Bundesstraße 51

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State:

• Lower Saxony
• North Rhine -Westphalia
• Rhineland -Palatinate
• Saarland

• In construction
• In planning
• Traffic control system

The Federal Highway 51 ( Abbreviation: B 51) is a German federal highway. It runs south-west to the south of Stuhr near Bremen by Lower Saxony, North Rhine -Westphalia, Rhineland -Palatinate and Saarland to the French border in Sarreguemines. On the entire length of the B51 runs approximately parallel to the Federal Highway 1, which they, when there is heavy traffic on the highway, can relieve on many sections (eg, between Bremen and Osnabrück).

• 4.1 Saarland
• 4.2 Rhineland -Palatinate
• 4.3 Lower Saxony

History

The introduced in 1934 Reichsstrasse 51 linked sections with completely different origins.

The northernmost section between Bremen and Münster was built from 1809 to 1813 as a straight highway for the troops of Napoleon I. The road sections between Osnabrück and Bad Iburg and between Münster and Telgte have already been built in the 18th century and incorporated into the newly built road Napoleonic army, which continued from Münster on Dülmen to Wesel.

In the years 1838-1842 the average stretch of holders over Recklinghausen to Bochum was built as the first highway in Vest Recklinghausen. In densely populated Bergisch Land between Remscheid -Lennep the road and Cologne ( Wermelskirchener Chaussee ) has already been completed in 1775. This road was in 1865 called the Cologne - Berlin State Street.

The southern section of line between Cologne and Trier was begun in 1826 and completed in 1841. In Saarland was begun in the 18th century with the road. The road between Völklingen and Bous was completed, according to city chronicle already in 1734.

Original course

The Federal Highway 51 leads from the old Hanseatic city of Bremen on the Ruhr to the Saarland, and to the French border to Lorraine. The road so from the northwest to the southwest of Germany by five states and different landscapes and old industrial regions.

Directly south of the river Weser in Bremen, opposite the Weser Stadium, the B 51 starts and leads five kilometers together with the B 6 to the gates of Bremen in Lower Saxony Brinkum at Stuhr.

Always through the flat, agricultural North German Plain, the B reaches 51 via Bassum (23 miles) and the county seat Diepholz (42 km) to the edge of Osnabrück (110 km). Before and after Osnabrück the road crosses the scenic natural park of Wiehengebirge and the Teutoburg Forest - south of Osnabrück four lanes to Dörenberg and continues through Bad Iburg and Glandorf to the border to North Rhine -Westphalia.

After 174 km the B 51 reached the ancient cathedral city of Münster, Osnabrück where in addition to the Peace of Westphalia was concluded. Was in the downtown area or the B 51 is expanded to four-lane urban highway. Next they ran through the southern Munsterland, by Haltern am See and Recklinghausen, Herne, in connection she meandered through the middle of Bochum (240 km), past mining museum and playhouse, and crossed in Hattingen, a small town with a beautiful medieval old town, the Ruhr.

The old leadership touches the east of Wuppertal, crosses the district Langer field B 7 and meanders as L 58 the through the countryside to Remscheid -Lennep. From there on Bergisch Born, Wermelskirchen and Burscheid to Leverkusen. About the Mülheim Bridge, it changes the side of the Rhine and leads along the Rhine bank ( between the Hohenzollern and Deutz bridge as Rheinufertunnel ) through the cathedral city of Cologne (311 miles), taking in quick succession applies to the federal highways 8 and 9. A few kilometers south-west of Cologne, she passes under the A 4 and the A 553, it crosses Brühl, then crosses at the level of the short Phantasialand A 553 to the A to pass under the further course 61 at Weilerswist. From here it runs almost parallel to the A 1 to Euskirchen.

From Euskirchen ( 347 km ) leads again as B 51 on the romantic town of Bad Münster Eifel past (until the 1970s, they went through the midst of the city) to nearly 100 km across the beautiful, sparsely populated Eifel and in this case across the Rhineland -Palatinate boundary to Prüm (409 km). The old, original route ran from Prüm by the Nimstal about Schoenecken, Seffern, Bickendorf, Bitburg (now the L 5). From Bitburg (441 miles) finally leads to the Roman town of Trier and the Moselle metropolis ( 457 km ). Behind Trier it approaches to within a few kilometers of the border of Luxembourg and strikes Konz for the first time on the river Saar.

This river they now accompanied from Saar castle as a charming quayside, over the border in Saarhölzbach the Saarland. Between Mettlach and Besseringen she leaves the Saar to shorten the Saar loop at Orscholz. Formerly the B51 between Saar castle and Mettlach it has not resulted in the Saar along, but by the Saargau, a Hunsrück foothills, along the villages Perdenbach, Trassem, Freudenburg and widths. Between Merzig ( 498 km ) and Saarlouis (518 miles) acts of the ancient history now as L 131 and L 176 Then it goes through the old industrial area near Völklingen (World Heritage Site ) to Saarbruecken (541 km). Behind this city the B 51 then continues along the Saar to its end on the French border in Sarreguemines ( Sarreguemines ), where it merges into the French N61 which connects after a few kilometers to the A4 to Paris or Strasbourg.

Overall, the B 51 a distance of 569 km so laid back, where you can not necessarily count the parts in which it was replaced by a highway. On the other hand, the B 51 is thereby become longer compared to the national road time that numerous ring roads were built.

Stepped portions

The eastern bypass of Osnabrück goes into the A 33. The B 51 is continued at the junction Osnabrück- Nahne the A 30. South of the Munster B 51 is replaced by the A 43 and the A 1, while the former course was largely downgraded to L 551. The section from the AS Bochum- Riemke to the junction Sprockhövel was graded from 1 January 2010, the subsequent section up to Remscheid -Lennep on January 1, 2008.

Also, between junctions Brühl -Nord and Euskirchen it is replaced by the A 553 and again the A 1.

Run more stepped portions between Prüm and Bitburg ( A 60 ) and since the beginning of 2007 between Merzig and Saarlouis (A 8).

Supra-regional importance

A meaning of the B 51 as a national road is hardly any in the northern course. Between Blankenheim and Trier ( with the exception of the replaced by the A60 section between Prüm and Bitburg ) of B 51 is of national importance because they must replace the currently in planning or under construction A 1 here. Since considerable distance traffic numbers are achieved in this area, she is there almost continuously dreistreifig, sometimes even four lanes ( Highway Similar road ) expanded. The combination A 1 - B 51 - A 60 represents the shortest distance from the Cologne area to the west of Rhineland- Palatinate ', Luxembourg and Lorraine, which, however, in contrast to the motorway route is crossing-free. The traffic between the south of France or Spain and Scandinavia often uses this connection. This section is part of the E 29

Planning

Discussions about inclusion of individual sections of the B 51 in the truck toll, and the temporary closure of the heavy traffic in Section A 64 ( near Trier ) to A 60 ( Bitburg ), as in the B 3 is handled successfully in northern Hesse, for example,, have so far been without result. The most important obstacle for blocking only two two-lane bridges and in need of rehabilitation of B 52 are listed at the current end of the motorway A 64 in direction A 1 / A 602 that could not absorb the additional heavy traffic.

Saarland

The required since the 1960s, circumventing the Merziger hamlet Besseringen was since June 2011 and construction was completed on 13 December 2013. The cost of the 3.6 km section amounted to approximately 27.2 million euros, there were two 200 m long viaducts built. Every day, around 16,000 vehicles crossed the place.

Rhineland -Palatinate

From the summer of 2004 there was the Western Bypass Trier, also called " Mosel rise " in the zoning process. The plan is the federal highway 51 west to lead from the Trier Konz mountain on a new route on the Mosel heights and connect there to the A 64. On 12 May 2005, however, the Higher Administrative Court of Koblenz picked up the decisions taken to zoning approval. A building in the next few years, therefore, seems unlikely.

For this reason, the B 51 has been further extended to the Trier city. Between the college and the traffic lights at the Kaiser Wilhelm bridge the road was continuously dreistreifig expanded by the rocks eroded below the Polytechnic and the Napoleon bridge was upgraded to three lanes. In this context, also ailing retaining walls of the current line in the lower Gillenbachtal were repaired.

On the other hand, planned the B 51 in the region of Trier -west from the junction to relocate Roman road / railway crossing to the north of the Aachener Straße / Luxemburger Straße in the Horn road. The further course will then extend from the area Trierweilerweg / bridge parallel to the West line of the former site of the railway operations work and the company Eybl Bobinet and finally go back to the old and from there well-developed route in the street in Speyer.

The official groundbreaking ceremony for the 4.3 km long and approximately 20 million euro expensive bypass Konz- Koenen took place in February 2012. Start the bypass between the branches L 136 and K 112 in the area Tawern is then to bypass the district Koenen in the west and eventually join below the industrial area Grana height on the B 419, which merges into the B 51 after the bridge of Saar mouth again.

Lower Saxony

As part of the continuation of the A 33 in the northeast of Osnabrück, there are also plans, the B51 to build new in the area of ​​Belém as a crossing-free bypass. The zoning decision was issued in August 2010. With the construction of the line is scheduled to begin on June 17, 2013. The new line north of Belém is 2019Vorlage in: / In 5 years be passable future.

The cross-town Barnstorf the B 51 in the Lower Saxony Diepholz to be replaced by a ring road. The plan approval processes for this purpose was introduced in April 2008, but temporarily suspended for town planning reasons in the summer of 2010. In the second half of 2013, a regional planning process should be initiated.

Shared by trams

Partly also the route Bochum Center Hattingen ( line 308), and - - Between the center of Bochum and Bochum -Linden ( Hattinger-/Wuppertaler street) and in the field Hattingen the Tramway Bochum runs Bochum- Dahlhausen ( line 318 ) of the Bogestra street flush on the former B 51 also between Herne and Bochum was the tram (line 305) until the opening of Bochum city train ( U35 ) in 1989 on the main road; the tracks were in the range Bochum- Riemke until the summer of 2008 and were removed in the course of road rehabilitation. There are also a few meters in the Cologne district level house, on which the line runs 4 of Cologne transporting enterprises. In Saarbrücken line S1 Saarbahn runs through St. Johann and imperial road, on the main square along and by Grand Duke Friedrich, Arndt and Mainzer Str on the B 51 From stop Römerkastell the line runs S1 ​​then parallel to B 51 to Sarreguemines. In today Leverkusen ran from 1903 to 1922 by the Reuterstr. to Binner Rochester Court (now partly pedestrianized ) one way.