Motorway triangle Mönchengladbach-Wanlo

Motorway triangle Mönchengladbach-Wanlo
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location
Country:	Germany
State :	North Rhine-Westphalia
Coordinates:	51 ° 6 '9 "  N , 6 ° 25' 33"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 6 '9 "  N , 6 ° 25' 33"  E
Height:	76  m above sea level NN
Basic data
Design type:	Hybrid turbine / clover leaf
Bridges:	5 (motorway)
Last modification:	2005, 2014–2018
View from the A 61 in the direction of Mönchengladbach / Venlo in 2010

The Mönchengladbach-Wanlo motorway triangle is a motorway junction on the southern edge of the Mönchengladbach urban area. It is named after the Mönchengladbach district of Wanlo , which extends southwest. The motorway junction connects the A 61 coming from the north ( Venlo ) with the A 46 ( Heinsberg - Neuss ) running in an east-west direction . On the A 61 the cross leads to the junction number 15 and on the A 46 the number 10.

Until 2018, the A 61 continued south via Jackerath and Koblenz to Hockenheim . As the Garzweiler II open- cast mine progressed , it was closed on July 1, 2018 in a northerly direction and on September 2, 2018 in a southerly direction between the Wanlo exit , located about one kilometer south of the motorway junction, and the Jackerath exit. Traffic is routed via the A 46 and A 44 . The motorway junction was already partially signposted as a motorway triangle in 2017, although the route to the south can still be used as far as the Mönchengladbach-Wanlo junction.

Open-cast construction work

The old motorway junction had already been rebuilt between 2004 and September 23, 2005 to accommodate the increased traffic at the time due to the demolition of the A 44 from Neuss / Düsseldorf towards Aachen / Koblenz and vice versa. For this purpose, two elongated two-lane ramps were built: a tangent in the south-east direction (A 61 from Aachen / Koblenz towards A 46 to Neuss / Düsseldorf) and a ramp in east-south direction (A 46 from Neuss / Düsseldorf in Direction A 61 to Aachen / Koblenz).

From summer 2014, the continuation of the Garzweiler II opencast mine entailed further work, in particular the dismantling of the A 61 between the Wanlo and Jackerath junctions. The A 46 was expanded to six lanes between the Wanlo junction and the Holz junction. In 2015/16 the ramp from the direction of Mönchengladbach towards Düsseldorf was expanded into two lanes. In 2018 the dismantling of the A 61 began in the south of the cross. Previously, the A 44 between the new Jackerath motorway triangle and the Holz motorway junction had been restored on a new route, which also takes up the traffic of the A 61. For this purpose, traffic traveling south on the A 61 is diverted in a curve onto the A 46 in an easterly direction as far as the Holz intersection, from where the A 61 continues in a southerly direction on a joint route with the A 44. It is still possible to drive through the cross or motorway triangle Mönchengladbach-Wanlo on the A 61 in a southerly direction, but this route is no longer signposted as a motorway after the arched crossing of the A 46, but only as a country road.

Traffic volume

The motorway junction was used by around 100,000 vehicles every day in 2015.

From	To	Average daily traffic volume			Share of heavy goods traffic
		2005	2010	2015	2005	2010	2015
AS Erkelenz Ost (A 46)	AK Mönchengladbach-Wanlo	31,400	30,600	34,700	08.3%	08.5%	08.0%
AK Mönchengladbach-Wanlo	AK wood (A 46)	21,900	45,500	no data	10.1%	10.8%	no data
AS MG- Güdderath (A 61)	AK Mönchengladbach-Wanlo	57,900	55,500	55,500	14.7%	15.5%	15.6%
AK Mönchengladbach-Wanlo	AS MG- Wanlo (A 61)	42,800	67,000	63,600	19.5%	16.3%	16.6%

Individual references and references

1. ↑ UPDATE: A44n: Approval of the north direction between the motorway junctions Jackerath and Holz. In: strassen.nrw.de. Straßen.NRW, June 29, 2018, accessed September 7, 2018 . 
2. ↑ A44n: Approval of the southern travel direction between Holz and Jackerath. Straßen.NRW, August 30, 2018, accessed September 7, 2018 . 
3. ↑ A61: six-lane expansion between the Wanlo and Jackerath motorway junctions completed. In: strassen.nrw.de. Straßen.NRW, September 23, 2005, archived from the original on December 24, 2013 ; accessed on September 7, 2018 . 
4. ↑ A46 becomes a major construction site in summer. In: RP Online . May 22, 2013. Retrieved May 25, 2014 . 
5. ↑ Autobahn 61 will not disappear until 2018. In: RP Online . January 5, 2017, accessed June 30, 2020 . 
6. ↑ Manual road traffic census 2005. (PDF) Results on federal motorways. BASt Statistics, 2005, accessed on February 7, 2018 . 
7. ↑ Manual road traffic census 2010. (PDF) Results on federal motorways. BASt Statistics, 2010, accessed on September 11, 2018 . 
8. ↑ Manual road traffic census 2015. (PDF) Results on federal motorways. BASt Statistics, 2015, accessed on February 7, 2018 .