Bundesstrasse 49

This article describes the federal highway 49 in Germany. For the street of the same name in Austria see Bernstein Straße .

Bundesstrasse 49 in Germany
map
Basic data
Operator:	Federal Republic of Germany
Start of the street:	Alsfeld ( 50 ° 45 ′  N , 9 ° 16 ′  E )
End of street:	Langsur ( 49 ° 43 ′  N , 6 ° 30 ′  E )
Overall length:	approx. 317 km
State :	Hesse Rhineland-Palatinate
Development condition:	see below
Course of the road State of Hesse Vogelsbergkreis Alsfeld (to ) (3)  Alsfeld-West   Romrod Feldatal OT Ermenrod Mücke OT Ruppertenrod ohm Mosquito OT Flensungen District of Giessen Grünberg Reiskirchen OT Lindenstruth Reiskirchen bypass Reiskirchen Vogelsbergbahn (9)  Reiskirchen   Vogelsbergbahn (3)  Pouring -Ursulum replaced by (7)  Triangle mine forest Giessen- Kleinlinden Motorway Kleinlinden viaduct 490 m Triangle Lahnfeld    Lahn-Dill district Lahnau (30)  Wetzlar-East    Wetzlar- Garbenheim Historic old town of Wetzlar Lahn Wetzlar -Zentrum dill Wetzlar- Dalheim (300 m)  Wetzlar tunnel Oberbiel -East Oberbiel -Mitte Solms Solms OT Oberbiel Solms Leun Tiefenbach Biskirchen Löhnberg Lahn Leun Braunfels Castle Braunfels OT Tiefenbach Leun OT Biskirchen Limburg-Weilburg district Kallenbach End of the highway Löhnberg Weilburg, baroque residence Weilburg -West Weilburg, baroque residence Merenberg -East Merenberg -West Heckholzhausen -East Kerkerbach viaduct Kerkerbach Heckholzhausen -West Beselich south Obertiefenbach -East Hadamar-Steinbach Beginning of the motor road Obertiefenbach -South Hadamar together with the direction of Limburg Runkel Limburg- Offheim together with direction Ahlbach (42)  Limburg-Nord (to )      replaced by   State of Rhineland-Palatinate Westerwaldkreis (40)  Montabaur     Montabaur bypass  Beginning of the motor road Neuhäusel bypass  End of the highway Eitelborn Beginning of the motor road District-free city of Koblenz Koblenz together with through Koblenz Koblenz- Horchheim Koblenz- Pfaffendorf together with through Koblenz Koblenz city center End of the highway (265 m)  Glockenberg tunnel Rhine ( Pfaffendorfer Bridge 311 m) Koblenz Koblenz OT Lay Mayen-Koblenz district under   Thieving Upper skin Alkene Brodenbach Castles District of Cochem-Zell Treis cards Moselle Pomerania Clothes Cochem serious Ellenz-Poltersdorf Senheim OT Senhals Nehren Ediger-Eller Bremm Sankt Aldegund Alf   Bernkastel-Wittlich district Kinderbeuern Bausendorf Alf Neuerburg Wittlich OT village under   Wittlich District of Trier-Saarburg (125)  Wittlich-Mitte     replaced by     Independent city of Trier (1)  Trier distribution circle Entrance to  Trier North district Mitte / Gartenfeld district District South (to ) Moselle District of yours Zewen district End of Trier District of Trier-Saarburg Hedgehog Langsur OT Wasserbilligerbrück Angry Border crossing in Wasser- cheaperbrück / Wasserbillig Continue  towards Grevenmacher Under construction In planning Traffic control system  Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap map

The federal highway 49 (abbreviation: B 49 ) is one of the longer German highways . It runs through Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate to the Luxembourg border.

Routing

Bridge over the Halslochbachtal near Neuhäusel

B 49 between Limburg and Weilburg near Obertiefenbach

The B 49 begins in the town of Alsfeld in Central Hesse . After 55 km as a quiet, mostly downhill road through the Vogelsberg , it reaches the Gießen-Ursulum junction of the A 485 before the university town of Gießen ( Gießener Ring ) , where it joins. After this 19 km long interruption, the route of the B 49 runs from the Gießen-Bergwerkswald junction of the A 485 along the Lahn in four lanes over the Wetzlar-Ost / A 45 junction of the Goethe city of Wetzlar , there via the Wetzlar-Dalheim B 277 / A slip road 480 (70 km) through the 300 m long Dalheim noise protection tunnel and further past the old residential town of Weilburg (90 km) to the old cathedral city of Limburg an der Lahn (114 km).

From Gießen to Limburg, the European route 44 leads over the B 49. On the last five kilometers before Limburg, the B 49 divides the route with the B 54 . This section is part of the eight-kilometer, four-lane section between the exit of the B 49 Obertiefenbach-West and the Limburg-Nord junction of the A 3 federal motorway , popularly known as the Long Meil .

Limburg up Montabaur the road on 20 km through the A 3 replaced. The state border from Hessen to Rhineland-Palatinate is also crossed on this motorway. From Montabaur (137 km) on the edge of the Westerwald , the B 49 now continues southwest through the Nassau Nature Park into the Rhine Valley to Koblenz (159 km).

Over the Pfaffendorfer bridge , the B 49 crosses the Rhine, meanders through Koblenz to the right bank of the Moselle to Treis-Karden (204 km) and leads via Cochem (216 km) to Alf , on the left bank of the Moselle. Here the B 49 turns off the Moselle and leads over the heights of the southern Eifel to Wittlich (270 km).

From here the B 49 will be replaced by motorways for 31 km until just before the city center of Trier (301 km). Here the B 49 meets the Moselle again, on whose bank it leads the last 16 km to Wasserbilligerbrück on the Luxembourg border.

The federal highway 53 runs along the Moselle between Alf and Trier .

The total length of the B 49 is about 317 km, from which, however, the motorway sections between Limburg and Montabaur (20 km) and Wittlich and Trier (31 km) are to be deducted in principle.

Construction of the bypass Reiskirchen and Lindenstruth

In the Reiskirchen and Reiskirchen / Lindenstruth area , the construction of a bypass - the so-called southern bypass - is planned. After years of discussion, this variant has now been given preference over the northern alternative along the A 5 , although this poses significantly more problems from an ecological point of view (e.g. the Habitats Directive). The preliminary draft is now available so that construction of the approx. 4.5 km long route can be expected from 2009. At the end of February 2008, the regional council of Giessen initiated the consultation procedure for the construction of the southern variant. A referendum initiated by the “Naturfreunde Jossolleraue”, which should lead to a referendum on this route variant, was rejected in April 2008 by the municipality of Reiskirchen. The proponents of the referendum then filed a lawsuit with the administrative court in mid-May 2008, which ruled on September 26, 2008 that the referendum was admissible. The referendum took place on March 22, 2009. In the run-up to the upcoming referendum, the critics of the southern variant had invited to a citizens' meeting on January 16, 2009, in which the subject of the route was again controversially discussed. 66% of the votes were cast in the referendum in favor of the controversial southern variant. In 2009, construction was expected to start in 2011 if the land acquisition for the construction of the route went according to plan. The consultation process was completed at the beginning of 2013, so that the plan approval process began. In April 2017, the opponents of the southern bypass filed a lawsuit against the construction project at the Administrative Court in Kassel.

Four-lane expansion between Wetzlar and Limburg

The old Heckholzhausen viaduct over the Kerkerbachtal, which has not been in operation since 2018

With the fall of the wall and the opening of the borders in Europe, the directions of the main traffic flows and the importance of the traffic axes changed, especially for Germany. If the north-south direction was previously important for West Germany, the historical east-west currents regained importance after the fall of the Berlin Wall . The changed driving habits also had a dramatic effect on federal highway 49 with its west-east course, so that the previously relatively safe road now had to record accident-prone sections of the route due to an increase in traffic density. A total of 74 traffic accidents occurred on the section of the road in the area of ​​the municipality of Beselich in 1992, 21 of which resulted in personal injury. The number of vehicles and the annual number of accidents had more than doubled compared to 1989.

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The B 49 is currently being completely expanded to four lanes over a length of approx. 30 km between Wetzlar and Limburg . The expansion is carried out in sections; building permits are required for each section. The expansion began in 2004 and will continue for several years. The first, sixth, twelfth and thirteenth sections are currently in operation; sections two, three, four, five and eleven are under construction.

According to a report in the Wetzlarer Neue Zeitung , the expansion between Wetzlar and Limburg will be around 60 million euros more expensive than planned seven years ago. According to the Federal Ministry of Transport, the end of the expansion is expected in the next ten years. For the years 2009/2010, the former Federal Transport Minister Wolfgang Tiefensee provided 17.9 million euros as part of the “Construction and Transport” project, which is to be used for the eleventh construction phase.

Elimination of accident black spots

The section of the B 49 between Wetzlar and Weilburg was very accident-prone in the past, especially the up and down roads in the Solms area . There were repeated accidents with dead and seriously injured people. Accordingly, in 1997, among other things, the particularly problematic section between Wetzlar and Solms-Niederbiel was structurally separated by a steel sliding wall.

In the following years, the section between Solms-Niederbiel and Leun-Biskirchen was a further focus of the accident due to the three-lane route, so that here too the third carriageway was omitted in 2008 and a steel sliding wall was installed.

Due to the still noticeably high number of accidents, the remaining three-lane sections in the Lahn-Dill district were re-marked in September 2011 and provided with a steel sliding wall so that only one lane was available per direction of travel. In March 2012, a third lane was marked again on the sections between Biskirchen and Tiefenbach as well as Leun and Solms, although the directional lanes are still separated from one another by steel sliding walls.

history

Origins

The road from Koblenz via Montabaur to Limburg was expanded under Electoral Trier rule in 1789. Even today, the road in the Limburg area is known as the "(long) mile". It is based on an old street layout that caught traffic from Trier and the Moselle region in Koblenz early on and continued to Hesse and Thuringia via Montabaur, Limburg, Weilburg and Wetzlar ("Die Thüringische Straße").

Previous routes and names

The Paris-Koblenzer Strasse was declared route impériale 21 on December 16, 1811 . From 1815 it was called Trier-Koblenzer Staatsstraße .

The trunk road 49 (FVS 49) introduced in 1932 originally led beyond Alsfeld to Lauterbach (Hessen) and Fulda .

Changes due to the construction of the motorway-like road between Gießen and Limburg

The motorway-like road between Limburg and Gießen, built in the 1960s and early 1970s, was initially given the designation B 429 in the section from the Weilburg- West junction to the Gießener Ring, which was designated as a motor vehicle . Only the section between Weilburg-West and Limburg of the new Gießen-Limburg road (also popularly known as Schnellstraße or Lahn-Schnellweg) was designated the B 49 because it was essentially built on the route of the old Reichsstraße. 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 section Tiergarten Weilburg - Braunfels - Wetzlar (Leitzplatz) was rededicated as Landesstraße (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 name B 277 alone. The previous B 429 between Weilburg-West and the junction Wetzlar-Ost, was given the designation B 49. The motor road from Wetzlar-Ost via Lahnau to Gießener Ring retained the designation B 429. The section of the "old Reichsstraße 49" from Wetzlar (Franzenburg) via Dutenhofen and Kleinlinden to Gießen was retained until 1988 the designation B 49. Now it was decided to give up the last parts of the "old road".

At the same time, the concept was pursued within the framework of the “concept for the gradation of federal highways parallel to the autobahn” to subdivide all federal highways in the Giessen city area ( B 3 , B 49, B 457 ) into state and district roads. The cities of Giessen and Wetzlar had objected to this solution, as they feared disadvantages in terms of road maintenance. Despite the contradiction, the four-lane motor road from Wetzlar-Ost via Lahnau to Gießener Ring was renamed the B 49. 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. Later, in 1995, the southern part of the B 277 was rededicated as a state road, so that there are no longer any federal highways in the city of Wetzlar or in the city of Gießen. Since 1988 the motor road has been called the B 49 along the entire length between Gießen-Bergwerkswald (junction A 485 ) and Limburg-Nord (junction A 3 ) and only the west bypass of the Gießener Ring B 429.

Four-lane expansion between Wetzlar and Limburg

The B 49 is being expanded to four lanes between Wetzlar and Limburg. This is done in short, a total of thirteen sections. The expansion is considered necessary in order to direct increasing transit traffic and additional traffic of the unfinished A 48 through the Lahn valley. The structural implementation is carried out continuously according to the traffic and financial possibilities: The thirteenth section was implemented first, starting in September 2000, when a four-lane extension to the “Altenberger Straße” exit and a noise protection enclosure through the Dalheim district was built near Wetzlar .

The following sections have been completed since 2000:

1.1.	Immediately east of Limburg (Ahlbach) to Obertiefenbach . Opened to traffic since week 39, 2007. Executed by Kirchner.
1.2.	Obertiefenbach to the rest area. Opened to traffic on September 3, 2008. Made by Schnorpfeil.
2.	AS Obertiefenbach / Ost to the landfill. Construction work for the 2nd section began in August 2012 and was completed 12 months later.
3.	Waste dump to the boundary of Beselich / Merenberg. New construction of a 4.3 km long and 51 million euro section. Completion was scheduled for spring 2014. However, the start of construction activities was initially suspended because legal action was taken against the development plan. After the complaint was dismissed by the Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig, the work for the second construction phase was put out to tender again, so that construction could start in July 2012. In the third section, construction work for the new bridge, approx. 750 m south of Beselich, should begin in May 2012. Road construction work began in mid-June 2012 at the level of the landfill. The bridge over the future route at the level of the landfill was completed in early September 2013. The construction of the AS Heckholzhausen Ost began in the 13th week of 2014. The extensive earthworks for the new route - located to the south - began in early May 2014. At the end of 2015, the construction of the 280 m long bridge over the Kerkerbachtal began. The bypass was opened to traffic in September 2018, although its end connections were not yet ready in both directions and required short construction site rotations. This means that the B 49 from Limburg to Löhnberg is a continuous upgraded line.
4th	District boundary Beselich / Merenberg to Merenberg / Allendorf , AS West. Start of construction on September 3, 2008; Completed in December 2011 and put into operation on December 6, 2012.
5.	Merenberg / Allendorf, AS West to Merenberg / Allendorf, AS East. Construction started on September 3, 2008. The section was put into operation on December 6, 2012 together with the fourth section.
6th	Section near Weilburg (Weilburger Kreuz). Opened to traffic on December 21, 2006. Executed by Kirchner.
12.	Section Solms-Oberbiel / Wetzlar-Dalheim. Construction work began in August 2006 with the construction of the B 49 underpass (cycle path and agricultural vehicles) near Dalheim. The bridge was completed in November 2007, executed by Scholz Bau. Start of construction underpass / bridge at Schleusenhaus Oberbiel, August 2008, executed by STRABAG. On March 28, 2009, work began on creating two new lanes south of the existing lanes and the section was opened to traffic on February 8, 2010. However, all four lanes could only be used from week 15, 2010, as not all construction work had been completed at the time of the official approval. Made by Schnorpfeil.
13.	Wetzlar-Dalheim enclosure .

The following sections are currently under construction:

8th.	AS Leun / Biskirchen to AS Braunfels / Tiefenbach (difficult routing due to proximity to the railway line and the need to relocate the Lahn if necessary). The section has been approved and construction of the AS Biskirchen started at the end of September 2014.
9.	Braunfels / Tiefenbach and Leun (groundbreaking for the approx. 2.5 km long section in July 2016)
11.	AS Solms to Solms / Altenberg Monastery (difficult route at Altenberg Monastery ); Planning approval decision on September 29, 2008; from May 2010 to June 2011 a new cycle-walkway underpass was built near Solms-Oberbiel. The completion of the entire measure was planned for October 2012. However, since a neighboring company has filed a lawsuit, completion is not expected until the end of 2014. The large-scale construction work began in February 2013. In the 38th week of 2013, clearing work began below the Altenberg monastery. At the end of November 2014, the four-lane section between the Oberbiel lock and the Oberbiel AS was released. In September 2015, the section between the future Oberbiel exit, which will belong to the direction of Gießen, and the Solms junction was completed. Hessen Mobil has now given the end of 2017 as the completion date for the entire section.

The following sections are currently in planning:

7th	Löhnberg to Biskirchen (a planning challenge due to the proximity of the route to the railway line, nature conservation and protection of medicinal springs). Start of construction of the Löhnberg node planned for spring 2008. The construction phase was completed at the end of 2012.
10.	Leun and Solms. The expansion of the 4.5 km long section is expected to cost around 40 million euros and take around three years. The construction of the bridges alone will cost 19 million euros. The regional council of Giessen has meanwhile initiated the street law hearing procedure. The plan approval procedure is ongoing.

State of development

The development of the B 49 is structured as follows:

section	Stripes	Dividing strip	comment
Alsfeld - Giessen-Ursulum	2	No
Triangle Bergwerkswald - L 3020 Solms-Oberbiel	4th	Yes	motorway-like
L 3020 Solms-Oberbiel - L 3020 Biskirchen	2	yes (steel sliding wall)
L 3020 Biskirchen - L 3044 Löhnberg	2	yes (steel sliding wall)	crossing free
L 3044 Löhnberg -Limburg an der Lahn	4th	Yes	motorway-like
Montabaur - L 326 Holler	2	No	with the exception of the junction (A 3) free of intersections
L 326 Holler - K 168 Niederelbert	3	No	crossing free
K 168 Niederelbert - L 309 Neuhäusel	2	No	in winter, depending on the road conditions, a section is closed and diverted via the L 329 / L309.
L 309 Neuhäusel - K 113 Simmern	3	No	crossing free
K 113 Simmern - K 113 Neuhäusel-Süd	2	No	crossing free
K 113 Neuhäusel-Süd -Eitelborn	3	No	crossing free
Eitelborn - Koblenz-Pfaffendorfer Bridge	4th	Yes	motorway-like
Koblenz-Pfaffendorfer Bridge - Koblenz-Saarplatz	4th	No	urban
Koblenz-Saarplatz - Wittlich	2	No
Trier - K 134 conc	4th	Yes	urban; Road separation in Trier does not exist in parts
K 134 Konz -border crossing Wasserbilligerbrück / Wasserbillig	2	No

Truck toll

Since August 1, 2012, a truck toll has been levied on the Gießen-Bergwerkswald (A 485) - Wetzlar-Dalheim and Obertiefenbach - Limburg-Nord (A 3) sections.

See also

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

Web links

Commons : Bundesstrasse 49  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Detailed route description of the Wetzlar - Gießen section, which was previously planned as the Federal Motorway 480
• Bypass road for Reiskirchen; Critical comments from the "Naturfreunde Jossolleraue"
• Performance report 2004/2005 ( Memento of July 3, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
• Pictures of the expansion of the B 49 between Wetzlar and Limburg in the Bauforum24
• Limburg-Weilburg / Lahn-Dill-Kreis - Limburg / Wetzlar - B49 - 4-lane expansion near Hessen Mobil

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Of which 51 km replaced by motorways
2. ↑ The planned route of the Reiskirchen bypass. In: openstreetmap.org. Retrieved December 13, 2011 (map). 
3. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: ASV Fulda
4. ↑ Gießen regional council initiates the hearing procedure for the southern bypass. (No longer available online.) In: rp-giessen.hessen.de. Gießen Regional Council, February 28, 2008, archived from the original ; Retrieved December 13, 2011 (press release). 
5. ↑ RÜG: public petition against southern bypass allowed. In: giessener-allgemeine.de. Giessener Allgemeine, September 26, 2008, accessed on December 13, 2011 (newspaper article). 
6. ↑ RÜG: referendum for southern bypass on March 22, 2009. In: giessener-allgemeine.de. Giessener Allgemeine, November 5, 2008, accessed December 13, 2011 (newspaper article). 
7. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Gießener Anzeiger from January 19, 2009
8. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Gießener Anzeiger from March 23, 2009
9. ^ La: "Establishing an agreement to avoid expropriations". In: giessener-allgemeine.de. Giessener Allgemeine, July 3, 2009, accessed on December 13, 2011 (newspaper article). 
10. ↑ Start of construction for bypass 2011 "completely illusory". (No longer available online.) In: giessener-anzeiger.de. Gießener Anzeiger, June 16, 2010, formerly in the original ; Retrieved December 13, 2011 (newspaper article).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  
11. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Gießener Anzeiger of February 6, 2013: RP: Southern bypass can come )
12. ↑ Two lawsuits against the Reiskirchen southern bypass. In: giessener-allgemeine.de. Gießener Allgemeine, April 7, 2017, accessed on May 13, 2017 (newspaper article). 
13. ^ Franz-Josef Sehr : Accident series and German unity . In: Florian Hessen . No. 3/1993 . Munkelt Verlag, 1993, ISSN  0936-5370 , p. 28-29 .
14. ↑ B49 expansion probably significantly more expensive ( Memento from June 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
15. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Gießener Anzeiger , December 6, 2008
16. ↑ ASV Dillenburg: Page no longer available , search in web archives: traffic safety on the B 49 is increased
17. ^ Hermann Josef Roth: The Westerwald . from the Siebengebirge to the Hessian hinterland. DuMont, Cologne 1981, ISBN 3-7701-1198-2 .
18. ↑ List des routes impériales 1 à 50. WikiSara, accessed on December 13, 2011 (French). 
19. ^ Conti-Atlas for drivers . 1934 (road map).
20. ↑ ^{a b c} First construction phase approved, further construction work started. In: giessener-allgemeine.de. Giessener Allgemeine, September 3, 2008, accessed on December 13, 2011 (newspaper article). 
21. ↑ ^{a b} Municipal council approves development plan for new B 49 near Heckholzhausen: 1st groundbreaking planned for the end of August. In: beselich.de. Beselich municipality, June 8, 2009, accessed on December 13, 2011 . 
22. ↑ ^{a b} Groundbreaking ceremony for the second and third construction phase near Beselich. (No longer available online.) In : wirtschaft.hessen.de. Ministry of Economic Affairs Hesse, September 22, 2009, formerly in the original ; Retrieved December 13, 2011 (press release).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  
23. ↑ www.mittelhessen.de from August 13, 2013: Free travel on the B 49
24. ↑ Green light from Leipzig for the expansion of the B49 ( Memento from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF)
25. ↑ ^{a b} thick: This is how far the B 49 has been expanded. (No longer available online.) In: fnp.de. Frankfurter Neue Presse, November 14, 2010, formerly in the original ; Retrieved December 13, 2011 (newspaper article).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  
26. ↑ Frankfurter Neue Presse (ed.): When will the B 49 continue? November 23, 2010.
27. ↑ Frankfurter Neue Presse (ed.): B 49: Everything rests after the groundbreaking . January 13, 2011 (newspaper article).
28. ↑ Frankfurter Neue Presse (ed.): B 49: complaint rejected . February 10, 2011.
29. ↑ Specification text on www.ausschreiben-deutschland.de
30. ↑ ^{a b} ( page no longer available , search in web archives: www.mittelhessen.de: "B 49 remains firmly in Baggerhand" from March 22, 2012 )
31. ↑ Nassauische Neue Presse from June 15, 2012: Progress on the B 49 - The section between Obertiefenbach and Heckholzhausen is now being expanded ( Memento from June 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
32. ↑ Planned course of the new route at Heckholzhausen. In: openstreetmap.org. Retrieved February 23, 2013 (map). 
33. ↑ Nassauische Presse of January 6, 2016: Start for the new bridge
34. ↑ B49 can now be used in four lanes in the entire Limburg-Weilburg district. In: hessenschau.de. November 15, 2018, accessed November 23, 2018 . 
35. ↑ ^{a b} ( page no longer available , search in web archives: Limburg-Weilburg / Lahn-Dill-Kreis - Limburg / Wetzlar - B49 - 4-lane expansion at Hessen Mobil )
36. ↑ ^{a b} Mittelhessen.de of December 7, 2012: A B 49 needle eye has been eliminated
37. ↑ hp: B 49: Traffic rolls on four lanes. In: giessener-allgemeine.de. Giessener Allgemeine, February 8, 2010, accessed December 13, 2011 (newspaper article). 
38. ↑ From official channels: Four-lane expansion of the B 49 between Biskirchen and Tiefenbach: Gießen regional council initiates the consultation process. In: giessener-zeitung.de. Gießener Zeitung, March 18, 2009, accessed on December 13, 2011 (newspaper article). 
39. ↑ Gießener Allgemeine from July 22nd, 2016: Groundbreaking for B49 expansion
40. ↑ pm: B 49: "Green light" for further expansion. In: giessener-allgemeine.de. Giessener Allgemeine, September 29, 2008, accessed on December 13, 2011 (newspaper article). 
41. ↑ pm: B 49 will be closed on Friday evening at Oberbiel. In: giessener-allgemeine.de. Giessener Allgemeine, May 19, 2010, accessed on December 13, 2011 (newspaper article). 
42. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Hessian tender database
43. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: "Only a third expanded" on www.mittelhessen.de from March 23, 2012 )
44. ↑ www.mittelhessen.de of February 16, 2013: Trees are falling on the B 49
45. ↑ www.mittelhessen.de of April 29, 2013: Green light for Section 11
46. ↑ Mittelhessen.de: Bundesstraße is fully closed on Sunday (online article from October 24, 2014)
47. ↑ Nassauische Presse of September 11, 2015: The final phase of the B 49 near Solms is being upgraded ( Memento of January 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
48. ↑ B 49 expansion should proceed quickly ( Memento from February 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
49. ↑ Blocking of the B 49 between Biskirchen and Löhnberg
50. ^ Gießener Anzeiger (ed.): Newspaper article . January 17, 2009, p. 7 .
51. ↑ www.hr-online.de: Trucks have to sheet metal on 14 routes ( Memento from February 6, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )