Werra Valley Bridge (B 62)

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The Werra crossing is to be built here - view of Bad Salzungen

The Werra Valley Bridge on Bundesstraße 62 is a planned structure over the Werra Valley near Bad Salzungen . The start of construction on the bridge, which cost around 40 million euros and is listed in the federal transport infrastructure plan, was scheduled for 2015.

At the beginning of 2012, a steel composite construction with an underlying deck and spans of a maximum of 120 meters was awarded the first prize in a design competition.

After completion, the bridge will be around 1600 m long and exceed the A 71 motorway bridge near Meiningen as the longest road bridge in Thuringia .

history

After the first construction phase of the Bad Salzungen bypass had already started in the first few years after the fall of the Wall and the federal road 62 could be removed from the narrow city center of Bad Salzungen, the continuation across the Werra valley with the connection to the federal road 19 was difficult .

When planning the bridge, financial considerations and the views of nature conservationists conflicted. The simplest variant, a dam across the Werra valley with a small bridge to the Werra overpass, would have cut through a sensitive natural area. The presence of the corncrake has meanwhile been confirmed in the affected wet meadows, which border a gravel extraction field . Furthermore, sufficient water drainage during the Werra flood ( see flood 1909 ) could not be verified without restriction.

With the various boundary conditions that had to be considered, the planned construction costs rose, so that implementation was delayed further and further. The bridge is to begin in Bad Salzungen at the level of the rescue station of the German Red Cross, cross the current federal highway 62, the tracks of the Werra Railway and the Werra and finally merge with the B 19 at the Barchfeld-Nord exit.

The plan approval procedure was restarted in February 2015. In the trunk road expansion law, which was amended at the end of 2016, the bridge, as part of the 5th construction phase of the Bad Salzungen bypass, together with the 4th construction phase currently under construction ( Kaiseroda , Leimbach ), is classified in the category of ongoing and permanently planned . According to information from the Südthüringer Zeitung , the plan approval procedure should have been completed in the course of 2017. During the planning approval process, documents relating to a plan change were available until mid-February 2019. The planning approval decision was issued on May 15, 2020. According to the Südthüringer Zeitung, construction is scheduled to start in 2026.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ News from the VIC group of companies ( Memento of the original from November 15, 2011 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vicgmbh.de
  2. ↑ Politicians find out about road construction projects. (No longer available online.) In: The CDU Bundestag members from Thuringia. Archived from the original on August 9, 2017 ; Retrieved May 5, 2017 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lgth.de
  3. ↑ Federal Law Gazette . (PDF) Retrieved May 5, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Overview map B 62 new, OU Bad Salzungen 5th construction phase - Werra crossing. (PDF) Road Administration of the Free State of Thuringia, October 2014, accessed on May 5, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Südthüringer Zeitung, Bad Salzungen edition of May 10, 2017, page 7: "Building rights for the Werra crossing this year"
  6. ↑ Online reading - notice. Retrieved April 7, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Werra crossing is coming in 2026 - Thuringia's largest valley bridge is being built. Retrieved August 29, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Werra crossing is being built. Retrieved July 26, 2020 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 48 ′ 32.5 ″  N , 10 ° 16 ′ 50.9 ″  E