Jackerath motorway triangle

Jackerath motorway triangle
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location
Country:	Germany
State :	North Rhine-Westphalia
Coordinates:	51 ° 1 '58 "  N , 6 ° 28' 21"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 1 '58 "  N , 6 ° 28' 21"  E
Height:	108  m above sea level NN
Basic data
Design type:	Unfinished shamrock with a special ramp
Bridges:	1 (motorway) / 2 (other)
Construction year:	1975
Last modification:	2018

The motorway triangle Jackerath (abbreviation: AD Jackerath ; short form: Dreieck Jackerath ) is a motorway triangle in North Rhine-Westphalia in the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region . It connects the federal highway 44 ( Aachen - Odenkirchen ) with the federal highway 61 ( Venlo - Koblenz - Hockenheim ). The new, locally offset triangle has replaced the previous old Jackerath motorway triangle, which is being dismantled, since 2018.

geography

The autobahn triangle is located in the municipality of Titz in the Düren district , near the Jackerath district . The surrounding towns and communities are Bedburg , Jüchen and Erkelenz . It is located about 17 kilometers south of Mönchengladbach , about 30 kilometers southwest of Düsseldorf and about 40 kilometers northeast of Aachen . It is also near the Garzweiler II open-cast lignite mine .

The Jackerath motorway triangle has junction number 10 on the A 44 and number 16 on the A 61.

history

Garzweiler opencast lignite mine

Location of the old Jackerath motorway junction or triangle (in operation until summer 2018), the new junction on the right

The original Jackerath motorway junction was built in the 1970s in a mixed clover leaf / windmill design immediately east of the Jackerath village. In 2005, the section of the A 44 north of the junction up to the Holz motorway junction was closed to traffic and demolished because the area was used by the Garzweiler II open-cast lignite mine and dredged. As a result, the Jackerath motorway junction - like the Holz cross - became a special-designed motorway triangle.

After the further progress of the opencast mine towards the west and the refilling of the charred areas, the missing section of the A 44 could be rebuilt from 2012 onwards on a route that was shifted to the east compared to the old route. As part of this, the Jackerath junction was rebuilt about 1 kilometer south-east of its old location in the form of a motorway junction. The clearance took place on September 1, 2018. At the same time, the A 61 between the Jackerath and Mönchengladbach-Wanlo junctions was closed, which in turn has to give way to the opencast mine. As a result, the newly built cross immediately became a motorway triangle again, as the north-western branch only serves the Jackerath exit. The old motorway triangle is being completely dismantled.

Design and state of development

Both motorways have four lanes. The connecting ramps on the Aachen – Mönchengladbach route are two-lane, the remaining ramps are single-lane.

The old motorway triangle was originally laid out as a clover leaf with a windmill ramp . The direct connection ramp from the A 61 north to the A 44 south, the direct connection ramp from the A 44 south to the A 61 south, the windmill ramp from the A 44 south to the A 61 north and the Indirect connecting ramp from the A 61-Süd to A 44-Süd has been preserved. The new motorway triangle is an almost complete cloverleaf with a semi-direct connection from the A 44 to the A 61 in the direction of Koblenz.

Traffic volume

The old triangle was used by around 68,000 vehicles every day in 2015.

From	To	Average daily traffic volume			Share of heavy goods traffic
		2005	2010	2015	2005	2010	2015
AS Titz (A 44)	AD Jackerath	43,700	34,100	33,100	13.5%	13.5%	12.3%
AD Jackerath	AK wood (A 44)	44,900	Blocked section		13.0%	Blocked section
AS Jackerath (A 61)	AD Jackerath	42,000	63,900	64,100	19.8%	17.6%	16.1%
AD Jackerath	AS Bedburg (A 61)	39,000	37,200	39,000	19.8%	18.6%	19.7%

Individual evidence

1. ^ AD Jackerath. (No longer available online.) Autobahn intersections & Autobahn triangles in Germany, 2011, archived from the original on November 9, 2013 ; Retrieved November 10, 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.  
2. ↑ http://www.rp-online.de/nrw/staedte/juechen/neues-autobahnnetz-wegen-garzweiler-ii-aid-1.7498974
3. ↑ A 44 - a motorway gives way to Garzweiler II project information on the NRW road side
4. ↑ Manual road traffic census 2005. (PDF) Results on federal motorways. BASt Statistics, 2005, accessed on February 7, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Manual road traffic census 2010. (PDF) Results on federal motorways. BASt Statistics, 2010, accessed on February 7, 2018 . 
6. ↑ Manual road traffic census 2015. (PDF) Results on federal motorways. BASt Statistics, 2015, accessed on February 7, 2018 .