Federal motorway 72

Bundesautobahn 72 in Germany
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Basic data
Operator:	Federal Republic of Germany
Start of the street:	50 ° 19 '  N , 11 ° 48'  E
End of street:	51 ° 15 '  N , 12 ° 24'  E
Overall length:	168.7 km (9 km = A38 - Leipzig were discarded)
of which in operation:	161.7 km
of which under construction:	7.0 km
State :	Bavaria Saxony
Development condition:	2/2 2/3 3/2 3/3
Highway at Rochlitz
Course of the road Free State of Bavaria (1)  Triangle Bavarian Vogtland    Hof park & ​​lake (2)  Hof -North bridge (268 m)  Saale bridge German-German Museum Mödlareuth (3)  Hof / Töpen (4)  Dreieck Hochfranken Inner German border (1945–1990) Free State of Saxony Vogtland - baths and music Parking lot (with toilet) Großzöbern Elstertal bridge Pirk 504 m (5)  Pirk via S 311 Vogtland service area Plauen - city of the top Voigtsberg Castle Oelsnitz / Vogtl. (6)  Plauen South Vogtland service area Friesenbachtal bridge 203 m Vogtland Arena under page 312 Bad Elster culture and festival city (7)  Plauen-East Ski- & Bikewelt Schöneck Parking lot (with toilet) Neuensalz (373 m)  Pöhl valley bridge over Göltzschtalbrücke (8th)  Faithful S 298 (364 m)  Göltzschtalbrücke German space exhibition Leisure park Plohn Eibenstock bathing gardens Reichenbach Park of Generations (9)  Reichenbach Parking lot (with toilet) Waldkirchen Mountain town of Schneeberg Schönfels Castle August Horch Museum Zwickau (10)  Zwickau- West S 282  S 293 Parking space (with toilet) Niedercrinitz (157 m)  Culitzsch Viaduct Robert Schumann City of Zwickau (670 m)  Wilkau-Haßlau valley bridge Schlema Spa (11)  Zwickau-East Schwarzenberg Pearl of the Ore Mountains Aue Friedenskirche Ore Mountains thermal region daetz-centrum Lichtenstein (12)  Hartenstein Parking lot (with toilet) by Beuthenbach Berg- and Adam-Ries-City Annaberg-Buchholz (13)  Stollberg -West  Mining Museum Oelsnitz / Erzgebirge (14)  Stollberg-North Parking lot (with toilet) at the Neukirchener Wald Chemnitz - city of modernity (15)  Chemnitz South via Südring connection to Klaffenbach moated castle (16)  Chemnitz-Rottluff Rabensteiner rock dome (17)  Chemnitz Cross    (301 m)  Pleißenbach valley bridge (18)  Chemnitz- Röhrsdorf (19)  Hartmannsdorf (195 m)  Mühlbachtal Bridge Parking lot (with toilet) at the Mühlbachtal Burgstädt (20)  Niederfrohna S 57 (373 m)  Lochmuehlentalbrücke (710 m)  Bridge over the Zwickauer Mulde via S 57 and the Glauchau-Rochlitz railway line Rochsburg Castle (21)  Penig Connection to S 51 and S 57 Rest stop Wechselburg Romanesque basilica (70 m)  Rattental Bridge Rochlitz Castle (22)  Rochlitz (217 m)  Ossabach Valley Bridge (23)  Geithain via the Neukieritzsch – Chemnitz railway line (24)  Frohburg S 11 (360 m)  Zedtlitzer Grund viaduct (25)  Borna South S 51 (26)  Borna -North (27)  Espenhain S 48 Parking lot (with toilet) Hainer See (28)  Rötha only towards Espenhain Transition in Completion by 2026 (29)  Zwenkau S 72  (30)  Leipzig-Süd junction End of the autobahn, transition towards Leipzig Under construction In planning Traffic control system Remarks: ↑ a b structurally completed currently as dedicated  Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap map

The federal autobahn 72 (abbreviation: BAB 72 ) - short form: autobahn 72 (abbreviation: A 72 ) -, also known as the Vogtland autobahn , runs from the A9 at the Bavarian Vogtland triangle near Hof, initially as European route 441 heading east to the Chemnitz junction with the A4 and further north to almost the A 38 at the future Leipzig-Süd motorway junction . The 7.2 km long end gap, which will still exist in 2020, starting at the Espenhain Nord junction, is expected to be under construction until 2026.

history

The route, also known as the Vogtlandautobahn , was started in the 1930s as a corner connection between the north-south route Berlin – Munich and the east-west route Dresden – Bad Hersfeld to connect Silesia and East Saxony with Bavaria. Because of the high level of industrialization in southern Saxony and the beauty of the landscape, the route from Chemnitz to Hof was considered important by the Inspector General for German Roads, Fritz Todt . The first section between the Pirk and Treuen junctions was released for construction in the summer of 1934, the section from Zwickau-West to the Chemnitz motorway triangle in March 1935, that from Treuen to Zwickau-West in the autumn and finally the last section from the Bavarian motorway triangle in March 1936 Vogtland to the Pirk junction. The topography of the motorway running parallel to the Ore Mountains necessitated the construction of seven large valley bridges, five of which were planned in stone as vaulted bridges . In the eastern part, the route crossed mainly agricultural areas and, in some cases, cities with dense buildings. The western section was mainly led through forests, with the highest point being reached at the border between Saxony and Bavaria at 576.40 meters above sea ​​level . In the summer of 1935, work began on the 15.8-kilometer section from Pirk to the Triebal Bridge. During the construction work, on September 5, 1935, the instruction came to make the subgrade of the motorway with a crown width of 24 meters, until then 15 meters had been planned. However, only a 7.5 meter wide directional carriageway had to be completed , which could be driven on with one lane in both directions. In 1936, construction work began between the Trieb valley bridge and Zwickau-West. On June 3, 1938, the Hof lane between the Pirk and Treuen junctions was put into operation, and on December 4, the extension to Zwickau-West.

In 1937, work began on the section between the Stollberg junction and the Chemnitz autobahn triangle, which was put into operation on August 15, 1939, for the most part with a single lane. Between Chemnitz-Süd and the Autobahn triangle, the section already had both lanes.

Between July 1938 and January 1939, work began on the gap between Zwickau-West and Stollberg with the valley bridges at Culitzsch and Wilkau-Haßlau. In addition, a briefly expanded cross-section with a 2.25 meter wide edge strip was implemented. Commissioning between Hartenstein and Stollberg followed in April 1940, and between Zwickau-West and Hartenstein in July 1940. Construction work also started on the western section between the Bavarian Vogtland and Pirk motorway triangle with the two large bridges over the Saale and the Weisse Elster .

The last traffic opening before the end of the Second World War followed in September 1940 between Heroldsgrün and Hof / Töpen. When construction work was stopped in May 1942, 94% of the 107.5 kilometers of motorway were in operation, 93% of which only allowed one-way traffic. The costs up to then amounted to 7.0 million Reichsmarks. The 4.3 kilometer section between Kleinzöbern and Pirk with the Elstertal bridge and the 1.9 kilometer section between the Bavarian Vogtland and Heroldsgrün motorway triangle were still missing. Originally, the first section of the motorway up to the “ Chemnitz junction ” was supposed to be completed in the 1940s.

Because the Rudolphstein bridge on the Munich-Berlin autobahn was blown up in 1945, today's A 72 autobahn was used as an interzonal crossing between 1945 and 1951, but the crossing was shut down in 1951 and traffic was via Bundesstraße 2 - Töpen-Juchhöh border crossing - until the Saale valley viaduct was rebuilt in 1966 . directed. The motorway triangle was only completed on June 24, 1963 in the direction of Nuremberg – Chemnitz and on October 1, 1966 in the opposite direction. In the 1960s, the section from Chemnitz- South to Zwickau- East was expanded to two lanes.

From 1951 to 1989 the motorway between Hof / Töpen and Pirk was closed to traffic. At least in the 1980s, the section between the Großzöbern temporary exit and the Heinersgrün exit (which was not released during the later expansion) was accessible on two lanes within the restricted border area.

The section located in Bavaria was known as Bundesautobahn 722 ( BAB 722 ) or Autobahn 722 ( A 722 ) before German reunification .

Completion and expansion

Mulde bridge in Wilkau-Haßlau

Elstertal bridge near Pirk

From 1990 to 1995 the motorway between the Bavarian Vogtland and Zwickau motorway triangle was completed or renewed for around DM 1 billion. Until then, the single-lane route was considered a “death runway”, in accidents 55 people died here before it was completed. For completion, many underpasses and overpasses had to be renewed. At the end of 1992, the 4.4-kilometer section between Plauen-Ost and Plauen-Süd was expanded to four lanes. After the completion of the north side of the Elstertal Bridge, the 4.2 kilometer long gap between the Pirk junction and the Kleinzöbern temporary junction was closed on October 2, 1992 and opened for two-lane traffic. In addition, the second carriageway on the sections from Plauen-Süd to Pirk and from Kleinzöbern to the Bavarian Vogtland motorway triangle was put into operation. The construction work for the 500-meter-long and 60-meter-high Elstertal Bridge near Pirk began in 1937. On September 6, 1993, the Elstertal Bridge was finally completed and usable on four lanes. In the same year the second carriageway was opened to traffic in the section between Wilkau-Haßlau and the Reichenbach junction, followed a year later by the section to Plauen-Ost, so that at the end of 1994 the second carriageway was continuously passable. After a major overhaul of the first lane, two lanes in each direction were available on the entire route from autumn 1995. Among other things, the Wilkau-Haßlau viaduct and the Culitzsch viaduct were renewed, and the stone arch bridges over the Saale valley, the Göltzschtal valley and the Pöhl reservoir were provided with prestressed concrete superstructures . From 2002 to 2008, the approximately 30-kilometer section from the Chemnitz motorway junction to the Zwickau-West junction was expanded. The route between the motorway junction and Chemnitz-Süd was extended to six lanes and the rest to the four-lane standard cross - section with a width of 29.5 meters. The new Chemnitz Rottluff / Rabenstein connection was opened on July 14, 2009.

Extension towards Leipzig

Bridges in three levels near Penig (2016)

Due to the high frequency of the federal highway 95 between Chemnitz and Leipzig, a motorway connection between the cities was planned as an extension of the federal motorway 72. The total costs of the 62-kilometer route should be around 470 million euros. Of this, 76.5 million euros will be co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) in the funding period 2007 to 2013 for the third construction phase .

The extension of the A 72 to Leipzig is to run via Röhrsdorf , Hartmannsdorf , Niederfrohna , Penig , Geithain and Borna to the south of Leipzig to connect to the Leipzig-Süd motorway junction with the A 38 . Construction began on November 21, 2003.

This connection had already been applied for under the designation “A 83” by the Free State of Saxony for the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan 1992 / requirement plan for federal trunk roads . According to the original plans, the section to Borna should be completed for the 2006 World Cup. However, at the end of 2006 only the section from Kreuz Chemnitz to Niederfrohna was open to traffic. In addition, the motorway was to continue north of the A 38 along the current B 2 to the future Mittlerer Ring in Leipzig.

As a result of the extension, the course from west to east has changed into a course from south to north. This means that numbering with an even ordinal number no longer corresponds to the rule for German motorways .

Planning section 1

The extension from Chemnitz to Leipzig is divided into eight sections, which are numbered in ascending order from south to north (1.1 to 5.2) and were also put into operation or are being built in this order as a motorway. Planning section 1 extends from the Chemnitz motorway junction to the Niederfrohna junction.

On November 21, 2003, construction began on section 1.1. On February 23, 2005, the Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig dismissed claims against the expansion of the Chemnitz motorway triangle into a motorway junction. Construction of section 1.2 began on March 29, 2005. In the Röhrsdorf district of Chemnitz, a 301 m long bridge was built over the Pleißenbachtal. The construction of another bridge (195 m long and 9.25 m high) on the corridor between Niederfrohna and Mühlau over the Mühlbachgrund began on July 25, 2005. It spans two protected areas with an area of ​​6000 m². The locations of the bridge piers on this section had to be optimized from an ecological point of view, which is why, for example, the directional lanes have a greater distance with an approximately 1.30 m wide light gap, which improves the tanning of the biotope areas below.

On November 14th 2006 the inauguration of the first section followed with the section from Kreuz Chemnitz to Hartmannsdorf, on December 21st 2006 the following section to Niederfrohna was opened. The future A 72 / A 38 motorway junction was completed in May 2006 (today's Leipzig-Süd AS of the A 38).

BW 20, bridge over the Mulde

Federal motorway 72 north of Chemnitz

Planning section 2

Bridge over the Ratte (BW 25) near Rathendorf

With the resolution of the Chemnitz Regional Council on May 16, 2007, the second construction phase was approved . The section begins at the completed Niederfrohna junction and continues to the connection to the B 175 ( Rochlitz junction ) between Rathendorf and Obergräfenhain. The official start of construction was on December 18, 2007. The two large bridges BW 20 over the Zwickauer Mulde and BW 18 over the Lochmühlental had been completed by autumn 2011. The release followed on December 22, 2011.

Planning section 3

Bridge over the Zedtlitzer Grund

The planning approval decision for section 3.1 from Rathendorf to Frohburg was signed on February 20, 2008. The official start of construction was on June 5, 2009. The section begins at the Rochlitz junction on the B 175 and provisionally ended north of Frohburg.

With the decision of the regional directorate in Leipzig on April 28, 2009, construction phase 3.2 was approved. It begins at the provisional end of section 3.1 north of Frohburg and connects to the completed construction section 4. The official start of construction was on March 6, 2010. According to the judgment of the Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig of February 24, 2010, a supplementary planning approval had to be carried out for the Frohburg junction, the S 11 network supplement and the B 95 / S 11 junction. The construction of the motorway without the junction was possible. At the end of 2019, an application was made to carry out the plan approval procedure.

Section 3 was opened to traffic on August 9, 2013. The cost of this 20.5-kilometer section between Rochlitz and Borna-Süd amounted to 200 million euros.

Planning section 4

In September 2006 the section Borna-Süd - Borna-Nord was completed, but this was still dedicated as federal road 95 until August 9, 2013 . On January 17, 2012, the Leipzig Regional Office issued the planning approval decision for additional noise protection measures that were implemented between September 2012 and May 2013.

On August 9, 2013, the section was upgraded to the motorway and put into operation together with section 3.

Planning section 5

The planning for this section has been running since November 2004.

• Section 5.1 (Borna - Rötha)
  • Section 5.1 begins in Borna-Nord, leads west past Eula and Gestewitz, runs in the area of ​​the former Thierbach power station along the B 95 and turns north-westerly before Espenhain. It leads west past Espenhain to the B 95 east of Rötha. The planning approval began on December 18, 2009. The Leipzig Regional Directorate received 89 objections to the routing, noise protection, impairment of nature and landscape as well as effects on tourism development and the use of agricultural land, which were discussed in May 2011. On June 26, 2012, the planning approval authority granted approval for the further expansion of section 5.1, which is around ten kilometers long. Clearing work has been going on since January 8, 2013. The official start of construction took place on July 4, 2013, the costs amount to 144 million euros. On June 30, 2018, the directional lane Leipzig of the 1.7 km long section south of the Borna-Nord junction (including this) was opened to traffic. The second lane was added after the previous provisional exit, which was the end of the autobahn in the previous year, was dismantled. The section in the direction of Chemnitz was released on August 2, 2019, followed by the release in the direction of Leipzig on October 16.
• Section 5.2 (Rötha - A38)
  • The plan approval began at the beginning of 2011. After the documents were publicly displayed and discussed, the plan approval authority granted approval for the construction of the 7.2 km long section on December 4, 2013. The planning approval decision of the regional directorate was available from January 13 to 27, 2014 in the respective municipalities. There were no legal objections to the planning approval decision, so building permission has been in place since March 3, 2014. The construction of the line will cost more than 100 million euros, of which Saxony is contributing 45 million euros; the money is already planned in the budget until 2015. An application has been made to the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure for inclusion in the road construction plan. Following the resolution of the Budget Act 2014 by the federal government, the federal government committed to finance on July 30, 2014. On December 1, 2014, clearing work, investigations for ordnance and archaeological excavations began. Due to difficult soil conditions, various methods of subsoil stabilization were tested in 2017. After its completion, section 5.2 follows on from section 5.1, leads north of Rötha through forest area and then crosses the route of today's B95 in order to run next to it to the new Zwenkau junction. Then it changes to the B2 towards Leipzig at today's Leipzig-Süd intersection. The unofficial start of construction for this section took place on November 9, 2018 with the beginning of the demolition of a bridge at the future Zwenkau junction. Completion is expected in 2026. The following are also planned:
    • June 2019 to May 2022: two bridge structures

Section A 38 - Leipzig

The section A 38 – Leipzig should go into operation by 2020. The Saxony Autobahn Office prepared the technical planning, which was passed on to the Federal Ministry of Transport at the end of 2008. This section was previously planned as the federal autobahn 720 and then designated as a section of the A 72. The completion of this section was included in the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan 2003 . On December 11, 2012, the top administration and in February 2013 the City Council of Leipzig spoke out against the expansion of Bundesstraße 2 into a motorway. The Saxon Transport Minister Sven Morlok then announced that the Free State would no longer register the continuation of the section for the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan 2030 . In addition, the Free State will now also present the federal government with an expansion variant of the B 2, in which the Agra Bridge, which is in need of renovation, will be replaced by a tunnel.

literature

• Federal Ministry of Transport, Supreme Building Authority in the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior, Saxon State Ministry of Economics and Labor: Federal motorway A 72 Hof – Chemnitz. 1995
• Gero Fehlhauer: The history of the Reichsautobahn Chemnitz - Hof. Reichenbach / Vogtl. 2006, ISBN 3-937228-27-6 .
• Bertram Kurz: Reichsautobahn in Central Germany. Chemnitz 2014, ISBN 978-3-00-048180-2

Trivia

As of January 1, 2016, the responsibilities for the A 72 were as follows:

• Free State of Bavaria
  • in the area of ​​the Bavarian Vogtland motorway triangle with the A 9 (33/1) and the Hochfranken motorway triangle with the A 93 (4/1) at the Windischeschenbach / Rehau motorway maintenance authority.

Web links

Commons : Bundesautobahn 72  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

 Wikinews: A 72: Section Niederfrohna and Rathendorf opened to traffic  - message

• History of the A 72 (a)
• History of the A 72 (b)
• Detailed route description of the federal highway 72
• Website of the Saxon state government for planning the expansion of the A 72 between Chemnitz and Leipzig with detailed maps
• DEGES: A 72: J Rathendorf – J Borna including B 7n

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Federal Ministry of Transport, Supreme Building Authority in the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior, Saxon State Ministry of Economics and Labor: Federal motorway A 72 Hof – Chemnitz. 1995, p. 34
2. ↑ Federal Ministry of Transport, Supreme Building Authority in the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior, Saxon State Ministry of Economics and Labor: Federal motorway A 72 Hof – Chemnitz. 1995, p. 74
3. ↑ Long Finale , Sächsische Zeitung of June 12, 2018, p. 3
4. ↑ This is where you invest in your future . In: verNETZt - information sheet on the Operational Program for Transport EFRE Federal Government 2007–2013 . No. 2 , 2009, p. 2 ( online ( memento of December 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) in the Internet Archive [PDF; accessed on October 2, 2012]).
5. ↑ Saxon State Parliament Drs. 1/1729
6. ^ Transport - Section 1.1: AK Chemnitz - Hartmannsdorf. Retrieved on September 4, 2018 (further sections: http://www.verkehr.sachsen.de/3374.html http://www.verkehr.sachsen.de/3372.html http: //www.verkehr.sachsen. de / 3370.html http://www.verkehr.sachsen.de/3368.html http://www.verkehr.sachsen.de/3366.html http://www.verkehr.sachsen.de/3362.html http://www.verkehr.sachsen.de/3360.html ). 
7. ↑ Traffic - Section 2: Niederfrohna - Rathendorf. Retrieved September 4, 2018 . 
8. ↑ Press release of the RP Chemnitz from May 16, 2007 ( Memento from June 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
9. ↑ ^{a b} Faster on the way on the A72. (No longer available online.) Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk , August 9, 2013, archived from the original on May 18, 2014 ; accessed on December 2, 2015 . 
10. ↑ Borna bypass - regional directorate approves noise protection wall. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung ( Memento from July 11, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
11. ↑ A 72 is extended by ten kilometers ( Memento from December 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
12. ↑ Start of construction of the penultimate section of the A 72 in the Free State of Saxony. (No longer available online.) Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development, July 4, 2013, archived from the original on October 29, 2013 ; accessed on November 15, 2014 . 
13. ^ ^{A b} Jan-Dirk Franke: The traffic is now rolling on another section of the A 72. In: Freiepresse.de. August 2, 2019, accessed August 3, 2019 . 
14. ↑ Onlookers watch the release of Autobahn 72. Retrieved on July 16, 2018 . 
15. ↑ Julia Tonne: New section of the A72 near Leipzig is released . In: Leipziger Verlags- und Druckereigesellschaft GmbH & Co. KG (Hrsg.): Leipziger Volkszeitung . 23 July 2019, p. 5 ( lvz.de [accessed on July 23, 2019]).
16. ↑ A72 released between Rötha and Borna. In: mdr.de. October 16, 2019, accessed October 16, 2019 . 
17. ↑ The last section of the A72 from Leipzig to Rötha can be built. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung . December 4, 2013, accessed December 6, 2013 . 
18. ↑ Saxon Official Gazette . No. 2 , 2014 ( sachsen-gesetze.de [PDF; accessed on January 14, 2014]).
19. ↑ The last section of the A72 near Leipzig can be built - the federal government agrees to finance. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung . July 30, 2014, accessed August 17, 2014 . 
20. ↑ Clearing and logging work. (No longer available online.) In: Federal tenders. September 3, 2014, archived from the original on September 15, 2014 ; accessed on September 15, 2014 . 
21. ↑ Julia Tonne: Towers on Autobahn 72 near Rötha: Road Traffic Office tests building site. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung . June 21, 2017. Retrieved November 13, 2017 . 
22. ↑ Bad soil extends the construction of the A72. (No longer available online.) In: MDR Sachsen . December 12, 2016, archived from the original on November 14, 2017 ; accessed on November 13, 2017 . 
23. ↑ http://www.lvz.de/Region/Borna/Brueckenabriss-Vollsperrung-der-B-2-bei-Boehlen
24. ↑ http://www.lasuv.sachsen.de/cps/rde/xchg/SID-AB222043-F2B9D972/lasuv/hs.xsl/4265.html
25. ↑ Erik Trümper: Official! - B 2 will not become a motorway. In: Bild.de . February 21, 2013, accessed November 13, 2017 . 
26. ↑ Supreme building authority in the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior, for construction and traffic: Free State of Bavaria - Road overview map - Responsibilities of the motorway maintenance authorities. PDF. January 1, 2016, online at www.baysis.bayern.de, accessed on September 17, 2016.