Bundesautobahn 143
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State:
- Saxony-Anhalt
- In construction
- In planning
- Traffic control system
The Federal Highway 143 (abbreviated as BAB 143) - Short form: Highway 143 (abbreviated as A 143 ) - to serve the western bypass hall and join the A14 in the north to the A38 in the south. The A 143 is part of the so-called Central German loop.
Building project
After the fall of the BAB was 143 defined as one of the German Unity Transport Projects. The Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan 1992, the highway was classified as urgent requirement.
It provided for a four-lane expansion plus hard shoulder with a standard cross-section of 29.5 meters along the entire length.
State of implementation
The southern part between the interchange and the Hall -South junction (AS) Halle- Neustadt is enabled; the northern part to the AD hall - Nord was prohibited by an action of the NABU hall before the Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig for the time being. On 28 June 2005, the NABU Hall has filed a lawsuit against the planned motorway piece to cross the Saale valley. The affected porphyry dome landscape is protected by the European nature conservation law, in particular as Fauna-Flora -Habitat.
The Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig has prohibited the expansion of A 143 by a judgment on 17 January 2007. The zoning approval in May 2005 for the proposed western bypass of the city hall is unlawful because it violates EU law Fauna- Flora-Habitat areas. The construction of the Western Bypass are adjusted since then. The supplementary plan approval process was initiated in September 2009 and released its planning approval documents in October 2009. The objection period ended on 27 November 2009. NABU Hall has brought together with local residents objections to the resumption of construction work.
2008 have been prepared as a supplement to the plan approval process of the DEGES a species protection law specialist article. The discussion of additional documents is complete. The corresponding zoning decision has yet been issued. NABU hall still intends to prevent the construction of the disputed northern part of the piece of highway through the legal system.
The construction period for the remaining 12.6 kilometers would be loud DEGES three years. The Saale bridge at Salzmünde would be the most complicated building with 1175 m length. Compared to the original schedule is yet a delay of more than 19 years occurred. Appropriation originally cost 80 million euros, which have not risen to 150 and currently to 240 million euros.
Criticism of environmentalists
NABU hall and the associated him residents aspire to the role of the project in order with his Fauna-Flora -Habitat to protect the landscape of the Saale valley "Lower Saale Valley ". The resulting " delay of more than 18 years," see NABU and other environmental groups as an important success on the way to a final protection of the Saale valley.
The lawsuit filed by residents initiatives and NABU hall before the Federal Administrative Court focuses in particular on the massively threatened by highway Halle porphyry dome scenery and limestone slopes at Lieskau who are under the special protection of the European Union. The Ocean's animal species that would be threatened by the highway, also includes species that are on the red list. In addition to 25 species of dragonflies live there also some very rare bees and butterflies such as the furrows bee Halictus smaragdulus and the butterfly mountain witch. In porous porphyry rocks of the strictly protected by the Federal Nature Conservation Act crested newt finds its habitat.
From NABU hall and in the petition " scientists and artists for the preservation of the lower Saale valley " 143, two alternatives were proposed instead of the realization of A, which supply their needs in the "Lower Saale Valley " without damage to the Habitats protected area. For a 180 could be expanded between Eisleben and Aschersleben the main road. Since no fragmentation of the landscape is necessary that the effect on the environment would be much lower. The second proposed alternative is the construction of a southern bypass of the federal highway 80 for Hall. Such a bypass would allow the demolition discussed the " high road " and around route traffic around the city center, but can not yet be financed by the City Hall at the time. The funds, which are available for the A 143, according to NABU is a ring road comfortably affordable. This could run along the S- Bahn tracks to avoid a fragmentation of the landscape here.
Another argument of the environmentalists is a traffic count at the town hall on May 2009, in Hall eliminated after even on the main thoroughfares only a maximum of 11.2 % of the traffic on through the driver, the bulk of the traffic, however, arises within the city itself. Transport in the city but can not be transferred to a distant city motorway. Thus, the mere A 143 do not contribute to traffic congestion of the city hall.
In June 2011, has established itself following a first Ostermarsch and a new plan approval process, the citizens' initiative Saale valley, with the explicit goal of "the preservation of natural and cultural landscape before fragmentation by the highway ."
Point of view of the proponents
The former mayor Dagmar Szabados gave the state government in February 2012, about 5,000 signatures for the continued construction of the highway. Among other things, the Handwerkstag Saxony-Anhalt calls for the rapid completion of the A 143, as without it arose an economic and ecological damage.
Transport Minister Thomas Webel results as arguments for the necessary ongoing construction, among other things, the closure of A 14 in June 2012, when it came several days to jams with hours of delay. Another point is the existential importance for the economy of the region. The current transport via the B 80 and the Saale crossing were partially associated with significant detours, extra time and extra costs.
The Saalekreis - District Administrator Frank Bannert sees the need not only for the Western Bypass Hall, but also for the economy of Saalekreis and the two chemical sites Schkopau and Leuna. According Halles city spokesman Drago Bockhalle suffered massively under the through traffic.