Sudetenstrasse
The Sudetenstrasse (Polish: Droga Sudecka ) is an unfinished road connection that should lead along the Silesian Sudetes .
planning
The planned construction of the so-called Sudetenstrasse was an infrastructure measure in the 1930s to the early 1940s to improve the connection of the health resorts, holiday resorts and rural communities to the cities in the Sudetes. The model was the construction of the German Alpine Road in the Bavarian Alps. The road should start from its starting point in Zittau via Bad Flinsberg (Świeradów-Zdrój), Ober Schreiberhau (Szklarska Poręba), Krummhübel (Karpacz), Landeshut (Kamienna Góra), Bad Kudowa (Kudowa-Zdrój), Bad Reinerz (Duszniki-Zdrój ), Mittelwalde (Międzylesie) to Troppau (Opava). However, this end-to-end connection was never completed. In addition, should a new road link over the crest of the construction of the Spindler pass road Giant Mountains to Spindleruv Mlyn (Spindleruv Mlyn) be built.
Finished sections
The following completed sections of the planned connection are now known as Sudetenstrasse :
- The section of today's street Droga wojewódzka 358 in the Jizera Mountains , which was built 1935-1937 from Świeradów-Zdrój (Bad Flinsberg) to Szklarska Poręba (Schreiberhau).
- The route from Bad Flinsberg to Ober Schreiberhau was essentially built by the Reich Labor Service and inaugurated in October 1937. The sharp curve at 775 m above Schreiberhau was named the Death Curve (Zakręt Śmierci) after 1945 because many accidents have happened here. From here you have a panoramic view of the Giant Mountains and the Hirschberg Valley . The planned connection to the road from Oberschreiberhau to Harrachsdorf (Harrachov) near Jakobsthal ( Jakuszyce ) has not taken place.
- The section from Borowice (Baberhäuser) to the old customs road above Przesieka (Hain in the Giant Mountains) as the lower section of the planned Spindlerpass road to the Spindlerpass (Przełęcz Karkonoska).
- The so-called Spindlerpassstraße was started by forced laborers and prisoners of war in the 1940s, but was never completed. At this section there is a cemetery as a memorial to the workers who died during construction. In the 1970s there were considerations to expand this new pass crossing.
- The road Droga wojewódzka 389 of Duszniki-Zdroj (Duszniki) to Międzylesie (Mittelwalde) in the Eagle Mountains and Habelschwerdter Mountains .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Droga Sudecka (Sudetenstrasse) by Dr. Przemysław Wiater ( Memento from July 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive )