Hauptstrasse 28
| Hauptstrasse 28 in Switzerland | |
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Federal Roads Office (Landquart – Vereina) |
| Overall length: | approx. 138 km Switzerland: 125 km Liechtenstein: 13 km |
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| Development condition: | mostly double-lane, not separated carriageway |
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Course of the road
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The main road 28 is the main road through the Principality of Liechtenstein and the Swiss canton of Grisons . It connects the Rhine Valley with the South Tyrolean Adige Valley via four passes .
history
The Deutsche Strasse from Chur via St. Luzisteig and Liechtenstein to the Austrian border near Feldkirch was put into operation in 1786 and is considered the most important Graubünden road construction project of the 18th century.
The Prättigauer Strasse from Landquart to Davos was built from 1842 to 1860. From 1866 to 1867 a modern artificial road was built over the Flüela pass . From 1871 to 1872 a modern road was also built over the Ofen Pass .
course
Main road 28 runs from Schaan in Liechtenstein via Vaduz and over the St. Luzisteig Pass to Maienfeld in the Bündner Herrschaft , then past Landquart . The main road is signaled from Landquart. Through the Prättigau to Klosters , over the Wolfgang Pass to Davos , over the Flüelapass into the Engadine and on through the Swiss National Park , over the Ofenpass and through the Münstertal to Müstair on the border with Italian South Tyrol .
National road between Landquart and Klosters-Selfranga
Particular importance is attached to the section that opens up the health resorts of Klosters and Davos from Landquart via Prättigau and the Lower Engadine (from Klosters through the Vereina tunnel ) . The route from Landquart to the Klosters-Selfranga loading station has therefore been added to the national road network and is gradually being expanded into a mixed national road, second and third class.
Winter-safe connection to the Engadine
The Engadin, Münstertal, Puschlav and Bergell valleys are only connected to the rest of the country by a single road that is open all year round over the Julier Pass . In the seventies and eighties, therefore, the question was whether to develop the Flüelastrasse into a second winter-safe connection. In the end, however, the alternative of a railway tunnel with car loading was chosen. Accordingly, with the opening of the Vereina tunnel in 2000, Hauptstrasse 28 between Davos and Susch lost its supra-regional development function.
