State road 419

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The Park Street at the former Diedenhofen barracks before removal in spring 2009

The national road 419 ( North Rhine-Westphalia ) is a short but significant traffic- country road in the southeastern city of Wuppertal . A section of the road will be expanded as a motorway-like road in the future .

course

The state road begins in the north on federal road 7 at Wupperfelder Markt and leads south, partly steeply upwards, to Lichtscheid , where it reaches its highest point at almost 350 meters. In this northern section it is primarily an inner-city connecting road, which partly runs through residential areas, but also through the Barmer Wald and bears several official urban street names ( Brändströmstraße , Untere Lichtenplatzer Straße and Obere Lichtenplatzer Straße ). There is a difference in altitude of around 180 meters to the Lichtscheid. At the Lichtscheid traffic junction there are connections to Landesstraße 417 ( Ronsdorfer Straße ) , Landesstraße 418 and Kreisstraße 21 ( Oberbergischen Straße ). From Lichtscheid, the road initially runs flat in an easterly direction as a park road along the northern edge of Ronsdorf to the intersection at Ronsdorf- Erbschlö , where it touches the Ronsdorf facilities .

Behind Erbschlö, the road continues to descend eastwards to the Blombachtalbrücke , behind which it ends at Landesstraße 58 (formerly Bundesstraße 51 ) at Ronsdorf- Linde . From here the “Wuppertal-Ronsdorf” motorway exit is just under two kilometers away.

expansion

The Park Street at junction with dust Straße before the expansion in spring 2009

The entire state road has so far been expanded to a single lane in each direction and has several traffic lights (including pedestrian lights). All crossings and junctions are at the same level. Only at Lichtscheid is there an extended roundabout below the “high-flyer” at the Lichtscheider water tower , which is now also regulated by traffic lights.

In 1999 around 40,300 vehicles used the section between Lichtscheid and the confluence with Staubenthaler Straße every day . In the section Staubenthaler Straße up to the confluence with Erbschlöer Straße , 25,000 vehicles were counted during the same traffic observation.

In order not to leave the planning of the conversion of the L 419 to the city of Wuppertal alone, the citizens' initiative "Expansion of the L 419" was founded in 2011. With the active participation of the citizens, the conversion should be cost-effective but also take into account noise protection. The citizens' initiative calls for an expansion of Erbschlöer Str. And Staubenthaler Str. With active noise protection, as well as the simultaneous expansion with a connection to the A1. In order to guarantee the noise protection of the residents in the vicinity, the route must be laid at about 4.75 m below the surface. This means that the crossings can be carried out at the same level, which at the same time helps to minimize costs. The plans for the expansion should be presented to the mayor of Wuppertal by the end of June.

On April 27, 2017, the Landesbetrieb Straßen.NRW submitted the application to the Düsseldorf District Government to initiate the planning approval procedure for the first construction phase, which runs from the high-flyer in Lichtscheid to Erbschlö.

history

The road as it is today was laid out in the northern part in the second half of the 19th century, but some sections are quite older. In the southern part, the route also runs on older roads, which were already drawn in 1715 on the Topographia Ducatus Montani by cartographer Erich Philipp Ploennies . An old asphalt section now serves as a walk in the Ronsdorf facilities. The south-eastern section between Lichtscheid and Wuppertal-Linde was expanded into a motorway feeder in the 1950s, which crossed the deeply cut valley of the Blombach by means of the Blombachtal bridge in order to find a connection to the federal highway 51 at ground level on the other side. The old route previously consisted only of a narrow road in the valley of the Erbschlöer Bach, which led through the "Ronsdorfer Wald" and the Blombachtal to Werbsiepen and is still available as a footpath today.

The plans for a supraregional expressway connection (the continuous southern bypass ), which went back to the 1960s, primarily provided for a quick connection between the four Wuppertal barracks located on the expressway and the neighboring federal highways 1 and 46 , which have now been abandoned and are no longer used for military purposes . For this purpose, the state roads 418 and 419 should be expanded accordingly.

Very first plans existed to some extent since the Nazi era to "a faster abandonment" of the garrison stationed army units in the event of war permit. Some initial work on this was already in progress shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War , but was stopped when the war broke out.

future

Between Lichtscheid and the Federal Motorway 1, the new state road 419 is to be expanded to four lanes over the next few years as a sub-project of the Wuppertaler Südtangente and will no longer run over the Blombachtalbrücke, but will have its own connection to the Federal Motorway 1 directly via the " Abstieg Blombach ". The planned route through the Blombach industrial park was kept free of development from the start, and the merging into and out of the Federal Motorway 1 was already established when it was widened to three lanes.

The newly emerging motorway triangle will be built in the immediate vicinity north of the Wuppertal-Ronsdorf junction . The names of the planned departures so far are " Ronsdorf-West / Engineering Park ", " Ronsdorf-Ost / Erbschlö " and " Blombach ". In the medium term, the so-called technology axis south is to create a direct, intersection-free and four-lane connection from the A 46 at the Sonnborner Kreuz through the Burgholz tunnel and along the new industrial and technology centers on the southern heights to the A 1. The L 418 and L 419 are linked to form a continuous connecting road, which, depending on the entertainment provider, is upgraded to a federal road or federal motorway (which would create the Wuppertaler Autobahnring ) or remain as a state road in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Engineering structures

Landesstraße 419 has the most striking engineering structures, the high-flyer at Lichtscheid and the Blombachtal bridge. If the further expansion is carried out with the “Descent Blombach”, there will certainly be additional bridge structures, such as the bridges over the A1 from the direction of Hagen and Remscheid, which are then absolutely necessary.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Business park on the site of the former Generaloberst Hoepner barracks Meeting of the Ronsdorf district council on March 2, 2004  ( 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. PDF file@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.wuppertal.de  
  2. ^ Roads NRW project L419

Web links

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