisch Gmünd-Mitte (2,230 m)  Gmünder unicorn tunnel (25)  Herlikofen End of the highway (26)  Schwäbisch Gmünd-Ost 2 × Rems (27)  Iggingen Rems Route planned: (28)  Böbingen on the Rems Motorway (29)  Mögglingen-South volume up (30)  Mögglingen-East End of the highway (31)  Essingen-Hermannsfeld (32)  Essingen-permanence Aalen-Süd triangle together with direction Hüttlingen (870 m)  Rombach tunnel Bask Limes thermal baths and Limes museum Aalen Aalen- Hüttlingen Kocher (valley bridge 311 m) together with direction Aalen Aalen- Oberalfingen Aalen- Ellwangen (114)  Aalen / Westhausen   Westhausen bypass  Westerhofen - Hülen Lauchheim bypass  2 × hunting Kapfenburg Castle Eger Aufhausen Bopfingen Flochberg Castle Eger Trochtelfingen Plum hole Free State of Bavaria Donau-Ries district Ries Crater Museum Nördlingen bypass  Under construction In planning Traffic control system  Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap map

The federal road 29 (abbreviation: B 29 ) runs in southern Germany parallel to the A 8 from Waiblingen via the Remstal and the A 7 to the Nördlinger Ries . Due to the four-lane route sections, which have the highway standard, the route name is also Remstalautobahn. The B 29 was also planned as the A 87 from Stuttgart with a full connection to the A 7 junction Aalen / Westhausen and runs through the federal states of Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria .

history

The Württemberg state road No. 36 was 90 km long and was the second longest state road in the kingdom and ran from Stuttgart via Aalen to Nördlingen . The western section to Aalen was completed in the 18th century, the eastern section between Aalen and Nördlingen between 1815 and 1817.

When the numbering system for the roads in Germany was introduced in 1932, the route between Waiblingen and Nördlingen was called Fernverkehrsstrasse 29 (FVS 29). Since the establishment of the Reichsstrasse network (1934) it has been called Reichsstrasse 29 (R 29).

New routes for the road were built in sections. In the 1930s, for example, the two-lane route north of Schorndorf's inner city (today L 1150, Waiblinger / Welzheimer Strasse), which was then used as a bypass, and in 1958 the two-lane route between Mögglingen and Aalen was opened.

Older plans included a continuous four-lane expansion from Stuttgart to the A7 junction Aalen / Westhausen . This section of the route was planned as federal motorway 87 and was finally discarded after German reunification for cost reasons.

Overview of the four-lane sections with motorway standard

section	release	V max (km / h)	annotation
Fellbach - Beinstein	17th December 1970	100
Beinstein– Großheppach	1972	120
Urbach -Lorch-West	1982	120	since November 1, 2011, previously recommended speed
Lorch -West– Schwäbisch Gmünd	July 18, 1985	120	since November 1, 2011, previously recommended speed
Großheppach– Winterbach	October 1986	120
Schorndorf bypass (Winterbach – Urbach)	July 1, 1997	120
Gmünder unicorn tunnel	November 25, 2013	80	as a rule, but can be changed by variable message signs single-tube tunnels with two-way traffic
Mögglingen bypass (Mögglingen– Essingen )	April 28, 2019	120	since August 23, 2019, previously recommended speed
Essingen – Aalen (under construction)	probably 2023

(Source below)

course

The B 29 begins on the outskirts of Waiblingen as a junction of the B 14 , because of the western continuation of the B 29 as the north-east ring of Stuttgart, only the western bypass of Waiblingen has so far been completed.
In March 2013, the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Transport announced a catalog of measures to improve the state-wide traffic situation. The measures were registered for the update of the 2015 Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan. Accordingly, a four-lane extension of the motorway feeder from Backnang-West to the A 81 near Mundelsheim was planned, which was planned in future under the designation B 29. From Waiblingen to Backnang-West, the B 29 would in future have shared the same route with the B 14. In autumn 2013, these plans were temporarily discarded. In January 2019 it became known that the motorway feeder from Backnang-West to Mundelsheim will be expanded to three lanes and yet be upgraded to a federal highway. The section is signposted as the B 29, which will in future run between Backnang-West and Waiblingen on the same route as the B 14. The upgrade of the feeder to the B 29 is planned for the course of 2019. This date passed without the upgrade taking place. When the section should be upgraded is open.

From the federal road divider, the B 29 initially leads east through the Remstal via Schorndorf to Schwäbisch Gmünd (42 km). This section has four lanes throughout. The most striking structures in this section are the Grafenberg tunnel , the Sünchen tunnel and the Schornbachtal viaduct in the course of the Schorndorf bypass.

Four-lane section near Lorch

The federal road 297 begins in Lorch and leads to Tübingen via Göppingen .

The 2.23 kilometer long single-tube Gmünder Einhorn-Tunnel under the mountain north of the Rems has enabled a crossing-free passage in Schwäbisch Gmünd since November 25, 2013 . The first phase of construction began on August 3, 2006, the actual tunnel cut took place on October 29, 2008. The tunnel cut was celebrated on February 28, 2011, the road was opened on November 25, 2013. For the structure, which also crosses under the Rems , was a tube with two lanes and a rescue tunnel built, with the option of a further tube with two more lanes. Outside the east portal, the road is being expanded to four lanes as part of the current construction project. The tunnel portals were also designed in four lanes as a preliminary construction work . The construction costs estimated at around 121 million euros at the start of construction had increased significantly, according to the Stuttgart regional council, as the tenders for construction projects were much more expensive than previously calculated. According to information from the Swabian Post, the construction costs for the single-tube, two-way Gmünder Einhorn Tunnel ran to over 280 million euros.

At the eastern end of the Gmünder Einhorn tunnel, the federal road 298 begins , which runs through Mutlangen , Spraitbach and Gschwend , and then flows into the federal road 19 in Gaildorf .

In the further course of the planning approval for a four-lane expansion from Mögglingen to Essingen was extended, which was valid until February 2011. In order to prevent the planning approval from proceeding, the construction of a field bridge was started on November 30, 2010 as a preliminary measure for this section. The construction of the 6.9 kilometer long four-lane Mögglingen bypass began in summer 2015, the cost of which is around 120 million. The Mögglingen bypass was approved on April 27, 2019.

The funds of 18.9 million euros required for the four-lane section Essingen-Aalen were planned in the federal budget until 2010. Construction work began in spring 2018. This section is expected to be completed in 2023.

Bridge over the Kocher near Hüttlingen in the course of the Aalen western bypass

Traffic junction B 29 / A 7 junction Aalen / Westhausen

Federal motorway bridge over the B 29 on the A 7 AS Aalen / Westhausen

A complex crossing structure was built in front of Aalen in 2001, which connects both an industrial area and the B 19 towards Ulm . Shortly after its completion, this intersection was nicknamed "Aalener Brezel" due to its shape. The interior areas were landscaped and artistically designed.

Around Aalen, the B 29 continues as a two-lane bypass road with several connections (including at the Kochertal Bridge near Hüttlingen to the B 19) to the A 7. Immediately before the A 7, the B 290 branches off from the B 29 to Tauberbischofsheim .

From Westhausen , the B 29 continues in two lanes via Bopfingen to Nördlingen (25 km), where it joins the B 25 .

Traffic situation

The volume of traffic on the B 29 initially decreases almost gradually with increasing distance to the greater Stuttgart area, but increases again sharply in the direction of the junction to the A 7 junction Aalen / Westhausen . Around 52,000 vehicles per day were counted at Remshalden in 2005, at Schorndorf 30,000, at Lorch 25,000, but in front of the Aalener Dreieck 30,000 vehicles per day, although the proportion of heavy goods traffic in the vicinity of Aalen was significantly higher than ten percent than in near Stuttgart (six percent).

In 2016, up to 29,000 vehicles were counted daily on the Aalen western bypass after the Aalen triangle between Rombach Tunnel and Aalen-Oberalfingen, which was only expanded to two lanes.

On the other hand, over 32,000 vehicles per day were counted on the 3.6 km long two-lane section between Aalen-Oberalfingen junction L 1029, as well as junction B 290 and the A 7 junction Aalen / Westhausen, which is equipped with traffic lights at all intersections ; In March 2018, District Administrator Klaus Pavel described this traffic load as "enormous".

Permanent traffic jam warning on the B 29 in the direction of Aalen from the A 7 junction Aalen / Westhausen

Since the B 29 between the A 7 junction Aalen / Westhausen and Essingen as well as between Böbingen and Schwäbisch Gmünd has only two lanes, this part is very congested during rush hour. A major bottleneck in this case forms the 870-meter-long single-bore against traffic leading Rombach tunnel and especially the 3.6 km long section between Aalen- Oberalfingen and the A 7. The sections between the so-called Aalen pretzel (crossroads B 29 / B 19) and are Essingen under construction. The Mögglingen bypass (between Mögglingen-West and Essingen) has been completed and has four lanes since April 27, 2019. The section between Aalener Brezel and Essingen is to be opened in 2023.

Corridor closure for heavy traffic

Due to the enormous volume of traffic between the A 7 junction Aalen / Westhausen and Nördlingen by heavy traffic was for the truck - through traffic total weight adopt a corridor blocking over 12 tonnes, which entered into force on 17 January 2011th

The town of Bopfingen with its suburbs Aufhausen and Trochtelfingen as well as Pflaumloch are particularly affected by the enormous heavy-duty through traffic due to the lack of bypasses .

The corridor was closed as a result of the ban on lorries from passing through the B 25 near Dinkelsbühl due to the lack of bypasses as a reaction to ward off displacement traffic , which is unique in Germany .

To ward off further displacement traffic from the B 29, a number of state and district roads in the area around Ellwangen , Bopfingen and Neresheim were closed to heavy-duty through traffic. Source and destination traffic are excluded from the corridor closure .

Planning

• four-lane expansion between Aalen-Oberalfingen near the railway underpass and Westhausen confluence with K 3319 Aalener Straße with expansion of connection to A 7 motorway junction Aalen / Westhausen - construction planned to start at the beginning of 2015 (outside of the federal traffic route plan through planning by the district - due to construction costs less than 40 million) - this accelerates the start of construction
• New three- / four-lane bypass Bopfingen between Röttinger Höhe and B 25 near Nördlingen with suburbs Aufhausen , Trochtelfingen and Pflaumloch as a north or south bypass - favored as a north bypass with network function for other heavily loaded local passages along the L 1060 ("urgent need" in the federal traffic route plan )
• four-lane expansion between A 7 junction Aalen / Westhausen and Röttinger Höhe - planned gap closure
• four-lane expansion between Schwäbisch Gmünd and Mögglingen-West with the Böbingen bypass - favored as a short 400 m tunnel solution in the local area ("urgent need")
• four-lane expansion of the Gmünder Einhorn tunnel through the construction of a second carriage tube ("further requirement")
• four-lane new construction of the Stuttgart north bypass between Kornwestheim and Waiblingen as a north-east ring with connection to the B 27 to relieve the Stuttgart basin ("further need")
• Two-lane new building B 29a from Aalen- Unterkochen to A 7 junction Aalen / Oberkochen with new building bypass Ebnat (“urgent need”) - start of construction not foreseeable

See also

• List of federal highways in Germany
• List of motorway-like roads

Web links

Commons : Bundesstrasse 29  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Remstalautobahn - SWR TV BW
• Nationwide, unique corridor closure for heavy goods vehicles over 12t - Regio TV Ostwuerttemberg
• Detailed route description of the Remstal motorway, which was previously planned as federal motorway 87

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Remstalautobahn B 29 / A 87 SWR Fernsehen BW, January 20, 2020.
2. ^ A place with an eventful history , Gmünder Tagespost , article from July 17, 2018.
3. ↑ Guidelines for the construction of roads - cross section RQ 26 / RQ 28 , Wikipedia
4. ^ Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan 2015: Regional Conferences in Tübingen, Stuttgart and Freiburg ( Memento from July 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Press release of the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure, March 13, 2013.
5. ↑ The new north-east ring is located at Backnang Stuttgarter Nachrichten, March 30, 2013.
6. ↑ In future three lanes to the A 81 Waiblinger Kreiszeitung, January 5, 2019.
7. ↑ Federal Ministry for Transport, Building and Urban Development and Stuttgart Regional Council (ed.): B29 bypass Schwäbisch Gmünd . ( schwaebisch-gmuend.de [PDF; 7.1 MB ; accessed on December 12, 2011]).
8. ↑ Mögglingen bypass from 2015? In: Swabian Post . October 22, 2013 ( schwaebische-post.de ).
9. ↑ "Moles" in and under Gmünd . In: Gmünder Tagespost . Schwäbisch Gmünd August 3, 2006 ( gmuender-tagespost.de - newspaper article).
10. ↑ "Much more" expensive . In: Gmünder Tagespost . Schwäbisch Gmünd October 30, 2007 ( gmuender-tagespost.de - newspaper article).
11. ↑ Mögglingen bypass from 2015? Schwäbische Post (online edition), October 22, 2013.
12. ↑ Annual report 2010 - The B 29 remains the permanent problem of the community , Mögglingen community, accessed January 6, 2019.
13. ↑ Start of the B29 expansion in Mögglingen . In: Südwest Presse . July 27, 2015 ( swp.de ).
14. ↑ New construction and expansion of the B 29 bypass Mögglingen regional council Stuttgart, December 21, 2017.
15. ↑ B 29 section Aalen – Essingen . In: Swabian Post . May 12, 2007 (newspaper article).
16. ↑ Continuation of work on the "Streichhoffeld" roundabout in the course of the 4-lane expansion of the B 29 between Essingen and Aalen after the winter break, Stuttgart Regional Council, March 20, 2018.
17. ↑ www.B30-Oberschwaben.de (ed.): Large road traffic census 2005 . Report No. 7, July 22, 2008 ( online at b30oberschwaben.de [PDF; 5.3 MB ; accessed on December 12, 2011]). Online at b30oberschwaben.de ( Memento from June 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
18. ↑ Expansion of B 29: District assembly opts for a small Schwäbische solution (online edition), March 28, 2017.
19. ↑ Clear the way for level crossing and further expansion of the Schwäbische Post B 29 (online edition), March 6, 2018.
20. ↑ B-29 Mögglingen bypass opened to traffic Waiblinger Kreiszeitung April 27, 2019.
21. ↑ Blocking from Monday Schwäbische Post (online edition), January 13, 2011.
22. ↑ Bopfingen rehearsing the Schwäbische Post uprising (online edition), March 6, 2009.
23. ↑ B25: Ostalb protests Schwäbische Post (online edition), March 19, 2010.
24. ↑ IHK: bypasses instead of driving bans Augsburger Allgemeine (online edition), May 30, 2012.
25. ↑ Blocking: The wait is over Swabian (online edition), January 13, 2011.
26. ↑ B25 at Dinkelsbühl remains closed to trucks Nordbayrische Nachrichten (online edition), March 29, 2011.
27. ↑ This corridor is unique so far Swabian (online edition), November 29, 2010.
28. ↑ The basement junction is being optimized City of Aalen, February 28, 2012
29. ↑ Four lanes to the Schwäbische Post motorway (online edition), February 28, 2012.
30. ↑ B29: Two make four tracks Swabian (online edition), July 11, 2016.
31. ↑ CDU would like it to be traffic light-free Schwäbische Post (online edition), October 18, 2016.
32. ^ The B 29 keeps the traffic lights Schwäbische Post (online edition), March 28, 2017.
33. ↑ Whispering asphalt in Benzenzimmern Schwäbische Post (online edition), August 1, 2020.
34. ↑ Nord-Trasse comes back into focus Augsburger-Allgemeine (online edition), February 9, 2015.
35. ↑ Search for Nordtrasse starts all over again in Schwäbische (online edition), February 5, 2015.
36. ↑ In any case north and south weekly post (online edition), January 28, 2015.
37. ↑ B 29 Bopfingen bypass . City of Bopfingen (online edition), April 7, 2016.
38. ↑ B-29 construction to start in ten years? Schwäbische Post (online edition), December 7, 2016.
39. ↑ Westhausen calls for the Schwäbische Post to close the gap in the B-29 (online edition), April 26, 2016.
40. ↑ Super speed camera on Bundesstraße 29 Schwäbische Post (online edition), October 27, 2016.
41. ↑ This is what the Transport Minister Winfried Hermann says about the B 29 in the area of ​​the municipality of Böbingen Remszeitung (online edition), January 17, 2020.
42. ^ Stuttgart north bypass build participatory budget Stuttgart, February 16, 2015.
43. ↑ Majority for Nordostring - and then what? Stuttgarter Zeitung (online edition), December 2, 2016.
44. ↑ Is the Nordostring coming after all? Waiblinger Kreiszeitung (online edition), April 28, 2017.
45. ↑ Ostalb-B29 measures remain in the urgent need Schwäbische Post (online edition), August 3, 2016.
46. ↑ Northern bypass: but a new plan? Schwäbische Post (online edition), November 20, 2018.