Bundesstraße 7

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State:

• North Rhine -Westphalia
• Hesse
• Thuringia
• Saxony

• In construction
• In planning
• Traffic control system

The Federal Highway 7 ( Abbreviation: B 7 ) leads from the junction Buederich on the Autobahn 52 (A 52 ) to to Rochlitz near Chemnitz. It is about 500 kilometers long. Originally the western route endpoint Leuth Swan House on the Dutch border at Venlo.

History

The original 1932 furnished highway 7, from 1934 Reichsstrasse 7, led, deviating from the present route, east of Schmoelln more about Meerane, Glauchau, Chemnitz and Freiberg to Dresden, where they led to the National Highway 6. The historic route between Chemnitz and Dresden was included mid-1930s into the Reich, now the Federal highway 173.

Origins

In section Sättelstädt - Gotha - Erfurt the main road follows the historical course of 7 Via Regia.

In the electorate of Hesse, the 1831 is arranged as a main street first class road was west of Kassel called Dutch Street, between Kassel and Helsa as Berlin Street and east of Helsa as Gothasche road.

Expansion of road in the 18th and 19th centuries

The section between Wuppertal and Hagen was completed in 1788 and is one of the oldest art streets in West Germany. The section between Iserlohn and Menden (Sauerland) was built in 1816-1817. The middle track section through the upper Ruhr Valley was built 1808-1818 by the neighboring communities for road and adopted in 1822 as a state highway.

Situation since 2000

In some areas, the Federal Highway 7 is replaced motorways. So now, the section between Nettetal- Breyell and Buederich a parallel highway. Later, for example, the A 46 between Hagen- Hohenlimburg and the current end of the highway in the eastern city of Iserlohn (leaving Hemer / Iserlohn- Löbbeckenkopf ) and between Neheim- Hüsten and Bestwig.

The so-called old B 7 connects - today as L 29 - still Nettetal- Kaldenkirchen with the district Breyell, runs parallel to the A61 towards Viersen - Dülken underpasses on the outskirts V. Dülken the A61 becomes the urban expressway in Viersen Viersen surrounded east and then to push on Accommodate Mönchengladbach North on the B 57. From the BAB Neersen the former B 7 runs along the Old North Channel from 1804 to Kaarst and then continue to Neuss than 230 L

Western beginning of the B 7 is now the end of the end of the motorway A52 at the junction Buederich. There, the signs of blue ( A 52 ) changes to yellow ( B 7). The B 7 runs in Dusseldorf on the Theodor -Heuss-Brücke ( "North Bridge"), then a short section in the Derendorf together with the B 1 and B 8 to junction " Mörsenbroicher egg ", then the state capital towards Mettmann to leave. In Mettmann leads since the year 2008 on the newly built southern bypass and then continues on to Wuppertal and Hagen Iserlohn. In the area Hemer Iserlohn Arnsberg and Meschede it via the A46, the old B 7 was graduated there to state roads. In Bestwig it starts again at the end of the motorway A 46 and then runs continuously across the border NRW / Hesse Kassel.

On the A44 from Kassel to Dortmund the junction Mars mountain on the border between Hesse and North Rhine -Westphalia was released on 8 December 2006. It connects with the A 44 B 7

The first section in hessian Lichtenau was opened in October 2005. There are also complaints from environmentalists opposed to the project because the highway is to pass through the natural park Meissner Kaufunger forest.

Since 5 August 2005 is an all day pass for transit ban trucks on a route length of 157 km in the force. This rule applies for one year between junction Kassel Ost ( A 7) and Wehretal. For vehicles that are loaded or unloaded in the district Werra -Meißner -Kreis and the district of Kassel or in the city of Kassel, a derogation.

Between Kassel and Eisenach- West, the road passes through the Ringwood, due to effects of the German division of this section to Ifta is still a bottleneck (without bypasses, sometimes only two lane expansion ).

On 9 January 2010, changed the course of the relocation of the A4, the course of federal highway 7 in Eisenach and the Wartburg circle. The previous route through Eisenach, Wutha -Farnroda to Sättelstädt was partially pulled or stepped on road L 3007 easement in the state of Thuringia. The B 7 now ends at the highway entrance Eisenach- West at Krauthausen. From the newly-built motorway 4 - junction Sättelstädt the highway used a short section of the existing road L 2120 incremented now the main road 7 in order to take back to their previous route from the confluence Sättelstädt.

In Erfurt, the B 7 was downgraded after completion of the Erfurt ring from the A - 71 AS Erfurt Bindersleben to Linder Bach to the county road 16. At the same time she was moved from Linder Bach on the four-lane L 1052 ( eastern bypass Erfurt) of the AS Linder Bach to A 71 -AS Erfurt -Nord.

Since the summer of 2007 are available on the B 7 on the stretch between Kassel- East and hessian Lichtenau five stationary surveillance ( " safety cameras " ) to control the speed of 80 km / hr. This step was taken because increasingly people were killed in this section.

2019 B to 7 in Hagen from the Wehringhauser road (from Bodelschwinghstraße place) and the Graf -von- Galen-Ring to be laid and new out about the new Bahnhofshinterfahrung Hagen of Bodelschwinghstraße space behind the railway station here to the bridge over the DB at the Eckeyeser road be.

In Dusseldorf -Derendorf the B 1, B 7 and B 8 to 2 km a common running track have

The Federal Highway 7 in Mettmann

The B 7 under the Wuppertal suspension railway