Kassel-Mitte motorway junction

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Kassel-Mitte motorway junction
A7 A49 E45
map
Overview map of the Kassel-Mitte motorway junction
location
Country: Germany
State : Hesse
Coordinates: 51 ° 16 '33 "  N , 9 ° 31' 44"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 16 '33 "  N , 9 ° 31' 44"  E
Height: 170  m above sea level NN
Basic data
Design type: Adapted shamrock
Bridges: 1 (motorway) / 4 (other)
Last modification: 2007

The motorway junction Kassel-Mitte (abbreviation: AK Kassel-Mitte ; short form: Kreuz Kassel-Mitte ) is a motorway junction near Kassel in Hesse . This is where the federal motorway 7 ( Flensburg - Hanover - Füssen ) ( Europastraße 45 ) and the federal motorway 49 (Kassel - Schwalmstadt ) intersect .

geography

The cross lies in the area of ​​the city of Kassel and the municipality of Lohfelden . The closest districts are Crumbach , Waldau , Erlenfeld and Forstfeld . It is located about 5 km southeast of Kassel's city ​​center, about 40 km southwest of Göttingen and about 65 km northwest of Eisenach .

Not far from the cross is the Fulda , which the A 49 crosses with a bridge structure.

It is located on the western edge of the Frau-Holle-Land Geo-Nature Park (Werratal.Meißner.Kaufunger Wald) .

The Kassel-Mitte motorway junction is number 79 on the A 7 and number 2 on the A 49.

Development condition and design

The A 7 is expanded to six lanes in this area, the A 49 has four lanes. All transitions are single-lane.

The crossing structure was built in the form of an adapted clover leaf .

Traffic volume

It is a busy road junction in Hesse with around 102,000 vehicles per day in 2015.

From To Average
daily traffic volume
Share of
heavy goods traffic
2005 2010 2015 2005 2010 2015
AS Dreieck Kassel-Ost (A 7) AK Kassel-Mitte 79,000 80,600 89,100 17.4% 18.2% 18.8%
AK Kassel-Mitte AD Kassel-Süd (A 7) 61,800 62,800 77,900 16.4% 21.0% 18.0%
End of motorway (K 9) AK Kassel-Mitte no data 09,000 07,700 no data 14.0% 20.2%
AK Kassel-Mitte AS Kassel industrial park (A 49) 32,900 27,400 29,300 13.9% 14.3% 16.0%

Individual evidence

  1. ^ AK Kassel-Mitte. Motorway junctions and triangles in Germany, 2011, accessed on December 3, 2012 .
  2. Manual road traffic census 2005. (PDF) Results on federal motorways. BASt Statistics, 2005, accessed on October 17, 2017 .
  3. Manual road traffic census 2010. (PDF) Results on federal motorways. BASt Statistics, 2010, accessed on October 17, 2017 .
  4. Manual road traffic census 2015. (PDF) Results on federal motorways. BASt Statistics, 2015, accessed on October 17, 2017 .