@Lufthansa452 Almost. Except the train bridge will open for commercial operation in December 2022 - earlier than the remodeled Stuttgart central station. Fortunately the fast train tracks between Stuttgart and Ulm are not dependent on the Stuttgart21 train station to be finished. It will connect to the old tracks at Wendlingen and this connection is already being built. Therefore Stuttgart-Ulm will be able to open earlier. They are already laying rails almost everywhere. The bridge is not finished yet but getting there. Actually, in reality they are two parallel bridges and one is already ready for tracks and power lines to be installed. Can't wait to try this out.
Bis 3:20 dachte ich echt ich träume, das kann nicht die A8 sein weil keine Baustellen vorkommen. Aber dann gabs doch noch welche. Wie schön und Gott sei dank. Ferner bin ich seit 7:20 auch beruhigt das die Bauarbeiten bis 2070 endlich beendet sein werden. (Gruß aus A)
Yes, the memories come back, I have driven this Autobahn A8 many times to drive to my customers in Italy, both with plants at the time and with hanging meat, but also during the holidays to Austria. Too bad I didn't have a full-fledged video camera in my day, thanks for this video!!
As so many, as a child I stood on these same bridges and streets when it was still under construction (Day of the open construction site, must have been either 1989 or 90) ^^
I was looking at this part of the A8 literally the other week (although unfortunately, I won't be able to drive it on my upcoming holiday) and I couldn't find any good quality videos of the tunnel. Thanks for uploading this, it's made my day.
The A8 road improvement scheme will probably be finished before the Stuttgart 20(19) now 2025 project! However both great engineering projects will be completed.
This stretch has lost a lot of danger. In my childhood in the sixties I still remember the memories of my mother. During a passage of this stretch on the way to our winter holidays we suddenly realized that our car has lost ground control with two tires. At that time in winter both streches were extremely exposed to winterly weather conditions.
@@henrykoplien1007 The road was completely empty. The video must be taken on a weekend. On workdays the right lane is completely crowded with trucks and on the steeper places the trucks go 30-40km/h
5:20 - the construction of the two-lane Lämmerbuckeltunnel began in autumn 1937. The tunnel was completed in 1942. After that, however the tunnel was converted into a underground factory for compressors and aircraft engines for the companies Heller and Daimler-Benz. The location was perfect in wartime because the factory was almost invisible from the air and perfectly sheltered. Residential complexes for the workers were also set up in the tunnel. In 1945 the Lämmerbuckeltunnel - like many other bridges and tunnels - was blown in the air by the retreating Wehrmacht. The rest of the motorway was finished in May 1957, so that the tunnel could be handed over to its original purpose after being cleared from rubble and being rebuild.
Sieht heute (August 24) fast immer noch genau so aus. Bei 4:08 die Schnellbahn Brücke ist fertig, und ab 7:50 die Baustelle ebenfalls. Am Albaaufstiegstunnel wird immer noch herum geplant 🤯. Mal sehen, ob ich die Fertigstellung noch erlebe 🤔
This side is now like a convenient promenade. You hardly feel the ascent. The opposite direction has always been much more thrilling. These warning signs at the Drackensteiner Hang to switch down to a lower gear. However, no comparison to this road in my childhood. Two narrow concrete lanes in each direction.
Whew! It's been a LONG time since I heard that song - I'd forgotten most of it. Thanks for refreshing my memory - and that looked like a really decent drive to take!
That's one of the most interesting section on the german motorway system in my opinion, enjoyed it everytime I drove there. As a tourist that drives there 1-2 times/year is very nice, but I can imagine that for commuters is not the best motorway to drive on.
5:55 Funding isn't the problem anymore, it's the planning. There were huge discussions about which track route to build. But in the meanwhile they are on the last planning steps, so construction should at least begin in the next year(s)...
Great video, it was a pleasure to watch it. I drove this highway many times and it is always beautiful. During World war two the Lämmerbuckeltunnel was used for depositing munition. Regards from germany.
Schöne Aufnahmen, auch der "neue" Albaufstieg ist immer noch steil. Mit meinem 58 PS Auto ist das deutlich zu spüren. Ich würde sehr gerne noch Mitfahraufnahmen vom alten Albaufstieg A8 vor den 90er Jahren sehen, damals hat halt kaum einer gefilmt und wenn dann auf Super 8 mit kurzer Laufzeit. Wenn man von Stuttgart Richtung München fuhr, kann ich mich an eine große dunkle Wand auf der linken Seite in einer langgezogenen Rechtskurve erinnern.
Ja der alte Aufstieg bei Aichelberg war schon heftig Zweispurig ohne Standstreifen Im Winter ganz besonders Zur Info : Die alte Strecke kann man zu Fuß ablaufen Einfach unten in Aichelberg parken und hochlaufen bis zur Wildbrücke Bei ca min 1:19 sieht man noch links die Stützmauer der alten Strecke
According to German law it is not mandatory to blur the licence plate as only the authorities are capable to locate the car owner. Germans are obedient to say the least.
Don't be too sure that it's not required @@Volksinformant - it might totally get you into trouble with lawyers who have specialized in writing warnings for violating laws ("Abmahnanwälte"). If something like this happens, you can decide to either pay what the lawyer demands (usually a few hundred Euros), or take the matter to the courts, with a risk of ending up paying much more. In fact, a very well known German trucking dashcammer has apparently been affected from this shit just the other day. I wouldn't be too surprised if this very case was what triggered this channel to remove its other videos from Germany.
Looks like you privated most of your Germany videos. What you could do to your videos in Germany is to reupload them but blank out the registration plates.
I agree, but privacy laws are rather strict in Germany and Austria. I tried this to see how much work it would be to blur all the license plates. Most would otherwise only be visible if you pause the video.
@@EuropeanRoads theres no privacy in a public place .. i hate this new world .. tomorrow some1 will poke ur eye out cause u seen them on the street.. whats next? we gonna have to walk with a blindfold?.. stupid..
@@kaffeice7 Several years ago I encountered a state traffic checkpoint, and they demanded to know where I was going and what I was going to do there. I told them it was none of their business. They didn't like it one bit and hassled me about it. After telling them over and over again that it was none of their business, they finally let me go. I'm American Indian and was going to be staying with some of my kin for a few days for reasons related to culture. We face all sorts of harassment and worse - we're hated by a significant portion of the people in large areas of this state (because so many of us can pass as white - as if we would want to) and indeed, my plans are my business and not theirs - and while what I was going to do was perfectly legal, ethical, and moral, there was (and still is) a real possibility they'd try to interfere. They're well known by us for doing just that. Racism is alive and well in America... and growing in strength. A few years later, I was stopped by sheriff's deputies who DEMANDED (in a loud and angry tone) to know why I was on the road and where I was headed (going home after picking up my wife at the airport). Puzzled, I asked him why he wanted to know that. He got really aggressive and hostile - even threatening, and wrote me a ticket for a broken tail-light (that wasn't) and ordered me to not move the car until after they left - sat on the side of the road for at least half an hour. After embarrassing the sheriff in a public letter, they admitted that he'd profiled us and the charges (outrageous and not affordable) were dropped. There are good (legal) reasons why people don't want their identities broadcast... and for some minorities, it's downright dangerous at times. In today's hostile and bigoted climate, it could even be lethal.
@@joen507 Not really. Some highways are in a poor condition like the A8 between Wendlingen and Hohenstadt, but other ones are in a really good condition like the A96 from Memmingen to Lindau. It really much depends on the history of the highways and the traffic load on it. The A8 is one of the mostly driven highways in southern Germany with a high load of heavy vehicles on it. The A96 has much less traffic and is mostly driven by people going on holidays in western Austria, eastern Switzerland or Italy during the vacation times. Some parts of the A8 have more than 100.000 vehicles/24 h, others like the A96 have roughly 20.000-35.000/24 h.
Maybe he drove there between Saturday 22:00 h and Sunday 22:00 h, between these times heavy vehicles > 7.5 t are not allowed to drive in Germany unless they carry perishable goods and some other exceptions.
I'm noticing that number plates of cars are blurred out in this video. So my guess is: they were removed for fear of lawsuits over privacy law violations.
I don't know at the moment a Autobahn with 6 + 6 lanes. At A5, Frankfurt am Main, they has 5 + 5 lanes, Berliner Ring (A10) has 3 + 3 lanes at some points. But 6 lanes i never saw somewhere in Europe.
@@MrNicetux B14/B29 near Fellbach (next to Stuttgart) has 4+4 lanes on a short track. A8/A81 between Leonberg and Kreuz Stuttgart has 4+4 lanes. A99 between Kreuz München-Nord and Descent Aschheim/Ismaning has 4+4 lanes and the opportunity for temporary allowance to drive on the emergency lanes, so during rush hour its 5+5 lanes. The A7 in Hamburg-Stellingen has 4 lanes per direction, 1 extra lane for oncoming and leaving traffic and the emergency lane, which is not used, so 5+5 lanes. Same on the A3 between Kreuz Köln-Ost and Köln-Dellbrück, 4 normal lanes and 1 extra lane per direction + emergency lane.
So many memories of my regular drives along the A8 autobahn on my way to visit my relatives who lived in Rosenheim.
From 3:30 on you can see the construction of a humongous bridge for the new Stuttgart-Ulm highspeed train line (to the right).
Filstalbrücke (Neubaustrecke Wendlingen-Ulm)
will probably start it’s service in 2096
@@cassian7931 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
@Lufthansa452 Almost. Except the train bridge will open for commercial operation in December 2022 - earlier than the remodeled Stuttgart central station. Fortunately the fast train tracks between Stuttgart and Ulm are not dependent on the Stuttgart21 train station to be finished. It will connect to the old tracks at Wendlingen and this connection is already being built. Therefore Stuttgart-Ulm will be able to open earlier.
They are already laying rails almost everywhere. The bridge is not finished yet but getting there. Actually, in reality they are two parallel bridges and one is already ready for tracks and power lines to be installed. Can't wait to try this out.
Bis 3:20 dachte ich echt ich träume, das kann nicht die A8 sein weil keine Baustellen vorkommen. Aber dann gabs doch noch welche. Wie schön und Gott sei dank. Ferner bin ich seit 7:20 auch beruhigt das die Bauarbeiten bis 2070 endlich beendet sein werden. (Gruß aus A)
Yes, the memories come back, I have driven this Autobahn A8 many times to drive to my customers in Italy, both with plants at the time and with hanging meat, but also during the holidays to Austria.
Too bad I didn't have a full-fledged video camera in my day, thanks for this video!!
I regularly drive there to visit my aunt and my grandmother. Also had my driving lessons there.
iI use to drive often on A8 , at Merklingen I entered A8 comming from Tuebingen - Reutlingen - Bad Urach direction :)
As so many, as a child I stood on these same bridges and streets when it was still under construction (Day of the open construction site, must have been either 1989 or 90) ^^
Le célèbre 'Aichelberg' 👍 bien la vidéo ...
7:16 Welcome to Germany, the land of the roadconstructions :D
... and of concrete roads
War das ein Witz?
@@pulptubenetwork8862 Nein
Does that say it will be finished in 2070?
me crying in eastern europe haha, greets from serbia
I was looking at this part of the A8 literally the other week (although unfortunately, I won't be able to drive it on my upcoming holiday) and I couldn't find any good quality videos of the tunnel. Thanks for uploading this, it's made my day.
The A8 road improvement scheme will probably be finished before the Stuttgart 20(19) now 2025 project! However both great engineering projects will be completed.
The lower part from Kirchheim till gruibingen was completely reconstructed and moved in the 80's and 90's. The eastern part is still a bottleneck.
This stretch has lost a lot of danger. In my childhood in the sixties I still remember the memories of my mother. During a passage of this stretch on the way to our winter holidays we suddenly realized that our car has lost ground control with two tires. At that time in winter both streches were extremely exposed to winterly weather conditions.
Great video! I'm always fascinated of this Autobahn section (the Albaufstieg).
Well a boring Autobahn trip...
Road constructions, speed limits and traffic jam...
@@henrykoplien1007 The road was completely empty. The video must be taken on a weekend. On workdays the right lane is completely crowded with trucks and on the steeper places the trucks go 30-40km/h
5:20 - the construction of the two-lane Lämmerbuckeltunnel began in autumn 1937. The tunnel was completed in 1942. After that, however the tunnel was converted into a underground factory for compressors and aircraft engines for the companies Heller and Daimler-Benz. The location was perfect in wartime because the factory was almost invisible from the air and perfectly sheltered. Residential complexes for the workers were also set up in the tunnel. In 1945 the Lämmerbuckeltunnel - like many other bridges and tunnels - was blown in the air by the retreating Wehrmacht.
The rest of the motorway was finished in May 1957, so that the tunnel could be handed over to its original purpose after being cleared from rubble and being rebuild.
Sieht heute (August 24) fast immer noch genau so aus. Bei 4:08 die Schnellbahn Brücke ist fertig, und ab 7:50 die Baustelle ebenfalls. Am Albaaufstiegstunnel wird immer noch herum geplant 🤯. Mal sehen, ob ich die Fertigstellung noch erlebe 🤔
This side is now like a convenient promenade. You hardly feel the ascent. The opposite direction has always been much more thrilling. These warning signs at the Drackensteiner Hang to switch down to a lower gear. However, no comparison to this road in my childhood. Two narrow concrete lanes in each direction.
This road is horrible for the residents along it as well as the commuters
My dad is driving this road every day
Sehr schöne aufnahmen. Bin die A8 immer nur bis Stuttgart gefahren. Die Alb hat schon Flair.
Whew! It's been a LONG time since I heard that song - I'd forgotten most of it. Thanks for refreshing my memory - and that looked like a really decent drive to take!
That's one of the most interesting section on the german motorway system in my opinion, enjoyed it everytime I drove there. As a tourist that drives there 1-2 times/year is very nice, but I can imagine that for commuters is not the best motorway to drive on.
Have you driven up the B10 from Stuttgart to Geislingen? It has such a beautiful view to look up.
Only JESUS CHRIST can save your soul from the flames of hell!
5:55 Funding isn't the problem anymore, it's the planning. There were huge discussions about which track route to build. But in the meanwhile they are on the last planning steps, so construction should at least begin in the next year(s)...
Ich liebe Germany- Deutschland !!!
Great video, it was a pleasure to watch it. I drove this highway many times and it is always beautiful. During World war two the Lämmerbuckeltunnel was used for depositing munition. Regards from germany.
Schöne Aufnahmen, auch der "neue" Albaufstieg ist immer noch steil. Mit meinem 58 PS Auto ist das deutlich zu spüren.
Ich würde sehr gerne noch Mitfahraufnahmen vom alten Albaufstieg A8 vor den 90er Jahren sehen, damals hat halt kaum einer gefilmt und wenn dann auf Super 8 mit kurzer Laufzeit. Wenn man von Stuttgart Richtung München fuhr, kann ich mich an eine große dunkle Wand auf der linken Seite in einer langgezogenen Rechtskurve erinnern.
Ja der alte Aufstieg bei Aichelberg war schon heftig
Zweispurig ohne Standstreifen
Im Winter ganz besonders
Zur Info :
Die alte Strecke kann man zu Fuß ablaufen
Einfach unten in Aichelberg parken und hochlaufen bis zur Wildbrücke
Bei ca min 1:19 sieht man noch links die Stützmauer der alten Strecke
Das Lied hat mir gefallen.Die Strecke ist romantisch.
thank you. so well traveled :) Im located at Karlsruhe ~60km West of Stuttgart
Ulm My City🌼💚💓 i Love Ulm
04:08 mittlerweile ist Sie fertig. Die wunderschöne Filstalbrücke
great video ,,,i noticed that there is not a lot of truck traffic is this the norm for the a8
6:18 dangerous caravan snaking.
Whatever the old car is (it looks American) it had no trouble keeping up with traffic.
7:53 the new Merklingen Train Station
Home sweet Home. ❤️
the song from your intro became has became sentimental for me lol
Huhh ezen az úton jártunk valamikor 2003 táján.
Best remember danke
Gostei
It's a dangerous bottleneck, but still so beautiful...
can you please make a video that drive you from Zurich to Basel??
I like this road von zurück nach Basel...Hammer
Das Beste an Stuttgart? Ganz klar, die A8 nach München!
*ducks*
Seggl😅🤣
Wo 95% kein speedlimit herscht
Neu Ulm, bitte. Danke.. Ich liebe Trompete :*)
why all the license plates are blurred?
Retarded German privacy laws
According to German law it is not mandatory to blur the licence plate as only the authorities are capable to locate the car owner. Germans are obedient to say the least.
That makes no sense. If you are filming someone doing something illegal then you are doing a favor, not a disfavor to the public, right?
Don't be too sure that it's not required @@Volksinformant - it might totally get you into trouble with lawyers who have specialized in writing warnings for violating laws ("Abmahnanwälte"). If something like this happens, you can decide to either pay what the lawyer demands (usually a few hundred Euros), or take the matter to the courts, with a risk of ending up paying much more.
In fact, a very well known German trucking dashcammer has apparently been affected from this shit just the other day. I wouldn't be too surprised if this very case was what triggered this channel to remove its other videos from Germany.
The video’s are privat down Below😢
One of my favourite stretches in all of Germany. 7:18 is very true lol
7:18
Nice video
Looks like you privated most of your Germany videos. What you could do to your videos in Germany is to reupload them but blank out the registration plates.
why r u hiding the plates? its a public road , ur filming the travell, not the cars that happen to get into the frame
I agree, but privacy laws are rather strict in Germany and Austria. I tried this to see how much work it would be to blur all the license plates. Most would otherwise only be visible if you pause the video.
@@EuropeanRoads theres no privacy in a public place .. i hate this new world .. tomorrow some1 will poke ur eye out cause u seen them on the street.. whats next? we gonna have to walk with a blindfold?.. stupid..
Agreed. The blurring is rather obtrusive.
@@kaffeice7 Several years ago I encountered a state traffic checkpoint, and they demanded to know where I was going and what I was going to do there. I told them it was none of their business. They didn't like it one bit and hassled me about it. After telling them over and over again that it was none of their business, they finally let me go.
I'm American Indian and was going to be staying with some of my kin for a few days for reasons related to culture. We face all sorts of harassment and worse - we're hated by a significant portion of the people in large areas of this state (because so many of us can pass as white - as if we would want to) and indeed, my plans are my business and not theirs - and while what I was going to do was perfectly legal, ethical, and moral, there was (and still is) a real possibility they'd try to interfere. They're well known by us for doing just that. Racism is alive and well in America... and growing in strength.
A few years later, I was stopped by sheriff's deputies who DEMANDED (in a loud and angry tone) to know why I was on the road and where I was headed (going home after picking up my wife at the airport). Puzzled, I asked him why he wanted to know that. He got really aggressive and hostile - even threatening, and wrote me a ticket for a broken tail-light (that wasn't) and ordered me to not move the car until after they left - sat on the side of the road for at least half an hour. After embarrassing the sheriff in a public letter, they admitted that he'd profiled us and the charges (outrageous and not affordable) were dropped.
There are good (legal) reasons why people don't want their identities broadcast... and for some minorities, it's downright dangerous at times. In today's hostile and bigoted climate, it could even be lethal.
@@EuropeanRoads Did you use some sort of special software to blur the plates?
7:16 Bis September 2070?!
7:17
September 2070?
I think it's an joke🤷♂️🤷♂️
That construction zone has been there for ages now
UA-cam spying on me, i live around there 😂
Zufall? ich glaube nicht. Schließ mich an 😂
In Ulm, um Ulm und um Ulm herum.
German roads look very good, but I saw some places that the road is not very good, and the road have some patches.
Come on, Germans! :)
The roads in this video are quite representative of German highways, unfortunately
@@joen507 Not really. Some highways are in a poor condition like the A8 between Wendlingen and Hohenstadt, but other ones are in a really good condition like the A96 from Memmingen to Lindau. It really much depends on the history of the highways and the traffic load on it. The A8 is one of the mostly driven highways in southern Germany with a high load of heavy vehicles on it. The A96 has much less traffic and is mostly driven by people going on holidays in western Austria, eastern Switzerland or Italy during the vacation times. Some parts of the A8 have more than 100.000 vehicles/24 h, others like the A96 have roughly 20.000-35.000/24 h.
damn, and I thought Truck Simulator was boring.
Make stop in Ulm for some of Dray's BBQ.😋
wo ist der stau?
Almost no trucks, but plenty of caravans and motorhomes.
Maybe he drove there between Saturday 22:00 h and Sunday 22:00 h, between these times heavy vehicles > 7.5 t are not allowed to drive in Germany unless they carry perishable goods and some other exceptions.
Alles klar.
Aufnahme ist von den Sommerferien.
Sorry.
Sollte man Mal wärend eines Regulären Arbeitstag machen.........
Los. Mit Hofmanns reisen, bitte :*)
Why do you have removed the other video’s of Germany
I'm noticing that number plates of cars are blurred out in this video.
So my guess is: they were removed for fear of lawsuits over privacy law violations.
afaik you don´t have to censor the license plates.
High Speed?😂😂😂 If there is no Traffic maybe! And that is a Wonder 🤣🤣
Rail way, not road way
😃👍
Great. Danke! Tanzen. Los..
Mannheim
Der Europa "mauers"
OK.. Majino line ;)
Aber das ist not constitutional..
The Autobahn clog in Germany is not really interesting. Do they have 12 lanes in Germany?
I don't know at the moment a Autobahn with 6 + 6 lanes. At A5, Frankfurt am Main, they has 5 + 5 lanes, Berliner Ring (A10) has 3 + 3 lanes at some points. But 6 lanes i never saw somewhere in Europe.
@@MrNicetux Rotterdam- Amsterdam stretch towards the airport has 6 lanes.
@@MrNicetux B14/B29 near Fellbach (next to Stuttgart) has 4+4 lanes on a short track. A8/A81 between Leonberg and Kreuz Stuttgart has 4+4 lanes. A99 between Kreuz München-Nord and Descent Aschheim/Ismaning has 4+4 lanes and the opportunity for temporary allowance to drive on the emergency lanes, so during rush hour its 5+5 lanes. The A7 in Hamburg-Stellingen has 4 lanes per direction, 1 extra lane for oncoming and leaving traffic and the emergency lane, which is not used, so 5+5 lanes. Same on the A3 between Kreuz Köln-Ost and Köln-Dellbrück, 4 normal lanes and 1 extra lane per direction + emergency lane.
6+6 in Europe? Moscow ring... It isn't an Autobahn, it's a very big problem, but you can drive 100 km/h with no traffic light.