Federal motorway 8

base data
overall length	497 km
of Lands of the Federal Republic	Saarland Rhineland-Palatinate Baden-Wuerttemberg Bavaria
connection points
A 13 E 29 Luxembourg (1) border crossing Perl (2) Perl Besch B 419 valley bridge 300 m (3) Perl-borrow to B 407 tunnels Pellinger mountain 596 m (4) Merzig - Wellingen coal break hereditary oh bridge 300 m valley bridge 200 m (5) Merzig Schwemlingen B 51 (6) Merzig (7) Rehlingen (8) Dillingen - center (9) triangle Saarlouis A 620 (10) Dillingen south B 51 (11) Saarlouis Steinrausch (12) Nalbach B 269 (13) Saarwellingen B 405 (14) Schwalbach (15) Schwalbach/ black wood (16) Heusweiler B 268 (17) cross Saarbruecken A 1 (18) Merchweiler (19) Friedrichsthal Bildstock (20) triangle Friedrichsthal A 623 (21) Elversberg (22) nine-churches - Heinitz (23) nine-churches/ Spiesen B 41 valley bridge 400 m (24) nine-church upper city (25) Neunkirchen Wellesweiler (26) nine-church Kohl yard (27) cross nine-churches A 6 (28) Limbach (30) Einöd B 423 black brook bridge 100 m (31) two-bridges- Ernstweiler (32) two-bridges (33) two-bridges - Ixheim B 424 (34) Contwig (35) whale living valley bridge 300 m valley bridge 250 m (36) Pirmasens - Winzeln (-) triangle Pirmasens A 62 B 10 (41) triangle Karlsruhe A 5 B 3 (42) Karl bath (43) Pforzheim - west B 10 (44) Pforzheim north B 294 (45) Pforzheim east B 10 worm mountain (planned) (46) home home rod home Leonberg - west (49) triangle Leonberg A 81 (50) Leonberg east peace bridge 338 m restaurant Sindelfinger forest (51) cross Stuttgart A 81, A 831 (52a) Stuttgart Möhringen (52b) Stuttgart Degerloch B 27 („Echterdinger egg “) (53) Stuttgart airport (54) Esslingen restaurant thinking village Sulzbachviadukt 370 m (55) Wendlingen B 313 Neckarbrücke 144 m (56) Kirchheim (Teck) - west B 297 (57) Kirchheim (Teck) - east B 465 parking lot before the Aichelberg/Urweltfunde (58) Aichelberg tunnel green bridge Aichelberg 100 m Maustobelviadukt 500 m Frenchman ravine viaduct 300 m Restaurant Gruibingen (59) Mühlhausen B 466 Fischer-house-live-moves 250 m sky leader bridge 100 m kite hole bridge 230 m suspension bridge death castle 371 m small leaning bridge tunnel nose rock tunnel 60 m Malakoffbrücke 150 m Impferlochbrücke tunnel lamb embossment tunnel 624 m (60) high city replacement of the existing distance starting from restaurant Gruibingen tunnel Gruibingen Mühlhausen ( planned) B 466 falling valley bridge 800 m (planned ) tunnel sky loop 1170 m ( planned) Gosbachtalbrücke 460 m (planned ) tunnel Drackstein 1670 m ( planned) Mautstelle ( planned) AS high city shifted 540 m (2008 ) (planned) (61) Merklingen parking lot Albhöhe/Widderstall restaurant Aichen (62) Ulm - west B 10 Ulmer Münster (63) Ulm east (64) Oberelchingen (65) cross Ulm / Elchingen A 7 Danube bridge 375 m (66) Leipheim B 10 restaurant / motel Leipheim (67) Günzburg B 16 Unterknöringen (planned) restaurant Burgauer lake (69) Burgau restaurant Burgauer lake (70) Zusmarshausen B 10 restaurant air mountain motorway churchMaria, Schutz of the travelers exit Adelsried (71a) Adelsried restaurant / motel Edenbergen (71b) newsat (72) Augsburg west B 2 B 17 Lechbrücke 93 m restaurant Augsburg (73) Augsburg east B 10 (74) Dasing B 300 (75) Adelzhausen (76) Odelzhausen (77) Sulzemoos (78) DAK-strikes / prince-field-bridges B 471 (79) Triangle Munich - Eschenried (Eschenrieder clip) A 99 (80) Munich Langwied (81) cross Munich west A 99 (82) Munich Obermenzing (91) Munich Ramersdorf B 2R (92a) Munich Perl oh (92b) Neubiberg (93) Unterhaching - east (94) baptizing churches - east (95) cross Munich south A 99, A 995 restaurant Hofoldinger forest (96) Hofoldinger forest restaurant wood churches (97) wood churches B 318 restaurant wood churches Mangfalltalbrücke 310 m (98) Weyarn (99) Irschenberg B 472 restaurant / motel Irschenberg (100) bath Aibling cross Kolbermoor (planned) B 15n rose home - west (planned) B 15 (101) triangle Inn valley A 93 (102) Rose home B 15 Innbrücke (103) tubing village restaurant SAM hereditary suppl. (104) oh mill (105) milling village (106) Bernau at the Chiemsee B 305 restaurant Chiemsee (107) Felden (108) overseas restaurant Hochfelln (109) ditch place (110) mountains (111) pig brook (112) trusting stone / victory village B 306 (113) new churches Loithalbrücke (of 114) meadows (115) Bath realm-resound / Piding B 20 restaurant bath realm-resound to hall oh bridge (116) border crossing Piding/Walserberg A 1 E 52 Austria

the federal motorway 8 (abbreviation: BAB 8) - short form: Motorway 8 (abbreviation: A 8) - leads from the of Luxembourg border with Perl across Saarlouis, nine-churches, Two-bridges to Pirmasens. The gap conclusion by the Pfälzer forest to Karlsruhe - Ettlingen was never built for different reasons. The next section leads from Karlsruhe across Pforzheim, Leonberg, Stuttgart, Ulm, Augsburg to Munich Obermenzing, where it changes into city traffic.Over only the motorway circuit A 99 closed in the north of Munich exists a direct motorway connection to the third section, which from Munich Ramersdorf across the Inn valley triangle and the Chiemsee to to the Austrian border with Salzburg (former border crossing whale hereditary suppl.) leads.

history

with the building of the motorway was begun in the third realm. To 26. April 1945 was blown up in the last war days the motorway bridge over the Lech with Gersthofen.

In the Saarland it runs in close proximity to Heusweiler directly at the large transmitter of the Deutschlandfunk (until 1994 of the Saarland broadcast) past. In order to prevent disturbances of Kfz electronics, the motorway is exaggerated in this section with a wire net.

A 8 is one of the most important west east connectionsin South Germany and/or in Central Europe (France - Austria). At the northern edge of the alps without the building of a continuous motorway (A 98) one did.

It is considered as one of the most dangerous and most strongly traveled motorways in Germany, on the one hand because of the high traffic volume,on the other hand due to their development condition lacking and high age.

Particularly in the winter and with holiday traffic there is back-up at the slopes in the north Black Forest, at the ascent to the Swabian Alb as well as in the entire section between the cross Munich south and the federal border, in particular at the Irschenberg.

Large sections, in particular in Bavaria, exhibit still the original conditions from the 1930er years, i.e. zweispurig without Pannenstreifen, without parking lots and without acceleration strips. In some places, in particular uphill, trucks bring in therefore with lowest speeds on the motorway.

At thatConnection point Adelsried is the first motorway church established in Germany. It was inaugurated 1958.

A 8 with Palmbach

A 8 with Aichelberg

rest house Gruibingen

in Baden-Wuerttemberg into the 1990er years the section Karlsruhe Pforzheim was partly removed. In the north of the black forest those becamestrong differences in height gradened, and the roadway of two traces without Pannenstreifen on three traces with Pannenstreifen widens. The range Pforzheim to triangle Leonberg at present partly is in the building. The section TR Pforzheim - AS worm mountain (new) is up to the soccer world championship 2006 in driving direction Stuttgartposed its. The total completion of the section AS home home - AD Leonberg is to take place in May 2008.

South of Stuttgart, by the triangle Leonberg up to the Aichelberger viaduct close Kirchheim under Teck, was modern developed A 8 and/or in the course of the development natives of stuttgartAirport shifts.

The Albaufstieg is remarkable, since the carriageway leading to Munich with meadow-rise and the carriageway coming from Munich runs with Drackenstein. While the roadway on the Drackensteiner slope only by a short tunnel, the 60 meters long nose rock tunnel, coming from Munich, leads the roadway coming from Stuttgart runs by the lamb embossment tunnel.

The Albaufstieg was already conceived in the described form in the third realm, completed however only zweispurig over the Drackensteiner slope. The lamb embossment tunnel accommodated a war plant in the Second World War.

developmentAlbaufstieg between Aichelberg and high city

between 1985 and 1990 the Albaufstieg between parking lot at the Aichelberg and restaurant Gruibingen was sechsspurig developed.

The further process is still in the postwar condition, thus only zweispurig and without Pannenstreifen implemented. Between the lay-by Gruibingen and high city are starting from thatYear 2006 (plan statement procedure starting from September. 2004) a new sechsspuriger distance process to be built. The completion is intended for 2010. Over two bridges the motorway will jump over the falling valley with Mühlhausen (800m length, up to 52m height), as well as the Gosbachtal below Drackenstein (460m length, 71m height).By two new of tunnel to first with the sky loop tunnel (1200m length) the Drackenstein/Himmelsschleife will break through and to second with the Drackensteintunnel (1700m length) the Albtrauf. Thus the length of this section is reduced by 12,1km to 8,3km, with a maximum upward gradient of 3,5%.

The enormous construction costsesfrom at present estimated 405 million euro are to be brought in by a duty over thirty years for the use of the motorway between Mühlhausen and Merklingen.

As by-pass possibility then the today's ascent distance is to be received as highway between the Ansschlussstelle Mühlhausen and the new connection point high city. ThoseDescent distance is shut down against it and renaturiert to a large extent (a part is to remain as operating distance for the approach road to tunnel).

development between Ulm and Munich

2005 began the 6-streifige development of A 8 of Augsburg until Munich, one yearlater the development from Ulm will begin to Augsburg. Stages of it were already placed in the previous years finished, so the southern roadway between Leipheim and Günzburg and the sechstreifige development of Munich triangle Eschenried to short before Sulzemoos. Posed is the motorway 2009 and/or. 2010 becomes. The 520-Millionen-Euro-Projekt is financed by the Vorfinanzierung of private operators, that remove the motorway and 30 years long wait and repair, in this time receives it the truck toll receipts on this section, the passenger car travels remains further free. Already in the year 2004 beganthe Federal Ministry of Transport to write the project out.

During the flood in August 2005 it came to a setback with the building of the new motorway bridge over the Lech with Gersthofen. The provisional eastern foundation was under-rinsed, and the new bridge sagged on one side and threatened in the Lechto fall. By this incident A had to become long totally closed 8 in the section between Augsburg - east and Augsburg - west over one day. The foundation could be stabilized, however it lasted the bridge until December 2005, to the damage repaired andwas again raised.

planning

• widening on 2 traces between AS Merzig Wellingen and AS Merzig Schwemlingen (urgent need)
• widening on 3 traces between AS Karl bath and AS Pforzheim west (urgent need)
• widening on 3 traces between AS Pforzheim east and AD Leonberg (between AS home home andAD Leonberg, commencement of construction:4. January 2006)
• Widening on 4 traces between AD Leonberg and AS Wendlingen (further need)
• widening on 3 traces between gas station Gruibingen and AS roof-outer/prince-field-bridge (urgent need)
• widening on 4 traces between AS Hofoldinger forest and AD Inn valley (further need)
• wideningon 3 traces between AS rose home and AS Bernau (urgent need)
• widening on 3 traces between AS Bernau and AS Felden (further need with planning law)
• widening on 3 traces between AS Felden and federal border D/A (further need)

Web on the left of

• Albaufstieg Aichelberg
• of pictures toMotorway
• A 8 - Patrick's Autobahn-Atlas

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