Nuremberg motorway junction

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Nuremberg motorway junction
A3 A9 E45 E51 E56
map
Overview map of the Nuremberg motorway junction
location
Country: Germany
State : Bavaria
Coordinates: 49 ° 27 '31 "  N , 11 ° 14' 38"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 27 '31 "  N , 11 ° 14' 38"  E
Height: 345  m above sea level NN
Basic data
Design type: Shamrock with tangents
Bridges: 3 (motorway) / 3 (other)
Construction year: 1941
The A3 from the direction of Würzburg (right lane) before the Nürnberg junction
The A3 from the direction of Würzburg (right lane) before the Nürnberg junction

The Nuremberg motorway junction (abbreviation: AK Nürnberg ; short form: Nuremberg cross ) is a motorway junction in Bavaria , which is located in the Nuremberg metropolitan region . It connects the federal highway 3 ( Oberhausen - Frankfurt am Main - Passau ) with the federal highway 9 ( Berlin - Leipzig - Munich ).

geography

The cross lies on the border of the parish-free area of ​​Brunn with the Haimendorfer Forest in the district of Nürnberger Land . The surrounding cities and communities are Leinburg , Nuremberg , Röthenbach and Lauf an der Pegnitz . The cross is located about 10 km east of downtown Nuremberg and about 60 km south of Bayreuth .

It is an important traffic junction because the important connections Netherlands - Austria / Linz (A 3) and Berlin / Poland - Munich - Austria / Innsbruck (A 9) meet here.

The Nuremberg motorway junction has junction number 88 on the A3 and 51 on the A9.

Design

The junction Nuremberg is a cloverleaf with TOTSO : the main lane of the A 3 from Würzburg supplied as A 9 in the direction of Munich , so that for further travel on the A 3 in the direction of Regensburg , the track must be changed. Likewise, the main carriageway of the A 9 from Munich continues as the A 3 to Frankfurt am Main .

history

Cobblestones in the fourth quadrant of the Nuremberg AK (2006)

The Nürnberg Kreuz was originally built as an autobahn clover leaf. After the Second World War, due to the division of Germany, there was little traffic on the A 9 north of Nuremberg. Since the traffic in the direction of Würzburg was significantly stronger, the motorway junction was extended by a tangent. The fourth quadrant of the clover leaf, originally built for the change in this direction, still exists. Until the beginning of 2018 it was still paved with the original cobblestones and may only be used by the motorway maintenance authority.

Traffic volume

The cross is used by around 167,000 vehicles every day, making it one of the busiest in Bavaria.

From To Average
daily traffic volume		 Share of
heavy goods traffic
2005 2010 2015 2005 2010 2015
AS Nürnberg-Mögeldorf (A 3) AK Nuremberg 099,000 096,900 100,900 15.0% 16.1% 16.0%
AK Nuremberg AK Altdorf (A 3) 040,000 040,000 043,600 18.8% 19.7% 20.7%
AS run (A 9) AK Nuremberg 070,900 074,300 079,300 14.2% 14.8% 15.5%
AK Nuremberg AS Nürnberg-Fischbach (A 9) 103,000 103,600 109,700 no data 15.8% 15.7%

Web links

Commons : Autobahnkreuz Nürnberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manual road traffic census 2005. (PDF) Results on federal motorways. BASt Statistics, 2005, accessed on July 7, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Manual road traffic census 2010. (PDF) Results on federal motorways. BASt Statistics, 2010, accessed on July 7, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Manual road traffic census 2015. (PDF) Results on federal motorways. BASt Statistics, 2015, accessed on August 22, 2017 .