Federal Highway 480

Bundesstrasse 480 in Germany
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Basic data
Operator:	Federal Republic of Germany
Start of the street:	Erndtebrück ( 50 ° 59 ′  N , 8 ° 20 ′  E )
End of street:	Bad Wünnenberg ( 51 ° 34 ′  N , 8 ° 43 ′  E )
Overall length:	92 km
State :	North Rhine-Westphalia
Course of the road Erndtebrück -Leimstruth Bad Berleburg Neuastenberg -Hoheleye Neuastenberg (168 m)  Herrloh tunnel Winterberg Niedersfeld Wiemeringhausen Assinghausen Olsberg bypass  (as B 480n)  Olsberg Altenbüren Brilon Hurled Bad Wünnenberg bypass  Beginning of the motor road End of the motor road, start of the federal motorway Cross Wünnenberg-Haaren Further on   Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap map

The federal highway 480 (abbreviation: B 480 ) is a federal highway in eastern North Rhine-Westphalia ( Germany ) and runs from Erndtebrück -Leimstruth via Winterberg and Brilon to Bad Wünnenberg .

History / other

The B 480 crosses the Wittgensteiner Land and the Sauerland in a north-south direction, linking three sections that were all built in the 19th century:

• The road from Nuttlar to Hallenberg was completed in 1834. Since 1937, the southern section of the route between Winterberg and Hallenberg has been part of Reichsstrasse 236 , which crosses the Rothaar Mountains in an east-west direction .
• The Möhnetalstrasse from Brilon via Rüthen to Werl was completed in 1842. This route has been known as Bundesstraße 516 since the 1970s .
• The branch line from Möhnetalstraße to Alme was opened in 1855.

The B 480 was set up in the early 1960s to improve the network of federal roads. Between Hoheleye and Winterberg it runs with the federal highway 236 on the same route. In this common section, traffic has been routed past the city directly west of Winterberg as part of a bypass road with the Herrloh tunnel since 1995 . At Brilon, the B 480 shares a section of road with federal highway 7 .

After the new construction of the A 33 in the 1980s and 1990s, the section from the current end of the B 480 via Kirchborchen to Paderborn was rededicated to the B 1 and B 64 to Landesstraße  755.

New lines as B 480n

Olsberg bypass

Between Olsberg and the connection to the B 7, a bypass road as the B 480n was built from June 2005 to November 2010. The opening of this new line, which relieves the towns of Olsberg and Bigge , was contrary to the original plans no longer possible for 2009, but took place on November 5, 2010. Coming from the south, the new route branches off the old route before Olsberg. For the new course numerous were engineering structures erected, including the lots Tunnel , the coat Busch bridge , the agricultural road bridge , which Voss creek bridge , the bridge Bruchstraße , the donkey broken bridge and the Ruhr valley bridge. While the old route of the B 480 in the Altenbüren district of Brilon has a connection to the B 7, this with the new bypass lies west of Olsberg. When the route is cleared, the towns of Bigge and Olsberg will be relieved by up to 10,000 vehicles a day, according to the forecast.

As part of the further construction of the A 46 from the previous end of the expansion near Bestwig to Nuttlar, the B 480n was extended via the connection to the B 7 to the motorway as a feeder to a junction . The release took place on November 18, 2019.

Planned bypass Bad Wünnenberg

Aftetalbrücke near Bad Wünnenberg in September 2019

In the further course to the north, the bypass road from Bad Wünnenberg is another section in the planning approval procedure as the new B 480n route and should be completed by 2020 at the latest. After the budget committee approved the bypass in December 2012, construction began in September 2013.

See also

• List of federal highways in Germany

Web links

Commons : Bundesstrasse 480  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ bypass road probably not finished until 2010. In: SiegerlandKurier. Archived from the original on February 11, 2013 ; Retrieved March 8, 2009 . 
2. ↑ Website of the Arnsberg district government: Discussion meeting on the new A 46 construction ( Memento of April 23, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
3. ^ A46: Ceremonial traffic opening between Bestwig and Olsberg. State Office for Road Construction North Rhine-Westphalia, November 18, 2019, accessed on November 20, 2019 . 
4. ↑ The groundbreaking ceremony for the B 480 will be set in 2013 . In: New Westphalian . December 13, 2012. Retrieved July 21, 2013.
5. ↑ New bypass should make Bad Wünnenberg safer. Landesbetrieb Straßenbau NRW , September 11, 2013, accessed on September 12, 2017 .