Hamburg-Ost motorway junction

Hamburg-Ost motorway junction
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location
Country:	Germany
State :	Schleswig-Holstein
Coordinates:	53 ° 33 '42 "  N , 10 ° 9' 55"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 33 '42 "  N , 10 ° 9' 55"  E
Height:	23  m above sea level NN
Basic data
Design type:	Line solution
Bridges:	4 (motorway) / 2 (other)
Construction year:	1963
Last modification:	2007
The A1 from Lübeck in the cross

The Hamburg-Ost motorway junction (abbreviation: AK Hamburg-Ost ; short form: Hamburg-Ost junction ) is a motorway junction in Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein . It connects the federal highway 1 ( Vogelfluglinie ) with the federal highway 24 (Hamburg - Berlin ).

geography

More than three quarters of the motorway junction is in the municipality of Barsbüttel in the Stormarn district , the rest is in the Hamburg district of Billstedt and in the Oststeinbeker area. The state border between Schleswig-Holstein and the Hanseatic City of Hamburg runs through the western part of the cross. It is located about 12 km east of downtown Hamburg , about 50 km southwest of Lübeck and about 85 km west of Schwerin .

The Hamburg-Ost motorway junction has junction number 31 on the A1 and number 3 on the A24.

history

The groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of the Reichsautobahn Hamburg - Lübeck in January 1934 was followed by preparatory measures in September in the area of ​​today's motorway intersection. Original plans envisaged an intersection-free connection of the highways from Hamburg, Berlin and Lübeck under the title Barsbütteler Dreieck . On May 13, 1937, the Reichsautobahn Hamburg - Lübeck (i.e. the A 24 to the west and the A 1 to the north) was opened to traffic.

In September 1937 construction work began on the motorway towards Berlin, but two years later this had to be stopped again due to the war. By then, around 80% of the entire project had been completed, but the interior of the tunnel and the road surface were still missing.

The tunnel within the motorway junction, which has not yet been put into operation, served as a safe alternative location for the manufacture of aircraft parts during the Second World War . For this purpose, the driveways were walled up and the interior divided into three rooms. From 1946 to 1950, British pioneers used the entire intersection as a parking space for military vehicles, to the dismay of the road surface.

In 1960, the construction of the south-east bypass Hamburg began on the A 1, which was put into traffic on May 15, 1963. The cross was completed in 1978 with the construction of the A 24 ( Berlin route ).

At the beginning of the 1980s, the A1 was expanded to six lanes, in the course of which the threading lanes were expanded and corner connections between the western part of the A 24 and the southern part of the A1 were created to accommodate inner-Hamburg traffic.

In order to be able to cope with the increased volume of traffic, the cross has been extensively rebuilt and modernized since 2001. The renovation of the tunnel and the renewal of the carriageway between Reinbek and the Kreuz made it necessary to completely block the direction of Hamburg for more than three months from August to early November 2006. The work on the 27 million euro large project was completed in November 2007.

Design and state of development

The A1 has six lanes and the A 24 has four lanes. The A 24 West – A 1 South relations and vice versa are single-lane, the remaining connecting ramps are two-lane. The connecting ramps between Berlin and Lübeck and vice versa are missing. These are served from the Barsbüttel junction on the A 1 and Reinbek on the A 24.

The motorway junction was designed as a line solution because of the acute angle at which the two motorways meet . The main bridge structure leads the A 1 over the A 24.

Traffic volume

With an average traffic load of around 148,000 vehicles a day, it is the busiest motorway junction in Schleswig-Holstein.

From	To	Average daily traffic volume			Share of heavy goods traffic
		2005	2010	2015	2005	2010	2015
AS Barsbüttel (A 1)	AK Hamburg-Ost	63,000	81,600	86,100	16.9%	11.8%	11.2%
AK Hamburg-Ost	AS Hamburg-Öjendorf (A 1)	57,000	91,900	99,900	-	17.1%	16.2%
AS Hamburg-Jenfeld (A 24)	AK Hamburg-Ost	66,000	58,600	59,700	03.1%	03.5%	03.1%
AK Hamburg-Ost	AS Reinbek (A 24)	47,500	49,200	51,200	10.8%	10.3%	11.6%

Junction points and driving relationships

		Direction Heiligenhafen (30) Barsbüttel ↓↓↓ ↑↑↑
Direction Hamburg-Horn (2) Hamburg-Jenfeld ↓↓ ↑↑		↓↓ ↑↑ (4) Reinbek towards Berlin
↓↓↓ ↑↑↑ (32) Hamburg-Öjendorf direction Bremen / Hanover

Trivia

The Hamburg-Ost junction also represents a junction of European roads. It begins on European road 26 , which largely follows the course of the A 24, on European road 22 , which runs from Amsterdam to Sassnitz .

See also

• List of motorway junctions and triangles in Schleswig-Holstein

Web links

• Building history of AK Hamburg-Ost

Individual evidence

1. ^ U-relocation "Kolibri", Barsbüttel - Written by: Michael Grube. geschichtsspuren.de Interest group for historical military, industrial and transport buildings, accessed on October 1, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Manual road traffic census 2005. (PDF) Results on federal motorways. BASt Statistics, 2005, accessed on March 11, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Manual road traffic census 2010. (PDF) Results on federal motorways. BASt Statistics, 2010, accessed on March 11, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Manual road traffic census 2015. (PDF) Results on federal motorways. BASt Statistics, 2015, accessed on March 11, 2018 .