Strada Statale 12 dell'Abetone e del Brennero

Strada statale SS12 in Italy
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Basic data
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Overall length:	523.624 km
Regions :	Tuscany Emilia-Romagna Lombardy Veneto Trentino-South Tyrol

The SS 12 dell'Abetone e del Brennero ( also called Brennerstaatsstraße in South Tyrol ) leads from Pisa via Abetone to Verona , from there through the Adige Valley to Bozen and from Bozen through the Eisack Valley and the Wipp Valley to the Brenner Pass , where it joins the Austrian Brennerstraße (B 182) opens. The route is 523 km long and an important trunk road in the northern part.

Route

SS 12 at the Veronese Klause in the southern Adige Valley

The route begins in Pisa in Tuscany and then heads north to Lucca , where it meets the A11 . Then it also runs north and then crosses the Tosco-Emilian Apennines . It follows the Valle di Lima first eastwards and then northwards again. The only place in the valley is San Marcello.

Then on the highest part of the route is the border between Tuscany and Emilia-Romagna . Then it goes through another valley to Pavullo and there you reach the foothills of the Apennines. At the edge of the Po plain , the route crosses with the A1 and then reaches the city of Modena .

From Modena the road leads north through the Po plain and thus through sparsely populated area. The last place in Emilia-Romagna is Mirandola, after which a nearly 13 km long route leads through Lombardy . The only major Lombard place is the most Po preferred Ostiglia , where the SS 12 crosses the river. The further course is through Veneto , after Nogara and Isola della Scala on the edge of the Alps Verona is reached.

Then it goes through the Veronese Klause into the Adige Valley ( called Vallagarina in the lowest section ) and there parallel to the Adige and the Italian Brenner motorway northwards into Trentino .

The first major place is the city of Rovereto . Then the route runs north to Trento , the capital of Trentino. In Trento, the SS 12 is an expressway for a short time, as it represents the bypassing Trient.

Then the road continues north and reaches the border with South Tyrol at the Salurner Klause . A little further north in the lowlands , it meets the SS 48 near Auer .

The cities of Laives and Bozen follow . After Bozen it continues through the Eisack valley past Klausen to Brixen , then always following the Eisack into the Wipptal valley . After Sterzing , the climb to the Brenner Pass begins , where the Brenner State Road ends at the state border with Austria . On the Austrian side, the Brennerstraße B182 continues to Innsbruck .

History and meaning

SS 12 at San Giuliano Terme, near Pisa

The road connects Tuscany with Central Europe and is one of the most important state roads in Italy.

The history of the route across the Apennines goes back to the 12th century, when there was wine and cattle trade along the current route between Pisa and Modena.

The road from Verona over the Brenner Pass has a tradition that goes back at least to Via Raetia . Under Septimius Severus , existing mule tracks to the Roman road were expanded at the beginning of the 3rd century . The route through the Eisack Valley between Bolzano and Klausen fell into disrepair over time, so that in the Middle Ages the route across the Renon had to be taken. On this old road , known as Via Imperii or Königsweg , among others, the German kings moved to Rome for the imperial coronation. In 1314, the Bolzano citizen Heinrich Kunter was given the right to set up a mule track through the valley against road tolls . By 1430, 6500 freight wagons were already using the route from Augsburg via the Brenner to Verona and Venice every year. This Kuntersweg was blasted to make it passable for carts in 1480 and developed into the busiest route across the Eastern Alps.

The current route was built in the 20th century, partly in the 19th century. The first real route section was between Trento and Bolzano as early as 1860. Then more and more sections followed until the entire route was completed in 1956.

Due to the increasing traffic in the 1950s and 1960s, the road became one of the most important transit and tourist routes, as the route runs from the north (Germany, Austria) to the south and also by Lake Garda . Many holidaymakers drove on the SS 12 towards the Adriatic Sea, Lake Garda or Tuscany. Since it is a continuous route, it is the shortest route to Tuscany.

Since the construction of the Brenner motorway (1968–1974), which runs largely parallel to Modena, the SS 12 has lost importance in long-distance traffic.

Until 1998, responsibility was shared by the respective regional offices of ANAS. Thereafter, the maintenance of the South Tyrolean part was transferred to the Autonomous Province of Bolzano - South Tyrol , the Trentino part to the Autonomous Province of Trento .

Section SS 12 radd: San Giuliano Terme - Lucca

Strada statale SS12radd in Italy
Basic data
Operator:	ANAS
Overall length:	9,900 km
Regions :	Tuscany

The SS 12 radd leads from the famous thermal baths of San Giuliano Terme via Foro di San Giuliano to Lucca and is almost 10 km long. This branch line connects the important thermal baths with Lucca and meets the SS 12 again there.

ANAS Toscana is responsible.

Web links

Commons : Strada Statale 12 dell'Abetone e del Brennero  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Martin Kluger: The Fugger in Augsburg , p. 13 ISBN 978-3-939645-63-4 . Reading sample (PDF, 1 MB)