Bundesautobahn 11
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State:
- Mecklenburg -Western Pomerania
- Brandenburg
- In construction
- In planning
- Traffic control system
The Federal Highway 11 (abbreviated as BAB 11) - Short Form: Highway 11 ( Abbreviation: A 11 ) - operates 110.1 kilometers from the Polish border to the vicinity of the city of Berlin. It is section of the European Route 28
Course
The highway begins at the border crossing point Pomellen to Poland following the local Autostrada A6 and leads first 19 km west- south-westerly direction through Mecklenburg -Vorpommern. At the level of the junction Schmölln the limit is exceeded at Brandenburg. From here to the A bent 11 from south- southwest direction and runs 91 km through this state. At the motorway junction Kreuz Uckermark the A crosses 20 from Lübeck, Rostock and Stralsund with the connection of the islands of Rügen and Usedom.
The Highway 11 ends at the Berlin Ring (A 10) near the northeastern outskirts of Berlin.
The chainage starts on the cross Barnim, the border crossing to Poland is located at km 109.9. However, the connection points are numbered in ascending order starting from the border in the direction of Berlin.
History
The construction plans for the Szczecin triangle (now Cross Barnim ) and the first four lane kilometers, including the transfer of the Reichsstrasse 2 began in April 1935. The building was partly a project to create jobs, on the other hand, the economic recovery should be propagated in the then and now structurally weak region.
The route from the Berliner Ring up to Joachimstal already been released on 4 April 1936 to 27 September of the same year the highway to Stettin -South was passable. In 1937 the Oder bridges were completed and the route to Szczecin released. The connection point Wandlitz (completed in 1971) was retrofitted for better accessibility of the forest estate ( residential area for the members of the SED Politburo of the former GDR ). Similarly, the junction Chorin has been built after 1945. This also explains the low for Reichsautobahnen distance from the junction Joachimsthal of about 1.5 km.
The now integrated into the cross Barnim branch of the A 11 from Berlin's ring was in the GDR branch or branch Penkun Prenzlau and was renamed in the 1990s in " triangle Schwanebeck ". The motorway junction was used as a 1952-1973 Bernauer loop for car and motorcycle racing. The steep turn was demolished in the 1990s.
Until the reunification in 1990, the West Berlin of the transit highway to Hamburg had the designation A 11 Her name is now A 111
Rehabilitation
In 1991, the high traffic junction Gramzow on the B 198 (then known as AS Prenzlau ) as the first major construction project after 1936 completely rebuilt. During the work, the junction was closed for several months. At the same time the fundamental -like expansion of the A 11 was in the range up to about 500 m, including the creation of a hard shoulder. The expansion was necessary because previously there were no acceleration and deceleration lanes are available.
The A 11 is due to be renewed since 1996 over most of their range by a modern road surfaces and which have at times widening to newly created emergency lane. A special feature of the A 11 in the area of the biosphere reserve Schorfheide -Chorin has no emergency lanes, although the relining took place after 2000. By 2007, the highway had some legs on a desolate road condition. For example, 95.0 and 101.0 of the traffic was conducted on only one lane in each direction with a strip since 2003 on the portion between the kilometers. The unused road still consisted of brittle concrete slabs from the 1930s. Only in December 2007, the refurbished route was opened to traffic. Since November 2008, the section between the interchange and cross Uckermark junction Schmölln is renewed.
From 5 May 2011 to 11 November 2013, the triangle Schwanebeck was turned into a cross Barnim. This was associated with the fundamental -like expansion of the A 11 at first about three kilometers.
Special
There is a wild bridge between junctions Joachimsthal and Pfingstberg. The bridge consists of reinforced concrete, on which a special sheet was placed and subsequently covered with sand and soil. The cost of the completed construction in May 2005 amounted to about three million euros. Since the start of the path is monitored by camera. By October 2006 2300 Wildwechsel were counted. Is used, the bridge of fallow deer, roe deer, wild boars, hares, foxes, badgers, raccoon dogs and martens. Deer could not be observed.
According to the General Association of German Insurers an emergency telephone between Chorin and Werbellin in direction Berlin with 199 emergency calls in 2010 was the most widely used emergency telephone on the German motorways.