Bundesstrasse 38

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	Bundesstrasse 38 in Germany
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	Basic data
Operator:	Federal Republic of Germany
Start of the street:	Roßdorf ; ( 49 ° 52 ′ N , 8 ° 46 ′ E )
End of street:	Silence ; ( 49 ° 3 ′ N , 7 ° 57 ′ E )
Overall length:	approx. 100 km
State :	Hesse; Baden-Württemberg; Rhineland-Palatinate;
Development condition:	two-lane
	Bundesstrasse 38 at the Saukopftunnel portal
	State of Hesse
	Darmstadt-Dieburg district
	Odenwaldkreis
	Bergstrasse district
	State of Baden-Württemberg
	Rhein-Neckar district
	State of Hesse
	Bergstrasse district
	State of Baden-Württemberg
	Mannheim city district
	State of Rhineland-Palatinate
	City of Neustadt (Weinstrasse)
	Independent city of Landau in the Palatinate
	Southern Wine Route district

The federal highway 38 (abbreviation: B 38 ) is a German federal highway that runs between the federal highway 26 near Roßdorf and the D 264 ( Département Bas-Rhin / France ) at the border crossing to Wissembourg near Schweigen-Rechtenbach . Between Ludwigshafen and Landau , after the construction of the parallel A 65 , the B 38 was downgraded to parts of the Rhineland-Palatinate state roads 530, 519 and 516, with the exception of a section near Neustadt an der Weinstrasse .

Route

The first part of the B 38 (54 km) begins east of Roßdorf at a junction of the B 26 . It brushes against Georgenhausen , leads past Spachbrücken and the core town of Reinheim , where it reaches the Gersprenz lowland . It continues through Groß-Bieberau , past Brensbach and Fränkisch-Crumbach to Kirch-Beerfurth , where it joins the B 47 . The federal highways run through Bockenrod , Reichelsheim and Gumpen to separate again at the Gumpener Kreuz , the 276 meter high transition from the Gersprenz valley to the Weschnitz valley. The B 47 continues west to Bensheim and Worms . The B 38 takes the way down to Weschnitz near Krumbach . From here it goes together with the federal highway 460 through the core community of Fürth and through Lörzenbach , where the B 460 branches off to Heppenheim (Bergstrasse) in the west. The B 38 remains in the valley and crosses the core communities of Rimbach and Mörlenbach . Shortly before traveling , the road leaves the valley floor to the west on the newly created driveway to the Saukopftunnel . The main road remained in the valley until its completion at the end of 1999 and led through Reisen, Birkenau and Weinheim. The new B 38, however, runs north of Weinheim from the west portal of the Saukopftunnel. At Weinheimer Kreuz the A 5 is crossed and the B 38 becomes the A 659 .

The A 659 ends shortly after the Viernheimer Kreuz and continues as a further section of the B 38 in six lanes. It runs in four lanes through Mannheim-Käfertal , past the University Hospital Mannheim and runs a short distance in the city center on the Friedrichs and Kaiserring, before it ends at Bismarckstraße on the B 37 .

In Ludwigshafen , the B 38 appears on some maps on the same lane as the B 44 .

A short section (5 km) of the B 38 can be found in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, where the B 38 connects the A 65 with the city center of Neustadt, where it ends at the B 39 .

A fourth section (24 km) runs from the Landau-Süd junction past Bad Bergzabern to the French border at Schweigen-Rechtenbach or Wissembourg. On this section the B 38 is partly identical to the German Wine Route . At Oberotterbach, the B 38 has two bypasses as a special feature, whereby the Weinstrasse is bypassed in two short sections, one to the east and one to the west.

history

origin

The country road from Mannheim to Neustadt was one of the most important connections of the Palatinate as a wine route and was expanded into an art route from 1766 .

The country road between Weinheim and Fürth was built between 1840 and 1843 .

The Viernheim bypass road was built in 1936/37 as a feeder to the Reichsautobahn line Frankfurt - Mannheim. As a real Reichsstraße , it crosses the Baden - Hessian state border twice and was therefore built without regard to traditional state borders.

Previous routes and names

The Baden state road No. 145 led from Weinheim to the Hessian border near Birkenau . The route between Mannheim and Weinheim led through the Hessian city of Viernheim and was therefore not expanded to form a road .

With the original numbering in 1932, the then long-distance road 38 (FVS 38), renamed Reichsstraße 38 (R 38) in 1934, only ran from Ludwigshafen to the German-French border near Schweigen. After the completion of the Viernheim bypass road, which also served as a feeder road to the newly built Frankfurt - Karlsruhe motorway , Reichsstraße 38 was extended to Weinheim. During the German occupation of Alsace (1940-1944), the R 38 was extended via Hagenau and Strasbourg to the Alsatian border near Belfort using the routes of the French national roads 63 and 83 . It was not until the 1960s that the road between Weinheim and Roßdorf was expanded into a federal road. The route of the disused Gersprenz Valley Railway was included in the expansion .

Replacements

The section between Mannheim and Weinheim was expanded into a motorway in 1964 (since 1975 A 659 ).

With the opening of the 2,715 m long Saukopftunnel on the state border between Hesse and Baden-Württemberg, the bypass of Birkenau ( Weschnitz Valley ) was realized on December 9, 1999 . The tunnel was closed between July and December 2008 for safety retrofitting. Another blockage was planned from July 2009. On the basis of a traffic report specially commissioned by the regional council, traffic was diverted over a large area via the A 5 , the B 3 , the B 460 and state roads 596, 3120 and 3408 during this period .

Planning

In connection with urban development developments, the B 38 in the Mannheim-Käfertal area up to the A 659 will be dismantled to become a city street by around 2030.

Web links

Commons : Bundesstrasse 38 - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ in Mannheim with four lanes, between Mörlenbach and the Saukopftunnel partly with three lanes
↑ Mannheimer Morgen, September 19, 2018, p. 9 Verkehr: Members of the main committee vote with a large majority for the dismantling of the B 38
↑ Mannheimer Morgen of October 5, 2018, p. 12 B 38 - This is how the city entrance changes

[1] Mannheim with four lanes, between Mörlenbach and the Saukopftunnel partly with three lanes

[2] Mannheimer Morgen, September 19, 2018, p. 9 Verkehr: Members of the main committee vote with a large majority for the dismantling of the B 38

[3] Mannheimer Morgen of October 5, 2018, p. 12 B 38 - This is how the city entrance changes