Bundesstrasse 66

This article describes the Bundesstraße 66 in Germany. For the street of the same name in Austria see Gleichenberger Straße .

Bundesstrasse 66 in Germany
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Basic data
Operator:	Federal Republic of Germany
Start of the street:	Barntrup ( 51 ° 59 ′  N , 9 ° 8 ′  E )
End of street:	Bielefeld ( 52 ° 1 ′  N , 8 ° 32 ′  E )
Overall length:	50.0 km
State :	North Rhine-Westphalia
Development condition:	two-lane
Bundesstrasse 66 in Bielefeld towards Lage
Course of the road State of North Rhine-Westphalia Circle lip Barntrup Barntrup L 758 bypass  Dörentrup OT Bega Dörentrup OT Humfeld Dörentrup Lemgo Lemgo OT Hörstmar Bielefeld – Hameln railway line Location (lip) Werre Location (Lippe) OT Kachtenhausen Oerlinghausen OT Helpup Leopoldshöhe OT Asemissen District-free city of Bielefeld Beginning of the motor road (27)  Bielefeld East   Bielefeld-Ostring End of the highway Start of town  Bielefeld Stieghorst center End of Bielefeld Bielefeld-Johannistal  Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap map

The federal road 66 (abbreviation: B 66 ) is 50.0 km long and leads from Barntrup to Bielefeld .

course

The B 66 branches off from the B 1 east of Barntrup and runs via Barntrup, Lemgo and Lage to Bielefeld . In Lage it crosses the B 239 . From there it continues via Helpup to Bielefeld. Between Leopoldshöhe - Asemissen and the L 787 / Ostring / Lagesche Straße in Bielefeld, it has been developed as a motorway-like motor vehicle . In this course it crosses the federal highway 2 in the form of a clover leaf. However, the continued construction was still not realized this once as Highway 35 / 36 planned realignment of the B 66 until Ostwestfalentunnel the B 61 at the Eckendorfer road, a pre-built input for this route. After today's end of the road, it is called Detmolder Strasse . From there, the Ostring branches off, which then merges into the other end of Eckendorfer Straße. The Ostring and Eckendorfer Strasse now take up almost all of the through traffic to the B 61 . On the corresponding signpost at the end of the road, through traffic is directed over the Ostring with the notice "All directions". The old route of the B 66 over Ubbedissen was rededicated to the K 15.

South of Lemgo, between the B 238 and the L 712, there is an approximately four kilometer long new road as the B 66n . The actual B 66 to Barntrup runs through the inner city of Lemgo.

The section between Bielefeld and Leopoldshöhe-Asemissen will be rebuilt as the B 66n. The groundbreaking took place in August 2017. The new road should be ready by the end of 2022. The currently estimated cost is around EUR 30 million.

Local authorities

• North Rhine-Westphalia
  • Circle lip
    • Barntrup , Dörentrup , Lemgo , Lage , Oerlinghausen , Leopoldshöhe
  • City of Bielefeld

Waters crossed

• Be in a position
• Bega in Lemgo

Tourist routes

Between Barntrup and Lemgo leading street Weserrenaissance along the B 66th

Oddities

Based on the famous highway in the USA, the street is often jokingly called Route 66 . However, many residents see it as “a completely normal federal highway”. With Route Nationale 66 in France and Route Nationale 66 in Belgium , the German federal highway 66 is the subject of the bilingual book Im Namen der Route 66 - Drei Reisen in Europa / Au nom de la Route 66 - Trois voyages en Europe by Roland Siegloff and Thierry Monasses.

See also

• Bundesstrasse 66n
• List of federal highways in Germany
• List of motorway-like roads
• Detmolder Strasse

literature

• Roland Siegloff (text), Thierry Monasse (photos), Véronique Petitprez (translation), Gerhard Axmann (cover design): In the name of Route 66 - Three journeys in Europe , Berlin: Böhland & Schremmer, 2013, ISBN 978-3-943622 -04-1

Web links

Commons : Bundesstrasse 66  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Detailed route description of the section near Bielefeld, which was previously planned as Federal Motorway 35

Footnotes

1. ↑ In Bielefeld, four lanes were developed similar to the motorway
2. ↑ "District government gives the green light for B 66 new building" District government Detmold from March 5, 2015 (German, accessed on March 6, 2015) ( Memento from May 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ B66: Symbolic groundbreaking for building projects in Barntrup and Bielefeld / Leopoldshöhe. (No longer available online.) Straßen.NRW, formerly in the original ; accessed on September 3, 2017 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.