Kassel mountains

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Werratalbrücke Hedemünden in the Kassel mountains

"Kasseler Berge" is a term used by motorists for the steep climbs and descents on the A 7 motorway section from Göttingen via Kassel to the Kirchheimer Dreieck .

description

The six- lane highway stretch through the Hessian highlands, which has been expanded with hard shoulder , is characterized by high traffic volumes and frequent traffic jams. The outdated routing with tight curve radii , steep inclines of up to 7% and many incline changes often cause problems, especially in winter. In 2003 the section was used by more than 60,000 vehicles per day.

history

The original plans for the construction of the motorway between Göttingen and Fulda provided for a traffic route parallel to Reichsstraße 27 via Eschwege instead of Kassel. At the end of 1933 this planning was changed in favor of a demonstration of the technical feasibility and the touristic aspect emphasized with distant views of hillside locations in the sense of National Socialist landscape aesthetics. Extreme gradients of up to 8 percent were accepted for this. In 1950, Federal Transport Minister Hans-Christoph Seebohm criticized this route as being absurd in terms of traffic technology because of the steep inclines. Truck drivers who wanted to bypass the Kassel mountains drove along the Werra to Eschwege, via Sontra to Bebra and from there along the Fulda on the B 27 , which was partially closed to heavy traffic from 2006.

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  1. ↑ Long-haul transport: Truck drivers are required on these routes. In: Spiegel Online photo gallery. September 18, 2012, accessed January 22, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Schmidt, Peer Körner, Sebastian Kunigkeit: The A7 - Germany's longest nightmare for drivers ( memento from September 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Hamburger Abendblatt , September 5, 2014.
  3. ↑ Thorsten Cypra, Ralf Roos, Matthias Zimmermann: Optimization of winter service on highly loaded motorways . In: Federal Highway Research Institute (Hrsg.): Reports of the Federal Highway Research Institute: Verkehrstechnik . V 135. Wirtschaftsverlag NW, Bremerhaven 2006, p. 8, 13 ( PDF, 3.3 MB ).
  4. ^ A b Richard Vahrenkamp : The motorway as infrastructure and the motorway construction 1933–1943 in Germany. Working Paper in the History of Mobility No. 3/2001, Department of Economics, University of Kassel , PDF, pp. 102–106, 108.
  5. ↑ See also Michael Hascher: Review of: Thomas Zeller: Driving Germany. The Landscape of the German Autobahn, 1930-1970. Oxford 2007 , in: H-Soz-Kult , November 8, 2007 ( online ).
  6. ↑ Driving ban for trucks over twelve tons on B7, B27 and B400 , VerkehrsRundschau , November 18, 2009.

Coordinates: 51 ° 24 ′ 19 ″  N , 9 ° 42 ′ 54 ″  E