Traffic in Braunschweig
The traffic in Braunschweig is characterized by a large number of traffic routes. The city of Braunschweig had been at the crossroads of several long-distance trade routes since the Middle Ages. The river Oker , which flows through and around the city, was navigable until modern times.
Road traffic
The A 2 Hanover - Berlin motorway runs through the northern part of the city of Braunschweig in a west-east direction .
In the south, the A 36 begins at the Braunschweig-Süd motorway junction in the direction of Bad Harzburg / Halle (Saale) and connects Braunschweig to Wolfenbüttel , parts of Salzgitters, the northern Harz and, in particular, the central German area around Leipzig . Other important cities in this direction are Goslar and Wernigerode .
In the southwest of the city, the A 391 begins at the Braunschweig-Südwest motorway triangle with the A 39 and runs northwards to the west of the city via the Braunschweig-Nord motorway junction with the A 2 to Braunschweig- Wenden . It leads west of Salzgitter into the A 7 and is an important tangent between Berlin and the Kassel area . It also provides a direct connection to Wolfsburg and will in future be a connection to Lüneburg and Hamburg . The motorway crosses about 20 km east of Braunschweig at the Wolfsburg / Königslutter motorway junction . The gap on the A 39 between the Wolfsburg-Königslutter junction and the Cremlingen junction has been closed since the end of January 2009 .
The A 391 is crossed by the relatively short A 392 at the Braunschweig- Ölper motorway junction . This leads from the northern city center to just before Watenbüttel , from where the B 214 federal road leading to Celle connects to the A 2 at the BS-Watenbüttel junction.
The following federal highways run through the city: the B 1 from Hildesheim via Braunschweig to Helmstedt and Magdeburg , the B 4 from Nordhausen and Bad Harzburg via Braunschweig to Gifhorn , Uelzen and Lüneburg , the B 79 via Wolfenbüttel to Halberstadt , the B 214 to Celle and the B 248 from Seesen and Salzgitter-Bad via Braunschweig to Wolfsburg .
After the Second World War , the inner city of Braunschweig was expanded to make it suitable for cars and the change in the original development plan was accepted . Today the city center is enclosed by a two-lane city ring, further outside by a two-lane city ring. In between lies the ring of narrow ramparts that lie on the two flood ditches (see Braunschweig's geography ). In the south all three rings converge to form a broad street along the Bürgerpark . The access roads , for example most of the federal highways, end at places along the large rings.
Bicycle traffic
The bicycle plays an important role in Braunschweig and in 2012 had a share of around 21% on weekdays and almost 24% on Sundays.
Starting in 2008, the ramparts within the Okerum flood were designated as cycle roads in Braunschweig, which were later supplemented by arterial roads in the west and north-east. In the early 2010s, numerous one-way streets were opened for cyclists in both directions. A footpath and cycle path will be laid out in sections along the former industrial track system , the ring track . The path is outside the outer ring of the road and currently extends 8.7 kilometers from the south via the west to the northeast (as of July 2018). A complete circuit of the city should be completed in 2019. The total length of the cycle paths in the city is around 470 km. Of these, 180 km are classic road-accompanying cycle paths, 90 km combined cycle and footpaths and 200 km separately running cycle paths, for example in parks.
The cycling tourism has in Braunschweig and the surrounding area more of a significance for weekend getaways, the long-distance cycling tourism is poorly developed: Braunschweig is not the primary German long-distance cycle route network of D-routes connected. From the Lower Saxony network, which was developed on behalf of the Lower Saxony Ministry of Economics, but was only incompletely implemented, two routes were to run via Braunschweig. Only the Weser-Harz-Heide-Radweg (N-Netz 5) has an official status with signage and its own website. It runs from Hann. Münden in the southern Weser Uplands to Lüneburg, i.e. in a south-north direction and is 427.99 km long. The west-east cycle path (N-Netz 10) from the North Rhine-Westphalian-Lower Saxony state border between Gronau and Bad Bentheim to the Lower Saxony-Saxony-Anhalt state border between Bad Helmstedt (Brunnental) and Beendorf with a length of 443.42 km is not has been further developed, but now functions as a route for regional cycling.
The international long-distance cycle route Amsterdam-Berlin (an initiative cycle route) also runs from Hanover via Braunschweig and on to Magdeburg; it is not signposted, however, but has its own internet presence and is around 820 kilometers by bike; it contains the starting point and the destination of the west-east cycle path (N-Netz 10), but has a different (mostly more southerly, rarely more northerly) route than this one and therefore runs more through North Rhine-Westphalia than this one. Westphalia. Also to Magdeburg runs town twinning Magdeburg - radweg Braunschweig . It was opened on October 3, 2016 and has the Braunschweig town hall and the town hall of Magdeburg as its endpoints . It is around 110 kilometers long and is signposted.
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Transportation
See also: Local transport in Braunschweig , Tram Braunschweig , Braunschweiger Verkehrs-GmbH and Verkehrsverbund Region Braunschweig
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The Braunschweiger urban area is served by a tram network of the Braunschweiger Verkehrs-GmbH with a basic frequency of 10 or 15 minutes during the day on weekdays. After the Second World War, parts of the network that ran beyond the city limits were gradually discontinued, such as the routes to Wolfenbüttel , Riddagshausen and Ölper . Since the 1960s, the network has been expanded bit by bit to the current city limits in order to connect large urban areas and new development areas. The network is supplemented by bus routes that serve the outer city districts and the neighboring communities in particular. In addition to Braunschweiger Verkehrs-GmbH, KVG Braunschweig ( Salzgitter-Lebenstedt company ), Reisebüro Schmidt GmbH (RBS), Kraftverkehr Mundstock GmbH , Wolfsburger Verkehrs GmbH (WVG) and Verkehrsgesellschaft Landkreis Gifhorn mbH (VLG) are also active. Passenger transport is offered within the Braunschweig Region Transport Association (VRB) at uniform fares (zone tariff), with regional rail services also being connected.
The tram operates with a gauge of 1100 mm and is - apart from the tram in Rio de Janeiro - the only system in the world still in operation with this feature. The tram line to the south in the direction of Heidberg / Stöckheim is a special feature, as it runs on the middle green strip of a motorway ( A 36 ).
On June 3, 1904, the world's first bus line was opened between Braunschweig and Wendeburg , which still exists today (now line 560). The operator was the “Automobil-Omnibus-Betriebs-Gesellschaft Braunschweig” (AOBG) founded by the bus manufacturer Heinrich Büssing , which also served as a test facility for his company's new models.
Rail transport
The main train station was to 1 October 1960, a terminal station in the southern city near the present-day Europe Square. The listed former main building is now used by the Braunschweigische Landessparkasse . The Volkswagen Hall and part of the public park are now located on the former platforms .
In 1960 the old main station was closed and the current main station was built in the area of the former Braunschweig freight station . The main freight station and the Braunschweig depot are located in the vicinity of the main train station . A disadvantage compared to the old location is the greater distance between the new main station and the city center.
Braunschweig was a regular stopping point for interzonal traffic from the Ruhr area and Hanover on the Braunschweig – Magdeburg railway via Helmstedt and Magdeburg to West Berlin and the former Eastern Bloc (Paris-Warsaw-Moscow). Since reunification, most of the high-speed trains from the direction of Hanover have been running on the Berlin-Lehrter Railway and bypassing Braunschweig. From the direction of Frankfurt am Main , however, the ICE from Hildesheim (Sorsumer curve) continues via Braunschweig and the Weddeler Loop to Berlin. The former interzone route is now used as an intercity connection from the Ruhr area and Oldenburg via Hanover, Braunschweig, Helmstedt, Magdeburg and Halle (Saale) to Leipzig .
Historically relevant, however, is the section from Braunschweig to Wolfenbüttel of the Braunschweig – Bad Harzburg railway line , which was opened in 1838 as the first German state railway and is still operated almost unchanged in terms of the route.
Other railway lines run from Braunschweig via Gliesmarode and Gifhorn stations to Uelzen , via Wolfenbüttel to Schöppenstedt or Goslar , via Salzgitter-Bad - Salzgitter-Ringelheim to Seesen ( Braunschweig – Kreiensen railway line ) and Nordhausen and Salzgitter-Lebenstedt .
The extension of the Schöppenstedter route to Helmstedt was shut down due to the expansion of the lignite mine. The former railway line via Watenbüttel and Plockhorst to Celle was closed for passenger traffic in 1962 and has since been largely dismantled. A garbage train runs regularly between Braunschweig and the garbage dump, until Harvesse a freight train shuttles between the VW logistics center and the Braunschweig plant several times a day . There are also plans to use the route to Harvesse as a regional light rail route.
A previously existing rail connection to Oschersleben was interrupted by the Second World War, continued as the Braunschweig-Schöninger Railway until 1971 and, for economic reasons, not reopened after 1990. Remnants of this route are still used to transport the coal in the open-cast mine in the Schöningen - Hötensleben area .
shipping
The Mittelland Canal continues through Braunschweig from Hanover to Wolfsburg and Magdeburg . In Braunschweig- Veltenhof there is the Braunschweig harbor on this canal , which has a direct connection to the federal motorway 2 .
Braunschweig has had a tradition as a port city since it was founded. The Oker was navigable from here. Between 1747 and the end of the Seven Years' War there was shipping traffic between Wolfenbüttel and Braunschweig. In Klein Stöckheim (today Braunschweig-Stöckheim) was a port where the teams were changed. Bornstedt also published a price list:
1 person with 1 centner baggage gives 4.– ( Gutegroschen )
1 person without baggage 2, - 8 pfennigs
, half a barrel 6, - ...
The annual cost estimate for 1747 included the rent for 2 houses in Braunschweig and Wolfenbüttel, wages for the two forwarders , 4 skippers and 4 people to pull the ships, two ship's messengers and 4 packhands, wages for cart drivers in both cities, travel costs for replacement traffic in frosty and dry conditions ( Horse and carriage) as well as entertainment of the ships. The annual cost was 2000 Reichsthaler .
The Braunschweiger Hafen was initially on the Bruch (with crane and goods shed), then in the beguinage of the Johannis Abbey (today about Kattreppeln corner of Friedrich-Wilhelm-Straße). After the Oker flood ditches were built in the late 18th century, water was withdrawn from the inner city harbor.
aviation
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The Braunschweig Airport , located about 5 km from Braunschweig city center just south of the district Waggum and just north of the A 2 with its own junction, is also the seat of the German Federal Aviation Office and the Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accident Investigation . After being extended in August 2011, it has had an asphalt runway 2300 m in length and a grass runway reserved for glider traffic.
Several research aircraft from DLR and TU Braunschweig are stationed at the airport . In addition, the airport is regularly used for company flights by the Volkswagen Group, whose headquarters are in neighboring Wolfsburg , and can also be approached by private pilots.
In contrast to other commercial airports, however, there is no regular scheduled or charter traffic at Braunschweig Airport.
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- ↑ Modal split. (PDF; 5.11 kB) In: www.regionalverband-braunschweig.de. Regional association for the greater Braunschweig area, September 8, 2012, accessed on May 17, 2018 .
- ^ Bicycle roads , City of Braunschweig
- ↑ Opening of one-way streets for bicycle traffic in the opposite direction. In: www.braunschweig.de. City of Braunschweig, accessed on July 14, 2018 .
- ↑ Bicycle traffic in Braunschweig. Retrieved July 1, 2020 .
- ^ West-East cycle path (N-Netz 10). (PDF; 1.63 MB) In: www.meine-umweltkarte-niedersachsen.de. Archived from the original on August 31, 2017 ; accessed on May 17, 2018 .
- ↑ Long- distance cycle route Amsterdam-Berlin. In: www.bike-amsterdam-berlin.info. Rader driving Ungen - concepts and services for the cycling - Reinhard Niewerth, accessed on May 16, 2018th
- ^ City partnership cycle route Braunschweig - Magdeburg. In: staedtepart Partnerschaftsradweg.de. City of Braunschweig and state capital Magdeburg , accessed on March 18, 2018 .
- ^ Bornstedt, Wilhelm: The Okerschifffahrt und Flösserei south of Braunschweig under Duke Carl I. 1747 / Braunschweig, 1983