Bundesstrasse 44

This article describes the Bundesstrasse 44 in Germany. For the street of the same name in Austria, see Neulengbacher Straße .

Bundesstrasse 44 in Germany
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Basic data
Operator:	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 :	Hesse Baden-Württemberg Rhineland-Palatinate
Development condition:	see below
Bundesstrasse 44 near Rheingönheim
Course of the road State of Hesse Independent city of Frankfurt am Main Beginning of  Frankfurt am Main (20)  Frankfurt- Ludwig-Landmann-Strasse Praunheim Nidda Hausen Bockenheim Frankfurt-Katharinenkreisel   replaced by Ludwig-Erhard-Anlage West end Bahnhofsviertel Gutleutviertel Main ( Friedensbrücke 287 m) Niederrad End of Frankfurt am Main Frankfurt- Commerzbank-Arena (51)  Frankfurt-South    Offenbach district Neu-Isenburg Neu-Isenburg OT Zeppelinheim Groß-Gerau district over   Moerfelden-Walldorf (4)  Gross-Gerau   replaced by   (5)  Büttelborn    Groß-Gerau bypass  Riedstadt OT Wolfskehlen bypass Riedstadt bypass  Stockstadt am Rhein bypass  Gernsheim bypass  Gernsheim OT Klein-Rohrheim Bergstrasse district Groß-Rohrheim bypass  Biblis bypass  Weschnitz Beginning of the motor road Bürstadt bypass  End of the highway Lampertheim State of Baden-Württemberg Mannheim city district Sandhofen- Scharhof (24)  Mannheim-Sandhofen   Beginning of  Mannheim Sandhofen Waldhof Neckar ( Jungbuschbrücke 239 m) City center / Jungbusch Mannheim harbor End of Mannheim Beginning of the motor road Rhine ( Kurt Schumacher Bridge ) State of Rhineland-Palatinate Independent city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein Ludwigshafen-Carl-Bosch-Strasse Ludwigshafen-Heiningstrasse (9)  Ludwigshafen city   (10)  Ludwigshafen city End of the highway Ludwigshafen am Rhein Beginning of the motor road Ludwigshafen- Rheingönheim -North Ludwigshafen-Rheingönheim-West Mother city Rheingönheimer Cross Remarks: ↑ currently triangle  Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap map

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

See also : Road traffic in Ludwigshafen am Rhein # Hochstraße Nord

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
Frankfurt am Main - Frankfurt am Main	4th	Yes	urban
Frankfurt 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
Mannheim - Ludwigshafen	4th	Yes	motorway-like
Ludwigshafen - L 534 Ludwigshafen	4th	No	urban
L 534 Ludwigshafen -Rheingönheimer Kreuz	4th	Yes	motorway-like

See also

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

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

• Detailed route description of the Ludwigshafen - Rheingönheim section, which was previously planned as the 653 federal motorway
• Bundesstraße 44 in the Rhein-Neckar-Wiki with a detailed description of the route in the area of ​​the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region .

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 )