Securing supply and a better connection for the region

Early, voluntary puplic participation as part of five dialogue markets in March 2019: roughly 2/3 of the comments noted could be taken into consideration during the planning of the pipeline route.

The route is carefully planned and with respect for the environment and local residents, including wildlife conservation mapping and topographic surveying.

Numerous preparatory measures begin more than two years prior to the actual pipeline construction. This includes archeological surveys carried out in cooperation with the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments with the aim of documenting findings and maintaining their value as cultural assets. Here: excavations at Großsachsenheim in October 2021.

A view behind line pipe production – the roughly 16-metre-long and approx. 2.5 tonne pipes undergo a range of safety tests and leave the factory in Hamm/Westfalen only after they are certified by TÜV.

A total of five storage places for the line pipes are erected in the regions along the pipeline route. Delivery of the pipes began in November 2021.

At the beginning of March 2022, construction of the "NET" began officially with the so-called "digger bite" near the community of Wiernsheim.

On 16 March 2022, terranets bw celebrates commencement of NET´s construction with a symbolic groundbreaking ceremony at the newly errected gas pressure control and metering system near Wiernsheim. Christoph Kröhnert, NET project manager, Karlheinz Oehler, mayor of the Wiernsheim community at that time, Andreas Dötsch, senior construction manager of  ARGE NET, and Thomas Beyer, CEO of  Anton Meyer GmbH & Co. KG performed the groundbreaking ceremony together. 

The NET construction is implemented as a line construction site. This means single work processes are efficiently performed following the pipeline route. Depending on local circumstances, between 200 and 400 metres of line pipe are laid in one working day. 

On 9 July 2022, a "Construction Site Open Day" in Sachsenheim gave numerous interested people the opportunity to visit the NET construction site and inform themselves about the infrastructure project. Experts were present to answer questions and talk about the project; visitors were also able to take a look into the pipeline ditch and over the shoulders of the archeologists.