Kassel-Süd motorway triangle

Kassel-Süd motorway triangle
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location
Country:	Germany
State :	Hesse
Coordinates:	51 ° 15 ′ 38 ″  N , 9 ° 31 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 38 ″  N , 9 ° 31 ′ 0 ″  E
Height:	213  m above sea level NN
Basic data
Design type:	right-handed trumpet
Bridges:	1 (motorway) / 3 (other)
Construction year:	1968
Last modification:	1999
The A7 at the AD Kassel-Süd in the direction of Würzburg

The Kassel-Süd motorway triangle (abbreviation: AD Kassel-Süd ; short form: Kassel-Süd triangle , until 2003 Kasseler Kreuz ) is a motorway triangle in Hesse near Kassel . It connects the federal highway 7 ( Flensburg - Hanover - Füssen ; E 45 ) with the federal highway 44 ( Aachen - Kassel; E 331 ).

geography

The triangle lies on the municipal areas of Fuldabrück , Lohfelden and Söhrewald in the Kassel district . The closest districts are Bergshausen , Dennhausen and Dittershausen (all part of Fuldabrück) and Crumbach , which belongs to Lohfelden. It is located about 7 km south of Kassel city center, about 145 km east of Dortmund and about 45 km northwest of Bad Hersfeld .

Not far from the triangle is the Fulda , which is crossed by the A 44 through the Fuldatalbrücke Bergshausen .

It is located on the western edge of the Frau-Holle-Land Geo-Nature Park (Werratal.Meißner.Kaufunger Wald) .

The Kassel-Süd motorway triangle has junction number 80 on the A 7 and number 70 on the A 44.

history

The original plans included a motorway junction in the form of a double trumpet . Contrary to these plans, the A 44 was not extended in an easterly direction here, but only about seven kilometers north at the Kassel-Ost junction. The bridge structures of the southern trumpet, which had already been built for this reason, were dismantled and finally demolished in 1999.

Design and state of development

The A 44 has four lanes, the A 7 has six lanes in the south. From 2016 to 2018 ^[obsolete] the A 7 in the north direction has been extended from six to eight lanes. The connecting ramp from the A 7-Nord to the A 44 is single-lane, the remaining connecting ramps are two-lane.

The motorway triangle was designed as a right-hand trumpet .

Traffic volume

Around 100,000 vehicles drive through the triangle every day.

From	To	Average daily traffic volume	Share of heavy goods traffic
AK Kassel-Mitte	AD Kassel-Süd (A 7)	77,900	18.0%
AD Kassel-Süd	AS Guxhagen (A 7)	73,500	19.7%
AK Kassel-West (A 44)	AD Kassel-Süd	48,300	23.9%

Individual evidence

1. ↑ BI pro A 44 protests against the renaming of the Kasseler Kreuz and worries about the realization of the A 44 south. (PDF; 86 KB) (No longer available online.) Citizens' Initiative Pro A 44 eV, February 21, 2004, archived from the original on September 23, 2007 ; Retrieved November 30, 2013 . 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.  
2. ^ AD Kassel-Süd. Motorway junctions and triangles in Germany, 2011, accessed on November 30, 2013 . 
3. ↑ https://www.hna.de/kassel/kreis-kassel/autobahn-a7-sti231737/a7-ausbau-beginnt-juni-acht-streifen- between- kassel-ost-sued- 6304467.html
4. ↑ Manual traffic census BAB 2015. (PDF) BASt Statistics, 2015, accessed on August 29, 2017 .