Bundesautobahn 19

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State:

• Mecklenburg -Western Pomerania
• Brandenburg

• In construction
• In planning
• Traffic control system

The Federal Highway 19 (abbreviated as BAB 19) - Short form: Highway 19 ( Abbreviation: A 19 ) - connects the Hanseatic city of Rostock with the A 24 motorway in Wittstock / Dosse. The entire A section 19 is the European route 55

Course

The highway 19 begins in the north of Rostock at the eastern exit of the Warnow Tunnel, south of the Rostock seaport, passing east of the city to the south, crosses the A20 at the junction Rostock, runs through the district of Rostock, crossed here Recknitz, passing east of the Krakow lake and cuts through the Mecklenburg Lake District in the same county. North of Wittstock / Dosse the border is crossed by Brandenburg. South of the city on the junction Wittstock / Dosse ends the A19 on the A 24

For international transport, the A acquires 19 meaning through direct access to the overseas port of Rostock ( one kilometers from A 19 ). Ferry connections are made there in several states on the Baltic Sea, so to Gedser in Denmark, Trelleborg in Sweden, Helsinki in Finland, Tallinn in Estonia and Ventspils in Latvia.

During the holiday travel wave there is sometimes congestion on this highway as the traffic on the Baltic Sea coast, such as to Rügen, Graal-Müritz or cooling Born runs over this distance. Alternative routes to Rügen, the A 11 (from Berliner Ring), then A20 and finally the B 96

History

After first taking care of in the 1950s with the GDR only slowly increasing motorization to the expansion and maintenance of rural roads, all necessary measures should be initiated according to a 1958 written letter from the SED leadership to the with the expansion to start the motorway network in the GDR. Among other things, it was about a project to in the district of Rostock. In the People's Chamber Walter Ulbricht was done from a highway on which working people could go to the Baltic Sea in the autumn of 1959. In 1961 the plans were suddenly put on hold. Several years existed an isolated single lane finished section in the northeast of Rostock between the highway 105 (now Federal Street ) and the seaport.

However, economic recovery and increased traffic loads made ​​the late 1960s a resumption of the project necessary. Construction began in 1970, the work was carried out from the VEB Kombinat highway construction. With the change of power at the top of the SED mainly of housing was stepped up in the GDR. The site of the abbey A 19 should be set. In negotiations with Günter Mittag was achieved at least a slower continued construction. After eight years of construction, the last section of the highway Berlin -Rostock in 1978 was finally opened to traffic. After the fall of the carriageway of the A19 was gradually repaired and equipped with emergency lanes and parking facilities.

Specifically, the following shares were made:

The dedication as highway has been amended several times in the area of ​​Rostock after 1990: Connecting points in the area of ​​international port then ceased to qualify as a motorway. With the completion of the Warnow Tunnel, the original course of the highway was then changed again: Originally led them across today's " road to the seaport " there directly.

Pileup:

On 8 April 2011, due to a sandstorm a pile-up occurred on Highway 19 near Kavelstorf. About 80 vehicles in total ( both directions ) were moved into one another, which fell about 30 fire, including a vehicle carrying dangerous goods. This heaviest traffic accident in Mecklenburg -Western Pomerania called eight people dead and 131 injured, of which 44 had to be admitted to hospital.