Mannheim motorway junction
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| Country: | Germany |
| State : | Baden-Württemberg |
| Coordinates: | 49 ° 27 '40 " N , 8 ° 32' 23" E |
| Height: | 85 m above sea level NN |
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| Design type: | Adapted shamrock |
| Bridges: | 1 (motorway) / 3 (other) |
| Construction year: | 1935 |
| Last modification: | 1968 |
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| Direction Mannheim, Mannheimer Kreuz | |
The Mannheim motorway junction (abbreviation: AK Mannheim ; short form: Mannheim junction ) is a motorway junction in the Rhine-Neckar area in the north-west of Baden-Württemberg . This is where the federal motorway 6 ( Saarbrücken - Mannheim - Nuremberg ), Europastraße 50 , and the federal motorway 656 (Mannheim - Heidelberg ) intersect .
geography
The cross is located about 6 km southeast of Mannheim city center in the Seckenheim district, directly on the Hochstätt district and about 12 km northwest of Heidelberg.
It is an important connection point for Mannheim and Ludwigshafen traffic via the A 656 to the A 6, as a north-south connection in the direction of Frankfurt or Karlsruhe and in an easterly direction (Heilbronn - Nuremberg). It also offers a traffic route from the A 6 via the A 656 to Mannheim / Ludwigshafen or to the A 5 and in to Heidelberg .
The Mannheim motorway junction is number 3 on the A 656 and number 27 on the A 6.
history
On October 3, 1935 , the Federal Motorway 6 was opened to traffic as part of the HAFRABA between the AD Viernheim and the AK Mannheim, with which a motorway section reached Baden for the first time , as well as today's A 656.The motorway intersection was originally laid out as a complete motorway triangle in which the Today's A 6 from the north merged into the route towards Heidelberg and the approach from Mannheim city center merged. Like the entire Frankfurt – Heidelberg route, which was ready for construction in 1932, this junction was already included in the Hafraba plans. As can be seen from the opening dates of the Reichsautobahn , it is the oldest motorway junction in Germany. As part of the extension of the A 6 towards the south in 1968, it was converted into a motorway junction. In this way, another north-south axis was created between Darmstadt and Walldorf parallel to the A 5.
In April 2010, the Baden-Württemberg Road Administration put web cameras into operation at the motorway junction , which create real-time images of the traffic situation that can be accessed via the Internet.
State of development
The A 6 has six lanes to the north . The A 6 to the south and the A 656 are four lanes. All indirect transitions are single-lane, all direct transitions are double-lane.
The cross is laid out in the shape of a clover.
Traffic situation
The section is particularly frequented by heavy traffic, as it represents an alternative to the mostly heavily used Federal Motorway 5 , if you take into account the Federal Motorway 656 to the Heidelberg motorway junction as an alternative route. At the Heidelberg junction there is a redirection arrow that, depending on the traffic situation, sends heavy traffic via the A 656 / A 6 coupling or directly via the A 5 to the Walldorf motorway junction . The A 6 in the Mannheimer Kreuz area is not only an alternative to the A 5 in the north-south direction, but also an essential traffic artery in east-west traffic.
The cross is used by around 153,000 vehicles every day.
| From | To | Average daily traffic volume |
Share of heavy goods traffic |
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| 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | ||
| AK Viernheim (A 6) | AK Mannheim | 68,600 | 70,900 | 99,900 | 10.4% | 12.1% | 12.2% |
| AK Mannheim | AS Mannheim / Schwetzingen (A 6) | 48,000 | 61,800 | 78,800 | 12.1% | 11.6% | 12.8% |
| AS Mannheim-Neckarau (A 656) | AK Mannheim | 29,200 | 28,800 | 73,400 | 2.4% | 2.7% | 4.5% |
| AK Mannheim | AS Mannheim-Seckenheim (A 656) | 56,000 | 55,000 | 54,100 | 4.8% | 5.0% | 4.9% |
Web links
- Kreuz Mannheim at autobahnkreuze-online.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Topographic map from 1939 ( Memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ "Files of the Reich Chancellery, Hitler Government 1933–1938, Part I, 1933/1934"; published for the Historical Commission of Bavarian Sciences by Konrad Repgen, for the Federal Archives by Hans Booms, Boppard 1983; Documents 91 (p. 305), 92 (p. 306), 211 (p. 740)
- ↑ On the history of the Autobahn, the HaFraBa project ( Memento from April 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Webcam A6 motorway junction Mannheim, looking towards Kaiserslautern
- ↑ Manual road traffic census 2005. (PDF) Results on federal motorways. BASt Statistics, 2005, accessed on October 27, 2019 .
- ↑ Manual road traffic census 2010. (PDF) Results on federal motorways. BASt Statistics, 2010, accessed on October 27, 2019 .
- ↑ Manual road traffic census 2015. (PDF) Results on federal motorways. BASt Statistics, 2015, accessed on August 22, 2017 .
