Relief road
Relief road | |
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Street in Berlin | |
The relief road on May 1st, 1987 | |
Basic data | |
place | Berlin |
District | Zoo |
Created | 1961 |
Connecting roads |
Moltkestrasse (north) , Bernburger Strasse (southeast) |
Cross streets |
Strasse des 17. Juni , Tiergartenstrasse, Potsdamer Strasse |
Places |
Republic Square , Kemperplatz |
Buildings |
Reichstag building , Philharmonie |
use | |
User groups | Car traffic |
Technical specifications | |
Street length | 1200 meters |
The relief road was a street in Berlin . It ran from 1961 to 2006 in a north-south direction through the eastern part of the Großer Tiergarten and was part of the federal highway 96 .
After the construction of the Berlin Wall in August 1961, a new north-south connection in West Berlin became necessary, as the closing of the border shifted traffic flows and overloaded parts of the existing road network around the Großer Stern . In order to provide a quick remedy, a 1.2-kilometer-long aisle was cut through the park of the Great Zoo and a road was created in just 44 days of construction . It began near the Swiss delegation in the Spreebogen, not far from the Reichstag building , passed the Platz der Republik and then crossed Straße des 17. Juni and then continued to Lennéstraße on the southern edge of the park.
In order to make the new street clearly recognizable as a temporary measure, it was not given a name, but only a functional designation with the relief street . It carried this designation since January 8, 1962, after it had previously only been referred to as an emergency road . However, this designation initially only applied to the section north of the Strasse des 17. Juni. It was not until January 1, 1968 that the name was also assigned to the southern section.
Since the relief road divided an important park area, it was widely regarded as an eyesore. However, it was seen as indispensable for road traffic in West Berlin. Also for the public transport , because the bus line A 83 of the Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe established a direct and fast connection between the districts of Wedding and Schöneberg via the relief road. Therefore, dismantling over decades was out of the question. In the late 1970s, there were even considerations to significantly expand the relief road as a section of the A 103 west bypass into an urban motorway .
It was not until 1992, after the general conditions had fundamentally changed as a result of German reunification , that serious plans began to replace the relief road with a tunnel. Construction of the Tiergarten Spreebogen (TTS) tunnel began in 1995. Sections of the relief road, which were to be retained after the tunnel was opened, were given new names: Yitzhak-Rabin-Strasse in the north and Ben-Gurion-Strasse in the south. After waiting for the end of the World Cup because of the fan mile on Straße des 17. Juni , the final demolition of the street began in July 2006 with the subsequent planting of the aisle through the zoo. The composer's monument was restored in 2007 .
Different meaning
In traffic planning, a road that completely or partially takes over the traffic of another, heavily used road is generally referred to as a relief road. For this purpose, attention is drawn to the relief road through appropriate signs . Bypass roads or tangential roads can be viewed as relief roads.
Web links
- Relief road . In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein
- Maple instead of asphalt: the zoo is growing. In: Der Tagesspiegel from July 20, 2006
- Susanne Kröck: Berlin's saddest street is turning into a green paradise. In: Berliner Kurier . July 11, 2006, accessed September 11, 2015 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Research Society for Roads and Transport: Definitions, Part: Transport Planning, Road Design and Road Operation . FGSV Verlag, Cologne 2000, p. 27 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 47.7 " N , 13 ° 22 ′ 11.9" E