Bundesstrasse 95
Map with all coordinates: The federal road 95 (abbreviation: B 95 ) runs through Saxony , roughly in a south-north direction from Oberwiesenthal via Annaberg-Buchholz to Chemnitz and from Borna to the confluence with the B 2 south of Leipzig .
course
The B 95 is one of the Ore Mountains passes and begins as an extension of the first-order Czech road Silnice I / 25 coming from Ostrov nad Ohří (Schlackenwerth) on the ridge of the Ore Mountains near Oberwiesenthal at the border crossing to the Czech Republic and leads steeply down in serpentines to the spa town of Oberwiesenthal . On a bypass road, the B 95 runs below the town center and from there follows the course of the Pöhlbach , which forms the border with the Czech Republic here. The next bigger place is Bärenstein . Here the main road leaves the valley and from then on follows a ridge past the “Morgensonne” junction to Annaberg-Buchholz . On the bypass road built in the 1920s, the B 95 crosses the district town above the city center and crosses the B 101 here . In a wide curve the road leads downhill again and meets Schönfeld , then continues through the towns of Ehrenfriedersdorf and Thum . According to the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan, these local thoroughfares are to be relieved by a bypass road in the coming years. Behind Thum, the road rises significantly and reaches the upper part of Gelenau . The route between Gelenau and Burkhardtsdorf was expanded to three lanes in the 1980s, with an additional overtaking lane uphill towards Annaberg-Buchholz. Here the road leaves the former district of Annaberg , which it has crossed completely in a south-north direction from its beginning. The Burkhardtsdorf thoroughfare is also to be relieved by a bypass road. Another three-lane stretch of road follows towards Chemnitz. At the entrance to Chemnitz you leave the last mountain range of the Ore Mountains. The B 95 crosses Chemnitz, crosses the Südring and leads over the so-called inner city ring until it reaches the Chemnitz-Mitte A4 junction .
Between Chemnitz-Mitte and Borna-Nord, the B 95 was downgraded to low-ranking roads and replaced by the A 72 , as the two-lane federal road between Chemnitz and Leipzig was the most important, but also the worst road connection between two regional centers within Germany until 2013. The northern section of the B 95 is also to be replaced and dismantled with the completion of the A 72.
The northern part of the B 95 begins at Kesselshain at the intersection with the B 93 and B 176 , which a few hundred meters further in the direction of Borna meet the Borna-Nord junction of the A 72. From Kesselshain, the B 95 is expanded to four lanes, but crosses the Espenhain locality with several crossings . Only after Espenhain does the B 95 take on the character of an expressway. From Espenhain it used to lead northwards through the localities Magdeborn and Auenhain , through the southern districts of Leipzig, past the Völkerschlachtdenkmal to the inner city ring. Since 1976, this route has been interrupted by the Espenhain opencast mine and the Magdeborn site has been devastated . From the old B 95 north of Espenhain about five kilometers are still passable as S 242 or local roads. It ends abruptly at the edge of the opencast mine, after the flooding of which a viewpoint over the Störmthaler See was created. After Espenhain, the B 95 meets the A 72 again, which has ended at AS Rötha since October 2019 . The section between Kesselshain and AS Rötha is to be reduced from 4 to 2 lanes by 2021 and then largely reclassified to the S 242. The route of the new B 95 runs west past the former opencast mines and Rötha and Böhlen . Seven kilometers after Espenhain, at the Böhlener district of Großdeuben , it merges into the motorway-like B 2 in the direction of Leipzig without any changes to the traffic structure .
history
From 1934 the street became Reichsstraße 95 . After the annexation of Austria and the annexation of the Sudetenland and the other Czech territories in 1938 and 1939, it was moved south via Karlsbad (Karlovy Vary), Pilsen (Plzeň), Nepomuk , Písek , Budweis (České Budějovice), Kaplice (Kaplitz) , Freistadt , Linz , Steyr , Hieflau , Leoben , Bruck an der Mur , Graz , Leibnitz extended to Spielfeld . Currently it forms the Silnice I / 25 between the German-Czech border near Boží Dar and Ostrov (Schlackenwerth) , between Ostrov and Karlsbad a section of the Silnice I / 13 , between Karlsbad and Budweis the Silnice I / 20 and from Budweis to the Czech -Austrian border the Silnice I / 3 .
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Böhlen - Borna four-lane, partly like a motorway; in Chemnitz four lanes
- ↑ https://www.lvz.de/Region/Borna/Borna-Aus-der-B-95-wird-die-S-51
- ^ The German Automobile Club (ed.): Road map of Germany, scale 1: 1,250,000, 1941