Earthworks are underway on both sides of the trough, in which the A3 has disappeared between Heidingfeld and Heuchelhof. What about the relationship between the neighborhoods?
Photo: Bertold Diehm
The construction of the new A3 valley bridge near Heidingsfeld is progressing, and the interior of the Katzenberg tunnel or trough, in which the motorway is 570 meters long, is also in full swing. Now our photographer’s new drone aerial photos show how things are going around outside.
Citizens’ initiative: the slope angles of the tunnel are becoming too steep
Some time ago it had been rumbling in Heidingsfeld and Heuchelhof. It was suspected that the restoration of the connection between the two parts of the city via Unteren Kaulweg and Copenhagener Straße, which had been promised by the North Bavaria Motorway Directorate as part of the planning, could not be realized. The Citizens’ Initiative Würzburg-Tunnel (BI) had already feared in 2014 that the original planning goal of a pedestrian connection between Heidingsfeld and Heuchelhof could no longer be achieved because the slope angles of the tunnel trough that had been showered were too steep for this. Representatives of the ABDN had contradicted this.
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Because the route of the route desired by the city in a covered and covered trough would cost an estimated 27 million euros more than the free guidance of the motorway originally planned by the highway management, the city had previously committed to a share of 2, To pay 7 million euros for the restoration of the connection and the design of the local recreation areas on the trough cover. The federal government took care of the rest. But the ÖDP in the city council had also criticized in June 2018 that the current plans had moved so far from the original plans that there could no longer be any question of a reasonable connection between the two districts. The faction refused to agree to the city paying further installments.
Work to restore the road relationship is in full swing
The aerial photos now show that the work to restore the route relationship is in full swing. The work on Copenhagen Street is also clearly visible in the picture. “A lot of soil still has to be heaped up in order to reach the level of the tunnel cover,” says Wolfgang Thaler of the ABDN on request. However, it is not yet clear which slope angles the traffic from Heidingsfeld up to Heuchelhof will have to cope with and whether the fears of BI and ÖDP apply.
The opening of the Lower Kaulweg is planned for next year
And that will probably take a little longer, because the connection will be established in sections in accordance with an escape route concept to ensure direct access to the A3 for the police, fire brigade and rescue services in every further construction phase, writes Maria Schraml from the ABDN press office in Nuremberg Inquiry. The Lower Kaulweg will be released to the public in the coming year.
The remaining measures include the complete flooding of the Katzenberg tunnel on the northern side. However, this is only possible after the south tube has been commissioned. Because of the design of the surface of the tunnel, the ABDN is in coordination with the city of Würzburg, Schraml continues. The implementation should then start next year, according to Nuremberg.
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Heidingsfeld
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Ernst Lauterbach
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A3 expansion near Würzburg
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Motorway Directorate Northern Bavaria
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Motorway directorates
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Highways
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construction
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Fire departments
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Heidingsfeld
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District
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police
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City of Wuerzburg
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tunnel
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traffic
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Ecological Democratic Party
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