Pongau node
| Pongau junction (Exit 47) | |
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 ( 164 311 )
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| Country: | Austria |
| State : | State of Salzburg |
| Coordinates: | 47 ° 26 '18 " N , 13 ° 13' 24" E |
| Height: | 667 m above sea level A. |
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| Design type: | Distributed triangle with partial clover leaf on feeder ramp |
| Bridges: | 3 (motorway) / 1 (other) |
| Construction year: | 1986 |
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| Motorway slip road Pongau - Bischofshofen |
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| Overall length: | approx. 7 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The node Pongau (Exit 47) is a motorway junction , the Austrian Pinzgauer road (B311) to the motorway Tauern motorway (A10) connects. It is located in the Salzburg district of St. Johann im Pongau near Bischofshofen .
function
The Tauernautobahn Salzburg - Villach, one of the most important alpine transversals , leads south from Salzburg in the Salzach Valley , and then changes over the Fritztal to the Salzburg Ennstal near Radstadt , and then continues south through the Tauern Tunnel . This means it is also the central regional connection to the Salzburg Mountains . While Ennspongau and Lungau can be easily reached on the autobahn, the upper Salzachpongau and Pinzgau can be reached via the well-developed B 311 Bischofshofen - Zell am See - Saalfelden - Lofer (there is also a connection to Salzburg via the Small German Corner ). At Bischofshofen, where the motorway bends into the Fritztal, it has already risen over a hundred meters above the valley floor, the Pongau junction provides the connection back into the valley via a 7-kilometer motorway feeder to the B 311, and thus also forms the bypass around Bischofshofen. At the same time, the Hochkönig Straße (B164) is connected there, the mountain road via Dienten to Saalfelden, and a short distance away the Salzachtal Straße (B159) , the through-town through Bischofshofen.
history
The Tauern Autobahn as a transalpine route was already planned in the network of the Greater German Reichs Autobahn. Started in 1941, the project soon came to a standstill during the war and was not pursued in post-war Austria either, until 1972 the autobahn only ran to Golling in front of the Lueg Pass. In the 1960s and 70s, however, the transit of south-east European guest workers who visited their homeland on summer vacation from north-west Europe escalated. This route, known at the time as the guest worker route , was seasonally extremely traffic-jam and accident-prone, and had to use the Salzachtalstrasse through the Lueg Pass and then the Katschbergstrasse through the Fritztal. The decision to continue building the Tauern motorway was made in 1969, in 1974/75 the apex stretch with the Katschberg and Tauern tunnels was opened, in 1977 the section to Werfen, and in 1979 finally the construction lot through the Fritztal to Eben.
As a result, the transit traffic was removed from the local road network, but all traffic to St. Johann and Gastein had to leave the autobahn at Werfen and cross Bischofshofen. In addition, during the Cold War, for reasons of neutrality policy, the only halfway pass-free inner-Austrian east-west connection via the Salzach Valley was to be promoted, which also increased traffic to Zell am See and on to Tyrol. It was not until 1986 that the bypass road for Bischofshofen, from the valley shoulder on the Fritztal down into the Salzach valley, was put into operation.
With 6 million vehicles per year (2008, on the continuation B 311), the section is one of the busiest in the state. In the long term, however, the bypass did not bring any real relief for Bischofshofen because the rapidly increasing local traffic, for which the detour via the Pongau junction is too complex, still runs through the center of the village. As early as 1998, the daily traffic volume of 14,000 vehicles was higher than before the opening of the B311 / A10 bypass.
The departure was planned from the beginning (Federal Road Law of 1971) as a node, because the B 311 was to be expanded into the Pinzgauer Schnellstraße (S 11), the feeder was a preliminary service for the plan, which was then only implemented in short pieces. That was finally discarded in 1986. Initially judged to be quite safe, the motorway slip road turned out to be very accident prone due to the incline and the very narrow lanes. The main causes were excessive speed in oncoming traffic and turning maneuvers by car drivers. In 2007, the directional lanes were separated with concrete modules and a speed of 80 km / h was prescribed. Nevertheless, other serious accidents occurred regularly. In 2017, the section under the responsibility of Asfinag (to Bischofshofen-Süd) was reduced to three lanes, while the part marked as a federal road remains 4-lane.
Name and structure
Originally the feeder road was part of the B 311, today's junction is the Bischofshofen junction . With the handover of the former federal roads to state administration (2002), the feeder road became an unspecified part of the A10 (unofficially also called A10a), so it remained under the administration of Asfinag . Since then, the junction has been formally a motorway junction (triangle) of the A10 main route with the A10 feeder ramp, which itself again forms a connecting triangle with two interurban roads. In addition, another junction has been built on the motorway slip road, so that it must also be considered a motorway for legal reasons.
The junction is basically a motorway triangle of the usual construction. It is located near Ellmauthal (cadastral community Grub von Pfarrwerfen ). Since there is not enough space at the shoulder of the slope, the entry and exit to and from Villach have been postponed a good kilometer. The connection ramps to the motorway feeder are via a partial clover leaf . The relatively steep downhill motorway feeder leads directly to the B 311 at the southern end of Bischofshofen (near Buchberg ), the B 164, which immediately afterwards crosses the Salzach, is connected there via another half-clover (today's Bischofshofen junction , originally Bischofshofen-Süd ⊙ ). In between there is the connection point Sankt Rupert bei Kreuzberg (KG Winkl ), which as a half connection (exit from and driveway to the node) connects the north of Bischofshofen and the Katschberg Straße (B99) , the overland road through the Fritztal. It is called after the mission house St. Rupert below, earlier it was called Bischofshofen-Nord .
The feeder road was expressway like two lanes , but without carriageways created but later built in the area between the actual highway and Bischofshofen-South on three tracks; south of Bischofshofen-Süd the feeder is still four-lane. There is now a structural center separation with underfloor lights and modern reflectors, the entire ramp is speed limited for safety reasons at 80 km / h. The four-lane, crossing-free expansion of the B 311 extends to St. Johann and is designated as an expressway . From Bypass Bischofshofen is called the exit Bischofshofen 159 2km south to the confluence of B.
| Previous ASt. (Exit) |
Tauern Autobahn 
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Next ASt. (Exit) |
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Werfen / Pfarrwerfen (◀ 43/44 ▶) |
Pongau (47) |
Huettau / Lammertal (56) |
| Bischofshofen motorway slip road
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| Pongau | St. Rupert | |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. Autobahn and Schnellstraßen-Finanz-Aktiengesellschaft (Hrsg.): The Autobahn network in Austria. 30 years of Asfinag . Self-published, Vienna / Absam January 2012, A 10 Tauern Autobahn, p. 84-87 ( pdf , asfinag.at). pdf ( Memento of the original from January 1, 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.
- ↑ State of Salzburg Provincial Government: Building documentation of Department 6: B 311 - Pinzgauer Straße, inner-Austrian east-west connection. Embach-Unterstein construction project, Bischofshofen bypass construction project. Volume 19, 1987.
- ^ Office of the Salzburg Provincial Government / Department 16 - Environmental Protection (Ed.): Salzburg Action Plan (roads except motorways and expressways) . Part B6 of the Environmental Noise Action Plan Austria 2008, 2nd planning area, p. 6 ( pdf , laerminfo.at). pdf ( Memento of the original from May 3, 2014 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.
- ↑ Bischofshofen - the city with swing ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , in Österreichische Gemeinde-Zeitung (ÖGZ) online, onA, on staedtebund.gv.at, accessed May 2, 2014.
- ^ CH Dobler, W. Tamme: B 311 Pinzgauer-Strasse - bypass Bischofshofen. Accident evaluation with before and after comparison . Ed .: Board of Trustees for Road Safety, Salzburg Branch; Institute for Traffic and Vehicle Technology. Salzburg April 1988 ( TRID - TRIS and ITRD database record , trid.trb.org).
- ↑ a b c Middle separation is safe for traffic . In: Salzburger Nachrichten . March 8, 2007, local section Pongau ( article archive ).
- ↑ see also finding of the Constitutional Court (VfGH) , SNr. 18297, Gfz. B261 / 07 et al., December 4, 2007
- ↑ cf. Directory 1 Bundesstraßen A (federal highways) of the federal law of July 16, 1971, concerning federal highways ( Bundesstraßengesetz 1971 - BStG 1971) , StF: BGBl. No. 286/1971 (as amended online, ris.bka ).
- ↑ see § 2. (2) Federal Roads Act 1971: "Junction points on ramps of junction points and access and exit roads are not permitted."
