Werderland route
The Werderlandtrasse (also Werderlandstrasse ) is an unrealized construction project for a bypass road in Bremen . It should connect the main roads in Bremen-Nord , which run in an east-west direction, to the Heerstraßen train in the direction of Bremen city center. A third Lesum crossing was to be created within Bremen next to the bridge over the Blockland motorway ( federal motorway 27 ) and the Bremen-Burger Lesum bridge .
Planning and course
As early as 1943, in addition to other possible construction projects, a new road through Werderland was outlined in the Bremen spatial plan. A western branch should lead over a tunnel to the other side of the Weser. In the overview of the planned road expansion in Bremen published in 1959, a road through Werderland is only indicated. A more detailed plan of the Werderland route was presented in 1971 by Bremen's Senator for Construction, Hans Stefan Seifriz, as part of the “Bremen urban development program”. The Werderland route was to lead from the expressway under construction in Bremen-Nord (then Bundesstrasse 74 , now Bundesautobahn 270 ) through the Bremen district of Burglesum and its districts of St. Magnus , Werderland and Burg-Grambke to Grambker Heerstraße . Since the population in Bremen had risen sharply in previous years and motor vehicle traffic was steadily increasing, the expansion and construction of the road system was seen as the only solution to ensure efficient road traffic as the city continued to grow.
Termination of planning
At the end of the 1970s, planning was abandoned because the population increase in Bremen was lower than forecast and the construction of additional roads no longer seemed necessary. Instead, local public transport was expanded.
The St. Magnus junction of the A 270 was initially designed as a partial junction and was later to be expanded as a connection to the Werderland route. It was only expanded in 2013 to become a fully-fledged junction for the A 270. Most of the areas kept free for the route in the St. Magnus district for decades have now been built on. Today only the swiveling of the southern section of "Mahlstedtstrasse" reminds of the planned route.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hartmut Roder (Ed.): Traffic in Bremen . Steintor, Bremen 1988, ISBN 3-926028-15-7 .
- ↑ The Senator for Building (Ed.): Expansion of the road network in Bremen . Bremen March 1959.
- ↑ The Senator for Building (Ed.): City Development Program Bremen - Draft . Bremen June 1971.
- ^ The Senator for the Environment, Building and Transport - Roads. Retrieved January 16, 2019 .
- ↑ Volker Kölling: 40 new houses in St. Magnus. In: Weser Courier. August 14, 2018, accessed January 18, 2019 .