Vechta-West

Vechta-West City of Vechta Coordinates: 52 ° 43 ′ 42 ″  N , 8 ° 16 ′ 9 ″  E
Residents :	6000
Postal code :	49377
Area code :	04441

Vechta-West is the west of the city of Vechta with about 6,000 inhabitants. In the past there was an old airfield in the area, which has been developed through residential development since the 1990s, which was important in the First and Second World Wars.

geography

In the district lies the residential area Vechta-West , whose street names are named after aircraft designers (e.g. Dornierstrasse or Junkersstrasse ) and after major European cities (e.g. Straßburger Strasse or Amsterdamer Strasse ). The Vechta-West industrial park of the same name is located in the south of the district. In the north is the Vechta-Mitte industrial area , which was built in the late 1990s, with a large shopping center, a hardware store and a furniture store. Between the shopping center and the furniture store, several companies, mainly car dealerships, have settled along Falkenrotter Strasse and Osloer Strasse . The Theodor-Heuss-Straße and the Vechtaer march are thoroughfares and connect the Falk Rotter road (L843) with the Borkerner Damm (K333).

education

The Vechta-West elementary school (Christopherus School) is located on Brussels Street .

traffic

In the west, Vechta-West is separated by the bypass road, which leads on a road embankment (B 69) and has two exits ( industrial area Vechta-West and Vechta-Mitte ). Clearly separated from the city center and the east of the city, the Delmenhorst – Hesepe railway line serves as an artificial border between the city center and Vechta-West and is served hourly by the NordWestBahn in the direction of Bremen and Osnabrück (RB 58).

Vechta-West relief road

Falkenrotter Straße was expanded in 2010 with two roundabouts, which replace two completely overloaded traffic lights, as well as several noise barriers at the roadside. Between the two new roundabouts, which will be decorated with sculptures, a trough-type road tunnel is expected to be built under the Delmenhorst – Hesepe railway line from spring 2012 . This traffic project is called the Vechta-West relief road and the first plans go back to the 1970s, when the city under Mayor Möller sought to expand the urban area to the west side of the station in the direction of Bakum / A1. Almost 80% of all new citizens who moved to Vechta between 1980 and 2010 settled in Vechta-West and Stukenborg . Therefore, the realization of this traffic project since the beginning of the 1990s, when the residential area "West" and the "Famila shopping center" were planned and built, became an increasingly central issue in city politics. Shortly before the turn of the millennium, the city council approved the first plan, which envisaged an elevated road directly through the residential area "West". Completion would have been in 2003. On the other hand, strong citizen protests formed, from which the citizens 'initiative Vechta-West (from which the Free Voters' Initiative We FOR Vechta later developed). The protests had an effect and the plan for an elevated road was dropped. From 2003 onwards, a tunnel solution was discussed on the same aisle, but it would also have led through the residential area and would have been very expensive due to the length of the tunnel. This planning was also prevented by public protests. Then, from 2005, the immensely important traffic project for Vechta was implemented on the route currently under construction. However, here too the first plan was rejected in 2006 because a closed tunnel would have been very expensive despite the short distance. In 2008, the majority of the city council decided on today's route ("B-Plan") as a trough solution in connection with two roundabouts. To finance this, a crossing agreement was signed between the city of Vechta, the federal government and the Deutsche Bundesbahn, in which all three parties share the costs equally. The roundabouts were then both built one behind the other in 2010, the west roundabout "Petersburg" was completed in summer 2010, the east roundabout "Falkenrott" in October 2010. Part of the street "An der Griffe" was closed and a new section of street was added to the new one Ostkreisel connected. Then several residents of the adjacent streets sued the district court of Lüneburg against the development plan for the trough structure. The main reason for the complaint was that when exiting the tunnel in the direction of the city center, on the new part of the street "An der Griffe", one does not exit at the east roundabout, but stands in front of a new traffic light, which in turn will lead to backlogs that you actually want to prevent. The complaint was dismissed by the regional court at the end of April 2011, but in July 2011 the plaintiffs filed a complaint with the Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig on behalf of the Vechta-West citizens' initiative . That lawsuit was ultimately dismissed on March 26, 2012. Construction work on the underpass began in February 2012 and was completed with the opening of the underpass on July 11, 2015. Vechta-West is therefore also very close to the Paulus-Bastei street of the Vechta train station. In addition, line 602 of the Vechta city bus runs between Burgstrasse and Famila shopping center every 60 minutes in the district.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Free travel from July 11th. In: ov-online.de. Retrieved June 17, 2015 .