Bundesstrasse 50

This article describes the federal highway 50 in Germany. For the street of the same name in Austria see Burgenland Straße .

Bundesstrasse 50 in Germany
map
Basic data
Operator:	Federal Republic of Germany
Start of the street:	Roth an der Our ( 49 ° 56 ′  N , 6 ° 13 ′  E )
End of street:	Rheinböllen ( 50 ° 0 ′  N , 7 ° 41 ′  E )
Overall length:	approx. 130 km
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
Development condition:	two-lane / four-lane
Bundesstrasse 50 in the Hunsrück
Course of the road Continue  towards Diekirch State of Rhineland-Palatinate District Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm Vianden border crossing Body I OT upper against Geichlingen Niedergeckler Sinspelt Enz Oberweis Prüm Nims Bitburg    Kyll Dudeldorf bypass  Spangdahlem Bernkastel-Wittlich district Binsfeld Niederkail Landscheid (9)  Landscheid   replaced by     as a high Moselle crossing (126)  Wittlich Cross    (30 m)  Grünbrücke Mundwald - Haardter Wald Altrich / Osann-Monzel Lieser (valley bridge) Wenger pipe / plates Bieberbach valley bridge Viaduct Wasserbaum Weierborn Viaduct Mosel high ridge tunnel (100 m) Moselle ( high Moselle bridge 1,702 m) Feeder Moselle valley: Erden / Lösnich (30 m)  Green bridge across from Wehlen (30 m)  Green bridge north of Graach (30 m)  Graacher Schanzen green bridge (30 m)  Green bridge at the Bernkastel keep (30 m)  Green bridge Gestade near Bernkastel Longkamp Come Further construction in planning: Morbach-Hinzerath Wederath / Hinzerath Hochscheid / Oberkleinich Hirschfeld / Irmenach Wahlenau omitted due to further construction Morbach OT Hinzerath Rhein-Hunsrück district Wahlenau Beginning of the motor road Sohren Lautzenhausen Bärenbach / Sohren Liederbach Kirchberg (Hunsrück) Unzenberg Ohlweiler Simmern / Hunsrück / Holzbach Riesweiler Argenthal Schnorbach Ellern (Hunsrück) Mörschbach Rheinböllen (45)  Rheinböllen    replaced by   downgraded to L400 Under construction In planning Traffic control system  Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap map

The federal highway 50 (abbreviation: B 50 ) is a formerly about 130 km long German national road in Rhineland-Palatinate . It leads from the German - Luxembourg state border at Vianden to the Moselle over the Hochmosel crossing through the Hunsrück to the A 61 .

course

The first section begins at the German - Luxembourg border and takes over the traffic of the N 17 coming from Vianden . This stretch, which runs almost exactly in a west-east direction, leads across the Eifel past Bitburg and Wittlich to the Hochmoselbrücke , where the Moselle crossed and the Hunsrück is reached. Between the Landscheid junction of the A 60 and Wittlich, a former section of the B 50 has been downgraded to a state road or district road, as the A 60 runs parallel.

The route between the AS Wittlich-Mitte of the A1 and the AS Rheinböllen of the A 61 is part of the European route 42 .

From Morbach - Wederath it runs for 10 km together with the B 327 ( Hunsrückhöhenstrasse ) and joins the A 61 at Rheinböllen. The section from Frankfurt-Hahn Airport to the A 61 was expanded from 2005 to 2011 into a four-lane motorway - like motor vehicle around the Better to connect the airport to the Rhine-Main area . The expansion of these 21 kilometers cost around 85 million euros, the entire expansion between Hahn and the A 61 at Rheinböllen cost around 140 million euros.

A third, no longer existing section was very short. It connected the B 9 near Bingen in the Mainz-Bingen district with the B 420 near Gau-Bickelheim . The road leads past Bad Kreuznach . Due to the A 61 , the B 50 has lost its importance in this section and has now been downgraded to Landesstraße 400 , as was the former connection between Rheinböllen and Bingen, which is now part of Landesstraße 214 . The section from Bingen to Gau-Bickelheim is about 15 km long. Before the completion of the four-lane bypass road around Bingen, the B 50 began almost 4 km earlier in the city center of Bingen (today part of the L 414).

history

The trunk road 50 (FVS 50), introduced in 1932 , originally began as a junction from trunk road 49 in Hetzerath and ended in Bingerbrück , following the Trier-Mainzer state road established in 1846 .

In the 1960s, this federal highway was extended to the Luxembourg border. To the west of Bitburg, this street follows the former Vianden-Wittlicher district street .

With 186 accidents in 2011 on the section between Binsfeld and Vianden, this route is one of the most dangerous in Rhineland-Palatinate.

Four-lane expansion as B 50 new

A new motor road had been planned for many years, which, as the B 50 new and E 42 or E 313 / E 19, should close the gap between the North Sea ports of Belgium and the deep sea port of Rotterdam and the Rhine-Main area and which will be connected to the former B 50 localities should relieve. This construction measure is the replacement for the unrealized gap closure of the A 60 , which is interrupted between the A 1 at the Wittlich motorway junction and the A 61 at the Nahetal triangle. The improved transport connections are expected to have a positive impact on the economy and tourism in the Eifel-Mosel region.

The new B 50 was partially expanded to four lanes on a new line between the Wittlich motorway junction and the A 61 near Rheinböllen . For this purpose, the Hochmosel crossing with the Hochmosel bridge was built from 2011 and opened and opened to traffic on November 21, 2019 by the Rhineland-Palatinate Prime Minister Malu Dreyer in a ceremony.

The route is divided into several sections:

• Section 1 lies between the Wittlich and Wittlich-Wengerohr motorway junction. This section has four lanes and has been open since December 15, 2014.
• Section 2 lies between Wittlich-Wengerohr and Kommen and was opened on November 21, 2019. It also has four lanes and contains the Hochmosel Bridge as well as three other larger valley bridges and a tunnel west of the Hochmosel Bridge.
• For the third section from Coming to Frankfurt-Hahn Airport, the planning approval documents are currently being drawn up, which envisage a two-stage expansion at a cost of 70 million. The originally planned Kautenbach line - a direct connection from the new route in front of Longkamp to the junction of the B 50 from the currently interrupted B 327 not far from Frankfurt-Hahn Airport - does not appear to be feasible in the near future, as this 10 km long section is only an additional requirement was classified as high ecological risk in the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan from 2003 and is no longer listed in the current Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan from 2016. Therefore, the Rhineland-Palatinate State Office for Mobility is continuing to expand the old B 50 and B 327 from Longkamp, ​​which, however, will result in an extension of the section to 15.5 km. For this purpose, the existing B 50 from Longkamp is to be expanded up to the level of the Wederath location . From this point on, the B 50 is to be relocated between the Wederath location and the Belginum Archaeological Park on a 2.9 km long section and will meet the B 327 again behind the excavation site around the current accident-prone intersection of the B 50, B 327, L 159, K 106 to defuse. A further 2.2 km long four-lane expansion section is then planned in the area with unplanned connection to the district roads near Hochscheid. Both measures are expected to cost 18.1 million euros together.
• The fourth section from the B 327 to the A 61 near Rheinböllen includes the motorway-like expansion of the previous B 50, and was completed in November 2011.

Truck toll

Even before the introduction of the general toll for trucks over 7.5 tons on all federal highways on July 1, 2018, the section between Hahn Airport and Rheinböllen had been subject to tolls since August 1, 2012.

See also

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

Web links

Commons : Bundesstrasse 50  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Press presentation on the new B 50 and the High Moselle crossing of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate on December 16, 2008 (PDF file; 5.6 MB)
• Project page Hochmoselbrücke of the Landesbetrieb Mobility Rhineland-Palatinate

Individual evidence

1. ^ SWR television, news of November 18, 2011
2. ↑ see current map in the announcement of the graduation of a part of the federal highway 41 by the State Office of Rhineland-Palatinate from October 2014 ( memento of January 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), (document "General decree"), in which the graduation to L 400 already is registered
3. ↑ Otto Beck: Description of the Trier administrative district .
4. ↑ B 50: One of the most dangerous routes Trierischer Volksfreund , January 19, 2012
5. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ Hochmoselübergang is opened on swr.de, November 21, 2019, accessed on November 21, 2019
7. ↑ The Hochmosel crossing is open to traffic - Europe's largest bridge construction site will be finished soon. In: B50 Hochmosel crossing. Landesbetrieb Mobility Rhineland-Palatinate, 23 September 2019, accessed on 14 October 2019 . 
8. ↑ B50 High Moselle crossing: costs / schedule. Retrieved August 23, 2018 . 
9. ↑ Hans-Peter Linz: Free path from the Eifel to the Hunsrück. Retrieved August 23, 2018 . 
10. ↑ BMVI - Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan 2003. Accessed on 23 August 2018 . 
11. ↑ BMVI - BVWP 2030 overall plan. Retrieved August 23, 2018 . 
12. ↑ Description of the individual planning sections of the B 50. (JPG graphic) (No longer available online.) In: lbm.rlp.de. Landesbetrieb Mobility Rhineland-Palatinate, archived from the original on December 23, 2015 ; accessed on October 14, 2019 . 
13. ^ Christian Kremer: 18.1 million euros for road construction. In: volksfreund.de. Trierischer Volksfreund , June 2, 2010, accessed on December 13, 2011 (newspaper article). 
14. ↑ Truck tolls on five federal highways in Rhineland-Palatinate should start in August ( Memento from November 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ); in Rhein Main Presse on February 15, 2012