Bundesstrasse 54

This article describes the Bundesstrasse 54 in Germany. For the street of the same name in Austria see Wechsel Straße .

Bundesstrasse 54 in Germany
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Basic data
Operator:	Federal Republic of Germany
Start of the street:	Gronau ( 52 ° 12 ′  N , 6 ° 58 ′  E )
End of street:	Wiesbaden ( 50 ° 4 ′  N , 8 ° 16 ′  E )
Overall length:	approx. 350 km
State :	North Rhine-Westphalia Hesse Rhineland-Palatinate
Development condition:	see below
Bundesstrasse 54 near Steinfurt
Course of the road Continue  towards Enschede State of North Rhine-Westphalia Borken district Border crossing Gronau Motorway Gronau-West Spelt Gronau / Epe Gronau East Steinfurt district (30)  Gronau / Ochtrup Ochtrup / Heek Ochtrup Metelen Steinfurt -Burgsteinfurt West Steinfurter Aa Steinfurt- Burgsteinfurt North Steinfurt Steinfurt- Borghorst North forest Altenberge West Altenberge South Independent city of Münster Munster-Nienberge / Munster-Roxel / Havixbeck (77)  Munster north   End of the highway Muenster   Dortmund-Ems Canal Warendorf district Drensteinfurt OT Rinkerode near Drensteinfurt Coesfeld district Ascheberg OT Herbern over   Ascheberg OT Horn Unna district Werne Luenen   lip Datteln-Hamm Canal at Brechte District-free city of Dortmund Dortmund- Brechte over   Dortmund as Ruhrallee Dortmund center Beginning of the motor road Westfalenpark / city crown Dortmund- Brünninghausen as Ruhrallee Dortmund- Hacheney Dortmund- Wellinghofen (8th)  Dortmund-South   End of the highway Ennepe-Ruhr district Herdecke Dysentery Independent city of Hagen under   Hagen- Eckesey (to )   Volme Hagen Volme ( Volmetal Bridge 1,740 m) 3 × Volme Märkischer Kreis Schalksmühle Bruges (Lüdenscheid) Halver OT Oberbrugge 2 × Volmetalbahn Kierspe Meinerzhagen (16)  Meinerzhagen   replaced by   District of Olpe (18)  Olpe    Biggesee (Ronnewinkel Viaduct) Olpe bypass  as Hüttentalstrasse Kreuztal- Krombach Beginning of the motor road Siegen-Wittgenstein district Kreuztal-Ostheldener Höhe / industrial area Kreuztal- Mitte in Kreuztal connection to the and Dreieck Kreuztal-Buschhütten ( Ferndorf-Eder-Lahn-Straße ) Kreuztal bush huts Siegen-Geisweid Siegen-Weidenau triangle Siegen-Sieghütte Siegen city center Siegen-Hammerhütte as Hüttentalstrasse End of the highway victory Wins Wilnsdorf State of Hesse Lahn-Dill district 2 × over    (24)  Haiger -Burbach    State of North Rhine-Westphalia Siegen-Wittgenstein district Beginning of the motor road Burbach bypass  End of the highway Siegerland Airport State of Rhineland-Palatinate Westerwaldkreis Salzburg (Westerwald) Rennerod Forest mills Irmtraut State of Hesse Limburg-Weilburg district Dornburg OT Langendernbach Elbe valley Hadamar OT Oberzeuzheim Hadamar bypass  Beginning of the motor road Limburg OT Ahlbach together with the direction of Limburg Runkel OT Dehrn Limburg OT Offheim together with direction Ahlbach (42)  Limburg North      End of the highway Lahn Limburg on the Lahn   State of Rhineland-Palatinate Rhein-Lahn district Diez bypass  Flat Niederneisen Hahnstätten Hahnstätten OT Customs House Schiesheim State of Hesse Rheingau-Taunus district Aarbergen OT Hausen via Aar Aar Bad Schwalbach Taunusstein District-free city of Wiesbaden Wiesbaden      Under construction In planning Traffic control system  Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap map

The federal highway 54 (abbreviation: B 54 ) is a federal highway running in north-south direction between Gronau on the Dutch border and Wiesbaden .

course

The federal road 54 begins at the Dutch border near Gronau, where the Dutch Rijksweg 35 or its extension N 35 merges into the federal road. It leads through the places Ochtrup , Steinfurt (district Burgsteinfurt and Borghorst), Nordwalde , Altenberge , Münster , Rinkerode , Herbern , Werne , Lünen , Dortmund (there it includes the entire Wallring, among others), Herdecke , Hagen , Schalksmühle , Lüdenscheid , Kierspe , Meinerzhagen , Olpe , Kreuztal , Siegen , Wilnsdorf , Burbach , Rennerod , Dornburg , Limburg an der Lahn , Diez , Bad Schwalbach and Taunusstein to Wiesbaden , where it ends in Berliner Straße at Bundesstraße 455 . The former easternmost part of the federal highway from Wiesbaden via Wiesbaden-Erbenheim was included in the federal highway 455, the further continuation (Rhein-Main-Schnellweg) over the today's Wiesbadener Kreuz up to the meeting with the federal highway 40 near Weilbach in 1965 in today's federal highway 66 .

New line between Gronau and Münster

There is a new line right at the start of the B 54 on the border with the Netherlands. It serves as a bypass of Gronau and then connects to the A 31 . This 10.2 kilometer long and 46 million euro section of the new line from the border to the A 31 was opened to traffic on March 29, 2004 after eight years of construction.

The next section continues to bypass Ochtrup. The new line initially ended at the connection to federal highway 70 north of Metelen. On December 11, 2006, construction work began to close the 5.2 kilometer long gap in the upgraded line between Ochtrup and Steinfurt-Burgsteinfurt, the plans for which go back to the 1930s. It was opened to traffic on May 5, 2010; the construction costs amounted to 21 million euros. The section of the old B 54 there was downgraded to a state road as part of the L 510 on January 1, 2010, like the other two replaced sections . This route is followed by a section built between 1975 and 1981, which serves as a bypass road from Burgsteinfurt, Borghorst (here through the Buchenberg forest area, today the Am Bagno - Buchenberg nature reserve ), Altenberge and Nienberge . This means that the B 54 between Gronau and Münster is completely free of intersections and equipped with a third lane that is alternately available for the directions of travel ( 2 + 1 system ). After connecting to the A1 , the B 54 continues on its old route shortly before Münster into the city center of Münster.

The new line between the Dutch border and Münster was originally to be built as the A 314 . Therefore, the connection points A 1 and A 31 are also developed as complete cloverleaves . The plans for the construction of an A 314 have since been discarded.

Route from Siegen to Wiesbaden

In Siegen, the B 54 has been developed as an extension of the A 4 to a city ​​motorway on Hochstelzen, the Hüttentalstraße .

She leaves the Siegerland at the Haiger / Burbach junction of the A 45 and climbs south into the Hohe Westerwald , passing Siegerland Airport directly to the west. Shortly afterwards it reaches its highest point at the Salzburger Kopf at about 630 meters. Descending from the Westerwald, it crosses the federal highways 414 and 255 and joins the four-lane B 49 before the Lahn valley , the common dead-straight route to Limburg is popularly known as the Lange Meil .

The southernmost section, from Limburg to Wiesbaden, runs through the largely narrow and winding Aartal in the western Hintertaunus and is therefore also called the Aarstrasse . Apart from a few sections, this is also the official street name up to Dürerplatz in Wiesbaden. In the Aartal, the line of the disused Aartalbahn , the Aartal-Radweg and the Aar-Höhenweg run parallel .

In Bleidenstadt , the B 54 leaves the Aartal and heads south over the Eiserne Hand , where it crosses the Taunus main ridge at a height of 421 meters . From there it leads downhill for kilometers to Wiesbaden, where it forms the partially six-lane Ringstrasse , which runs around the inner city to the west and south of the Ringkirche , Landeshaus and Hauptbahnhof . As Berliner Straße, it leaves Wiesbaden in the direction of Wiesbaden-Erbenheim and Bundesautobahn 66 in the direction of Wiesbaden-Erbenheim , but first joins Bundesstraße 455 on the outskirts of the city .

A south bypass is to be built from Limburg, Diez and Holzheim , for which purpose the old route in the Limburg settlement area of ​​Blumenrod is to be expanded.

State of development

The development of the B 54 is structured as follows:

section	Stripes	Dividing strip	comment
Border crossing Gronau - Gronau-West	2	No	crossing free
Gronau-West - L 874 Altenberge	3	No	crossing free
L 874 Altenberge - L 510 Münster	2/4	Yes	crossing free
L 510 Münster - K 10 Münster	4th	Yes	urban
K 10 Münster -Dortmund-Brechte	2	No
Dortmund-Brechte - L 657 Dortmund-Eving	2	Yes
L 657 Dortmund-Eving -Dortmund	4th	Yes	urban, winged as Wallring, south as Ruhrallee
Dortmund - Dortmund-South	4-5	Yes	Similar to the motorway, north as Ruhrallee
Dortmund-South - Meinerzhagen	2	No
Olpe - Kreuztal-Krombach	2	No
Kreuztal-Krombach - Siegen	4th	Yes	similar to the motorway as Hüttentalstraße
Siegen - Ahlbach	2	No
Ahlbach - Limburg North	4th	Yes	motorway-like
Limburg North - Wiesbaden	2	No
Wiesbaden - K 647 Wiesbaden	4th	No	urban
K 647 Wiesbaden -Wiesbaden	4th	Yes	urban
Wiesbaden - L 3037 Wiesbaden	6th	Yes	urban
L 3037 Wiesbaden -Wiesbaden	4th	Yes	urban

Consequences of the hurricane Kyrill

The hurricane Kyrill , on 18 and 19 January 2007 on Europe moved away, leaving behind 54 great damage also to the B. Between Schalksmühle and Bruges near the town of Nöllenhammer , the forest was so badly damaged that it came to a landslide , which also affected the road. Three vehicles were buried and the occupants were able to get to safety in good time. The clean-up work continued until March 1, 2007, as special machines had to be requested from Switzerland due to the steep slope .

See also

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

Web links

Commons : Bundesstrasse 54  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Detailed route description of the Enschede - Münster section of the route previously planned as federal motorway 314
• Westphalia Regional - The Bundesstrasse 54 / 54n (Article)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bundesstrasse 54n officially opened. Free travel between the Netherlands and Germany. Landesbetrieb Straßenbau NRW, March 29, 2004, archived from the original on January 12, 2012 ; accessed on October 31, 2011 (press release). 
2. ↑ B54 between Ochtrup and Burgsteinfurt ceremoniously opened to traffic. (No longer available online.) Landesbetrieb Straßenbau NRW, May 5, 2010, archived from the original on June 6, 2015 ; accessed on October 31, 2011 (press release). 
3. ↑ Administrative region of Münster (Hrsg.): Official Gazette for the Reg.-Bez. Munster . No. 1/2010. Münster January 8, 2010.
4. ↑ Administrative region of Münster (Hrsg.): Official Gazette for the Reg.-Bez. Munster . No. 4/2009. Münster January 24, 2009.
5. ↑ Administrative region of Münster (Hrsg.): Official Gazette for the Reg.-Bez. Munster . No. 10/2009. Münster March 7, 2009.
6. ↑ ^{a b} Topographic map 1: 25,000
7. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Nassauische Neue Presse: The decision of the century )
8. ^ New construction of a bypass Limburg - Diez, Holzheim in the course of the B 54