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{{Short description|Federal motorway in Germany}}
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{{Infobox road
| country     = DEU
| type        = A
| route       = 30
| map         = Map D A30.svg
| length_km   = 138
| established =
| decommissioned =
| direction_a = West
| terminus_a  = [[Netherlands|Dutch]] border
| direction_b = East
| terminus_b  = [[Bad Oeynhausen]]
| states      = [[North Rhine-Westphalia]], [[Lower Saxony]]
| junction    = {{Bundesautobahn 30 route map}}
| previous_type = A
| previous_route = 29
| next_type     = A
| next_route    = 31
}}
{{RJL|date=December 2021}}
{{BAB intro|30}} is a [[highway]] in northwestern Germany. It runs from west to east, starting at the [[Netherlands|Dutch]] border. On the border it connects with the Dutch [[A1 motorway (Netherlands)|A1 motorway]], hence, the A&nbsp;30 is part of the important European connection [[Berlin]] – [[Amsterdam]]. It is an important connection from [[Hannover]] and [[Minden]] to [[Osnabrück]], [[Münster]] and the Netherlands, and part of [[European route E30|European Route E&nbsp;30]].

==Course==
The A&nbsp;30 starts as the continuation of the Dutch [[A1 motorway (Netherlands)|A1 motorway]], at the Dutch border between [[Nordhorn]] and [[Bad Bentheim]]. In its course towards the east it first crosses [[Bundesautobahn 31|Bundesautobahn&nbsp;31]] near [[Schüttorf]], offering connections towards the [[Ruhr area]] (south) and [[Emden]] (north). It passes [[Rheine]] and near [[Osnabrück]] it crosses the [[Bundesautobahn 1|A&nbsp;1]] and [[Bundesautobahn 33|A&nbsp;33]], offering connections to the north in the direction of [[Bremen]] (A 1) and to the south in the direction of [[Münster]] (A&nbsp;1) and [[Bielefeld]] (A&nbsp;33).

About 50 kilometer farther to the east the A&nbsp;30 ends in [[Bad Oeynhausen]]. Traffic continues over the [[Bundesstraße 61|Bundesstraße&nbsp;61]] through the health resort Bad Oeynhausen. After this town there is 1 additional kilometer of highway A&nbsp;30, leading to the [[Bundesautobahn 2|A&nbsp;2]]. There the A&nbsp;30 ends and continues as [[Bundesstraße 514|B&nbsp;514]].

== History ==

The first plans for an international motorway were made in 1933 with the Netherlands. The road was to run along [[Oldenzaal]], [[Bad Bentheim]], [[Salzbergen]] and [[Rheine]]. The 1938-1940 German road network plans contained a road that would run to the south of Salzbergen, north of Rheine and south of [[Osnabrück]] and would meet the [[Bundesautobahn 2|A&nbsp;2]] near [[Herford]] and [[Bielefeld]].

In earlier plans the A&nbsp;30 would run along [[Bundesstraße 65|Bundesstraße&nbsp;65]] to [[Hannover]]. However, these plans were abandoned. Merely the bypass of [[Stadthagen]] and the southern bypass of [[Minden]] (part of the [[Bundesstraße 65|B&nbsp;65]]) and parts of a planned interchange in [[Laatzen]] remain as evidence of these earlier plans. If the A&nbsp;30 had been further extended through Minden and Stadthagen to Hannover, then today's segment of the A&nbsp;30 around [[Bad Oeynhausen]] would have had the number [[Bundesautobahn 339|A&nbsp;339]].

=== Bad Oeynhausen Bypass ===
[[File:Neubau Oeynhausen.png|thumb|Planned routing of A30 in Bad Oeynhausen.]]
The closing of the highway gap near Bad Oeynhausen has been planned for decades, however, it has not been executed up to now{{when|date=October 2020}} due to disputes about the location of the planned northern bypass of Bad Oeynhausen. In the city there are frequent traffic jams, and traffic (especially freight traffic) is expected to increase. Hence, the gap closure towards the A&nbsp;2 is judged especially urgent.

The government of the [[Regierungsbezirk|region]] [[Detmold (region)|Detmold]] has issued a planning decision for this last segment of the A&nbsp;30 at the request of the North Rhine-Westphalian state company for road construction in January, 2007. The planned section is nearly 10&nbsp;km long and the section should receive two new exits, 28 bridges and a tunnel. The citizens' group which exerts itself against the construction of the highway has submitted a complaint and an application for granting temporary legal protection against the planning decision before the [[Federal Administrative Court of Germany|Federal Administrative Court]]. In July 2008, the Court decided to reject the plaints against the planning decision.<ref>{{in lang|de}} [http://www.wdr.de/themen/verkehr/strasse02/a30/080709.jhtml WDR news 9 July 2008]</ref>

Road construction began in autumn 2008. The section of A 30 bypassing around Bad Oeynhausen opened to traffic on 9 December 2018.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.westfalen-blatt.de/OWL/Kreis-Minden-Luebbecke/Bad-Oeynhausen/3576689-Schlechtes-Wetter-Freigabe-der-Nordumgehung-in-Bad-Oeyhausen-etwas-verzoegert-mit-Videos-Der-Verkehr-rollt-auf-der-neuen-A-30|title=Der Verkehr rollt auf der neuen A 30|publisher=Westfalen-Blatt|date=9 December 2018|access-date=3 May 2019|language=de}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
{{Commons category|Bundesautobahn 30}}
{{Autobahnatlas|30}}
* [http://www.autobahn-online.de/a30geschichte.html History of the A&nbsp;30 {{in lang|de}}]
* [http://www.strassen.nrw.de/projekte/a30/bad_oeynhausen.html Straßen.NRW: The northern bypass of Bad Oeynhausen {{in lang|de}}]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20081009113547/http://notgemeinschaft-bo.de/ Point of view of the citizens' group against the northern bypass {{in lang|de}}]

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[[Category:Autobahns in Germany|30]]
[[Category:Roads in Lower Saxony|A030]]
[[Category:Roads in North Rhine-Westphalia|A030]]
[[Category:Constituent roads of European route E30]]