Traffic in Hemer
The traffic in Hemer is only limited to the road. Hemer is connected to motorways, federal and state roads. After the line to Menden was abandoned in 1987 , the city was finally cut off from rail traffic . The local public transport organized for the entire Märkischer Kreis competent Märkische transport company .
Road traffic
For a complete list of current, former and future Hemeraner street names, see List of Hemeraner Street Names
Highway
Hemer is connected to the federal motorway 46 , the section of which between Hagen and Hemer, however, still ends in the Iserlohn city area. The expansion of the section began in the late 1960s and opened to traffic in 1976. The Hemer exit has already been designed in such a way that further construction remains possible.
Since the same year there has been discussion about building the motorway to Arnsberg-Neheim in order to connect the A 46 between Hagen and Bestwig . At the Neheim junction, the 445 motorway is currently merging with the A 46. A wide variety of routes were thought through over the next 30 years. There are two options in the Hemeraner urban area. The likely variant provides for a 300 meter long tunnel under the Bemberg and another 1250 meter long tunnel under Stübecken . Alternatively, a variant with a contiguous tunnel was considered.
The route in Menden and Wickede , where the motorway runs through an FFH area , is problematic , against which protests from the local population were directed. In Wimbern , it is also feared that the village will be divided into two halves. In the second half of the 1990s, there was a discussion in Hemer about a provisional expansion of the A 46 to the Menden city limits. A Edelburg junction was planned from the outset in the route planning .
Finally, in 2008, the preliminary design planning for the entire route between Hemer and Neheim began. In order to test the suitability as a possible tunnel entrance or exit, test bores were carried out by the State Office for Road Construction NRW in Stübecken in spring 2009 . The planning approval procedure for the route in the Hemeraner area was supposed to begin in 2010, but this had not happened until the new state government took office in July 2010. In May 2011, Horst Becker , the parliamentary state secretary for transport, said that the section between Menden and Neheim led through an "ecologically highly sensitive area" and would therefore not receive any support from the state government.
An expansion of the route to Menden-Lendringsen , which should be completed by 2023 , is in the preliminary planning phase. The 7.3-kilometer route is expected to cost 118.8 million euros.
Federal road
The federal highway 7 crosses Hemer from west to east. The trunk road that connects Kaldenkirchen on the German-Dutch border with Rochlitz in Saxony has been replaced by the A 46 in the Iserlohn city area. After the Hemer junction, the B 7 leads through Hemerhardt , Niederhemer , Höcklingsen , Oese and Edelburg to Menden. With a traffic volume of 25,000 cars a day on the section between Iserlohn and Niederhemer, the road is the busiest in Hemer.
A long-lasting renewal of the road between Niederhemer and Becke in 2007 and 2008 caused serious traffic problems. The road, which runs parallel to the Oese in the east of Hemer , was laid out in the years 1816 to 1817. With around 35,000 vehicles per day, the intersection of the B 7 with the L 683 / K 16 is particularly busy. Due to long backlogs, the junction was rebuilt in 2002 and made more efficient.
The federal highway 515 runs on the city limits of Menden and Balve . The Hemeraner locality Hönnetal is located on the B 515 . It is also connected to Deilinghofen via the L 682 .
State road
Landstrasse 682 begins in Sümmern and reaches the Hemeraner city in Wiehagen . There the country road leads to Westig as Iserlohner Straße with a traffic volume of around 17,000 vehicles per day . The following section to Oberhemer forms the main road, which then merges into the L 683. The following section of the Hönnetalstrasse via Sundwig and Deilinghofen leads into the Hönnetal . There the L 682 ends at a junction with the B 515 .
Landstrasse 683 connects Niederhemer with Oberhemer and Westig via Ihmert with Evingsen . The street begins at a junction with the B 7 in Niederhemer and leads to the old office building . In large parts of this route, the Landstraße forms the Hemeraner Hauptstraße with a traffic volume of 15,000 to 20,000 vehicles a day. In the city center, the L 683 runs as Im Ohl and Bahnhofsstraße parallel to the main street, which in this area is used as a shopping street, and in some cases also as a pedestrian zone. The course was straightened in the 1950s.
Between Westig and Evingsen, the L 683 runs through the Ihmert valley , past the villages of Westigerbach , Bredenbruch , Johannistal , Im Hasberg , Ihmert , Tütebelle and Elfenfohren . The country road ends in Altena city area on federal highway 236 , which runs along the Lennetal . The road is located in Hemer along the Ihmerter or Westiger Bach , in the city center along the Hemer Bach . The section between Westig and Ihmert was built between 1854 and 1857.
Landstrasse 888 begins in the center of Ihmert at a junction with the L 683 and leads through Westendorf towards the west. It leads past the Iserlohner village of Kesbern as the Grüner Talstraße to Letmathe . Between Ihmert and Kesbern it is used by around 7,000 vehicles every day.
County road
The district road 16 begins in Niederhemer and forms the continuation of the L 682 at an intersection with the B 7. The road then leads in a north-westerly direction past Stübecken and Landhausen to the Iserlohn city area, where it again joins the districts of Griesenbrauck and Sümmern the L 682 ends. The traffic volume is around 7,000 vehicles daily.
District road 32 leads in a north-south direction through the Stephanopeler valley between Sundwig and Heppingsen . The villages of Dieken , Wenhagen , Grüntal , Sundwigerbach , Winterhof , Stephanopel , Ispei , Heppingserbach and Heppingsen are on the road. Until the municipal reorganization in 1975, the traffic route formed the border between the communities Frönsberg and Garbeck , so that one side of the street was Hemeraner and the other side was the Balver area. With the expansion of the town of Hemer to include a forest area, the entire road has been in Hemer since then. In the second half of the 19th century, the manufacturers there applied for an expansion of the road in order to increase the inadequate road safety and reduce freight costs. Until 1887 the path was paved to a width of four meters, in 1935 curves were straightened and the road width increased to eight meters.
More streets
The construction of a western bypass has been a contentious issue in Hemeran local politics since around 1990. The road should lead from Hemerhardt to Westig and relieve the B 7 and the main road in the city center. A route through the Duloh landscape protection area is planned. A citizens' initiative was formed against this plan and took legal action against the development plan at the Münster Higher Administrative Court . The judges declared the route to be legally ineffective in spring 2007. Due to the award of the State Garden Show 2010 in Hemer and the associated road construction work in the city center, construction was postponed in 2008 for the time being.
Up until the 1990s, there was also discussion about an east bypass that would connect Deilinghofen with the B 7. Due to the expansion of Urbecker Straße , which leads from the city center via Urbecke to Höcklingsen , the route between Deilinghofen and Becke was shortened so significantly in 1999 that the eastern bypass has not been an issue since then.
rail
For information on the entire Menden – Letmathe railway , see: Letmathe – Fröndenberg railway
Menden – Hemer section
Plans to connect Hemer to the rail network began in 1860, when a committee was founded in the office to promote the connection of Hemer to the route network of the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft . On April 17, 1873, the company signed a contract for the construction and operation of a full line between Menden and Oberhemer, for which it received funds from the Prussian Ministry of Commerce. In 1881 the government granted the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn the concession , so that the line was opened on September 1, 1882. The Prussian state had previously become the owner of the route. In this first, almost seven-kilometer-long expansion step, stops in Hemer and Oese were established in the Hemeran urban area , the latter only being permitted for passenger traffic . Separate sidings were also created for some industrial companies and the noble castle .
The train station in Hemer is centrally located in the city center, only a few meters from the Blücher barracks of the Bundeswehr. The railway system was used for vehicle loading from 1956. Canadian and Belgian troops stationed there previously made use of this option. During the Second World War the prisoner-of-war camp Stalag VI A was located in what was later to be the barracks , which is why many, especially Soviet soldiers, were transported to the camp via Hemer station.
In 1983, discussions began about the closure of the rail link, although three years earlier the line had still been part of the “ economically optimal network ”. In 1987 the main building of Hemer station was demolished, and on May 27, 1989 the last scheduled train left Hemer. The section to Menden has survived to this day and was used for tank loading until the Blücher barracks closed in 2006. The meanwhile agreed collection of storm wood after Hurricane Kyrill expired in 2007.
In the following years a resumption of service to Menden under the name Oesetalbahn was discussed. The Rhein-Sieg-Eisenbahn is planning to take visitors by train to Hemer for the 2010 State Garden Show (on the former barracks site). If there is no possibility of economic operation in the long term, the rails should be dismantled and a cycle path built.
Hemer – Iserlohn section
The gap closure to Iserlohn, also seven kilometers long, was approved in 1883 and put into operation on July 15, 1885 as a secondary railway. This created a connection from Hemers both to the Upper Ruhr Valley Railway and to the Ruhr-Sieg line .
The Westig train station was laid out on this section in 1885, and the building that still exists today was built ten years later. At the end of 1975, goods loading in Westig was shut down, making the construction of the station superfluous. Although the building was listed as a historical monument in 1984 , it fell into disrepair in the years that followed. Today there is a pub in the building.
The history of the Hemer – Iserlohn section also ended in 1989 with the closure of the rail link. In the same year, the railway bridge between Westig and Iserlohn was demolished. Some sections of the route have now been built over, so that a rail connection to Iserlohn is hardly possible. In the joint transport development plan of the municipalities of Hemer, Iserlohn and Menden from 2003, a light rail link between Hemer and Iserlohn is discussed, which would make a direct rail connection between Hemer and Dortmund possible.
Hemer – Sundwig branch line
On October 1, 1891, the 1.8 kilometer branch line from Hemer to Sundwig was opened. This enabled other industrial companies such as Sundwiger Messingwerk and Sundwiger Eisenhütte to be connected to the rail network. Originally a continuation via Stephanopel to Balve and Neuenrade was planned, for which the district administrators of all three districts involved ( Iserlohn , Altena and Arnsberg ) as well as the Chamber of Commerce of the Iserlohn district campaigned. However, only the secondary line to Sundwig was built in 1891 .
Although the Sundwig station remained independent until 1955, the line was never used for passenger traffic. Sundwiger Bahnhof was renovated in 1960 and, like the other Hemeran freight services, shut down in 1976. The dismantling took place a year later.
Hönnetalbahn
Partly on the Hemeran city limits, the Hönnetalbahn runs parallel to the B 515. The section between Menden and Neuenrade was put into operation in 1912. With the Klusenstein stop , there was also a stop in Hemer, which has since been closed. The property then used as a parking lot for hikers was completely closed after an accident in 2009.
Bicycle traffic
Bicycle traffic in the northern Märkischer Kreis and thus also in Hemer is below average. Only six percent of the population regularly use bicycles as a means of transport. The city is connected to the NRW cycling network through routes to Iserlohn and Menden. A route via Deilinghofen and Brockhausen also leads to Balve. However, some of these routes lead over busy main roads and are therefore hardly suitable for cycling. In addition, the hilly relief forms a natural obstacle, especially in the southern urban area.
Since the railway line between Hemer and Menden was no longer used after the withdrawal of the Bundeswehr from the Blücher barracks , there has been discussion in Hemer about using the route as a cycle path. The way is supposed to secure the route so that future rail traffic remains possible. The city promises state funding for the construction of a cycle path. Cycle paths have already been laid on parts of the Hemer – Iserlohn railway line, which has also been closed.
Transportation
Westphalian small railways
The "Westfälische Kleinbahnen" were founded in Bochum in 1899 and expanded their route network to include the Hemer district by 1908. On December 28, 1908, the municipality of Calle was connected to the Iserlohn Ost train station by a tram line. On March 26, 1909, the first trams ran from Iserlohn to Westig, and on August 3, 1911, the line was continued via today's L 683 to Niederhemer. On March 18, 1912, the Becke community also found a connection when a section from Niederhemer to Höcklingsen was completed.
From July 31, 1912, branches led to Sundwig and from November 11, 1913 on to Deilinghofen. At this point in time, the tram network in Hemer had reached its maximum extent and was gradually dismantled in the following decades. In 1921 the section between Niederhemer and Höcklingsen was closed because the parallel railway line was more profitable due to its connection to Menden.
Westig – Ihmert – Altena railway
From July 18, 1913 , a small train with jacked-up state railroad cars ran from Westiger Bahnhof to Ihmert. The wire industry in the Ihmert Valley, which had been using the railway for transport purposes since November 1914, benefited from the almost seven-kilometer section. On June 30, 1917, Evingsen was also connected, and it was possible to continue to Altena after the end of the war. A total of 48 companies had also connected private sidings by then.
The dismantling of the line began in 1933 when the section between Tütebelle and Evingsen was closed. The section was so steep that each car had to be pulled up individually and was therefore unprofitable. The rest of the route in the Hemeraner city area was used more often than ever during this period. About 150,000 tons were transported annually on the small railway line. At the same time, however, the first line buses in the Westphalian Kleinbahnen area were put into operation.
Iserlohner Kreisbahn
On July 27, 1942, the Westphalian Kleinbahnen were converted into Iserlohner Kreisbahn AG. Towards the end of the war, tram traffic stopped for a good year because the bridge between Iserlohn and Westig had been destroyed. During this time the first buses commuted through the town of Hemer. In April 1946, the trams started operating again. The bridge was finally closed a second time between October 1947 and September 1948.
In the 1950s, the tram lines were gradually shut down. On November 1, 1955, the branch line to Deilinghofen was given up, a little later passenger transport in the Ihmert valley. The last tram ran on the main line between Niederhemer and Oberhemer in 1956, and on May 10, 1959 Oberhemer and Westig also lost their connection to this public transport. The route between Westig and Ihmert was also closed to freight traffic in 1963, and one year later the history of the small railway also ended in Westig.
Märkische Verkehrsgesellschaft
In the course of the municipal reorganization in 1975, the Iserlohner Kreisbahn became part of the Märkische Verkehrsgesellschaft (MVG) , which has been organizing local public transport in the Hemeran urban area since then. In 2000 about every seventh Hemeraner used the services of MVG. MVG has set up a central bus station in the city center, in the vicinity of the train station .
Hemer is currently (as of 2016) connected to the MVG network via the following lines:
| line | Line course | Tact | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Express bus | |||
| S3 | Menden, Bahnhof - Hemer, Niederhemer - Iserlohn, Stadtbahnhof | 60 min | |
| City bus | |||
| 1 | Menden, Hönnenwerth - train station - Battenfeld - Hemer, Becke - central bus station - Westiger Kreuz - Iserlohn, central bus station - city station - Grüner Talstraße - Letmathe Mitte - Letmathe Alter Markt - Hagen, Hohenlimburg train station. | 15 minutes | |
| 2 | Hemer, Brockhausen or Apricke - Deilinghofen - Sundwig - ZOB - Niederhemer - Landhausen - (Iserlohn, Rombrock) | 30 min | |
| 3 | Hemer, ZOB - Heppingsen - Hüingsen - Frönsberg - Ruthenbeck | 60 min | |
| 4 ALF | Iserlohn, Stadtbahnhof - Dannenhöfer - ZOB - Kesbern - Hemer, Ihmert - Iserlohn, Dahlsen - Grüner Talstraße - Dröschede - Stadtbahnhof | 120 min | |
| 13 | Hemer, ZOB - Sauerlandpark - ZOB - Iserlohn, Seilerseebad - Schillerplatz - Stadtbahnhof - Gerlingsen | 60 min | |
| 25 ALF | Hemer, Deilinghofen - Balve, Eisborn - Menden, Asbeck - Jungholz - Böingsen - Lendringsen | 120 min | |
| 33 | Hemer ZOB - Westig turntable - Ihmert - Altena, Evingsen Im Höttel - Am Markaner ZOB - Bahnhof - Pragpaul - Hegenscheider Weg | 30 min | |
| School traffic | |||
| 10 | Hemer ZOB - Iserlohn - Comprehensive School Nussberg - Comprehensive School Gerlingsen | no clock traffic | |
| 204 | Iserlohn, Rs. Bömberg - Stadtbahnhof - Hemer, Ihmert - Iserlohn, Dahlsen - Hombeck im Siepen - Dannenhöfer - Seed School | no clock traffic | |
| 210 | Hemer railway loop - Westiger Kreuz - Iserlohn, Bädekerplatz - ZOB | no clock traffic | |
| 220 | Hemer, School Parkstrasse - Oesestrasse | no clock traffic | |
Citizen bus Hemer
Since November 17, 1997, the Hemer Citizen Bus has been serving routes that the MVG cannot travel to . Club members drive the four lines four to six times on a weekday on a voluntary basis. They transport almost 15,000 passengers a year. In August 2009, the association put its third citizens' bus into operation. The routes start and end at the central bus station (ZOB).
The offer of the citizens' bus consists of the following lines:
- Line A ("Asenberglinie"): ZOB - Urbecke - Höcklingsen - ZOB
- Line B ("Waldfriedhoflinie"): ZOB - Westig - Sundwig - ZOB
- Line C ("Felsenmeerlinie"): ZOB - Felsenmeer - ZOB
- Line D (“Parkstrasse Line”): ZOB - Woeste-Gymnasium - Prinzhorn-Realschule - ZOB
aviation
In the first half of the 20th century there was an airfield of regional importance in Deilinghofen . From 1936 a military area was used as a glider airfield by the German Air Sports Association. In the course of the standardization of German aviation sports, the air sports clubs from today's Märkischer Kreis had to fly completely in Deilinghofen. Four winches lay side by side on the almost square, roughly one square kilometer site . From 1928 on, powered aircraft were also used there. The airfield was of particular importance during World War II, when flight courses for young men from all over South Westphalia were held in Deilinghofen . In 1939 the runway was leveled, and in the final phase of the war the Hemer area, which was surrounded by US troops, was supplied via the Deilinghofen airfield. In 1935 and 1938, "Großflugtage" took place in the office of Hemer.
After the Second World War, aviation was not allowed again until 1952. Over 10 clubs from all of today's district flew from Hemer again at this time. But with the expansion of the British barracks in Deilinghofen and the Blücher barracks of the German armed forces , the airfield was massively reduced in size, so that flight operations had to be stopped in autumn 1961. Before that, the air sportsmen from South Westphalia demanded an expansion of the Deilinghofer airfield into a regional airport , because it would have been around half as expensive as the Altena-Hegenscheid airfield . The airfield was only of relatively minor importance in terms of transport policy.
Today there is no longer an airfield in Hemer. The nearest airport is in Dortmund . There are three airfields in the neighboring town of Iserlohn and one in Menden.
literature
- Peter Reinhardt: The rail traffic of the Iserlohner Kreisbahn in the Hemer area. in: The Key , Hemer 1978.
- Hugo Banniza: Traffic problems in the Stephanopeler valley in the 19th century in: Der Schlüssel , Hemer 1980.
- Eberhard Thomas and Stefan Trost: 100 years of the railroad from Hemer to Sundwig in: Der Schlüssel , Hemer 1991.
- Hans-Hermann Stopsack: From Office to City. Self-published, Hemer 2000. ISBN 3-00-006685-3
- Wolfgang Ebe: The Deilinghofer airfield. Self-published, Hemer-Deilinghofen 2006.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ IKZ Hemer : Line determination procedure for further construction is delayed , from June 2, 2008
- ^ Declaration by the WIMBern interest group WIG
- ↑ Presentation on the A46 extension ( memento of the original from March 6, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ IKZ Hemer : "Railway line: City conferred with the Rhein-Sieg-Bahn" , March 17, 2009
- ↑ IKZ Hemer : “Three tunnel variants are currently being examined” , from June 4, 2008
- ↑ derwesten.de: Autobahn: Further construction of the A46: All hope for a new government , accessed on August 29, 2011
- ↑ a b wa.de: A46 between Menden and Neheim auf der Kippe , accessed on August 29, 2011
- ^ Streets.NRW : Closing gaps on the motorways in North Rhine-Westphalia
- ↑ a b c d e f traffic development plan Hemer-Iserlohn-Menden ( 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. (PDF file; 2.5 MB)
- ↑ hemer.de : “Esken calls for more construction workers on the B7” ( 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.
- ↑ Karin von Gymnich: From Adjutantenkamp to Zeppelinstrasse - tell Hemer's street names. 1st edition, Hemer 1986.
- ↑ Dr. Hugo Banniza: Traffic problems in the Stephanopeler and Heppingser valley in the 19th century. in: Bürger- und Heimatverein Hemer eV (Hrsg.): The key. Hemer 1980.
- ↑ Website of the citizens' initiative for sustainable transport planning ( memento of the original from June 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ IKZ Hemer : "Green Alternative Hemer recommends Michael Esken (CDU) candidate for mayor" , from February 20, 2009
- ↑ IKZ Hemer : “Trains should run again on the Oesetalbahn” , from April 16, 2009
- ↑ Traffic development plan Hemer-Iserlohn-Menden, sub-concept of local public transport ( 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. (PDF file; 1.4 MB)
- ↑ IKZ Hemer : "Deutsche Bahn blocks popular Klusenstein parking lot" , dated July 9, 2009
- ↑ Traffic development plan Hemer-Iserlohn-Menden: Cycle traffic sub-concept ( Memento of the original from October 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 861 kB)
- ↑ Radverkehrnetz NRW ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ IKZ Hemer : End of the railway line: the cycle path should secure the route , from November 23, 2007
- ↑ IKZ Hemer : Sad faces on the last train journey , from August 1, 2008
- ↑ IKZ Iserlohn : By bike from the city station to the state garden show , from June 3, 2008
- ↑ Line overview on the website of the MVG ( Memento of the original from August 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Chronicle of the Citizens' Bus Hemer ( 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.
- ↑ IKZ Hemer : New Citizen Bus for Hemer , from August 14, 2008
- ↑ Route routes of the Citizens' Bus Hemer ( 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.
