Messeschnellweg

Messeschnellweg
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Basic data
Operator:	Federal Republic of Germany
Start of the street:	Hanover-Groß-Buchholz
End of street:	Laatzen center
Overall length:	13.3 km
State :	Lower Saxony
Development condition:	2x2 lanes
Messeschnellweg at the horse tower

The Messeschnellweg is a four-lane motorized road in Hanover . It connects the two sections of the A 37 .

course

The Messeschnellweg begins in the north in the Groß-Buchholz district at junction 5 Hanover-Misburg on the A 37. It runs southwards east of Hanover city center through the Eilenriede . Then it leads past the eponymous exhibition center in the Mittelfeld district and ends in Laatzen-Mitte . Here it goes back to the A 37 (junction 11 exhibition grounds), while at the same time the B 6 branches off in a southerly direction.

Preparations for the construction of the Messeschnellweg began as early as 1949. Together with the Südschnellweg , Westschnellweg and other expressways , it is part of the concept developed by the city planner at the time, Rudolf Hillebrecht , to route long-distance traffic around the city center. The construction of the expressway through the middle of the Hanover city ​​forest Eilenriede led to violent protests in the population, as a result of which the city finally constituted the Eilenriede advisory board in 1956.

The expressway is developed as a four-lane motor road. It has been free of crossings since 1998 (completion of the underpass at the horse tower crossing ) and some of it has a hard shoulder. A traffic control system makes it possible to use this as an additional lane for major events. During the major trade fairs ( Hanover Fair , Cebit at the turn of the millennium , later Agritechnica ), the Messeschnellweg is regulated as a one-way street at peak times (arrival and departure, sometimes only on the busiest days), so that four lanes can be used in one direction are.

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  Messeschnellweg in the Eilenriede

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  Messeschnellweg at the exhibition center

Integration into the Hanover expressway system

In the north of the Groß-Buchholz district, the Messeschnellweg merges into the “Moorautobahn” A 37 at the Hannover-Misburg junction , which in turn later merges into the B 3 towards Celle at Burgdorf . About the motorway junction Hannover / Kirchhorst which also is A 7 reached.

In the northern section to the Seelhorster Kreuz , the Messeschnellweg is part of the B 3 , south of it part of the B 6 . At the Seelhorster Kreuz, the Südschnellweg crosses and with it the B 65 .

South of the exhibition grounds on the city limits with Laatzen , the Messeschnellweg merges back into the A 37. Here the B 6 branches off to the south at the junction Hannover-Messegelände , which shortly afterwards crosses the B 443 . The A 37 leads to the A 7 in the Hanover-Süd motorway triangle .

Web links

Commons : Messeschnellweg (Hannover)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Relation in OpenStreetMap
2. ↑ Das Wunder von Hannover , Der Spiegel 23/1959 of June 3, 1959, p. 56 f.
3. ↑ Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn & Hansjörg Küster: The Eilenriede. (PDF, 1.44 MB) Hanover's city forest and the Eilenried Advisory Board. State capital Hanover , May 2016, accessed on April 17, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Event - VMZ Niedersachsen Hannover Region. Retrieved on January 21, 2018 (German). 
5. ↑ Event - VMZ Niedersachsen Hannover Region. Retrieved on January 21, 2018 (German). 
6. ↑ Event - VMZ Niedersachsen Hannover Region. Retrieved on January 21, 2018 (German). 
7. ^ Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung, Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany: Smaller CeBIT - measure A and R remains. Retrieved on January 21, 2018 (German). 

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