Bundesstrasse 429
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| Overall length: | 4.9 km | |||||||||
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| Development condition: | four lanes | |||||||||
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The federal highway 429 (abbreviation: B 429 ) is also known as the west bypass of Giessen . It is part of the Giessener Ring . With a length of 4.9 km, the B 429 is one of the shortest federal highways .
course
The B 429 consists of three connections (from north to south):
- Wettenberg (so-called Dutch ramp to the A 480 towards Gießener Nordkreuz )
- Gießen-West (exit to the city center or to the west industrial area)
- Lahnfelddreieck (where it joins the B 49 towards Wetzlar / Bergwerkswald )
history
Construction of the Limburg-Gießen motorway
In the 1960s and built in the early 1970s carriageway Limburg casting was in the section from the junction Weilburg-West to the Giessen ring initially the designation B 429. The B 49 still led from Weilburg-West over the old route of the former Reichsstraße through the city center of Weilburg to the zoo junction via Braunfels and Solms to Wetzlar , here through the southern city center together with the B 277 and from the Wetzlar-Franzenburg junction via Dutenhofen and Kleinlinden into Gießen city center. Both the western bypass of the Gießener Ring (completed at the beginning of the 1970s) and the southern section of the Gießener Ring with the Kleinlindener Viaduct (opened on November 12, 1979) initially bore the designation B 429.Only the section Weilburg-West to Limburg of the new motor road Gießen-Limburg (also popularly known as Schnellstraße or Lahn-Schnellweg) was called the B 49 because the new road was essentially built on the route of the former Reichsstraße 49 (R 49), which was not built in this area . In times of the boom in highway construction in the Federal Republic of Germany, the B 429 was the most important east-west axis in Central Hesse in terms of its route at that time .
Rededication of the old federal road
As part of the federal government's graduation concept for federal highways, the old route of the B 49 between Weilburg and Gießen was gradually abandoned. In 1980 the Weilburg-Braunfels-Wetzlar Tiergarten (Leitzplatz) section was downgraded to a state road (L 3451). The Weilburg-West-Stadtmitte-Tiergarten section was named after the extended B 456 . Due to a formal error, however, parts of the B 49 were not connected. The north-south city passage from Wetzlar (Karl-Kellner-Ring-Bergstrasse-Frankfurter Strasse) was given the designation B 277 alone . The previous B 429 between Weilburg-West and the Wetzlar-Ost junction, the junction with the A 45 ( Sauerland line ), was given the designation B 49. The road from Wetzlar-Ost via Lahnau to the Gießener Ring retained the designation B 429. The Section of the "old Reichsstrasse 49" from Wetzlar (Franzenburg) via Dutenhofen and Kleinlinden to Gießen kept the traditional designation B 49 until 1988.
Double route (1988–1991)
In 1988 the responsible traffic planners decided to give up the last parts of the "old road". At the same time, as part of the “concept for the gradation of federal highways parallel to the autobahn”, the entire federal highways in the Giessen city area ( B 3 , B 49, B 457 ) were to be classified as state and district roads. The cities of Gießen and Wetzlar had objected to this solution because they feared disadvantages in terms of road maintenance. Despite the contradiction, the four-lane motorway from Wetzlar-Ost via Lahnau to Gießener Ring was renamed the B 49.
Since 1988, the entire length of the motor road between Gießen-Bergwerkswald (junction A 485 ) and Limburg-Nord (junction A 3 ) has been called B 49, and only the western bypass of the Gießener Ring is still called B 429. For three years there was a curiosity between Gießen and Wetzlar that there were two streets with the designation B 49. The cities of Gießen and Wetzlar reached an agreement with the Federal Ministry of Transport that inner-city sections of the former federal roads would largely be renovated with federal funds as part of the gradation.
Development since 1991
In 1995, the southern part of the B 277 was downgraded to a state road, so that there are no longer any federal roads in the city of Wetzlar or in the city of Gießen.
