From Tuesday, July 12th to Tuesday, July 19th, the planning approval sections 8.3 and 8.4 between Bad Krozingen and Müllheim will be discussed as part of the planning of the Rhine Valley Railway. As a neutral hearing authority, the planning approval department of the Freiburg Regional Council (RP) will lead the event in the Quellenhalle in Bad Krozingen-Schlatt (Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald district). Due to the many overlaps in content, the RP, in consultation with Deutsche Bahn (DB) and the region, decided to discuss the two sections together.
As reported by the RP, the railway has completely revised its earlier plans and is now planning an almost complete low-lying route with several landscape bridges between Bad Krozingen and Müllheim. This variant was vehemently demanded in the region for years under the name “Bürgertrasse”. The project advisory board set up for this purpose, in which all project participants were represented, decided on it in 2013.
Section 8.3 is four kilometers long and lies entirely within the territory of the town of Bad Krozingen. It begins in the north in the district of Biengen on the municipal boundary with Schallstadt and ends in the south in the district of Schlatt. Section 8.4 begins in the north in the district of Schlatt and ends in the south just beyond the district boundary of Hügelheim in the town of Müllheim. It is 11.9 kilometers long. The route is planned as a freight route and will be routed at a reference speed of 160 kilometers per hour. The section also includes around 4.5 kilometers of the Rhine Valley Railway between Buggingen and Müllheim. This route is being upgraded for a top speed of up to 250 kilometers per hour.
During the hearing, the objections and statements received in the public, public authority and association hearing are discussed with DB as the project developer, the local authorities, the public initiative and the objectors, as well as the public authorities and associations involved. The knowledge gained from this is an essential basis for the later decisions of the Federal Railway Authority on the expansion of the two planning approval sections.
At the start on Tuesday, July 12, the topic of immission control is on the agenda. First, the noise protection concept for the future operation of the Rhine Valley Railway will be presented and discussed. It is discussed whether the noise protection on the route was actually implemented by DB in accordance with the decision of the project advisory board with the plans now presented. Another topic of conversation is the stress caused by construction site noise.
On Wednesday, July 13, the topic will be construction roads and construction site traffic. The municipalities and the citizens’ initiative MUT fear that truck traffic will have a significant impact here: Due to the low-lying area of the route, DB will have to remove around two million cubic meters of excavated material. Furthermore, the impact of roads and paths after completion of the route is discussed. Suggestions for improving local passenger transport are also taken up.
On Thursday, July 14th and Friday, July 15th, the focus will be on the particularly important issues of agriculture and soil protection in the two sections. In these sections, the new route diverges from the A 5 to the Hügelheim junction, unlike in other sections of the Rhine Valley Railway, across high-quality agricultural land. The topics are discussed with the specialist authorities, the Baden Agricultural Association, the BI MUT and the affected farmers, property owners and tenants. The focus here is on soil protection and soil utilization, the extent of land use by the route, the fragmentation of the irrigation networks and the agricultural road network during and after the construction period.
On Monday, July 18, nature conservation and forest issues will be discussed. The focus here is on the biotope network and minimizing the effects of fragmentation.
Finally, on Tuesday, July 19, the issues of water and flood protection are on the agenda. Further items on the agenda are the protection of crossing cables and lines as well as other remaining issues. July 20 is designated as a reserve day.
The agenda for the public hearing and all documents relating to the planned projects (plans, reports and expert opinions) can be viewed and downloaded from the RP’s website under “Aktuelles”: www.rp-freiburg.de.
(Press release: Freiburg Regional Council, July 1, 2022)
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