Bundesstrasse 44

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Bundesstrasse 44 in Germany
Bundesstrasse 44
map
Course of the B 44
Basic data
Operator: GermanyGermany Federal Republic of Germany
Start of the street: Frankfurt / M.
( 50 ° 8 ′  N , 8 ° 37 ′  E )
End of street: Ludwigshafen
( 49 ° 26 ′  N , 8 ° 24 ′  E )
Overall length: approx. 90 km

State :

Development condition: see below
B44 Rheingoenheim 02.JPG
Bundesstrasse 44 near Rheingönheim
Course of the road
State of Hesse
Independent city of Frankfurt am Main
Locality beginning Beginning of  Frankfurt am Main
Junction (20)  Frankfurt- Ludwig-Landmann-Strasse A66
Locality Praunheim
flow Nidda
Locality Hausen
Locality Bockenheim
Junction Frankfurt-Katharinenkreisel A648 B8
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Roundabout Ludwig-Erhard-Anlage B8
Locality West end
Locality Bahnhofsviertel
Locality Gutleutviertel
flow Main ( Friedensbrücke 287 m)
Locality Niederrad B43
Village end End of Frankfurt am Main
Junction Frankfurt- Commerzbank-Arena
Junction (51)  Frankfurt-South A3 E42 B43
Offenbach district
Junction Neu-Isenburg
Junction Neu-Isenburg OT Zeppelinheim
Groß-Gerau district
bridge over A5 E451
Locality Moerfelden-Walldorf B486
Junction (4)  Gross-Gerau A67 E35
Autobahn beginning replaced by A67 E35
Junction (5)  Büttelborn A67 E35 B42
Bypass Groß-Gerau bypass 
Bypass Riedstadt OT Wolfskehlen bypass
Bypass Riedstadt bypass 
Bypass Stockstadt am Rhein bypass 
Bypass Gernsheim bypass  B426
Locality Gernsheim OT Klein-Rohrheim
Bergstrasse district
Bypass Groß-Rohrheim bypass 
Bypass Biblis bypass 
flow Weschnitz
Start of expressway Beginning of the motor road
Bypass Bürstadt bypass  B47
Expressway end End of the highway
Locality Lampertheim
State of Baden-Württemberg
Mannheim city district
Locality Sandhofen- Scharhof
Junction (24)  Mannheim-Sandhofen A6 E50
Locality beginning Beginning of  Mannheim
Locality Sandhofen
Locality Waldhof
flow Neckar ( Jungbuschbrücke 239 m)
Locality City center / Jungbusch
port Mannheim harbor
Village end End of Mannheim
Start of expressway Beginning of the motor road
bridge Rhine ( Kurt Schumacher Bridge )
State of Rhineland-Palatinate
Independent city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein
Junction Ludwigshafen-Carl-Bosch-Strasse
Junction Ludwigshafen-Heiningstrasse
Junction (9)  Ludwigshafen city A650 B37
Junction (10)  Ludwigshafen city B37
Expressway end End of the highway
Locality Ludwigshafen am Rhein
Start of expressway Beginning of the motor road
Junction Ludwigshafen- Rheingönheim -North
Junction Ludwigshafen-Rheingönheim-West
Junction Symbol: Up Mother city
node Rheingönheimer Cross B9
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The federal highway 44 (abbreviation: B 44 ) leads from Frankfurt am Main to the federal highway 9 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein .

course

B 44 near Bürstadt

Hochstrasse north

B 44 at the ramp to the Kurt Schumacher Bridge in Ludwigshafen am Rhein

In Ludwigshafen, the B 44 runs from the Kurt-Schumacher-Brücke , where it elaborately crosses the L 523, to the A 650 via Hochstraße Nord, a city motorway based on the American model. This 1.8 km long elevated road was built from 1970 to 1981 and cost 135 million marks at that time. It consists of 34 individual structures with 213,000 tons of steel and concrete. To protect the elevated road, it has been closed to vehicles that are wider than two meters since March 2010 in order to prevent vehicles over 40 tons from passing the elevated road. Because of the damage caused by corrosion, it is in great need of renovation. To protect against falling boulders, special close-meshed plastic safety nets were installed in December 2010, for which 2.5 million euros were invested. The Heinigstrasse exit was closed in the summer of 2013 because it was dilapidated.

Planning for the refurbishment of the elevated road began as early as 1993; the costs for a partial refurbishment were initially estimated at 20 million euros, twelve years later at 70 million, at the beginning of 2010 at 150 million and at the end of 2010 at 190 million euros. The construction time should be around eight to ten years. Another three years later, it is assumed that this was calculated far too tightly. The state parliament member Günther Ramsauer assumes 300 to 400 million euros. The city of Ludwigshafen would like to use the necessary renovation of the Hochstraße to completely redesign the western city center. In addition, the city invested 1.5 million euros in the planning and engaged the University of Kaiserslautern , a research company and an engineering office to develop possible variants. The engineering office was involved in the construction of the Warsaw North Bridge and the Leipzig City Tunnel .

The seven submitted proposals range from a complete 1: 1 new construction of the elevated road, a slimmed-down elevated road with only three lanes and alternating traffic light switching to the ground level relocation of the federal road based on the model of the Augustaanlage in Mannheim, the Kennedy-Allee in Frankfurt or the Kriegsstrasse in Karlsruhe. Among other things, the proposal for a tunnel solution has also been canceled for financial reasons, leaving three variants for the time being. The prerequisite is always that the future traffic artery can handle 46,000 vehicles a day, of which around 4,000 vehicles per hour are used in commuter traffic. The measure is carried out under the project name City West , apart from the Hochstraße itself, an area of ​​17 hectares is part of it.

After Easter 2013 there were only two options left to decide: the reconstruction (possibly by an offset route) with a cost estimate of 260 to 300 million euros and the street level city street with ramps and bridges, a length of 650 meters and width of 51 Meters and a cost estimate of 210 to 250 million euros. The maintenance for the future Hochstraße would cost 710,000 euros annually, the city road 445,000 euros. It is extremely complex how the construction site traffic, especially at the bridgehead to the Kurt Schumacher Bridge, should run during the renovation, as well as how the railway tracks and supply lines are to be laid. Therefore the project is delayed.

The city of Ludwigshafen is responsible for the building work . Federal Minister of Transport Peter Ramsauer examined the structure in 2012 and he recognized "that it is on fire". The federal government then made a specific commitment to participate in the 1: 1 new-build variant in the amount of 50 million euros in order to retain its supra-regional character. The state has promised a funding of 20 million euros. On February 5, 2014 there was another citizens' forum.

On March 24, 2014, the city council of Ludwigshafen decided with a bipartisan majority that the elevated road should be torn down from 2018 and that a four-lane long city road should be built in its place. The cost is estimated at 280 million euros and eight years of construction. At the beginning of 2017, the demolition was postponed to the end of 2019. At a visit by State Transport Minister Volker Wissing to the Hochstraße, the costs were given as 291 million euros, of which the state has so far set 75 million euros, the commitment from the federal government is still pending.

The End

The B 44 ends south of the Rheingönheim district of Ludwigshafen at the cross of the same name , which has not yet been completed, and merges with the B 9.

history

origin

Until the early 19th century, Bergstrasse , today's B 3 , was the sole main artery between Frankfurt and the Rhine-Neckar region. The country road from Mannheim to Lampertheim was expanded into an art road in the Palatinate era between 1777 and 1787, leading via Kirschgartshausen . Road construction in Hessen did not begin until the early 19th century. Between 1829 and 1831, the section between Groß-Gerau and Mörfelden was expanded into a Chaussee .

Previous routes and names

The country road from Mannheim to Lampertheim was designated as Badische Staatsstrasse 169 in 1901 . The length of the route in the Grand Duchy of Baden was only eleven kilometers, so this road was classified as a less important connection.

In 1932, when the German trunk roads were numbered from which today's federal roads emerged, the number 44 was assigned to the Hessian line from Offenbach am Main to Sprendlingen . When the trunk roads, now known as Reichsstraßen, were changed in the mid-1930s, Reichsstraße 3 between Frankfurt and Heidelberg, which originally ran via Darmstadt, was relocated to today's route of today's B 44 via Biblis and the Frankfurt-Darmstadt section with the route Another change that became available - number 44 occupied. A few years later, Reichsstraße 3 was moved back to its original route, and the Frankfurt-Bürstadt-Mannheim section was given the number 44. Reichsstraße 44 on the Palatinate side also included the former Reichsstraße 273 , whose number then went against the system in the Berlin area was relocated.

Replacements

Bypass roads in Bürstadt, Biblis, Groß-Rohrheim, Gernsheim, Biebesheim, Stockstadt and most of the districts of Riedstadt and Mörfelden-Walldorf. Before the B 9 Limburgerhof bypass was built, the B 44 ended in the village at the B 9.

State of development

The development of the B 44 is structured as follows:

section Stripes Dividing strip comment
A66Frankfurt am Main - B43Frankfurt am Main 4th Yes urban
B43Frankfurt am Main - L 3317 Frankfurt am Main 4th No urban
L 3317 Frankfurt am Main - L 3264 Neu-Isenburg-Zeppelinheim 4th Yes motorway-like
L 3264 Neu-Isenburg-Zeppelinheim - Bürstadt 2 No  
Bürstadt - Lampertheim 4th Yes motorway-like
City of Lampertheim 4th Yes urban
Lampertheim - Mannheim 4th Yes motorway-like
City of Mannheim 4th Yes urban
B36Mannheim - A650Ludwigshafen 4th Yes motorway-like
A650Ludwigshafen - L 534 Ludwigshafen 4th No urban
L 534 Ludwigshafen -B9Rheingönheimer Kreuz 4th Yes motorway-like

See also

literature

  • Alfred Kurt: On the history of roads and traffic in the country between the Rhine and Main . Frankfurt 1956 (dissertation at the University of Frankfurt).

Web links

Commons : Bundesstrasse 44  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Die Rheinpfalz, Ludwigshafener Rundschau, April 12, 2011
  2. ^ Die Rheinpfalz, Südwestdeutsche Zeitung, April 15, 2013
  3. ^ Die Rheinpfalz, Ludwigshafener Rundschau, January 20, 2012
  4. Michael Schmid: You can also find it in Die Rheinpfalz , Ludwigshafener Rundschau, January 21, 2012
  5. Steffen Gierescher Ludwigshafen 21 in Rheinpfalz on Sunday, Palatinate, May 5, 2013
  6. Steffen Gierescher: At least 300 million in Die Rheinpfalz , Ludwigshafener Rundschau, April 30, 2013
  7. ^ Die Rheinpfalz, Ludwigshafener Rundschau, April 20, 2013
  8. Steffen greed Escher: Expensive, more expensive high street in Die Rheinpfalz , Ludwigshafen Rundschau, March 27, 2013
  9. ^ Peter Müller: Room for new city ideas in Die Rheinpfalz , Ludwigshafener Rundschau, January 14, 2012
  10. Steffen greed Escher: Lewentz: That brings the city to in Die Rheinpfalz , Ludwigshafen Rundschau, April 29, 2013
  11. new LU, special edition January 2014, demolition of Hochstraße Nord ... and what comes next?
  12. ^ Michael Schmid: City Councilor for Long City Street in Die Rheinpfalz , Ludwigshafener Rundschau, March 25, 2014
  13. http://www.rheinpfalz.de/nachrichten/titelseite/artikel/ludwigshafener-ob-lohse-abriss-der-hochstrasse-nord-fruehesten-ende-2019/
  14. http://www.rheinpfalz.de/nachrichten/titelseite/artikel/hochstrasse-nord-wissing-bleibt- Answer-zu-finanzierung-schuldig /
  15. see "Reichsstraßen 1934"; "Die Bundes- und Reichsstraßen" by C. Wasow ( Memento from October 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), BP-Olex card from 1935 on www.landkartenarchiv.de ( Memento from November 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  16. Esso standard aerial photo map from the "1930s" on www.landkartenarchiv.de ( Memento from November 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  17. see "Bundesstrasse 3" and "Bundesstrasse 44" "The federal and imperial roads" by C. Wasow ( Memento from October 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), Shell road map from 1939 on www.landkartenarchiv.de ( Memento from 11. November 2013 in the Internet Archive )