Gedser-Rostock Bridge
A fixed Rostock- Gedser crossing has been proposed as an alternative to Fehmarn crossing. They would cross the Baltic Sea at a width of 40 to 45 kilometers from the coast near Rostock to Gedser on the Danish island of Falster. This crossing should form the main thoroughfare between Berlin and Scandinavia. With the political decision for the Fehmarn crossing these alternative planning has done.
The crossing would be one of the longest bridges in the world. Would a tunnel elected, he would be the longest lake crossing, but would be in a total tunnel length of the Seikan Tunnel and the Euro tunnel, as well as the Gotthard Base Tunnel as the longest tunnel in the world, longer. The Rostock- Gedser crossing would also be the only ocean- crossing the world, in the sense that they would not cross a Sound, Belt, channel or other strait, but the Baltic Sea.
- 2.1 Political Development
Lines
Bridge
The link across the Baltic Sea would be approximately 40 to 45 kilometers, considerably longer than the 19 kilometers across the Fehmarn Belt; However, the depth in the coastal area is low, which would reduce the cost of construction.
Any alternatives for the lines would be:
- Gedser -Warnemünde; then west to Rostock ( or connection to the Warnow Tunnel and A 19)
- Gedser - Graal- Müritz; thence east to Rostock
- Gedser-Darß/Fischland (eg in Ahrenshoop, Wustrow or Dierhagen ); thence east to Rostock
The eastern line guides offer the advantage that the southeastward protruding from the Danish island of Falster in the Baltic Sea Gedser reef could be followed over about 15 kilometers. This would be more than half the total distance of a bargain for bridge abutments depth of less than 10 meters. The eastern line guides offer the shortest route to Poland, but they are correspondingly unfavorable to Hamburg / West Germany. For Berlin / southern Germany, eastern route to a few kilometers would be longer than the more western.
Land plants
In a Rostock- Gedser solution primarily an extension of the Danish land plants would be necessary, while already exists on the German side a motorway link. The Fehmarn crossing the situation is reversed: here the roads on the Danish side are entirely removed while on the German side of 25 km highway (these being an alternative to the two-lane Fehmarnsundbrücke ) are missing. This partly explains why the Danish government of Fehmarn crossing are represented, while the motivation on the German side is lower.
Road
On the German side the Rostock- Gedser crossing the Federal Highway 19/Europastraße would build 55. This runs today from Rostock seaport south to A24 and Berlin. The completed in 2005 A 20 establishes the connection westward to Lübeck / Hamburg and eastward to Greifswald / Szczecin / Poland dar. Some of the expansion proposals for the A 37 / A 39 would be a southwest diagonal connection from Rostock to Celle / Hannover / Braunschweig and Western Europe provide. With the finished expansion of A 14 also would connect to Magdeburg -Leipzig- South Germany, which avoids the Berliner Ring.
On the Danish side the crossing to Europe located 55 road would build. This is now on the southern 35 miles of Gedser to the E - 47 motorway at Eskilstrup only from a two-lane main road, which is but for a very regular progression might be expanded. To Nykøbing a ring road has been planned for several years, because after the German turn of through traffic to Rostock / Berlin has risen sharply.
Railway
The double-track railway line Rostock- Berlin ( Lloyd train and Berliner Northern Railway ) is currently being upgraded for 160 km / h, but this is completed due to delays in 2015. The distance ( Hamburg ) Rostock- Stralsund is ( part Hamburg- Hagenow -Schwerin ) or ( sections bath small -Rostock, Schwerin and Rostock- Stralsund bath small ) prepared for 160 km / h. The railway -Ludwig Schwerin pleasure Wittenberg -Stendal ( sections Schwerin -Ludwig lust and Wittenberg -Magdeburg ) and the railway line Lübeck -Lüneburg offer coming from Scandinavia freight a way to bypass the bottlenecks Hamburg and Berlin.
The 20 km long, single-track railway between Gedser and Nykøbing was renovated in 2006 and 2007, however, with a top speed of 75 km / h and many crossings hardly the state of a long-distance train. The traffic was stopped in 2009 and dismantled in 2011 the railway tracks in Gedser. The 25 -kilometer section north of Nykøbing to Vordingborg is single track, but equipped for 120 km / h. Next to Copenhagen train is equipped double track and up to 140 up to 180 km / hr. An extension of the line Nykøbing - Vordingborg would also at a Fehmarn Belt fixed link in question; However, little concrete here has been designed over. The Storstrømsbroen would be a bottleneck for a second track; This also applies to the Fehmarn Belt solution.
Arguments
The most important argument of the Rostock- Gedser solution is emphasized that these easterly lines of a much better connection with the growth regions of Eastern Europe, particularly Poland, and especially with the metropolis Berlin performing.
In comparison, the Fehmarn crossing is a now outdated idea that would better fit the geography of a divided Europe. The profitability of a Fehmarn Belt fixed link has often been questioned. The German government behaved been hesitant to Fehmarn Belt project because domestic projects (eg, expansion of the railway Berlin -Rostock and the planned western Elbe crossing ) take precedence.
Per Homann Jespersen transport researchers from the University of Roskilde describes the crossing as follows: " A fixed link across the Baltic Sea between Denmark and Germany would be much easier to carry on the Gedser reef. A long section of such a bridge could be built as a flat bridge. Hamburg is a notorious bottleneck for road and rail transport. Therefore, a Baltic Sea link between Rostock- Warnemünde and Gedser would be better. "
Political development
The transport spokesman for the radical Venstre and the Danish People's Party called on 3 June 2007 that the Danish government advocated a future for a Gedser -Rostock - crossing instead of the Fehmarn Belt crossing; They were supported by transport researchers. A trip between Copenhagen and Berlin was at the Gedser -Rostock line 130 kilometers shorter, Copenhagen -Munich 160 km shorter, and Copenhagen Poland 230 km shorter than across the Fehmarn Belt, so Stroschein.
Transport Minister Flemming Hansen leaned on 4 June 2007, the receivables from, since such a change of course " being delayed by ten years " the fixed link. The spokesman for the Social Democrats, in this technical issue the government majority partner, also see the Gedser -Rostock - proposal as a diversion at the last minute, however, also admitted: " wish if the Germans do not want to join, but something else, then we will of course listen ". On 29 June 2007, including the construction of the Fehmarn Belt fixed link with the Kingdom of Denmark has been agreed.
Today's links
Today, most of the freight is handled with Scandinavia in the RoRo method over the Baltic Sea. The remaining freight traffic goes over the Great Belt, either on the track or on the European Route 45 ( in Germany the A 7).
Today Rostock seaport and Gedser with the car ferry Scandlines are connected (see Ferry Warnemünde Online Magazine ). The ferries ( Kronprins Prins Frederik and Joachim ) reversed earlier than railway ferries on the Great Belt; the grooved rails on the car deck were welded shut. Both the ferry docks are no longer used today in Warnemünde and the present ferry in Rostock -Überseehafen are equipped with Eisenbahnverladeklappen, but no trains or railway cars were more converted, since the line to Rostock -Überseehafen changed. There are sidings to the port. The hitherto existing S- Bahn connection to the overseas port was set on December 9, 2012. During the preparation of the rebuilding of the middle pier in Warnemunde done a dismantling of disused Fährbecken. Work began in 2014.
Rostock seaport is directly connected to the motorway network, which is advantageous for motorists. Several Fernbusdienste Berlin- Copenhagen are operated by companies Graahundbus / Berolinahaus, Swebus Express, Euro Lines and Säfflebussen.
The through train Berlin- Copenhagen on the train ferry Warnemünde Online Magazine was completed in 1995. The 20- kilometer section of track between Gedser and Nykøbing has since traveled only with a daily Regionalzugpaar because a complete closure could not be done without parliament. 2006 and 2007, the track has been slightly restored, and in the summer of 2007 should tentatively two pairs of trains run daily. About the meaning of a track requiring renovation, which was supposed to cost 112 million kroner, was discussed in 2008 and 2009. The credibility of this expense number was provided by some of the pages in question, the track section but was shut down from December 13, 2009 at the end. In the maritime station Gedser 2011 All tracks were dismantled.
Since 1995 have railway drivers between Berlin and Copenhagen via Hamburg either drive ( Vogelfluglinie ) or the night train Berlin- Malmö ( which is converted with ferry Sassnitz -Trelleborg ).