Hauptstrasse 8

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Hauptstrasse 8 in Switzerland
Hauptstrasse 8
map
Course of the H 8
Basic data
Operator: ASTRA
Start of the street: St. Gallen
( 47 ° 25 ′  N , 9 ° 19 ′  E )
End of the road: Ingenbohl
( 47 ° 1 ′  N , 8 ° 39 ′  E )
Overall length: approx. 92 km

Canton :

Rickenpass.jpg
Rickenpass
Course of the road
Template: AB / Maintenance / Empty Canton of St. Gallen
node (80)  Angles A1 E60
crossing H7
Junction St. Gallen angles
Template: AB / Maintenance / Empty Canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden
Locality Herisau
Junction Schönengrund
Template: AB / Maintenance / Empty Canton of St. Gallen
Locality Forest
Locality St. Peterzell
flow Necker
Junction Well veins
passport Wasserfluh ( 843  m above sea level )
Locality Lichtensteig
branch H16
Template: AB / Maintenance / Empty Common course with H16
Bypass Wattwil bypass (see below)
Locality Wattwil
branch H16
flow Thur
Bypass End of the Wattwil bypass
Locality Ricken
passport Rickenpass (780 m above sea level)
Junction Gebertingen
Locality St. Gallenkappel
Locality Eschenbach
Locality dare
crossing (13)  Jonah A15
Locality Jonah
flow Jonah
branch H17
Template: AB / Maintenance / Empty Common course with H17
Locality Rapperswil
branch H17
Template: AB / Maintenance / Empty Symbol: tourist Seedamm Rapperswil-Hurden
Template: AB / Maintenance / Empty Canton of Schwyz
Locality Obstacles
branch H3
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Locality Pfaffikon
branch H3
crossing (39)  Schindellegi A3
Locality Schindellegi
flow Sihl
Locality Biberbrugg
flow beaver
Locality Rothenthurm
Junction saddle
branch H2
Template: AB / Maintenance / Empty Common course with H2
Bypass Schwyz
Locality Seewen
Locality Ibach
flow Muota
crossing (40)  Fountain north A4
Locality Ingenbohl
Locality Fountain
Further on H2 H2b
Template: AB / Maintenance / Empty Lichtensteig-Wattwil bypass
Further on H16
Start of the road
flow Thur
tunnel tunnel
tunnel tunnel
flow Thur
Junction Liechtensteig-Wattwil H8 H16
flow Thur
tunnel tunnel
End of the road
Further on H8

The main road 8 is a numbered main road in the Swiss road network.

It leads from Eastern Switzerland to Central Switzerland. The route begins in St. Gallen Winkeln on main road 7 and leads via Herisau into Neckertal , then over the Wasserfluh (843 m) to Lichtensteig , there together with main road 16 to Wattwil , then over the 805 meter high Rickenpass to Rapperswil-Jona , via Seedamm to Pfäffikon SZ , Sattel , Schwyz , Ibach to Ingenbohl , where it joins Hauptstrasse 2 .

The entire route is 92 kilometers long. It has four lanes between Schindellegi near Wollerau and Biberbrugg near Einsiedeln.

history

In the Middle Ages, the Ricken Pass was used as a pilgrimage route. Since the 15th century Schwyz tried to control the land routes towards Lake Constance. Around 1695 Schwyz and the prince abbey of St. Gallen planned to build a road over the Rickenpass to connect the Catholic areas by land , bypassing the Protestant city of Zurich . After the defeat in the Toggenburg War of 1712, however, these expansion plans were not implemented. In 1788, however, a continuously drivable path was created between Central Switzerland and St. Gallen.

The Rickenstrasse between Rapperswil and Ricken was re-routed between 1828 and 1832 in the interests of the city of Rapperswil and turned into a modern highway . Between 1832 and 1835, the adjacent section from Ricken to Wattwil was also re-routed. In roadway regulations in 1834 Rickenstrasse "of Botsberg, community was Flawyl , by Rindal, according Lütisburg , Lichtensteig , Wattwyl , St. Gallenkappel and Rapperschwyl " than under Article 3b "second home and commercial street Classe" classified.

In 2020 the section between St. Gallen and Herisau was handed over to the federal government, the main road there has since been part of the national road 25.

future

As part of the Urmiberg development axis , a new main road is being built between Schwyz station and Brunnen station. So far, main roads 2 and 8 between these two poles have had the same route via Ibach and the A4 connection Brunnen Nord. The new street is then assigned to one of the two numbers, the current route would then keep the other, so that the routing of the route is broken up.

Web links

Commons : Hauptstrasse 8  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Canton Bulletin St. Gallen