Herne motorway junction
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| Country: | Germany |
| State : | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Coordinates: | 51 ° 32 '40 " N , 7 ° 12' 0" E |
| Height: | 44 m above sea level NN |
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| Design type: | Windmill with indirect ramps |
| Bridges: | 5 (motorway) / 4 (other) |
| Construction year: | 1968 |
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| View from the south over the A 43 at the Herne motorway junction | |
The Herne motorway junction (abbreviation: AK Herne ; short form: Herne cross ) is a motorway junction in North Rhine-Westphalia in the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region . It connects the federal highway 42 ( Emscherschnellweg ) with the federal highway 43 ( Münster - Wuppertal ).
geography
The motorway junction is in the urban area of Herne , in the Herne-Mitte district . The closest districts are Holsterhausen , Eickel , Mitte and Baukau . It is located about 20 km west of Dortmund , about 8 km north of Bochum and about 15 km northeast of Essen .
To the northeast of the cross is the Nordfriedhof Kaiserstrasse, to the northwest the Herne power station .
The Herne motorway junction has junction number 21 on the A 42 and number 14 on the A 43.
history
The cross was opened to traffic in 1968 with the completion of the first section of the A 42. At that time it was built to link the Emscherschnellweg with the EB 51 (replacement federal road), the planning of which was later replaced by the A 43. In the mid-1970s, the cross was expanded again with the construction of the A 43.
Design and state of development
Both motorways have four lanes. With the exception of the A 43 north - A 42 east and A 42 west - A 43 south routes (both two-lane), all connecting ramps are single-lane.
Since the cross is bounded in the northeast by a cemetery and in the southwest by Cranger Straße, no indirect connecting ramps could be installed there. Instead of a clover leaf, the motorway junction was designed as a windmill with indirect ramps to save space .
Road crossings of the same principle
- Breitscheid motorway junction
- Motorway junction Bonn / Siegburg
- Mönchengladbach motorway junction
- West Cross Frankfurt
Traffic volume
The cross is used by around 143,000 vehicles every day.
| From | To | Average daily traffic volume |
Share of heavy goods traffic |
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| AS Herne-Crange (A 42) | AK Herne | 76,600 | 9.3% |
| AK Herne | AS Herne-Baukau (A 42) | 58,600 | 11.0% |
| AS Recklinghausen -Hochlarmark (A 43) | AK Herne | 72,900 | 5.2% |
| AK Herne | AS Herne-Eickel (A 43) | 77,000 | 6.3% |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ AK Herne. (No longer available online.) Autobahn intersections & Autobahn triangles in Germany, 2011, archived from the original on May 25, 2014 ; Retrieved August 14, 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.
- ↑ Manual traffic census BAB 2015. (PDF) BASt Statistics, 2015, accessed on September 14, 2017 .
