Bavarian Vogtland motorway triangle

Bavarian Vogtland motorway triangle
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location
Country:	Germany
State :	Bavaria
Coordinates:	50 ° 19 '26 "  N , 11 ° 47' 35"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 19 '26 "  N , 11 ° 47' 35"  E
Height:	501  m above sea level NN
Basic data
Design type:	Complete triangle (Full-Y)
Bridges:	3 (motorway) / 3 (other)
Construction year:	1966
Last modification:	2004
The A 9 towards Munich am Dreieck

The Autobahn triangle Bayerisches Vogtland (abbreviation: AD Bayerisches Vogtland ; short form: Dreieck Bayerisches Vogtland ) is a motorway triangle near Hof in northern Bavaria . This is where the federal motorway 72 (Hof - Leipzig ) ( Europastraße 441 ) begins by branching off from the federal motorway 9 ( Berlin - Leipzig - Munich ) ( Europastraße 51 ).

geography

The triangle lies in the area of ​​the communities Selbitz and Köditz in the Upper Franconian district of Hof . The surrounding communities are Leupoldsgrün and Berg in Upper Franconia . It is located about 45 km north of Bayreuth , about 10 km west of Hof and about 100 km southwest of Chemnitz .

The closest nature parks are Franconian Forest in Bavaria and Thuringian Schierfergebirge / Obere Saale .

The triangle takes its name from the Bavarian Vogtland region .

The Bavarian Vogtland motorway triangle has junction number 33 on the A 9 and number 1 on the A 72.

construction

Construction began in 1939 under the name of the Hof Autobahn triangle , but was initially unfinished in 1942. Until 1963 and 1966, the triangle had to be bypassed on federal highway 173 . It was completely finished in 1963 (Nuremberg – Chemnitz) and 1966 (Chemnitz – Nuremberg). Before 1990, the former A 722 branched off from the A 9 here , ending in Töpen after crossing the Saale north of Hof . Extensive renovation and expansion work was carried out between 1990 and 1995 and the missing connection from the A 72 to the north was created. The A 722 was renamed the A 72 due to the further expansion to Chemnitz . In 2004 the triangle was renewed and adapted to the six-lane expansion of the A 9.

meaning

Planned in the 1930s, the Hof – Chemnitz autobahn was primarily intended to serve as a link between Bavaria and Saxony or Silesia.

After the end of the war, it was still of supraregional importance for interzone and transit traffic to Berlin until 1966 , as the Rudolphstein bridge on the Saale was destroyed in the course of the A 9 and was only made accessible again in 1966. Until then, traffic was diverted via parts of today's A 72 . Between 1966 and 1989 it had no supra-regional significance; Since 1951, the A 72 could only be used as far as the Hof / Töpen junction (Hof-Nord) and from 1966 it was no longer used as a transit route. The route to Chemnitz has been in operation again since November 19, 1989.

Traffic volume

From	To	Average daily traffic volume			Share of heavy goods traffic
		2005	2010	2015	2005	2010	2015
AS Naila / Selbitz (A 9)	AD Bavarian Vogtland	39,900	39,100	41,200	19.2%	20.6%	20.8%
AD Bavarian Vogtland	AS Hof-West (A 9)	53,600	52,400	54,200	18.1%	19.7%	20.5%
AD Bavarian Vogtland	AS Hof-Nord (A 72)	28,400	29,000	31,200	18.0%	19.8%	21.8%

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Manual road traffic census 2005. (PDF) Results on federal motorways. BASt Statistics, 2007, accessed on August 22, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Manual road traffic census 2010. (PDF) Results on federal motorways. BASt Statistics, 2011, accessed on August 22, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Manual road traffic census 2015. (PDF) Results on federal motorways. BASt Statistics, 2017, accessed on August 22, 2018 . 

Web links

Commons : Autobahn triangle Bayerisches Vogtland  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• History of the A72 at autobahn-online.de
• Map with the location of the motorway triangle