Potsdam – Schönefeld expressway

Expressway (overview)
L 40 L 76
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Basic data
Operator:	country Brandenburg
further operator:	Federal Republic of Germany
Start of the street:	Potsdam ( 52 ° 24 ′  N , 13 ° 4 ′  E )
End of street:	Schönefeld ( 52 ° 25 ′  N , 13 ° 34 ′  E )
Overall length:	42 km
State :	Brandenburg Berlin
Development condition:	2 × 2 lanes

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The Potsdam – Schönefeld expressway is the overarching term for several traffic projects for the construction of a single, largely intersection-free, four-lane expressway from Potsdam to Schönefeld .

The planning of the expressway connection is based on older plans from the GDR . A route south of Berlin had an important transport policy and strategic function. It was essential for fast motor vehicle traffic from Potsdam via Schönefeld to East Berlin without having to use roads in the area of West Berlin . After the Berlin Wall was erected, this was no longer possible - West Berlin had to be bypassed to the south. The counterpart in the field of railways is the Berlin outer ring .

With the decision to expand Berlin-Schönefeld Airport into the international air hub Berlin Brandenburg Airport , these plans were taken up again to create an expressway connection from Potsdam to Schönefeld. The original goal for the construction of the new airport in 2010 coincides with the original schedule for the construction of a four-lane and largely intersection-free expressway. At the beginning of December 2014, the last section of the road was opened near Mahlow, so the road is fully operational.

State road 40

The old state road 40 is one of the older street routes that starts in a star shape from Potsdam and connects the Brandenburg countryside, with state road 40 running in a south-easterly direction from Potsdam via Babelsberg, Güterfelde, Ruhlsdorf, Großbeeren, Blankenfelde to Königs Wusterhausen . The latter is ten kilometers south of Schönefeld Airport. The first half of the new expressways towards the airport are in this corridor.

Nutheschnellstrasse

Nutheschnellstrasse L 40
Potsdam – Drewitz – Stahnsdorf
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Operator:	country Brandenburg
Overall length:	6.9 km without new construction
State :	Brandenburg
Development condition:	2 × 2 lanes (free of intersections)
Nuthestrasse at the Stern-Center towards Potsdam

The first section is the Nutheschnellstraße , originally the Nuthestraße expressway, which has been gradually expanded into an expressway since the 1970s. Since then, the adjacent new residential buildings have been built along the route in Potsdam-Schlaatz (built 1980–1987), Potsdam-Am Stern (built 1970–1980) and Potsdam-Drewitz (built 1980–1993), for which an efficient connection to Potsdam and Teltow is required has been. After the fall of the Wall, the connection was made to the 115 motorway (1998–2001), which offers a quick connection to Berlin City West via the AVUS . The direct junction Potsdam-Babelsberg was relocated in 1992 when the course had to be changed due to the construction and connection of the Sterncenter shopping center . Before that, there was a Babelsberg junction of the same name, dating from the time the AVUS extension was built, off the expressway on Großbeerenstraße (then Ernst-Thälmann-Straße), which met Nutheschnellstraße at “Güterfelder Eck”.

Stahnsdorf / Teltow bypass

The Nutheschnellstraße ended shortly after the autobahn at the Güterfelder Kreuz, also known as the "Güterfelder Eck" in planning documents. The traffic route to Schönefeld used to lead north-east straight on to the L 76, which runs through Stahnsdorf and Teltow . There are branches to Berlin in the north and to Güterfelde and Ruhlsdorf in the southeast. Today, the extension of the Nutheschnellstraße runs as a Stahnsdorf / Teltow bypass to the south and past Güterfelde to the north, whereby the new route was later built north parallel to the old Güterfelde / Großbeeren road and at Großbeeren am Kreuz joins the old 401 highway . The new road is completely similar to an autobahn , with 2 lanes plus hard shoulder each and designated as state road 40 - L40 for short.

Güterfelder Eck to Marggrafshof

On April 11, 2008, the planning approval decision was made for the extension of the expressway from Güterfelder Eck to Marggrafshof. The expansion of the Güterfelder Eck began in October 2009. The section between Marggrafshof and Stahnsdorfer Damm was built from summer 2010 and put into operation in August 2012. On December 16, 2013, the western part of the Güterfelde bypass was released, the last construction phase, which means that the expressway is now completely completed.

The new junction at Güterfelder Eck connects the expressway with the preserved old L 40. The L 76 to Stahnsdorf, which was originally the direct extension of the Nutheschnellstraße, is now connected via a roundabout. The entire course of the L 76 between Güterfelder Eck and Stahnsdorf was completed in 2014.

The exact course of the Güterfelde bypass has long been under discussion. Despite complaints from the citizens' initiative B1ContraNord and some private individuals, the now completed northern bypass was decided. The alternatively discussed large southern bypass of Güterfelde, in which the new L 40 would not have ended at Güterfelder Eck in Nutheschnellstrasse, but would have been led to the Drewitz junction, was not pursued further. The main problems of the northern bypass were stated by the plaintiffs to be noise pollution and the cutting of the Kienwerder district.

Marggrafshof to Großbeeren

The section to the Großbeeren traffic junction with the new B 101 was released on April 21, 2006. Due to the simultaneous connection of the freight center to the intersection of the four-lane expressways, it is sometimes referred to as a spaghetti cross. It is not a fully developed motorway-like junction, because of the six intersecting streets only the three most important are connected without a plan, and not all conceivable turning routes are available.

State road 76

Stahnsdorf – Teltow – Mahlow L 76
Teltow-Mahlow
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Operator:	country Brandenburg
State :	Brandenburg
Development condition:	2 × 2 lanes
Expressway at Mahlow towards Schönefeld

The national road 76 , shortly L 76 , begins on goods Eck with an exit from the Nutheschnellstraße L 40. They then divided into the section of road through Stahnsdorf, Ortsdurchfahrt Teltow road to Mahlow and the local bypass Mahlow. For the construction of an expressway, an expansion of the through-roads was rejected and instead it was decided to switch traffic to a southern bypass. The expressway was planned in the corridor of the previous L 40 state road.

Old thoroughfares

The old L76 began on the last section of the Nutheschnellstraße, as the old L 40 at the Güterfelder Kreuz with the Babelsberger Straße turned to the southeast and led south through the center of Güterfelde. Before the renovation, the main direction leads straight ahead from Nutheschnellstrasse into Stahnsdorf. On the first section it is still four lanes and then narrows in place.

With the construction of the new L 40 at Güterfelder Eck, an exit with a roundabout was built there, where the L 76 now begins. The L 76 initially runs north-east into the center of Stahnsdorf, from there into the directly adjacent Teltow. In the center of Teltow, the street meets Ruhlsdorfer Platz, as the intersection of the state road with the connection from Berlin-Zehlendorf to Ruhlsdorf. Until the construction of the new L 40 as a Stahnsdorf / Teltow bypass , the Potsdam-Schönefeld connection ran via this junction, which was a bottleneck in road traffic. From Ruhlsdorfer Platz in Teltow, the road also turns southeast and meets the B 101 after Teltow near Großbeeren .

With the completion of the L40n, thought is being given to downgrading the section of the old L76 with the through-roads to the county road. In new plans it is then called K6960.

New detours

When the B 101 was rebuilt as a motorway-like expressway, a cross was made with the old L76. The old L76 led as a simple country road in the form of a Brandenburg avenue to Mahlow (a lane with two lanes and rows of trees on both sides).

As the first construction phase, the Mahlow through-road was replaced by a four-lane bypass in the 1980s. In doing so, a railway line - which was closed at the time - was crossed under, which was previously a stagnation point on the Potsdam – Schönefeld line (- East Berlin ). A similar crossing with the railroad was also repaired east of Mahlow near Waßmannsdorf beforehand. The connection between the two bridges became a bypass.

In construction phase III, an expressway was built starting from Großbeeren-Nord (L76n), which leads north of the old avenue of the country road (L76). This new four-lane building led them to the junction to Diedersdorf. From the Diedersdorf / Birkholz junction, it then ran for a few years through the western area of ​​Mahlow as a local bypass until the beginning of the older local bypass. Construction of the L76n from Mahlow to Teltow began in October 2008. The construction section from B101 to Diedersdorf junction was completed by June 2010.

The remaining construction section "Mahlow bypass" was then 2.34 km long. The bypass from Mahlow-Dorf (Diedersdorf junction to Lichtenrader Straße) was opened at the beginning of December 2014 after a one-year delay. The old L76 was downgraded in this area to the county road K7239.

Bundesstrasse 96a

Federal highway Schönefeld
Mahlow – Schönefeld – eagle frame
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Operator:	Federal Republic of Germany
State :	Brandenburg Berlin
Development condition:	2 × 2 lanes
At Seegraben, before the slip road to A113

The extension of the section from Mahlow to Schönefeld took place during the GDR also due to the problems of the B 96 . Coming from the south, this leads straight north at Mahlow towards the city center of Berlin. At the time of the Berlin Wall, however, north of Mahlow was the border with the four-sector city of Berlin. Therefore, a new route was designated in the GDR, today's Bundesstraße 96a , which starts at Mahlow and turns east in the direction of Schönefeld, and from there over the eagle frame in East Berlin's Treptow district to the center of Berlin, there in a curve around the western part around to the north through the Pankow district to Birkenwerder , where it then meets the normal route of the B 96 again.

In the course of the planning for the expansion of the Berlin-Schönefeld airport into an international air hub, the plans were taken up again and revised. In 2002, the connecting piece from the northern bypass from Mahlow to the bridge with the Berlin outer ring road was expanded to four lanes. By October 2007, the expressway from the bridge over Waßmannsdorf to Schönfeld had already been built with two lanes each.

A part of it has existed since the beginning of the 1990s, leading from Waßmannsdorf to Schönefeld Airport in four lanes . The expansion of the four-lane section runs exactly along the existing route that was laid out in GDR times. Originally, the street village of Waßmannsdorf was completely crossed when coming from the south, with the railway crossing in the center of the village as planned. The bridge over the Berlin outer railway ring is now two kilometers west of Waßmannsdorf.

Berlin-Schönefeld Airport was already connected to East Berlin via four lanes over the section of the B 96a. From the Treptow triangle on the A 117 , the route continued as an intersection-free motorized road, and the Am Seegraben expressway flows at its end into the broad eagle frame that leads into the city of Berlin.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} http://www.maz-online.de/Lokales/Teltow-Flaeming/Umgehungsstrasse-fuer-Mahlow-Dorf-eroeffnet
2. ↑ Planning approval decision file number 40.10 7173 / 40.5  ( 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; 506 kB), Conversion of the Güterfelder Eck to a plan-free street intersection, MIR Brandenburg, April 11, 2008  
3. ↑ Planning approval decision file number 409 7173 / 40.4  ( 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; 1.5 MB), Güterfelde bypass, MIR Brandenburg, February 22, 2008  
4. ^ "Start of construction at Güterfelder Eck" , Potsdamer Latest News, September 10, 2009
5. ^ "Next section ready on Monday" , Potsdamer Latest News, August 9, 2012
6. ↑ Faster to Schönefeld - Güterfelde bypass is ready after three years of construction . Märkische Allgemeine . December 16, 2013. Retrieved December 18, 2013.
7. ↑ L 40n conversion of Güterfelder Eck and partial dismantling of the L 76 to the entrance to Stahnsdorf . State Road Administration (Brandenburg). April 19, 2012. Retrieved September 2, 2014.
8. ↑ Lawsuits against the Güterfelde bypass  ( 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. , Gütergotzer Landbote, No. 74, September 2008, ed. SPD -Ortsverein Güterfelde  
9. ↑ Mittelmark does not want an ailing L76 . Märkische Allgemeine. February 12, 2015.
10. ↑ L 76 Mahlow-Teltow, III construction phase - overview map . State Road Administration Brandenburg.
11. ↑ national road 76 Mahlow-Teltow - four lane expansion / III.BA . State Road Administration Brandenburg.
12. ↑ L 76 - Mahlow bypass . State Road Administration Brandenburg.