Ground-breaking ceremony for the Kallmerode bypass as part of the B 247

Steffen Bilger, Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Transport and Digital Infrastructure, together with Thuringia's Transport Minister Ms Birgit Keller, and Mr Dirk Brandenburger of DEGES, symbolically broke ground for the Kallmerode bypass (OU) as part of the B 247 on Tuesday, 1 October 2019.

The B 247 is a strategically enormously important traffic axis. It connects the economic areas of central Thuringia, southern Lower Saxony and northern Hesse and the motorways A 4, A 71 and A 38. The B 247 connects Mühlhausen and Bad Langensalza directly to the supra-regional traffic routes.

The federal government is investing around 30 million euros in the 5.5-kilometre-long local bypass, including the extension section, the construction of which will begin with a first bridge structure.

In the course of the Kallmerode bypass, 4 bridge structures are required, which KREBS+KIEFER Erfurt had already supervised and planned earlier in the preliminary and design planning phase in 2008/09. For financial reasons, however, no invitation to tender was issued at that time.

Now, ten years later, the planning and the project are being implemented by DEGES. Due to the time passed meanwhile and the introduction of new regulations, the designs of KREBS+KIEFER Erfurt have been revised and adapted. The bridge structures consist of a reinforced concrete frame and three composite steel bridges.