Bundesstrasse 96
Map with all coordinates: The federal highway 96 (abbreviation: B 96 ) is a federal highway in Germany . It leads from Zittau in the eastern part of Upper Lusatia to Sassnitz on Rügen .
course
The federal highway 96 has the following course:
Saxony
Zittau - Bautzen
The B 96 begins in Zittau on the town ring, where the B 99 also begins, and then crosses Mittelherwigsdorf and crosses the Rietschebach . The most complex development of the new road was the crossing of the Landwasser at the Landschenke shortly before Oderwitz , which has been done by ford since the earliest times . In 1603 Zittauer, Niederoderwitzer and Herwigsdorfer citizens jointly built the "Landbrücke", the penultimate new construction of which took place in 1934/1935. Since 1964 there has been a new concrete bridge due to the increased traffic. This involved eliminating five switchbacks on Landberg. After Nieder- and Oberoderwitz the road continues via Eibau , Walddorf and reaches the area of Ebersbach behind the European main watershed between the Baltic Sea (Landwasser) and the North Sea ( Spree ) at the " Hübelhäusern " . Except for a few short sections, the road now follows the Spree valley in a north-westerly direction to Neusalza-Spremberg . In neighboring Oppach , the B 98 branches off from the B 96 in the direction of Bischofswerda . The B 96 then crosses the Kälberstein - Bieleboh -Rücken in the direction of Bautzen . It crosses the villages of Wurbis , Halbendorf im Gebirge , Eulowitz , Großpostwitz , Rascha , Ebendörfel and Oberkaina .
The road that was then chaused took place in the 1830s and was an essential prerequisite for the operation of driving mail to various locations. Since 1840, wagons have been running regularly on it between Dresden and Zittau via Ebersbach (building costs for the community for the road section within Ebersbach: 2733 Taler ), and since 1845 they have been running from Löbau to Rumburk . After the inauguration of the now closed Zittau – Löbau railway line in 1848, the driving mail from Dresden ended in Oberoderwitz. With the start of motorization in the 1920s, individual road sections were straightened and widened due to traffic. In Neusalza-Spremberg, a completely new, 800-meter-long route east along the Spree was created to bypass the narrow streets of the city center.
Bautzen - Senftenberg
In Bautzen, the B 96 has been bypassing the city center on a western bypass since December 16, 2013. a. has a Spree bridge and a tunnel. The west bypass was created to relieve the busy inner-city section over the Friedensbrücke . To the northwest of the city, the B 96 crosses under the A 4 at the Bautzen-West junction . The road continues via Königswartha through the Upper Lusatian heath and pond area to Hoyerswerda . There it crosses the Schwarze Elster and then runs for about a kilometer along the same route as the B 97 . The two routes separate again in the Spremberger Vorstadt. The B 97 continues in a north-easterly direction to Spremberg , the B 96 initially runs north-west out of Hoyerswerda and then through Lauta . In Kleinkoschen it meets the Black Elster again and leads on its bank between the Geierswalder and Senftenberger lakes into Senftenberg .
Brandenburg / Berlin
Senftenberg - Finsterwalde - Luckau - Baruth
In Senftenberg, the route turns first to the north and then to the northeast. There it will be transferred to the B 169 without crossing . Both federal highways then run for around seven kilometers on a shared route, some of which has three lanes. A little south of Allmosen , the B 96 branches off again on its own route, runs west through Großräschen and has the junction of the same name with the A 13 . In the following course it crosses the town of Finsterwalde, northwest of Großräschen, and turns north there.
It then leads through Sonnewalde , crosses the Niederlausitzer Landrücke east of the Rochauer Heide and reaches the town of Luckau via a small ridge in the Luckau basin . A bypass road was also laid out here, the route of which the B 96 shares for a short distance with the intersecting B 87 federal highway - a connection between Leipzig and Frankfurt (Oder) that has been in use since the Middle Ages. To the west, the B 102 also begins in Luckau .
North of Luckau, the B 96 continues in a north-westerly direction through the Luckau districts of Gießmannsdorf and Rüdingsdorf and finally via Zützen to Golßen . There the B 115 meets the route of the B 96, together they leave Niederlausitz and run parallel to the Berlin / Dresden railway as far as Baruth / Mark .
Baruth - Mahlow
The B 96 and B 115 separate again in a roundabout located in the center of Baruth. The B 96 crosses the Baruth glacial valley in the town of Baruth and then runs through the Luckenwalder Heide parallel to the Berlin – Dresden railway line north to Wünsdorf and from there to Zossen . Within the village, the B 96 and the B 246 have a common course, but the latter branches off to the west near the train station, while the B 96 continues further north. In Rangsdorf, it crosses at a junction with the Berlin motorway ring .
The B 96 has four lanes between Rangsdorf and the city limits of Berlin . The towns of Dahlewitz and Mahlow , district of Glasow, will be bypassed by a new road. Behind Glasow, the federal road runs along the old route to the city limits. There was the Mahlow / Lichtenrade border crossing, which during the division of Germany was only passable for disposal vehicles of the Berlin city cleaning companies .
Berlin
The road runs through Berlin in a south-north direction . From the southern city limits it bears the name Kirchhainer Damm. From there branches off the B 96a , which was used to bypass West Berlin during the GDR era . The B 96a only meets the B 96 north of Berlin. The B 96 itself then runs along the Lichtenrader Damm, Mariendorfer Damm and later as Tempelhofer Damm past the former Tempelhof Airport . Behind the airlift square , the street will then continue as Mehringdamm . At Halleschen Tor , the B 96 branches off to the west and runs along both sides of the Landwehr Canal as Hallesches Ufer / Reichpietschufer on the north side and Tempelhofer / Schöneberger Ufer on the south side. Since March 26, 2006, it has been directed to the north again through the Tiergarten tunnel under the city district at Potsdamer Platz , the government district and the main train station . At the time of the Wall , it ran through the Tiergarten as a relief road . Behind the Tiergarten tunnel , it continues as Heidestrasse along the Berlin-Spandauer Schifffahrtskanal , runs on Sellerstrasse, Müllerstrasse , Fennstrasse and finally on Reinickendorfer Strasse, then on to Markstrasse, Residenzstrasse, Lindauer Allee, Roedernallee and Oranienburger Strasse / Oraniendamm. It runs as Berliner Straße in Hermsdorf . It then leads at the “ Entenschnabel ” in Glienicke / Nordbahn for about 500 meters over Brandenburg and forms the state border with Brandenburg for a further 900 meters. As Oranienburger Chaussee, it runs in the Frohnau district for a further three kilometers in the city of Berlin, then finally crosses the state border in the direction of Oranienburg before Hohen Neuendorf .
Course of the B 96 in the Tiergarten Spreebogen tunnel under the center of Berlin
Glienicke - Löwenberg
About 250 meters after the Berlin / Brandenburg border, the street in Hohen-Neuendorf crosses the S-Bahn line Berlin-Frohnau - Oranienburg before it ends in a roundabout, Marienetta-Jirkowsky-Platz. In Birkenwerder the B 96a (Clara-Zetkin-Straße) joins the B 96 (main street).
With the completion of the new B 96 as a western bypass from Oranienburg in 2003, traffic was removed from the town. The old route through the center of Oranienburg was downgraded to a municipal road. Since then, the B 96 leads (in northern direction from Berlin, looking out at) via exit Birkenwerder , the A 10 (northern Berliner Ring) motorway junction Oranienburg and from there eleven kilometers than road running with three exits, partly on the former airfield Oranienburg back on the existing route of the B 96 at the junction of the state road L 191 north of Oranienburg. A further expansion to the north is planned. Since the current route cuts the town of Nassenheide in two, a citizens' initiative is calling for a changed route. The road continues through Teschendorf and Löwenberg .
Löwenberg - Fürstenberg
Gransee has been bypassed on the outskirts since the 1960s, the B 96 has no real bypass here, only the town center is not crossed. In 2005/2006 a roundabout was set up in the north-eastern part of the village, replacing the existing clinker paving with asphalt. A real bypass of Gransee is planned, it should be led past the site to the east. In 2006 a dilapidated bridge near Dannenwalde was replaced by a new bridge at the same place after several months of road closure. Until then, the speed over the old bridge was limited to 30 km / h, the bridge was kept in operation as a makeshift. During the construction phase, traffic was directed to the west via Neuglobsow . Another bridge has only been accessible in one lane since 2011; renovation is planned.
In Fürstenberg / Havel , the B 96 runs directly through the center and is therefore limited to 30 km / h. In the city center, through traffic, including trucks and heavy-duty transporters, regularly builds up and the burdens for residents and holidaymakers are enormous, which led to the establishment of citizens' groups . After protests against a bypass east of Fürstenberg leading across the site of the former Uckermark youth concentration camp , a bypass near the city along the railway line is now under discussion. In the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan 2030 , the Fürstenberg / Havel bypass was upgraded by including it in the prioritized requirement.
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Neustrelitz bypass
The course of the old route through Neustrelitz turned out to be very unfavorable for the historic town center. In addition, the route could not meet the requirements. That is why the bypass was started as one of the first after reunification. The second construction phase was already under construction in 1993. The construction of the bypass was gradually driven from north to south and completed in 2005/2006. The B 96 now branches off south of the Neustrelitz district of Strelitz-Alt in an easterly direction and, north of Neustrelitz, after crossing the Neustrelitz – Warnemünde railway line, it reaches the original route. The junction of the B198 is located at the Woldecker Chaussee junction.
Neustrelitz - Neubrandenburg - A 20
The further course leads via Usadel , where scenic views of the Tollensesee are possible, to Neubrandenburg . The center of this city is enclosed by a ring-shaped one-way street with three or four lanes to the left. The Neubrandenburger Ring is one of the busiest roads in northeast Germany with a frequency of around 35,000 vehicles a day. It runs east of Neubrandenburg together with the B 104 . The course of the B 96 is brought up to the Neubrandenburg-Ost junction of the A 20 and interrupted. The former route from Neubrandenburg to Greifswald was downgraded to state road L 35 with the completion of the A 20. Today the B 105 runs on the former section of the B 96a Greifswald – Stralsund .
A 20 - Stralsund - Rügen bridge
The Bundesstraße 96 will be continued at the Stralsund junction, which has been expanded into a motorway triangle . From here it has been expanded to a four-lane motor road as a motorway connection from Stralsund and the island of Rügen. There is no hard shoulder between the junction of the A 20, also known as the “Pommern Triangle”, and the Brandshagen junction (B 105). Emergency bays are set up at regular intervals . Between the Brandshagen junction and the new Strelasund Bridge, the B 96 has been developed with a motorway cross-section including hard shoulder. In Stralsund, the B 96 has been crossing the Strelasund with the Rügen Bridge since October 2007 . This 2,831-meter high bridge is next to the old Rügendamm the second crossing of the Baltic Sea - Strait . The new structure and the road to the Altefähr junction are equipped with three lanes. An electronic traffic control system releases the middle lane for one direction of travel, depending on the volume of traffic.
Rügen Bridge - mountains on Rügen
From the Altefähr junction , a newly built B 96 runs as an alternating three-lane intersection-free road in the 2 + 1 system to the Sassnitz / Bergen on Rügen junction . In this section, the new road runs largely parallel along its original course.
Especially in the summer months, traffic jams up to 20 kilometers in length formed on the old route . The Samtens junction was particularly dammed . During the barrier closing times of a level crossing on a converging side street, traffic on the former B 96, which was not affected by this, was completely stopped several times an hour for several minutes.
In the run-up, there was massive criticism from nature conservationists, they consider the project to be oversized and pushed for an expansion of the existing route instead of a completely new building. The start of construction was delayed by several lawsuits from the environmental organizations B.UND and NABU .
On June 15, 2011, the groundbreaking ceremony took place in the Altefähr – Samtens section. The costs for this section amount to around 96.5 million euros (as of 2012), of which 39 million are borne by the federal government and 49 million euros from the European Regional Development Fund . Initially, significantly lower costs were calculated; the cost increases were due to the delayed start of construction and the additional construction of green and wildlife bridges on the route. The section opened on December 8, 2015. The extension from Samtens to Bergen on Rügen started on July 19, 2016 and was opened to traffic on June 25, 2019.
Mountains on Rügen - Sassnitz
At the last junction of the new highway near Bergen auf Rügen, the lane changes to the B 196 .
In order to follow the course of the B 96, leave the motor road via the exits and the roundabout onto the western bypass of the city of Bergen on Rügen . The road between Bergen on Rügen just behind Sagard is mostly built with a standard cross-section of 7.50 m.
In the period from September 2017 to June 2019, a 2.8 km long section of road between Strüssendorf and the Ralswiek junction was widened to 7.50 m. Many residents saw the construction project as very critical because of the extremely long construction time and the necessary tree felling. Construction work was only interrupted in the summer months.
meaning
From the Oranienburg junction with the Berliner Ring and the A 111 to the Neubrandenburg -Ost junction with the A 20 , the European route 251 runs along the route. After the interruption by the A 20, the Europastraße 22 and the E 251 are led over the B 96 from the junction Stralsund to the junction of the B 96b near Borchtitz on Rügen .
The supra-regional importance as a trunk road between Berlin and the north of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania has decreased since the completion of the motorway connection via the A 11 / A 20 motorways . Nevertheless, it is used as an alternative route by car drivers, also because the route of the A 11 / A 20 is significantly longer. Even before the introduction of the truck toll , the B 96 was considered to be particularly burdened by truck traffic. This situation has worsened again since the introduction of the toll in 2005.
Cultural reception
- In the area of the former border crossing at Kirchhainer Damm , the wall memorial on the B 96 has been located since 2009 .
- The former F 96 and today's B 96 is also called " Route 66 East Germany" or "Route 96". Marteria and Casper , among others, take up this fact in their joint song Omega .
- The Bautzen band Silbermond named a song that was released in 2015 and released as a single in 2016, B 96 .
- In October 2015 the Berlin writer Marc Kayser published the road trip: Great Freedom East - On the B 96 through a wild piece of Germany , ISBN 978-3-95958-000-7 in the publishing house Bild und Heimat .
- Raphael Thelen, Thomas Victor: Street of Dreams - a road trip on the B96 . be.bra Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86124-715-9 .
- Sebastian Leber : The angry citizens of the B96 - “I would know if there were right-wing extremists here”. TSP , July 6th, 2020
- Valerie Schönian: Straße der Anger Zeit Online July 23, 2020
History and Earlier History
Road construction in the 19th century
To promote trade and traffic, the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz began to expand its road network from 1834 . In the years 1838 and 1839 the road from Neubrandenburg via Neustrelitz to the state border at Dannenwalde was built. In 1845 the road from Neubrandenburg to Altentreptow was built.
On May 1, 1839 the Berlin - Oranienburg and Gransee - state border sections were officially put into operation, followed by the Löwenberg - Gransee section on May 15, 1839.
Previous routes and names
The origin of today's B 96 lies in the introduction of " long-distance traffic roads " (FVS) by the Weimar Republic on January 17, 1932. This was the first time that consecutive numbering was introduced in Germany. The FVS 96 ran in this original network differently than today south of Finsterwalde via Elsterwerda , Großenhain , Radeburg , Dresden and Dippoldiswalde to the border at Zinnwald-Georgenfeld . After the conversion of the FVS streets into Reichsstraßen (from 1934; abbreviation R ), today's route was introduced.
After the annexation of Austria in 1938 and the annexation of the Czech part of Czechoslovakia , the road continued south as Reichsstraße 96 via Poděbrady / Podiebrad, Jihlava / Iglau, Znojmo / Znaim, Vienna , Eisenstadt to the Hungarian border before Sopron / Ödenburg.
In the GDR the name trunk road was reintroduced, but instead of the abbreviation FVS the abbreviation F for " trunk road " was given. The former F 96 was the longest trunk road within the GDR and at the same time a main traffic axis in the north-south direction. In order to ensure a continuous course in East Berlin , after the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961 the GDR changed the course of the former F 96 so that it only crossed the GDR between Blankenfelde-Mahlow on the southern and Birkenwerder on the northern Berlin city limits -, mainly East Berlin area. This section is now known as the B 96a , as the course, which is largely located in West Berlin and has been known as Bundesstrasse 96 since 1949 , was not recorded by the GDR internal changes and after the establishment of German reunification again with the GDR sections separated by the border was summarized. Today's West Berlin section no longer corresponds exactly to the route that existed until 1961, which crossed the Mitte district , which belonged to East Berlin , but has since the 1980s included the route through the Tiergarten , which has been used as a diversion since the 1960s as Bundesstraße E. was designated. Deviating from today's route, the F 96 was diverted south of Berlin via the towns of Klausdorf and Mellensee (both today the municipality of Am Mellensee ), as the site of the headquarters of the High Command of the Soviet Armed Forces in Germany was on the actual route between Wünsdorf and Zossen and was accordingly restricted area .
Originally the main road led from Neubrandenburg northwards on the current state road L 35 via Altentreptow , Jarmen and Greifswald to Stralsund on the Hanse route . Between 1964 and 1967, between Greifswald and Stralsund, in addition to the F 96 that existed at the time, which partly consisted of cobblestones and narrow local passages , a new parallel route was built to the west of it to ensure tourist traffic to the island of Rügen. This bore the designation F 96a until the end of the GDR, from 1990 and until the end of the 1990s also the name B 96a. Then the B 96a became the B 96 and the route of the old F 96 became a local connecting road. Since the reorganization of the federal highways in the Greifswald-Neubrandenburg area in 2006, the B 96 between Brandshagen and the Greifswald bypass has been part of the B 105 .
See also
- List of European roads
- List of federal highways in Germany
- List of streets in Saxony
- List of motorway-like roads
Web links
- Geoportal Sachsenatlas: Course of the B 96 in Saxony.
- Film about the B96 on mdr.de, accessed on April 14, 2019.
- B 96n Stralsund - Rügen at www.autobahn-online.de
- Official information from DEGES GmbH on the B 96n
- Dellmann: "Road planning checked". State Chancellery Brandenburg
- “Blue network” also for Lusatian streets . In: Lausitzer Rundschau , July 3, 2007
- Naturschutzbund Rügen ( Memento from January 7, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ^ Berlin-Lichtenrade - Berlin-Wittenau four lanes; Rangsdorf - Mahlow, bypass Oranienburg and AS Stralsund - Stralsund with four lanes similar to a motorway
- ↑ Ailing bridge on B 96 is being renovated for six million euros. ( Memento from September 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Märkische Oderzeitung , accessed on September 10, 2014.
- ↑ Initiative “B96 out” hands over lists of signature: Fürstenbergers demonstrate for bypassing the area. ( 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. At: RBB Online , April 2, 2014
- ↑ Former youth concentration camp Uckermark: Protest against road across the site. In: Der Tagesspiegel , July 2, 2001
- ↑ Off through the middle! In: Märkische Oderzeitung , May 10, 2012
- ↑ Transport route plan 2030 presented: Joy in Fürstenberg, Frust in der Lausitz. ( Memento from December 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: RBB Online , March 17, 2016
- ↑ Deustcherr Bundestag Printed Matter 13/130. Retrieved August 2, 2020 .
- ↑ Environmental associations withdrew their complaint on the B 96n. ( Memento of July 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) July 8, 2012
- ↑ Clear majority in favor of building the new B96 on Rügen . ( Memento from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) On: State portal Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, accessed on July 11, 2012
- ↑ EU funds new construction of the B 96n on Rügen with 49 million euros. (No longer available online.) Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development, February 15, 2013, archived from the original on April 5, 2013 ; Retrieved February 28, 2013 .
- ^ Road of Dreams: Route 96. In: Der Spiegel , 2015
- ↑ Marteria & Casper - Omega Lyrics
- ↑ B 96 - official music video
- ↑ Achim Mayer: History of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz from 1794-1890 . S. 110 .
- ^ Official Journal of the Government in Potsdam . S. 154 .
- ^ BP Olex car map Germany from 1937. (No longer available online.) In: landkartenarchiv.de. German gasoline and petroleum company MBH, 1937, archived from the original on April 8, 2014 ; accessed on December 23, 2011 (road map).
- ^ The German Automobile Club (ed.): Road map of Germany, scale 1: 1,250,000, 1941
