Altdorf motorway junction

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Altdorf motorway junction
A3 A6 E50 E56
location
Country: Germany
State : Bavaria
Coordinates: 49 ° 24 '16 "  N , 11 ° 17' 57"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 24 '16 "  N , 11 ° 17' 57"  E
Height: 385  m above sea level NN
Basic data
Design type: Shamrock
Bridges: 1 (motorway) / 3 (other)
Construction year: 1959

The Altdorf motorway junction (abbreviation: AK Altdorf ; short form: Altdorf cross ) is a motorway junction in Bavaria , which is located in the Nuremberg metropolitan region . This is where the federal motorway 3 ( Oberhausen - Frankfurt am Main - Passau ) ( European route 56 ) and the federal motorway 6 ( Saarbrücken - Mannheim - Nuremberg ) ( European route 50 ) intersect .

geography

The cross is on the edge of Franconia , on the border with Upper Palatinate . It is located in the municipality of Winkelhaid , 15 km southeast of downtown Nuremberg and about 150 km north of Munich . As an important traffic junction , it connects the A 3 ( Netherlands / Arnhem - Austria / Linz ) with the A 6 ( France / Paris - Czech Republic / Pilsen ).

The Altdorf motorway junction is number 89 on the A 3 and number 61 on the A 6.

State of development

The A 6 and the A 3 are each expanded with four lanes at the intersection. All transitions are single-lane. The cross is laid out in the shape of a clover .

Traffic volume

Around 84,000 vehicles pass the cross every day.

From To Average
daily traffic volume		 Share of
heavy goods traffic
2005 2010 2015 2005 2010 2015
AK Nuremberg (A 3) AK Altdorf 40,000 40,000 43,600 18.8% 19.7% 20.7%
AK Altdorf AS Altdorf / Burgthann (A 3) 45,000 46,500 50,600 18.1% 20.1% 20.8%
AS Kreuz Nürnberg-Ost (A 6) AK Altdorf 37,200 38,500 41,500 22.3% 22.3% 22.9%
AK Altdorf AS Altdorf / Leinburg (A 6) 27,600 28,100 31,900 25.2% 25.2% 24.7%

Trivia

The Altdorf motorway junction is the southeasternmost of the Franconian motorway junctions and forms an important bridge on the axis from Nuremberg to Prague and from Würzburg to Regensburg.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manual road traffic census 2005. (PDF) Results on federal motorways. BASt Statistics, 2005, accessed on July 7, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Manual road traffic census 2010. (PDF) Results on federal motorways. BASt Statistics, 2010, accessed on July 7, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Manual road traffic census 2015. (PDF) Results on federal motorways. BASt Statistics, 2015, accessed on August 22, 2017 .