Ferndorf-Eder-Lahn-Strasse

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The remote village-Eder-Lahn-Straße (FELS) was the one with priority priority in the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan 2003-2015 with determination in the Federal Trunk Road Requirement Plan of 2004 envisaged planning of training and partial new construction of highways  508 and 62 with local detours of Kreuztal in victories to Bad Laasphe / Biedenkopf on the border between North Rhine-Westphalia and Hesse . With the current Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan, this requirement planning was changed, the Bad Laasphe bypass was deleted from the road planning. In the current requirement planning along the federal highways 508 and 62, bypasses have only been given priority from Kreuztal via Hilchenbach to Erndtebrück.

history

The so-called Ferndorf - Eder - Lahn -Straße in the federal trunk road planning originally since 1986 in the course of the federal roads 508 and 62 from Kreuztal to Bad Laasphe on the state border NRW / Hesse was a federal replacement or alternative to the further construction of the A 4 federal highway in This section of the route from the Olper Kreuz ( A 45 / A 4) to the Hattenbacher Dreieck near Bad Hersfeld ( A 5 / A 7) is intended to be the federal road expansion plan. It contained the expansion and partial new construction along the B 508 and B 62 and four bypasses in Kreuztal, Hilchenbach, Erndtebrück and Bad Laasphe up to the state border between North Rhine-Westphalia and Hesse and was in urgent need from 1986 until 2015 in the federal trunk road requirement plan updated in 2004 with connection the city motorway Hüttentalstraße Siegen-Kreuztal and the end of the federal motorway A 4 in Kreuztal.

After the opening of the inner-German border on November 9, 1989 and German reunification , the earlier planning of the A 4 from the Olpe motorway junction to the Hattenbacher motorway triangle with connection via the A 5 and A 7 federal motorways to the A 4 in the direction of Thuringia / Saxony was revived in 1993 has been included in the urgent needs of the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan and Federal Trunk Road Requirement Plan. When the requirements planning was updated in 2003/2004, what its proponents called " gap closure A 4" in the North Rhine-Westphalian section was removed from the federal transport infrastructure plan and the federal trunk road requirements planning and downgraded from urgent to further requirements in Hesse.

With the continued construction of the A4 from Olpe / Wenden Kreuztal were from the political majorities in the county days Siegen-Wittgenstein and Waldeck-Frankenberg the A 4 Plan corridor following presentation of the project for with support from the federal states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Hesse, a new realignment of Federal road 62 from Kreuztal-Krombach (Krombacher Höhe) in the direction of Hesse to Hattenbach and developed in a joint feasibility study commissioned : a northern variant that leads from Krombacher Höhe via the Rothaargebirge and Wittgenstein across the Edertal to Hattenbach / Hessen.

Since this project presentation of a B 62 new in 2004 was not included in the federal trunk road requirement plan, a south variant was pursued, which from Kreuztal initially followed the old FELS planning to Erndtebrück / Schameder and then from the junction of the B 480 from the B 62 in Wittgenstein should lead over the Edertal and the Waldeck-Frankenberg district to Hattenbach. This project presentation of a "development axis Kreuztal-Hattenbach" envisaged a largely three-lane new construction of a federal trunk road.

This project presentation, originally pursued by the Siegen-Wittgenstein and Waldeck-Frankenberg districts, the chambers of industry and commerce and newly designated as the B 508 by the federal states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Hesse with the support of the Federal Ministry of Transport, was, however, in April / May 2010 after initial preliminary investigations by the state of Hesse given up.

The expansion and partially new construction of Ferndorf-Eder-Lahnstraße in the course of federal highways 508/62 with bypasses from Kreuztal to Bad Laasphe, which is still planned in the currently valid federal trunk road requirement plan, last updated in 2004, only provides for two-lane road planning with repeatedly changing overtaking lanes. According to the currently valid federal trunk road requirement plan, due to the strong impact on nature and the landscape, partial sections (Hilchenbach / Erndtebrück) are also subject to a special nature conservation study that is currently still in progress .

Current plans

For the expansion planning of the Ferndorf-Eder-Lahn-Straße with bypasses of Kreuztal, Hilchenbach , Erndtebrück and Bad Laasphe in the route of the B 508 and B 62 to the state border between Niederlaasphe and Biedenkopf-Wallau, some of which have been in the current federal trunk road requirement plan since In the 1980s, priority was given to planning, a southern bypass is planned in Kreuztal without tunneling under the Mattenbach valley, which was previously required .

At its end is the Bad Laasphe bypass with the tunnel underpassing the spa area . For Erndtebrück, a southern bypass variant was included in the planning for the current federal trunk road requirement plan in 2004 instead of a previously planned northern bypass; for the Hilchenbach section, the course of a local bypass is still open; several planned southern variants are controversial.

The Siegen-Wittgenstein (NRW) and Waldeck-Frankenberg (Hesse) district councils and the regional chambers of industry and commerce, together with the federal states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Hesse, launched a new three- to four-lane, trunk road-like planning variant as a project in recent years Preliminary investigations have been carried out which lead from Kreuztal via Wittgenstein and Frankenberg to the Hattenbacher Autobahn triangle (A 7 / A 4) and which should be proposed for the next revision of the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan and Federal Trunk Road Requirements Plan.

The Hessian state government adopted this project, which was also controversial in the Marburg-Biedenkopf and Schwalm-Eder districts , on May 6, 2010 after a corresponding agreement with the Federal Ministry of Transport.

For the motorway-like expressway project as an alternative to the A4 extension abandoned in the old planning corridor with the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan 2003, for which there was no planning law basis and whose construction costs for various route variants were around 1.7 to 2 billion euros - similar to those for A further construction of the A 4 had been quantified, was seen as not feasible or financially feasible, especially for cost reasons and the increasing investment backlog, which in the federal trunk road planning in connection with other projects classified as urgent needs has now grown nationwide to almost 50 billion euros .

In the federal states of Hesse and North Rhine-Westphalia, especially in the circles of the two federal states, proponents from politics and business had hoped for this project, newly designated as the "Kreuztal-Hattenbach development axis" by the Federal Ministry of Transport as B 508, for this project presentation to be included in the priority Requirements planning of the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan (BVWP) and Federal Trunk Road Requirement Plan (BPL), the next update of which is expected to be in 2014/2015, with the end of the planning framework stipulated by law in 2003/2004.

As expected, the project proponents' ideas that this trunk road project, as a prominent road construction measure of particular importance, could enter the federal government's current requirements planning earlier with the trunk road expansion amendment, were not fulfilled. For this purpose, the currently valid law on the expansion of trunk roads would have had to be untied by the Bundestag and Bundesrat and renegotiated and changed as a law requiring approval between the federal and state governments.

Since June 2011 proponents of a regionally improved transport connection between the North Rhine-Westphalia end of the A 4 motorway and the city motorway "Hüttentalstraße" in Kreuztal and Wittgenstein in the Rothaargebirge have been promoting an expansion and new construction of the federal highways with the new label "Route 57" 508 and 62 with bypasses from Kreuztal to Erndtebrück / Schameder.

Up to Erndtebrück, this idea corresponds to the one that has been in the urgent planning of the federal trunk road requirement plan between Kreuztal and Bad Laasphe with four planned bypasses along the course of the federal highways B 508 since 1986 - with the partial plan change made in the federal trunk road requirement plan in 2004 and B 62.

Citizens' initiatives in the northern Siegerland and Wittgenstein are opposed to this ongoing project planning, which is in the planning process and planned by the federal state road construction authority, such as the Kreuztaler southern bypass with an additional route through the Ferndorf valley for oversized or like the Bad Laaspher Consider tunnel route variant to be inadequate because of its proximity to spa and residential areas.

Arguments for / against road planning

In the past few years, citizens' initiatives on both sides of the country had increased resistance to the “Development Axis Kreuztal-Hattenbach” project in the old A4 planning corridor, which was abandoned in 2010 and joined forces in a “Network Stop A4”. The long-distance road project was not without controversy among the population, but nevertheless met with approval due to the inadequately developed transport infrastructure between Siegerland and Wittgenstein in the affected sections of the region, especially in Wittgenstein.

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