Bundesautobahn 38
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State:
- Lower Saxony
- Hesse
- Thuringia
- Saxony-Anhalt
- Saxony
- In construction
- In planning
- Traffic control system
The Federal Highway 38 (abbreviated as BAB 38) - Short Form: Highway 38 ( Abbreviation: A 38 ) - is a highway which branches off from the A7 south of Göttingen and as so-called Suedharz motorway ( Suedharz tangent ) about Heiligenstadt, Leinefelde- Worbis, Nordhausen, Sangerhausen, Lutherstadt Eisleben in the area of Halle (Saale ) and Leipzig leads. There it crosses the A 9 and ends at the interchange Parthenaue at Naunhof in the A 14 and is thus a part of the Central German loop. The A 38 is the German Unity Transport Project No. 13 opens up the region and, together with the A 7 ( Drammetal -Kassel) and the A44 ( south east of Kassel ) form another Leipzig / Halle- Ruhr region and thus the A 2 partially relieve. Since 22 December 2009, the highway is completely passable.
The A 38 as German Unity Transport Project No. 13
The 1724 meter long Heidkopftunnel (named "Tunnel of German Unity ") is the longest tunnel in the route and crosses the border between the states of Thuringia and Lower Saxony. The BAB 38 runs south of Leipzig about 10 km above ground excavated by two former lignite mines, which required special security measures included in its subsoil.
The BAB 38 forms at Leipzig the southern bypass of the city. Thus it represents not only an east -west connection, but also a driveway in the city of Leipzig. The amusement park " Belantis " got its own motorway exit ( "Leipzig New Harth ").
The Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan 2003, the cost of building the highway with 1.0 billion euros were given. Converted to the built kilometers, this means 4.8 million euros per kilometer (the total length amounts to about 219 km ). For the state of Saxony -Anhalt, the construction cost 279 million, 257 million for Saxony, Thuringia and Saxony 373 million should be 93 million euros.
The A 38 is bound as a " German Unity Transport Project " a special law to speed up the planning. The design and construction were accompanied mainly in Lower Saxony section of civic protests. The noise of hamlets of Friedland, in the district of Göttingen in this region leads to an apparent rejection of the highway. In contrast, the motorway in northern Thuringia and Saxony- Anhalt and Saxony is linked to high expectations regarding traffic performance, accessibility and new industrial settlements.
Largely parallel runs the Halle- Kassel Railway, which was also developed as German Unity Transport Project.
The section between Göttingen and Halle wore during the preliminary planning the unofficial working title Autobahn 82, the section south of Halle and Leipzig QUALIFICATION Federal Highway 140
Other individual projects along the A 38
Along the A38 are still ancillary facilities and interchanges in planning, under construction or have been completed. The tank and Rastanlage Rhone Valley was completed in the first quarter of 2011. The construction of the tank and Rastanlage calibration field, however, has not yet begun. Since 29 April 2013, the A is connected 71 via the newly built motorway junction Suedharz to the A 38. On December 5, 2012, the junction Großwechsungen was opened (junction 9). Thus, the connection of the new building of the B 243 was completed as planned. The current junction Leipzig -Süd 72 should be reclassified between Leipzig and Chemnitz to Leipzig Cross -South after the completion of A.