Autobahn junction wood

Autobahn junction wood
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location
Country:	Germany
State :	North Rhine-Westphalia
Coordinates:	51 ° 5 '37 "  N , 6 ° 28' 39"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 5 '37 "  N , 6 ° 28' 39"  E
Height:	85  m above sea level NN
Basic data
Design type:	Shamrock with three semi-direct ramps
Bridges:	6 (motorway) / 2 (other)
Construction year:	1975
Last modification:	2018

The Autobahnkreuz Holz (abbreviation: AK Holz ; short form: Kreuz Holz , meanwhile Autobahn triangle Holz ) is a motorway intersection in North Rhine-Westphalia in the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region . It connects the federal highway 44 ( Aachen - Kassel ) with the federal highway 46 ( Heinsberg - Bestwig ).

Geographical location

The motorway junction is located in the municipality of Jüchen in the Rhine district of Neuss , near the Hochneukirch district . It is located about 12 km south of Mönchengladbach , about 25 kilometers southwest of Düsseldorf and about 45 kilometers northeast of Aachen . The Garzweiler II open-cast lignite mine is in the immediate vicinity .

The Holz Autobahn junction has junction number 12 on the A 44 and number 11 on the A 46.

history

Garzweiler II open-cast lignite mine

The Holz Autobahnkreuz was built in the 1970s in the shape of a clover leaf with semi-direct ramps . It was not necessary to leave the main carriageway in both directions for the connection A 44 South - A 46 East ( TOTSO design ). The A 44 continued south to Jackerath . The connection between the Jackerath motorway junction and the Holz motorway junction was closed to traffic in 2005 due to the expansion of the Garzweiler II open-cast lignite mine, it was later excavated and rebuilt by 2018. This created a temporary motorway triangle with a right-hand trumpet .

From 2012 to 2018, the interrupted motorway connection was restored on a new route and the temporary triangle was converted into a motorway junction again. Since significantly more traffic than before is to be expected in the route A 44 South - A 46 West (detour traffic on the A 61 ), this connection was no longer created as an indirect connection ramp ("ear"), but rather semi-directly. The motorway junction therefore only has one ear. The new motorway section was opened to traffic on July 1, 2018.

In 2011 the eponymous place of wood had to give way to the opencast mine. Although the resettlement place Neu-Holz is north of Hochneukirch and therefore no longer directly at the motorway junction of the same name, it kept its name.

Design and state of development

The A 46 West has six lanes; the other three branches of the Autobahn have four lanes. All connecting ramps are single-track.

Traffic volume

The motorway junction is used by around 47,000 vehicles every day.

From	To	Average daily traffic volume			Share of heavy goods traffic
		2005	2010	2015	2005	2010	2015
AD Jackerath (A 44)	AK wood	44,900	Blocked section		13.0%	Blocked section
AK wood	AS Mönchengladbach-Odenkirchen (A 44)	04,700	04,900	03,900	07.1%	10.6%	09.0%
AD Mönchengladbach-Wanlo (A 46)	AK wood	21,900	45,500	no data	10.1%	10.8%	no data
AK wood	AS Jülich (A 46)	58,700	42,600	47,700	13.6%	13.8%	11.2%

Individual evidence

1. ↑ AD wood. Motorway junctions and triangles in Germany, 2011, accessed on November 10, 2013 . 
2. ↑ A 44 - a motorway gives way to Garzweiler II project information on the NRW road side
3. ↑ Manual road traffic census 2005. (PDF) Results on federal motorways. BASt Statistics, 2005, accessed on March 14, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Manual road traffic census 2010. (PDF) Results on federal motorways. BASt Statistics, 2010, accessed on March 14, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Manual road traffic census 2015. (PDF) Results on federal motorways. BASt Statistics, 2015, accessed on March 14, 2019 .