Münster-Süd motorway junction

Münster-Süd motorway junction
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location
Country:	Germany
State :	North Rhine-Westphalia
Coordinates:	51 ° 54 '56 "  N , 7 ° 33' 37"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 54 '56 "  N , 7 ° 33' 37"  E
Height:	62  m above sea level NN
Basic data
Design type:	Shamrock with a semi-direct ramp
Bridges:	2 (motorway) / 4 (other)
Construction year:	1973
Last modification:	2005
View of the Münster-Süd cross after the renovation.

The Münster-Süd motorway junction (abbreviation: AK Münster-Süd ; short form: Münster-Süd cross ) is a motorway junction in North Rhine-Westphalia near Münster . It connects the federal highway 1 ( Heiligenhafen - Cologne - Saarbrücken ; E 37 ) with the federal highway 43 (Münster - Wuppertal ).

geography

The motorway junction is located in the city of Münster in the Münster-West district . The closest districts are Albachten and Mecklenbeck . It is located about 10 km southwest of Münster city center, about 45 km north of Dortmund and about 50 km southwest of Osnabrück .

The Münster-Süd motorway junction has junction number 78 on the A 1 and number 2 on the A 43.

history

Originally the motorway junction was designed in the shape of a clover . Due to the increase in traffic from the Ruhr area to the north on the A 43 and the simultaneous expansion of the previous six-lane A1 between the Münster-Süd and Münster-Nord intersections, the shape of the cross has been improved. At the beginning of 2003, work began on building a bridge across the motorway junction towards the A1 in the north direction. After almost 2.5 years of construction, this throw was officially opened to traffic on August 12, 2005. The renovation of the entire motorway junction cost around 15 million euros. The bridge structure required for this is 412 meters long and overcomes a height difference of 15 meters between the two motorways . What is special about this is the incremental launching method with an arc with a radius of 340 meters.

The turning lanes that were no longer needed were then canceled or removed. The rest of the interchange was kept in the shape of a clover leaf. It is therefore only possible to a limited extent to turn on the cross. There are no turning options on the A 43 in the direction of Münster and the A 1 in the south.

Between 2010 and 2014, the A1 was expanded to six lanes in the area of ​​the motorway junction. The two bridges built in 1965 over the A 43 will be dismantled and rebuilt one after the other.

Traffic volume

The cross is used by around 134,000 vehicles every day.

From	To	Average daily traffic volume			Share of heavy goods traffic
		2005	2010	2015	2005	2010	2015
AS Münster-Nord (A 1)	AK Münster-Süd	69,700	57,800	81,500	18.6%	20.2%	16.3%
AK Münster-Süd	AS Münster-Hiltrup (A 1)	56,700	53,700	66,100	no data	16.6%	13.4%
Münster junction (B 51)	AK Münster-Süd	27,700	55,800	55,600	04.8%	05.9%	06.1%
AK Münster-Süd	AS send (A 43)	60,000	60,300	65,400	12.6%	11.3%	10.8%

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Overcome the clover leaf directly - "Überwurf" from the A43 to the A1 is open to traffic. Brueckenweb.de, August 12, 2005, accessed on November 17, 2018 . 
2. ↑ A1: six-lane expansion approved. Westfälische Nachrichten, October 28, 2014, accessed on November 17, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Manual road traffic census 2005. (PDF) Results on federal motorways. BASt Statistics, 2005, accessed on January 18, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Manual road traffic census 2010. (PDF) Results on federal motorways. BASt Statistics, 2010, accessed on January 18, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Manual road traffic census 2010. (PDF) Results on federal highways. BASt Statistics, 2010, accessed on January 18, 2020 . 
6. ↑ Manual road traffic census 2015. (PDF) Results on federal motorways. BASt Statistics, 2015, accessed on August 25, 2017 . 
7. ↑ Manual road traffic census 2015. (PDF) Results on federal highways. BASt Statistics, 2015, accessed on January 18, 2020 .