R35 (Jordan)
| R35 in Jordan | |
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| Start of the street: | Muqarin on Jarmuk ( 32 ° 43 ' N , 35 ° 52' O ) |
| End of street: | Rajif junction ( 30 ° 2 ' N , 35 ° 28' O ) |
| Overall length: | 395 km |
| of which in operation: | 395 km |
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| In Wadi Mujib - view to the southeast | |
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Course of the road
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Map with all coordinates: The Route 35 , known as the King's Highway is a highway in Jordan . The road is a north-south connection through the mid-west of the country, from the border with Syria in the north through Irbid and Amman, and through the southern highlands, where it meets Route 15 and ends. The part between Irbid and Amman is busy and has 2 lanes. South of Amman, the road opens up the Jordanian mountains and runs roughly in the middle between the 65 in the Jordan Valley and the desert highway 15 (Dessert Highway). Route 35 leads through important tourist places such as Madaba , Wadi Mujib , Kerak and the archaeological city of Petra . Route 35 is 395 km long.
Street description
The road starts on the border with Syria north of Irbid, but there is no border crossing. The road runs here at about 400 meters above sea level through agricultural areas, past Abila and then reaches the city of Irbid. You have to drive through the center of Irbid and cross the 10 . The route from Irbid to Amman is expanded with 2 × 2 lanes. In Neaime , it meets Route 25 in a clover- shaped motorway junction and then continues to Jerash and Amman. The road is an important link, but it is not a real highway. It runs through the west of Amman and crosses Route 30 there . South of Amman, a short section of the route is double numbered with Route 40 to Na'ur . In the further course the city of Madaba is reached.
The route south of Madaba is single-lane and runs parallel between Route 15 in the east and Route 65 in the west. It repeatedly passes villages and is an important connecting road here. The landscape in the south becomes much more desert-like. After Dhiban there is suddenly a spectacular view over Wadi Mujib , a winding route leads almost 600 meters down to 150 meters above sea level to the dam of the Mujib Dam , over which the road has been running since 2003. On the southern side it goes up again up to 900 meters. The next town is Kerak where the 50 crosses. This is followed by the plateau of Mu'ta, which is up to about 1200 meters high, before the next valley Wadi al-Hasa is crossed, which, like Wadi Mujib, drains westwards towards the Dead Sea . Route 35 is one of the most scenic roads in the country due to the varied views. On the route to Wadi Musa and the Nabatean city of Petra, it finally reaches an altitude of more than 1,600 meters, making it one of the highest roads in Jordan. South of Maʿan , it meets Route 15 , which continues to Aqaba , and thus ends.
history
Route 35 follows a route already used in antiquity, which led from the south over the mountains to Amman and on to Aram (Damascus) . The trail was used by nomadic tribes 4,000 years ago. The street still bears the old name Königsstrasse (Kings Highway) , under which it is already mentioned in the Bible. In the book of Numbers, the Israelites want to take this route through Edom . Fields, vineyards and wells on this "road of the kings" are mentioned. The route was filled with strong towns and villages and was easy to defend. The Edomites prevented the Israelites from passing through and forced them to use the desert road. The artery between the Iron Age neighbors northern Reich Israel , Moab and Aram, which alternately took control of the road, remained controversial . King Mesha of Moab boasts on an inscription that he paved the road on the Arnon (in Wadi Mujib). Königstrasse is also mentioned in one of the Amarna letters , with a petty prince from Hauran describing the Egyptian pharaoh his road-building work at Bosra .
In Roman times, the road was paved in parts and provided with milestones. At the beginning of the 2nd century, after the founding of the province of Arabia Petraea , it was expanded under Emperor Trajan as Via Traiana Nova from Damascus to Aqaba.
In the 20th century, the route south of Amman became important again when tourism to Petra began to rise, although a large proportion of the first tourists on Route 15 came from the south and only later took Route 35.
future
In 2011 the construction of a motorway around Irbid began. This is likely a part of Route 55 and is important to Route 35 as the route no longer has to go through Irbid.
Major cities on Route 35
literature
- Jordan. Map 1: 400,000. Publisher: Reise Know-how, Bielefeld 2011, ISBN 978-3-8317-7161-5 .
- Frank Rainer Scheck: Jordan. Peoples and cultures between the Jordan and the Red Sea. 2nd Edition. Dumont, Ostfildern 2000, ISBN 978-3-7701-3979-8 , pp. 247-299. (Along the Königstrasse).
Web links
- Route 35 (Jordan) on Wegenwiki.nl
Individual evidence
- ↑ ( 4 Mos 20.17 ELB )
- ^ Frank Rainer Scheck: Jordan. Peoples and cultures between the Jordan and the Red Sea. 2nd Edition. Dumont, Ostfildern 2000, ISBN 978-3-7701-3979-8 , pp. 247-248.