West Expressway

West Expressway
Basic data
Operator:	Federal Republic of Germany
Start of the street:	Hanover sticks
End of street:	Hannover-Linden-Süd
Overall length:	6.8 km
of which in operation:	6.8 km
State :	Lower Saxony
Development condition:	2/2
West Schnellweg with a view towards the Deisterkreisel, on the left the Von-Alten-Garten borders, on the right the Lindener Berg

The Westschnellweg is a four-lane expressway in Hanover and here part of federal highway 6 .

history

The Westschnellweg was built from 1950. Together with the Südschnellweg , the Messeschnellweg and other expressways , it is part of the concept developed by the urban planner at the time, Rudolf Hillebrecht , to guide long-distance traffic around the city center. Through this traffic planning, which was related to the urban planning of the reconstruction after the Second World War, Hanover gained national fame in the 1950s. In the 1970s, the expansion of the B 6 to the A 35 was planned.

course

The Westschnellweg is part of the federal highway 6 . This comes from the northwest of Neustadt am Rübenberge . On the street Am Leineufer , it crosses the A 2 at the Hannover-Herrenhausen junction and runs through the Leinemasch along the city limits of Hanover. The Westschnellweg begins at the intersection with Stöckener Straße in the Stöcken district and leads south-east in the Leinemasch. In this section, the Herrenhausen junction leads to the Herrenhausen Gardens , the University of Hanover and the Nordstadtkrankenhaus .

From the Schwanenburg Crossing before the Schwanenburg Bridge , the traffic leading to the city center departs via the four-lane feeder Bremer Damm ( Landesstrasse 190 ). This leads into the Königsworther Platz .

The West Schnellweg crosses the Leine shortly after the Schwanenburg crossing and marks the border between the districts of Limmer and Linden-Nord . The junctions Linden-Nord ( Limmerstraße , B 441 ) and Linden-Mitte (Fössestraße) follow . The Westschnellweg ends at Deisterplatz in the Linden-Süd district .

Integration into the Hanover expressway network

From Deisterplatz, the B 6 leads on Göttinger Straße and Friedrich-Ebert-Straße to the Ricklinger Kreisel in the Ricklingen district . In between is the Kaisergabel , via which the traffic from the city center joins the expressway leading out of the city. At the Ricklinger roundabout, the B 65 branches off to the west. From the Ricklinger roundabout the Frankfurter Allee leads to the Landwehr roundabout with the branches B 3 to the south and the Südschnellweg to the east.

photos

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  View from Deisterplatz to the Westschnellweg

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  Former Hanomag factory building on Deisterplatz

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  Air raid shelter from the Second World War on Deisterplatz

Web links

Commons : Westschnellweg (Hannover)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ NN : The miracle of Hanover . In: Der Spiegel . No. 23 , 1959, ISSN  0038-7452 , pp. 56-69 ( online [accessed October 7, 2019]).

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