Rheingönheimer Cross
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| Country: | Germany |
| State : | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| Coordinates: | 49 ° 26 '4 " N , 8 ° 24' 27" E |
| Height: | 94 m above sea level NHN |
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| Design type: | Shamrock without 4th branch |
| Construction year: | 1970s |
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| Rheingönheimer Cross from the northeast | |
The Rheingönheimer Kreuz is the incomplete plan-free junction of federal highways 9 ( Karlsruhe - Ludwigshafen am Rhein ) and 44 ( Frankfurt –Ludwigshafen) southwest of the Ludwigshafen district of Rheingönheim .
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The autobahn-like Rheingönheimer Kreuz was built as a clover leaf with a special symmetry. The north-south route, created as an underpass, is 94 m above sea level. NHN , the west-east route planned as an overpass is slightly higher.
So far the Rheingönheimer Kreuz has three branches:
- the north B 44 to Ludwigshafen and intra-city - on the Kurt-Schumacher-bridge over the Rhine further - Mannheim leads
- to the west the B 9 as a western bypass from Ludwigshafen with a connection north of the city to the A 6 (Mannheim– Saarbrücken )
- to the south the B 9 towards Speyer , where there is a connection to the A 61 ( Hockenheim - Koblenz ) at the Speyer junction , and Karlsruhe
Planning and construction history
Originally, two motorways were to cross at the Rheingönheimer Kreuz, the A 653 and the A 655 . However, these two traffic routes were not implemented. Instead, the connections were redesigned, partially relocated and replaced by federal roads. In the 1970s, the three branches of the cross that exist today were initially built, the realization of the branch facing east has remained open to this day.
As early as 1965 there was a planning approval decision to build this still missing branch as a Ludwigshafen southern bypass and thus to create a four-lane parallel south of the two-lane connecting road Ludwigshafen– Altrip ( district roads 7 and 12). After about 7 km it should flow into an additional Rhine crossing with a new bridge and to the east of the river be connected to the southern bypass B 38a of the Baden sister city of Mannheim. So the motorway ring around the two cities would have been closed. This project was with regard to the partial to be crossed Altriper recreation area in 2003 Blaue Adria dropped after decades of discussion "final"; the planning approval decision was repealed and the project was deleted from the federal transport infrastructure plan.
Above all, the economy continued to strive to realize the southern bypass of Ludwigshafen and the Rhine crossing at Altrip. The Rhine-Neckar Region Association and the Palatinate and Rhine-Neckar Chambers of Commerce and Industry each commissioned expert reports in 2007. According to their forecasts, above all the Ludwigshafen city center and the two bridges to Mannheim would be relieved because 15,000 vehicles would use the new connection every day; of these, only about 800 would be vehicles which so far cross the Rhine daily with the Rhine ferry Altrip . Three variants of the route were named: a tunnel from the cross and then a bridge over the Rhine for an estimated 390 million euros, a pure tunnel solution for 570 million euros and an above-ground route with a bridge for 180 million euros. As a first measure, it was recommended that the route to the east be reserved and the project included in the regional plan so that the required area may not be built on in the meantime and the project can still be implemented in the distant future.
Against the background of the reports, the Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis asked its municipalities for comments. The more distant communities of Maxdorf , Mutterstadt and Schifferstadt spoke out in favor of the additional Rhine crossing , the directly adjacent communities Neuhofen and Altrip. In the municipal council of the city of Mannheim, the CDU , FDP and Free Voters voted for, SPD , Greens and the Left against the implementation.
The red-green government in Rhineland-Palatinate abandoned the plans for the Rhine crossing at Altrip in its coalition agreement of 2011. The Lord Mayor of Ludwigshafen, Eva Lohse, recommended keeping the option for the expansion open. The main committee of the Ludwigshafen city council did not come to a uniform statement; CDU, SPD and FDP made the expansion dependent on the development of mobility flows in the coming decades, the Greens and FWG strictly rejected the project.
After the decision of the planning committee of the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region, the reservation of the route was not included in the regional plan, which is valid until 2020. Since a realization in the distant future was described as possible in a footnote, the expansion of the Rheingönheimer Kreuz is still open.
In January 2019, the Free Voters parliamentary group in the Ludwigshafen city council suggested that the originally planned extension of the B 9 from the Rheingönheimer Kreuz to Mannheim could be realized with a makeshift steel structure, as is common on many bridges.
Web links
- Location of the Rheingönheimer Kreuz on: Map service of the landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate Nature Conservation Administration (LANIS map) ( notes )
- Detailed route description of the Ludwigshafen – Speyer route, which was previously planned as the 653 federal motorway , on autobahnatlas-online.de
- Detailed route description of the route Worms – Schwetzingen , which was previously planned as the 655 federal motorway , on autobahnatlas-online.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Rheingönheimer Kreuz. (No longer available online.) Motorway intersections online, formerly the original ; Retrieved December 13, 2011 . ( 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.
- ↑ Map service of the landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate nature conservation administration (LANIS map) ( notes )
- ^ The Rheinpfalz , complete edition of the Südwestdeutsche Zeitung . Ludwigshafen July 16, 2010.
- ^ The Rheinpfalz , local edition Ludwigshafener Rundschau . Ludwigshafen July 30, 2012.
- ^ The Rheinpfalz , local edition Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis . Ludwigshafen April 15, 2011.
- ^ The Rheinpfalz , local edition Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis . Ludwigshafen March 4th 2011.
- ^ The Rheinpfalz , local edition Mannheim and region . Ludwigshafen April 1, 2011.
- ^ The Rheinpfalz , local edition Mannheim and region . Ludwigshafen April 20, 2011.
- ^ The Rheinpfalz , local edition Ludwigshafener Rundschau . Ludwigshafen May 3, 2011.
- ^ The Rheinpfalz , local edition Ludwigshafener Rundschau . Ludwigshafen May 4th 2011.
- ^ The Rheinpfalz , local edition Ludwigshafener Rundschau . Ludwigshafen May 10, 2011.
- ^ The Rheinpfalz , local edition Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis . Ludwigshafen May 31, 2011.
- ^ The Rheinpfalz , local edition Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis . Ludwigshafen August 5th, 2011.
- ↑ ott (author's abbreviation): FWG fears “Super GAU”. In: Mannheimer Morgen. January 17, 2019, accessed January 17, 2019 .
