HaFraBa
HaFraBa e. V. is the abbreviation of the association for the preparation of the Hansestädte – Frankfurt – Basel motorway and thus the first major motorway project in Germany .
The association was founded on November 6, 1926 as an association for the construction of a road for express motor vehicle traffic from Hamburg via Frankfurt a. M. founded in Basel by road construction companies under the leadership of Robert Otzen and was based in Frankfurt am Main . Willy Hof became managing director of the association . The organization planned a motorway connection from Hamburg via Hanover and Frankfurt am Main to Basel (and then on through Switzerland to Genoa ). The route planned at that time roughly corresponds to the course of today's federal motorway 5 (between Heidelberg and Darmstadt, the A 656 , parts of the A 6 and A 67 ) and the northern part of the A 7 .
On May 31, 1928, the association was renamed Association for the Preparation of the Hanseatic Cities – Frankfurt – Basel Motorway in order to be able to include the Hanseatic cities of Bremen and Lübeck in the planning - the acronym HaFraBa remained appropriately unchanged.
In 1930, several summary articles with the subtitle Cities on Hafrabastraßen by JF Amberger ( Heidelberg ), Adolf Elsaesser (City Planning Director Mannheim ), Theodor Krebs ( Darmstadt ), Maurer ( Mainz ), Rehorn (Traffic Director Kassel ) and Carl Thalenhorst (Senator for Building Management Bremen ) presented the detailed plans of the respective cities for the connection to the Hafraba in the Hafraba newsletter .
Since the public authorities saw no need for the project, a toll system was considered to finance the project . The calculations resulted in the following prices:
- a car including driver: 3 pfennigs per kilometer
- each additional person: 1 pfennig per kilometer
- Lorries: 2 pfennigs per kilometer
- Load: ½ pfennig per ton and per kilometer
The project initially met with rejection from the National Socialists . After Hitler came to power , the plans were partially taken over and the authorship of the ideas claimed. The then General Inspector for German Roads, Fritz Todt , demanded : "The Reichsautobahn as we are building them now are not to be regarded as prepared by HAFRABA , but solely as Adolf Hitler's streets ". The name of the association was changed to GEZUVOR ("Society for the preparation of the Reichsautobahnen e.V. "). The main focus for the use of the autobahn was less on individual traffic, which at that time was very limited, than on truck traffic and the Reichsbahn express buses Frankfurt – Darmstadt – Mannheim – Heidelberg, which ran three times a day and six times between Darmstadt and Frankfurt in both directions.
literature
- Richard Vahrenkamp : The German Autobahn 1920–1945: Hafraba Visions and Mega Projects . 1st edition. Josef Eul Verlag GmbH, Lohmar / Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-89936-940-3 ( vahrenkamp.org [PDF; accessed on August 12, 2010]).
Web links
- The forgotten Autobahn near Hanover Article on the partially unfinished route 24 by Michael Grube on geschichtsspuren.de (formerly lostplaces.de)
- The Reichsautobahnen by Volker Wichmann
- History of motorway construction from a Bavarian perspective ( Memento from January 25, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) from the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior
- Hafraba-Mitteilungsblatt: Staedte on Hafrabastrassen-III-Mannheim by Adolf Elsaesser 1930
- Working Papers in History of Mobility by Richard Vahrenkamp (University of Kassel)
- Early documents and newspaper articles on HaFraBa in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Individual evidence
- ↑ The bridge structure from the 1930s, which spans the federal highway 67 southwest of the city of Pfungstadt and crosses the Gernsheimer Weg (field path), has to be replaced by a new building due to the poor state of preservation. Hessen Mobil press release of April 23, 2015
- ↑ Demolition of the bridge on the A 67 ( memento of the original from March 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on hr-online.de; online on the Internet: May 3, 2015
- ↑ Report of the Federal Archives on the creation of HaFraBa (PDF; 2.4 MB)
- ↑ Anna Teut: Architecture in the Third Reich 1933 - 1945. Birkhäuser, 1967, ISBN 978-3-035-60200-5 , p. 298 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
- ↑ Index of the Hafraba newsletters 1928–1931
- ^ Document from the Federal Archives of October 15, 1937 on the concept and meaning of motorways in Europe ( Memento of November 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Headlines from Bensheim on the 175th anniversary of the “Bergsträßer Anzeiger” 2007. (PDF 8.61 MB) The “old” and the “new” autobahn. P. 49 , archived from the original on October 5, 2016 ; accessed on December 28, 2014 .
