A44 motorway: Hirschhagen Tunnel opens near Helsa
- Location
- Northern Hesse (Kassel district / Werra-Meißner district), municipalities of Helsa and Hessisch Lichtenau · 🇩🇪 Germany
- Project
- A 44 Kassel–Eisenach (German Unity Transport Project No. 15): Helsa-Ost – Hessisch Lichtenau-West section (Hirschhagen Tunnel)
- Investment
- approx. EUR 346 million from the federal budget
- Status
- Completed / in operation
The approximately 5.9 km section (VKE 12) of the A 44 between the Helsa-Ost and Hessisch Lichtenau-West interchanges opened to traffic on 7 October 2022. Its centerpiece is the roughly 4.2 km Hirschhagen Tunnel, Germany's second-longest motorway tunnel after the Rennsteig Tunnel. Construction costs for the section totaled around EUR 346 million; the tunnel breakthrough had already occurred in 2016.
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