Bundesstrasse 40
| Bundesstrasse 40 in Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Federal Republic of Germany
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| Start of the street: |
Eichenzell ( 50 ° 29 ′ N , 9 ° 41 ′ E ) |
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Saarbrücken ( 49 ° 14 ′ N , 7 ° 2 ′ E ) |
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| Overall length: | approx. 285 km (without interruptions) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Development condition: | two-lane | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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red : remaining sections, green : B 40 replaced by these motorways, yellow : former sections of the B 40 |
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Course of the road
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Map with all coordinates: The German federal highway 40 (abbreviation: B 40 ) led in earlier years from Saarbrücken via Kaiserslautern , Mainz and Frankfurt am Main to Fulda .
In the meantime, almost all of its former route has been replaced by the federal motorways 6 , 63 and 66 , or it will be replaced in the coming years. Only three short sections are still referred to as the federal highway today:
- from the Mainz-Süd motorway junction through the city of Mainz and the Mainz-Kastel district of Wiesbaden to Hochheim ( A 671 )
- from Hochheim-Nord ( A 671 ) to Weilbach ( B 519 )
- from the Krifteler Dreieck ( A 66 ) to Frankfurt-Griesheim / confluence with Mainzer Landstrasse (four-lane expansion already similar to a motorway)
history
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The road between Mainz and Frankfurt am Main was expanded into an art road as early as 1750, and in 1783 a French traveler described it as one of the best roads in all of Germany.
The country road between Frankfurt and Fulda was developed into a chaussee as one of the first roads in Hesse from 1764 on the instructions of the Fulda prince abbot Heinrich von Bibra . At that time it was considered sensational because of its width and was praised by many truckers as a technical masterpiece.
The section between Kaiserslautern and Mainz was built between 1806 and 1811. It completed the road connection from Paris via Saarbrücken to Napoleon's headquarters in Mainz and has been called Kaiserstrasse ever since . Therefore, in most of the villages crossed by the B 40, it has the street names Kaiserstraße, Pariser Straße or Mainzer Straße.
When the later Reichsstraßen were numbered in 1932 , Fernverkehrsstraße 40, from 1934 Reichsstraße 40, which led from Fulda to the Saarland border, was still one of the most important German traffic arteries. After the construction of the motorways, almost all sections of this former main artery were downgraded to state roads.
Replacements
Between 1931 and 1934, the Höchst bypass road was built to replace the Mainzer Landstrasse between Frankfurt and Weilbach. This motor road, also known as Rhein-Main-Schnellweg, was expanded into a motorway in 1965 - together with the B54 between Wiesbaden and Weilbach - and has been known as Bundesautobahn 66 and Bundesautobahn 648 since 1975 .
From the 1970s to 2004, the A 63 was built between Mainz and Kaiserslautern (A 6) piece by piece, replacing the B 40. This was therefore, also gradually, rededicated to the Rhineland-Palatinate state road 401 (in the Alzey – Wörrstadt section initially renumbered to federal road 271 , but also downgraded to state road 401 at the end of 2014) and partially dismantled. The section between Kaiserslautern and Homburg running parallel to federal autobahn 6 has also been stepped up to include part of state road 395, as well as the section between Homburg and Rohrbach (to state road 119 in Saarland) and finally the last section from Rohrbach to Saarbrücken on January 1, 2016 .
The B 40 had to be relocated between the communities of Mehlingen and Sembach with the construction of the airfield for the US armed forces in the early 1950s. The direct 1800 m long connection with its old avenue trees was replaced by a somewhat longer connection along the eastern slope - towards the town of Baalborn. With the completion of the last approximately eight kilometers long section of the A 63 between Sembach and Dreieck Kaiserslautern in October 2004, this section of the B 40 was also replaced and later, as already mentioned, it was phased out.
The Schlüchtern - Neuhof section was downgraded to a district road when the A 66 came into operation in October 2007. Since September 2008, the Flieden – Neuhof-Süd section has been dismantled and tapered to a width of 6.5 meters.
Until the gap in the A 66 was closed on September 13, 2014, traffic was routed over the remaining section of the B 40 between Neuhof-Süd (51) and Neuhof-Nord (52). This section of the B 40 was dismantled and renatured by 2017. On the route between the former B-40 junctions Neuhof-Nord and Fulda-Süd, which leads on an artificial embankment through the flooded area of the Fliede , a cycle and footpath - including the Hessian long- distance cycle route R3 - leads on the basis of a resolution by the Neuhof municipal council - along.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eichenzell – Neuhof three stripes; four lanes in Wiesbaden, Mainz and Saarbrücken; Frankfurt (Main) –Krifteler Dreieck with four lanes similar to a motorway
- ^ Shell map from 1938 on www.landkartenarchiv.de ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Announcement by the Rhineland-Palatinate State Mobility Office from October 2014 ( memento from January 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ The construction work in the area Bundesstraße 40 / Kohlenstraße ( memento from June 24, 2015 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Thomas Schwertfeger: Ortschronik Sembach . Sembach 1994, Chapter XVI. 2., p. 64–67 ([PDF at enkenbach-alsenborn.de] [PDF; accessed on December 12, 2011] Text and tables - no maps available).
- ↑ Norman Zellmer: Dismantling of the B 40: section "Green Triangle" -Neuhof-Nord is to become a cycle path. Fuldaer Zeitung, March 14, 2016, accessed on February 2, 2017 .