Bundesstrasse 69
| Bundesstrasse 69 in Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Federal Republic of Germany
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| Start of the street: |
Emstek ( 52 ° 49 ′ N , 8 ° 13 ′ E ) |
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| End of street: |
Diepholz ( 52 ° 37 ′ N , 8 ° 22 ′ E ) |
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| Overall length: | 30 km | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Development condition: | two-lane | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Course of the road
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The federal highway 69 (abbreviation: B 69 ) leads as an extension of the federal highway 72 , which comes from East Friesland , from the junction Cloppenburg of the A1 to Vechta and on to the district town Diepholz (about 60 km southwest of Bremen ). With a length of 30 km, it is only a remnant of the B 69 that formerly came from Wilhelmshaven on the North Sea , most of which has been replaced by the A 29 .
course
The B 69 begins at the A 1 and initially heads east. From Schneiderkrug it leads south via Langförden to Vechta .
At the Vechta-Nord junction, the B 69 joins the Vechta bypass, which heads east as state road 881 via Bergstrup and Holzhausen to Oyther Straße in Telbrake , where it ends in the northeast. Today the B 69 makes a bend around the district town on the western section of the bypass road, as the old route of the B 69 in the area of Vechta city center was no longer able to cope with the traffic. The city bypass was designed as a two-lane motorized road.
The B 69 leaves Vechta in the direction of Diepholz, where it ends at a roundabout as a junction with the Diepholz bypass on the B 51 and B 214 .
history
The main road 69 (FVS 69) established in 1932, renamed Reichsstraße 69 (R 69) from 1934, led from Wilhelmshaven via Sande , Varel , Hahn-Lehmden and Rastede to Oldenburg , through Wardenburg , Sage and Ahlhorn to Vechta and from there via Lohne and Damme to Osnabrück . The route in the southern section was abandoned around 1937 after the extension of Reichsstraße 68 to Cloppenburg , instead Reichsstraße 69 ended in the city center of Diepholz at Reichsstraße 51.
The route, which later formed Reichsstraße 69, crossed the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg as a north-south axis . Its southern section from Oldenburg to Vechta was expanded in 1837, while its northern section to Varel was expanded into a Chaussee in 1839 and extended to Jever in 1846 .
Between Sande and Wilhelmshaven, the still existing Reichsstraße 210 branched off from Reichsstraße 69 to Emden / Aurich / Jever. The section between this junction and Wilhelmshaven was not called the B 69, but was added to the B 210. Further south, the B 69 ran parallel to the current route of the A 29 and the A 293 .
Up until the completion of these motorways, Wilhelmshavener Heerstraße and Nadorster Straße were part of the Reichsstraße and Bundesstraße until today's Nadorst junction. Preparations for the construction of the ring road branching west from Nadorster Strasse began during World War II when the flute pond was dug by Polish and Ukrainian slave laborers. Around 1960 the section between Nadorst and Kreyenbrück of today's highways 293 and 28 (then called Bundesstraße 75 ) was expanded as a two-lane bypass road. The B 69 left the bypass road , which continued as the B 75 to Bremen , at the intersection with Cloppenburger Strasse, on which the federal road 69 led south of this intersection out of the city.
Between the completion of the A 1 in the Ahlhorn area and the completion of the A 29, it crossed under the A 1 on its traditional route. Here there was even a complete motorway exit, from where you can drive from the A 1 to seaside resorts on the (east- ) Frisian coast and in the direction of Wilhelmshaven and Oldenburg. Due to the construction of the Ahlhorner Heide motorway triangle and the completion of the A 29, today only one driveway from the former B 69 onto the A 1 in the direction of Hamburg / Bremen or one exit from Hamburg / Bremen is possible. However, there are plans to re-establish this exit as a full one.
During the construction of the A 29, a section between the provisional end of the autobahn at Hengstlage (between Wardenburg and Sage) and the connection with the A 1 was also signposted as the B 69.
After the completion of the A 29 in 1984, the old B 69 between Wilhelmshaven and Schneiderkrug was mainly downgraded to a state road, partly also to a district road or (in the city of Oldenburg) to an urban road. Only south of Oldenburg does the route of the former B 69 have a uniform designation, namely L 870. The section of the B 72 between Schneiderkrug and the A 1 junction in Cloppenburg has been renamed the B 69.
Since the completion of the Diepholz bypass, the B 69 has already ended at the new junction with the B 51 and the B 214 shortly before Diepholz.
