Middle Ring (Kempten)
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| The Schumacherring ring road on the south bridge in Kempten | |
| Basic data | |
| place | Kempten (Allgäu) |
| Created | 1962-1995 |
| Places | Berlin Square |
| Buildings | Engelhaldepark , artillery barracks , Kempten Catholic cemetery , Obere Illerbrücken , König-Ludwig-Brücke , Kempten University , Kempten (Allgäu) main station |
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| User groups | Pedestrians, cyclists, motorists, public transport |
| Technical specifications | |
| Street length | 10 kilometer |
| building-costs | 53 million DM |
The Mittlerer Ring or city ring in Kempten (Allgäu) is a ring-shaped road connection that is supposed to relieve the city center of traffic and connect the city districts with each other. The plans for the construction of a ring road were already started in the 1920s. The construction of the ring began in 1962 and ended after a total of 16 construction phases as an overall project in 1995. The individual sections of the bypass road were named after the politicians Konrad Adenauer , Theodor Heuss and Kurt Schumacher . The piece between Heuss- and Schumacherring forms part of Bahnhofstraße .
Four mayors were involved in the project: first Otto Merkt , under whom the first concept was developed, then August Fischer , who was involved in the detailed planning and had the first sections built, then Josef Höß , under whom the ring was almost completed, and then Wolfgang Roßmann , during whose term of office the completion took place. The project was the largest road construction project in the city. The bypass road has been expanded to four lanes throughout.
history
Starting position
As early as the 1920s, the building supervisor Maximilian Vicari was thinking about an efficient road 16 meters wide that would lead around the city. This ring should run in practically all directions except the south outside of the narrow urban development. Mayor Otto Merkt bought the land in the course of his term of office - through no debt to the city - in order to start construction quickly in the future. The outbreak of the Second World War prevented the implementation of the project.
In the post-war period, the number of private motor vehicles rose rapidly: while in 1948 less than 2,000 vehicles were registered in Kempten, the number rose to just over 6,000 by 1960. In 1972 almost 14,000 vehicles were registered. Then there were the foreign vehicles. The federal highway 12 and state road 19 leading right through the Old Town: the future pedestrian Fischerstraße , the Castle Road and the St.-Mang bridge over the Iller had been crowded and the future hardly passable. Vicari's concept was resumed; and thanks to Merkt's property policy, construction began without any major problems or delays.
construction
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The first section, about one thousand meters long, completed in 1962, led from Lenzfrieder Straße ( Engelhaldepark ) to today's Knussertstraße. It was built only with funds from the city. Five years later, Berliner Platz was built, the largest intersection in Kempten and the connection point to the A7 motorway . From Berliner Platz it is 681 kilometers to Berlin . This traffic junction is now loaded with up to 65,000 vehicles a day. In order to mitigate this, the construction of the north spade began in 2012 , which connects the industrial areas Ursulasried on the right and Stiftsbleiche on the left Illers side with another bridge. In addition, the north ring was built with the bridge already planned by Vicari at this location. In 1969/73, because of the relocation of the Kempten main train station, Bahnhofstrasse was expanded by around 1.2 kilometers to the south. In 1976, the Füssener Strasse junction solved the problem of daily vehicle jams at this bottleneck with a bridge and a second underpass in the Sankt Mang district, which was incorporated in 1972.
Until 1970 long-distance traffic ran over the relatively narrow, wooden König-Ludwig-Brücke , today a technical monument. When the further section of the route from Füssener to Kotterner Strasse was expanded, the city of Kempten took over the northern of the two stamped concrete bridges from 1904 ( Obere Illerbrücken ) and converted the wide bridge into part of the city ring. Rail traffic was able to do without the bridge after the station was relocated, since the bridge further south is completely sufficient. In 1983 and 1986 the gap between the ring road in the south and south-west was closed. In 1993 and 1995 the project was completed with the expansion of the Lindauer and Oberstdorfer Strasse junctions. The project cost a total of 53 million D-Marks , of which 40 million Marks were financed or subsidized by the Federal Republic of Germany and the Free State of Bavaria .
With the construction of the Middle Ring, the city center was significantly relieved of traffic.
Outer ring and inner ring
Kempten does not have a bypass road that goes around the entire settlement area. The A7 motorway passes the city and takes up part of the long-distance traffic. The route Beethovenstrasse – Freudenberg – Burgstrasse – Illerstrasse – Pfeilergraben – Residenzplatz – Salzstrasse– (Rottachstrasse – Madlenerstrasse – Memminger Strasse) is seen as the inner ring. The federal highway 12 is the southern bypass of the city .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Franz-Rasso Böck , Ralf Lienert , Joachim Weigel: Century views of Kempten 1900–2000 . Verlag Tobias Dannheimer - Allgäuer Zeitungsverlag, Kempten (Allgäu) 1999, ISBN 3-88881-035-3 , p. 76 f .
- ^ City of Kempten (ed.): Our city of Kempten. 1990, p. 45.
- ^ A b Franz-Rasso Böck , Ralf Lienert , Joachim Weigel: Century views of Kempten 1900-2000 . Verlag Tobias Dannheimer - Allgäuer Zeitungsverlag, Kempten (Allgäu) 1999, ISBN 3-88881-035-3 , p. 74 f .
- ^ City of Kempten (ed.): Kempten im Allgäu. 1972, p. 22
- ^ City of Kempten (ed.): Kempten im Allgäu. 1972, p. 24
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Coordinates: 47 ° 44 ′ 3.2 ″ N , 10 ° 19 ′ 28.1 ″ E