Hemelinger Tunnel

Hemelinger Tunnel
Hemelinger Tunnel
use	Road tunnel
place	Hemelingen
length	593 m
Number of tubes	1
construction
building-costs	175 million euros
start of building	April 24, 1999
completion	May 10, 2003
business
toll	No
release	May 10, 2003
location
Coordinates
East portal	53 ° 3 ′ 31 "  N , 8 ° 53 ′ 34"  E
West portal	53 ° 3 ′ 29 "  N , 8 ° 53 ′ 21"  E

 Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap

The Hemelinger Tunnel is a road tunnel in the Bremen district of Hemelingen and the longest tunnel in the city of Bremen .

Planning

Ideas for building a tunnel under Hemelingen had been around since the 1970s. When Daimler-Benz opened a plant in the Hemelingen district of Sebaldsbrück in 1978, an improvement in transport connections was generally considered necessary. Up to 16,000 people should work in the factory. Most of the employees get to work by car. Around 8,000 trucks also have to reach the factory every day in order to be able to deliver assembly parts just in time .

In 1990, however , the SPD decided at a state party conference not to build a relief tunnel that was already being planned. As a result, there were extensive protests by residents who felt annoyed by the traffic noise.
Five years later, the parliamentary group leaders of the recently formed grand coalition in Bremen also expressed their opposition to tunneling. They advocated the so-called Stackkamp route , an alternative road proposed by the former mayor Klaus Wedemeier . The then SPD parliamentary group leader and later mayor Christian Weber justified the decision with the words:

"We cannot spend 600, 700 million, maybe even a billion marks in this dramatic budget emergency, if there are alternatives."

Hans-Dieter Rissland, the head of the Hemelingen local authority at the time, said:

"This is a fool of all Hemelingers."

After it was determined that the cost of a trough construction would be around 100 million euros, the Senate cleared the way for construction with the conclusion of a plan approval procedure in 1999.

Tunneling

The construction was carried out from 1999 to 2003. It cost around 175 million euros.
The tunnel begins not far west of the Mercedes plant on Sebaldsbrücker Heerstraße . From there it runs in a slightly S-shaped curve to the southwest, where it reappears at the Hemelingen motorway slip road. It passes under a residential and commercial area, two railway lines and a few streets, of which Godehardstrasse runs over its entire length.

The tunnel is 593 meters long. If you add the entry and exit troughs, the total length is 878 meters.
Around 23,000 vehicles pass through the tunnel every day; six percent of them are trucks.

Effects

Investigations have shown that the volume of traffic in the surrounding neighborhoods has decreased after the tunnel was opened. While around 16,000 vehicles were counted daily at the Schlengstrasse / Hannoversche Strasse intersection , the value fell to around 11,000. The Christernstrasse and the Brüggeweg were also relieved.

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1. ↑ Hemlinger tunnel in the database of structurae
2. ↑ Century tunnel completed the daily newspaper May 9, 2003

Web links

• Century tunnel completed the daily newspaper May 9, 2003