Dammer Berge service area
The Dammer Berge service area is located on the Federal Motorway 1 between the Holdorf and Neuenkirchen-Vörden exits in Lower Saxony and has a bridge restaurant , the second structure of its kind in Germany. The design can be found as a motorway service station , which spans the entire lane, only once on the A 9 with the Frankenwald rest area . Its name refers to the nearby Dammer Berge ridge . It hosts about 1 million people a year.
History and use
The rest area was built from 1967 to 1969 with a gas station and parking for 20 trucks and 65 cars for each lane, a bridge restaurant, a motel and a tenant and staff dormitory. There has also been an ecumenical motorway chapel on the west side of the area since 1970 . The service station building was designed by the architects Paul Wolters and Manfred Bock . The bridge construction should be a connecting element of the two halves of the landscape separated by the motorway. On the east side, the lower-lying farm building is integrated into the embankment, with the farmyard in front of it. The construction costs amounted to 10 million DM. Initially, the rest area was run as a restaurant with service, only a small part was self-service. In 1991 a major renovation followed as part of the "Raststätte der Zukunft" project.
In 1998 the motorway service station was privatized and has been operated by the Tank & Rast company ever since . The restaurant, now designed as a self- service restaurant, has 360 seats. Around 60 employees work around the clock in three shifts at the rest stop. Next to the restaurant, two shops with an area of 100 m² are operated on the premises. There is also an ATM. There are two outdoor playgrounds, one on the east and one on the west, and an indoor play area for children. In addition to the toilets, there are sanitary facilities, a baby changing room , a disabled toilet and a remote driver's shower .
On the eastern side, a wind turbine went into operation in 1992, which was built by the operator of the bridge restaurant at the time. It has a nominal output of 75 kW . The hub is 37 meters high; the rotor has a diameter of 15.6 meters.
In the course of the parking lot extension in 2011, the number of parking spaces was increased by a total of 55 truck parking spaces, 12 bus parking spaces, 44 car parking spaces, including 15 separate parking spaces for cars with trailers, as well as a dangerous goods / heavy load space.
This means that there are now a total of 82 parking spaces for trucks and 120 parking spaces for cars, plus the new special parking spaces. There are dedicated parking spaces for people with disabilities.
The west side of the service area is located in the Neuenkirchen-Vörden community , while the east side belongs to the Holdorf community .
Bridge restaurant construction
The bridge restaurant, 103 meters long and 18 meters wide, spans the carriageway of the A1 with three fields, which here lies in a seven-meter deep cut. The spans are 39 meters in the middle opening above the motorway and 19.5 meters in each of the two peripheral areas. The building is supported by a narrow prestressed concrete box girder , which is also used as a pipe cellar. The box girder has a prestressed reinforced concrete slab protruding on both sides at the top , on which the actual single-storey building, a steel structure, is arranged. Two 38 meter high steel pylon posts arranged on the west side serve to transversely brace the steel structure and to ventilate the building. The completely closed, room-high aluminum window facade is indented by one meter for reasons of noise protection and maintenance.
literature
- Ralph Johannes, Gerhard Wölki: The Autobahn and its rest stops - history and architecture . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2005. ISBN 3-932526-68-6 . Pages 127–131
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Jochen Schimmang: Holidays on the rest stop ; FAZ-online, June 25, 2011 )
- ↑ ( page no longer available , search in web archives: Bischöflich Münstersches Officialat )
Coordinates: 52 ° 32 '23.9 " N , 8 ° 6' 49.2" E