Bundesstraße 54
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State:
- North Rhine -Westphalia
- Hesse
- Rhineland -Palatinate
- In construction
- In planning
- Traffic control system
The Federal Highway 54 ( Abbreviation: B 54) extending in a north-south direction main road between Gronau on the Dutch border and Wiesbaden.
Course
The Federal Highway 54 begins at the Dutch border near Gronau, where the Dutch Rijksweg 35 and its extension 35 N merges into the main road. Takes you through the villages of Ochtrup, Steinfurt ( district of Steinfurt and Borg Horst ), Northern Forest, Ancient mountains, Munster, Rinkerode Herbern, Werne, Lünen, Dortmund, Herdecke, Hagen, Schalksmuehle, Lüdenscheid, Kierspe, Meinerzhagen, Olpe, Kreuztal, Siegen, Wilnsdorf, Burbach, Rennerod, thorn castle, Limburg an der Lahn, Diez, Bad Schwalbach Taunus and stone to Wiesbaden, where it ends in the Berlin street on the main road 455. The former eastern part of the state road from Wiesbaden Wiesbaden heritage home was in the federal highway 455 which included continuation of present-day Wiesbaden junction to the meeting by the federal highway 40 at Weil Bach in 1965 in today's Federal Highway 66.
New line between Gronau and Münster
Directly from the beginning of the B 54 to the border with the Netherlands, there is a new route. It serves as a bypass of Gronau and then has access to the A 31 This 10.2 km long and 46 -million-euro section of the new line from the border to the A 31 construction period was on 29 March 2004 after eight years to traffic.
Later in the next section continues past as a bypass to Ochtrup. On connection to the highway 70 north of Metelen the new line ended first. On 11 December 2006, construction began on the 5.2 km long gap closure of the rail line between Ochtrup and Steinfurt- Burg Steinfurt, which dates back to plans already in the 1930s. On 5 May 2010 she could be opened to traffic, the construction costs amounted to 21 million euros. The local section of the old B 54 was January 1, 2010, as previously replaced the other two sections, graduated from national road as part of the L 510. This route follows an already existing building longer - section which serves as a bypass road from Burg Steinfurt, Borg Horst, Ancient mountains and Nienberge. Thus, the B 54 without crossing continuously between Gronau and Munster, and equipped with a the directions mutually available third lane. After a connection to the A 1 B 54 leads shortly before Munster back to their old course continues in downtown Muenster.
The new line between the Dutch border and Munster should be built as A 314 originally. Therefore, the connection points A 1 and A 31 are expanded as a full shamrocks. The plans for the construction of a 314 A have now been discarded.
Distance from Siegen to Wiesbaden
In winning the B 54 developed as an extension of the A 4 motorway to the city on high stilts and also bears the nickname Hüttentalstraße. From the winner country it rises in the south to in the High Westerwald and reached at Stein-Neukirch a summit altitude of about 630 meters. Shortly before Limburg, the B 54 combined with the four-lane here B 49, which is popularly known as Long Meil. The southernmost section, from Limburg to Wiesbaden, runs largely through the scenic, but very curvy Aartal in the western Hintertaunus and is therefore called also Aarstraße. From Limburg, Diez and wood home a southern bypass to be built, what the Alttrasse in the Limburg district Blumenrod to be expanded. This is - apart from a few sections - also the official street name to Dürerplatz in Wiesbaden. In Aartal run parallel to the route of the disused Aartalbahn, the Aar Cycle Route and the Aar Crest Trail. Subsequently, the road crosses the Iron Hand and overcomes here the Taunus main ridge 423 meters in height. After a mile-long downhill they finally reached the Dürerplatz the basin of Wiesbaden and leads to the partly six-lane ring road ring church, country house and the main railway station south to the city around. Then, continuing them as Berliner Straße highway-like expanded town towards Wiesbaden heritage home and Federal Highway 66, but ends before the suburbs in the federal highway 455 a.
Expansion of state
The expansion state of B 54 is broken down as follows:
Consequences of the hurricane Kyrill
Hurricane Kyrill, which moved beyond Europe on 18 and 19 January 2007, left behind widespread damage to the B 54. Thus, the distance between Schalksmuehle and Bruges in the amount of the district Nolle Hammer was closed to traffic since the storm. In this area, many trees were uprooted, causing the steep mountainside has come to slip. Three vehicles had been spilled, but no one was hurt because the inmates could go away in time.
The cleanup continued until March 1, 2007, as a result of the steep slope had to be requested alpine special machines from Switzerland.