Bundesstrasse 9

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	Bundesstrasse 9 in Germany
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	Basic data
Operator:	Federal Republic of Germany
Start of the street:	Kranenburg ; ( 51 ° 49 ′ N , 5 ° 57 ′ E )
End of street:	Scheibenhardt ; ( 48 ° 59 ′ N , 8 ° 9 ′ E )
Overall length:	approx. 450 km
State :	North Rhine-Westphalia; Rhineland-Palatinate;
Development condition:	see below
	Bundesstrasse 9 in Rheinhessen near Guntersblum
	State of North Rhine-Westphalia
	Kleve district
	District-free city of Krefeld
	Rhine district of Neuss
	Independent city of Cologne
	Independent city of Bonn
	State of Rhineland-Palatinate
	Ahrweiler district
	Mayen-Koblenz district
	District-free city of Koblenz
	Mayen-Koblenz district
	Rhein-Hunsrück district
	Mainz-Bingen district
	Independent city of Mainz
	Mainz-Bingen district
	Independent city of Worms
	Independent city of Frankenthal (Palatinate)
	Independent city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein
	Independent city of Frankenthal (Palatinate)
	District-free city of Ludwigshafen
	Rhine-Palatinate District
	District-free city of Ludwigshafen
	Rhine-Palatinate District
	Independent city of Speyer
	Rhine-Palatinate District
	District of Germersheim

The federal road 9 (abbreviation: B 9 ) leads in western Germany from Kranenburg in the Kleve district on the Dutch border to Lauterbourg on the Palatinate - French border. For long stretches the road follows the imperial main roads of the Middle Ages via Cologne , Bonn , Koblenz , Mainz , Worms and Speyer to Strasbourg , which for their part largely have Roman origins ( Rheintalstraße ).

course

Europabrücke in Koblenz

Oggersheimer Cross

Aerial view of the B 9 along the Rhine near Laubenheim

The B 9 runs directly from the Dutch border crossing at Nijmegen for 57 kilometers, always near the border through the cities of Kleve , Goch , Kevelaer to Geldern . There it moves further away from the Dutch border and leads past Kerken and Hüls to the south of Krefeld . On the southern outskirts of Krefeld there is a connection to the A 44 (junction Fichtenhain). The further section between Meerbusch - Osterath and Düsseldorf - Heerdt (junction Büderich) (ten kilometers) was divided into several state roads in January 2008 due to the parallel A 57 .

From the Neuss-Norf junction of the A 57, the B 9 continues and runs from here always on the left bank of the Rhine through Germany, first to Cologne (144 km). From there to Bonn (172 km) it has been replaced by the 555 federal motorway . The old B 9 is called L 300. In Bonn, the B 9 begins again at Bertha-von-Suttner-Platz and heads south and crosses under Bonn- Bad Godesberg with the Bad Godesberg tunnel .

The sections from Remagen to Bad Breisig and from Brohl to Koblenz are built like a motorway. In Koblenz it crosses over the Europe Bridge , the Mosel and represents the busiest and most important north-south axis represents the city. From Koblenz leads them with views of the right bank castles and vineyards by the UNESCO World Heritage Upper Middle Rhine Valley about Boppard , Sankt Goar and Oberwesel to Bingen am Rhein (297 km). From Bingen to Mainz it has been replaced by the Federal Highway 60 for around 35 km . From Mainz you continue on the left bank of the Rhine to the old imperial city of Worms (364 km) and via Ludwigshafen am Rhein to the next old imperial city of Speyer (395 km). The route continues via Germersheim , past the junction B 35 , Wörth am Rhein and Kandel to the state border at Lauterbourg . At Schwegenheim the B 272 branches off to Landau in the Palatinate . At Lauterbourg, the French A 35 motorway connects through Alsace to Strasbourg .

From Worms the road is extended to four lanes continuously to Wörth am Rhein. Between Wörth and Kandel, federal highway 9 has been replaced by federal highway 65 .

The Krahnenberg Bridge near Andernach , built in the 1960s, was extensively renovated by 2014.

The total length of the federal highway 9 is around 450 kilometers.

history

Previous routes and names

The Basel-Nijmegen road was declared route impériale no.86 on December 16, 1811 . After 1815, the Rhineland was divided into various German states , while Alsace remained French. The following state roads existed in the Prussian Rhine Province :

the Cöln-Nymwegener state road and
the Cöln-Mainzer Staatsstrasse

The Bavarian state roads in the Palatinate , which has been in Bavaria since 1815 , were numbered according to their starting point:

State road No. 129: Speyer - Germersheim - Kandel - Lauterburg
State road No. 131: Speyer - Worms

In 1932 the long-distance road 9 (FVS 9) was introduced and from 1934 it was designated as Reichsstraße 9 (R 9).

Before it was connected to the A 35 in France, the B 9 passed over to the N 68 in Lauterbourg , which was part of Reichsstraße 9 during the occupation of France in World War II .

The old route of the B 9 between Bingen-Bingerbrück and Mainz is today a state road (L 419) except for the through-town of Bingen-Gaulsheim (Mainzer Straße). The section from Mainz to south of Nackenheim forms the L 431. North of Oppenheim it is initially a city street (Mainzer Straße); in the center of the village a short distance as Kreisstraße 44; To the south it then runs as K 40 to Guntersblum, where it is then a state road to Worms (L 39). From Worms to Frankenthal, the old B 9 bears the number L 523. In the Worms district, the street was given the additional name "Liebfrauenmilchstraße" in order to advertise the Liebfrauenmilch wine .

A little south of the Frankenthal junction of the A 6, it then becomes the K 4; except in the city center, which is partially pedestrianized. From the center of Studernheim it does not have a number and is only passable for pedestrians and cyclists on the southern edge due to a railway line. On the south side of the railway line it then runs as K 11 to Ludwigshafen-Oggersheim center. From the southern edge of Oggersheim follow the K 6 and K 11 to Mutterstadt. From there it is again a state road (L 524 and L 533) until it meets today's B 9 again southeast of Limburgerhof at the Schifferstadt Nord junction.

Route

Cologne to Bonn

Coming from the north (from Neuss) the B 9 reaches the northernmost suburb of Cologne directly on the Rhine: Worringen ; it borders directly on Dormagen . As Neusser Landstrasse , the road leads a few kilometers further south through the very village-like suburb of Fühlingen and then passes the districts of Chorweiler and Seeberg to the east . Shortly thereafter, further south, the A 1 is crossed, which can be seen as the outermost of the seven ring roads that surround Cologne on the left bank of the Rhine. After the junction with the military ring (the second ring road), the B 9 leads about 14 kilometers through the urban area of Cologne: through the districts of Weidenpesch , Mauenheim , Nippes and the Agnesviertel to Ebertplatz ; The B 9 continues over the rings around Cologne city center until it meets the Rhine again in the southern part of the city. Just under three kilometers further south, the B 9 meets the military ring again, which it now follows for one and a half kilometers to its first end point at the Cologne distribution circle. There it meets the A 555 , via which the continuation of the B 9 in Bonn is reached.

The route, which was valid until 1997, branches off 500 m in front of the distribution circle and runs as state road 300 through the districts of Rodenkirchen and Sürth until the road meets the Rhine again at Godorf Harbor . Via Wesseling , Widdig and Hersel you reach the northern city limits of Bonn after around 14 kilometers. Within the Bonn city area, the former federal road and today's state road runs on Kölnstrasse .

Bonn / Bonn-Bad Godesberg

North portal of the Bad Godesberg tunnel

The Koblenzer Tor in Bonn, through which the B 9 leads.

Friedrich-Ebert-Allee in Bonn

In Bonn, the B 9 begins after its interruption by the L 300 at Bertha-von-Suttner-Platz . Up to the Koblenzer Tor , which belongs to the main university building , it bears the name Belderberg. The street section Belderberg was an avenue of poplars in the electoral era , also known locally as "Beller" or "Belder". The B 9 leads through the two gates of Koblenzer Tor over Adenauerallee towards Bundeskanzlerplatz .

The section of the B 9 from Bundeskanzlerplatz to the Bad Godesberger junction with Elsässer Straße / Wurzerstraße , where the entrance to the Godesberg road tunnel is located, was also called the “diplomatic racecourse” at the time of Bonn as the federal capital , just like the A 555 . On this route, the B 9 bears the street names in the following order: Willy-Brandt-Allee , Helmut-Kohl-Allee , via Helmut-Schmidt-Platz ( trajectory node ) to Friedrich-Ebert-Allee (this is where the connection to Konrad is located -Adenauer-Brücke , the southernmost of the Bonn Rhine bridges, with the A 562 ) and Godesberger Allee .

The background of the popular term "diplomatic race track" was the particularly high density of diplomatic missions from other countries in the districts that are on the B 9, as well as the permissible speed limit of 70 km / h on some inner-city sections of the B 9.

In the area of the federal quarter (formerly the government quarter ) in Bonn, the B 9 has had the urban planning surname Bundesallee (formerly government avenue ) since 1989 . The background to this nickname is that the B 9 has been extensively expanded in this area since the 1990s: Among other things, intersections were rebuilt, the lighting renewed, the tram tunnel extended, new rows of avenue trees and hedges planted and the cycle paths and sidewalks generously re-laid. The “ Museum Mile ” with the museums Bundeskunsthalle , Kunstmuseum , Haus der Geschichte and Museum Koenig is located along this federal avenue .

From 2003 to 2011, the tram tunnel in the area of the Museum Mile was again extended and the stops along the B 9 were renewed. First, the Olof-Palme-Allee stop was completed, which now dominates the end of the A 562 motorway .

The B 9 has been running under the Bad Godesberg city center since 1999 on the main route of the Godesberg road tunnel , the southern end of which meets the outer section of Koblenzer Strasse. In the transition from Koblenzer Strasse to Mainzer Strasse , the B 9 crosses the DB railway line Cologne-Bonn-Koblenz-Mainz . The district of Mehlem received a straight bypass with Remagener Straße , which means that the B 9 no longer runs through the town center. When you pass the southern Bonn city limits, the B 9 crosses the state border with Rhineland-Palatinate .

Koblenz to Bingen

Bundesstrasse 9 between Bingen and Rheinstein Castle with a view of the Schweizerhaus

Bundesstrasse 9 in Oberwesel

In Koblenz , the B 9 crosses the Moselle over the Europabrücke and then meets the former Saarplatz; a roundabout that is bridged by the B 9 and tunneled under by the B 49 . It forms the most important north-south connection through the city in Koblenz and is one of the busiest roads in Germany. From the Europabrücke to the connection to the Südbrücke , the B 9 was expanded to four lanes in the 1980s and 1990s. The UNESCO World Heritage Upper Middle Rhine Valley stretches from Koblenz to Bingen am Rhein . The B 9 alternates with the Koblenz – Mainz railway line - in large sections directly on the banks of the Rhine - the villages of Koblenz-Stolzenfels , Rhens , Boppard , Sankt Goar , Oberwesel and Bingen am Rhein.

In the second half of the 20th century, a number of bypasses were built for the localities on this section of Bundesstraße 9. Between 1956 and 1958 a bypass road was built for the two cities of Oberwesel and Bacharach. Ten years later, on December 9, 1968, the bypass, construction of which began in 1962, was completed for the then independent municipalities of Bad Salzig and Hirzenach . Since then, the B 9 has been running directly on the Rhine at these four locations. At the beginning of the 1990s, the B 9 was also relocated in the core city of Boppard. For this purpose, the south-west corner of the Roman fort and the station building, which is under monument protection , had to be demolished. However, this brought the city a suburb bypass . Coming from Koblenz, the street still leads directly into the city, but before the main train station and the city center are reached, the street is led to the new section, which runs through the city as a bypass between the medieval Boppard city wall and the railway track .

State of development

The development of the B 9 is structured as follows:

section	Stripes	Dividing strip	comment
Border crossing Wyler - Goch-West	2	No
Goch-Ost - Krefeld	2	No
City of Krefeld	4th	Yes	urban
Krefeld - Osterath	2	No
Neuss-Norf - Cologne trinkets	2	No
Köln-Nippes - Cologne distribution group	4th	Yes	urban
Bonn center - Bonn-Mehlem	4th	Yes	urban
Bonn-Mehlem - Remagen	2	No
Remagen - Bad Breisig	4th	Yes	motorway-like
Bad Breisig - Brohl-Lützing	2	No
Brohl-Lützing - Koblenz	4th	Yes	motorway-like
City of Koblenz	4th	Yes	urban
Koblenz - Bingen am Rhein	2	No
Bingen am Rhein - Bingen-Ost	4th	Yes	motorway-like
Mainz-Laubenheim - Nackenheim	4th	Yes	motorway-like
Nackenheim - Worms	2	No
Worms - L 523 Worms	4th	Yes	urban
L 523 Worms - Wörther Cross	4th	Yes	motorway-like
Kandel-Süd - L 545 Scheibenhardt	2	No
L 545 Scheibenhardt -Bienwald border crossing	4th	Yes	motorway-like

Truck toll

The federal road between Mainz and Worms has been closed to heavy transit traffic for a length of approx. 30 km since May 31, 2005 in order to prevent truck drivers from using this road to bypass the truck toll . This lock was the first of its kind in Germany. The aim is to force transit traffic to use the 61 and 63 motorways in this area .

Since January 1, 2007, the MautStrAusdehnV has made the 10.8-kilometer two-lane route from the Kandel-Süd junction to the Bienwald border crossing a toll.

Since August 1, 2012, the Federal Trunk Road Toll Act has also included the sections Brohl to Koblenz (22.8 kilometers), Mainz-Laubenheim to Nackenheim (6.5 kilometers) and Ludwigshafen-Pfingstweide to Autobahn 65 at Wörther Kreuz (66.2 kilometers) toll for trucks .

This means that the entire route from Ludwigshafen to the border is now subject to the toll.

A total of 106.3 kilometers are subject to tolls, which corresponds to almost a quarter (23.6%) of the total length of 450 kilometers.

Web links

Commons : Bundesstrasse 9 - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Official Journal for Düsseldorf District (PDF). (PDF) December 20, 2012, accessed June 15, 2015 .

↑ ^a ^b ^c Cologne administrative district (ed.): Official journal of the Cologne administrative district . Cologne June 23, 1997 (Volume 177, No. 25). , Reference by printed matter 9701172 of the city of Bonn "Reclassification of federal roads , here: gradation of the B9 to the L300"

↑ Bridge renovation: traffic on the B9 runs in two lanes. Rhein-Zeitung, 23 August 2010, accessed on 7 December 2011 (newspaper article).

↑ List des routes impériales 51 à 100. Accessed December 7, 2011 (French).

↑ Post's advertising stamp; Mettenheim from May 11, 1958

↑ Maximilian Mühlens: Inauguration of Helmut-Kohl-Allee at B9 - Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer is committed to Bonn. In: General-Anzeiger . August 15, 2019, accessed August 16, 2019 .

^ City of Bonn: Expansion of Friedrich-Ebert-Allee completed two months earlier. Basic decision on the B 9 in 1989. Press releases from the City of Bonn, March 13, 2015, accessed on March 14, 2015 .

↑ The new line is released in 1968. Retrieved on December 7, 2011 (memories at www.bad-salzig-am-rhein.de).

↑ First federal road closed for toll evaders. faz.net, May 31, 2005, accessed July 23, 2019 .

↑ Truck tolls on five federal highways in Rhineland-Palatinate should start in August ( Memento from November 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ); in Rhein Main Presse on February 15, 2012, current toll table

[1] Official Journal for Düsseldorf District (PDF). (PDF) December 20, 2012, accessed June 15, 2015 .