Karlsruhe motorway triangle
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| Country: | Germany |
| State : | Baden-Württemberg |
| Coordinates: | 48 ° 58 '25 " N , 8 ° 26' 17" E |
| Height: | 125 m above sea level NN |
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| Design type: | Complete triangle (Full-Y) |
| Bridges: | 3 (motorway) / 1 (other) |
| Construction year: | 1938 |
| Last modification: | 2011 |
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The Karlsruhe motorway triangle (abbreviation: AD Karlsruhe ; short form: Karlsruhe triangle ) is a motorway triangle in Baden-Württemberg near Karlsruhe . Here the A 8 ( Saarland - Stuttgart - Munich - Salzburg ) branches off from the A 5 ( Hattenbacher Dreieck - Frankfurt am Main - Basel ).
geography
The motorway triangle is in the area of the city of Karlsruhe. The surrounding towns and communities are Waldbronn and Ettlingen . It is located about 5 km southeast of Karlsruhe, about 60 km west of Stuttgart and about 55 km south of Mannheim .
On the A 5, the motorway triangle bears the junction number 46 and on the A 8 the number 41.
history
Before World War II
The Karlsruhe triangle was built until 1938 and, in the course of the motorway construction from Karlsruhe to Salzburg, was completed and opened to traffic before the Second World War .
Karlsruhe triangle race
From 1946 to 1951, motorsport races took place in the triangle, the Karlsruhe triangle race .
Remodeling 2011
The bridge over the Stuttgart – Basel ramp over the A 5 was rebuilt from August 2011 to early 2013. The existing bridge had to be demolished due to its poor condition. First, a new bridge was built right next to the existing one and the previous line of the ramp was adapted. For this reason, the existing road cross-section was also widened. The cost was around 6.6 million euros.
State of development
In this area, the A 5, just like the A 8, has six lanes. All reconciliations are two-lane.
The triangle is laid out as a complete triangle (Full-Y).
Traffic volume
It is one of the busiest road junctions in Baden-Württemberg with around 160,000 vehicles per day.
| From | To | Average daily traffic volume |
Share of heavy goods traffic |
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| AS Karlsruhe-Mitte (A 5) | AD Karlsruhe | 135,400 | 15.0% |
| AD Karlsruhe | AS Ettlingen (A 5) | 90,700 | 15.5% |
| AD Karlsruhe | AS Karlsbad (A 8) | 93,900 | 15.8% |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ AD Karlsruhe. (No longer available online.) Autobahn intersections & Autobahn triangles in Germany, 2011, archived from the original on February 10, 2013 ; Retrieved November 24, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Bottleneck at the Karlsruhe motorway junction: Construction of a new bridge leads to traffic jams. ka-news.de, July 29, 2011, accessed on November 24, 2012 .
- ↑ Regional Council Karlsruhe: Autobahn triangle Karlsruhe: New construction of the bridge over the A 5 largely completed - demolition of the old bridge ( memento of the original from October 14, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed October 14, 2013.
- ↑ Manual traffic census BAB 2015. BASt Statistics, 2015, accessed on August 18, 2017 . (PDF file)
