Autobahn junction Oberhausen

Autobahn junction Oberhausen
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location
Country:	Germany
State :	North Rhine-Westphalia
Coordinates:	51 ° 32 '13 "  N , 6 ° 50' 2"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 32 '13 "  N , 6 ° 50' 2"  E
Height:	50  m above sea level NN
Basic data
Design type:	Shamrock in a TOTSO variant
Bridges:	1 (motorway) / 3 (other)
Construction year:	1961
Last modification:	2011

The Oberhausen motorway junction (abbreviation: AK Oberhausen; short form: Kreuz Oberhausen ) is a motorway junction in North Rhine-Westphalia . This is where the federal autobahn 2 ( Oberhausen - Hannover - Berlin ), the autobahn 3 ( Emmerich - Cologne - Frankfurt am Main - Passau ) and the autobahn 516 intersect .

geography

The motorway junction is located in the Ruhr area in Oberhausen . It is located about 20 km northwest of Essen and about 90 km south of Nijmegen . As a traffic junction , it connects the A 3 from the Netherlands with the A 2 and is therefore on one of the most important east-west connections in Germany.

The A2 shortly before the Oberhausen motorway junction

Design

The motorway junction is designed as a clover leaf. Since the A 3 runs from north to west through the motorway junction and the A 2 to the east and the A 516 to the south begin there, the motorway junction is a TOTSO variant, i.e. i.e., if you want to stay on the A3, you have to turn at the cross. Because if you come from the west on the A3 and do not turn at the cross, but simply continue straight on, you end up on the A2. The same applies when coming from the north: If you continue straight on the A3 instead of turning right, you don't stay on the A 3, but changes to the A 516.

A reconstruction of the cross to unbundle the traffic flows is planned. Construction is scheduled to start in 2021.

history

In 1961, with the completion of the A 3 between Wesel and Oberhausen, the so-called "Holland Line", the motorway junction was put into operation. At the same time, the "Oberhausen connection" (now the A 516) was opened to traffic. This is where the A 2 and the A 3 crossed at the time, until the Oberhausen junction became the starting point of the A 2 after the reorganization of the German motorways in 1992.

The Oberhausen motorway junction was originally planned as the Oberhausen motorway triangle, but was then built as a junction with the connection to today's A 516.

From November 2010 the bridge of the cross was renewed. First the western part of the bridge was demolished and renewed from November 2010 to October 2011, then the eastern part.

particularities

In the middle of the motorway junction, on the connecting ramp Arnheim - Dortmund , there was a guard from the motorway police until November 2016 .

Traffic volume

Around 170,000 vehicles pass the cross every day.

From	To	Average daily traffic volume			Share of heavy goods traffic
		2005	2010	2015	2005	2010	2015
AK Oberhausen	AS Oberhausen-Königshardt (A 2)	101,600	113,700	123,700	16.2%	16.2%	16.4%
AS Dinslaken -Süd (A 3)	AK Oberhausen	064,700	066,800	065,300	10.4%	10.6%	10.3%
AK Oberhausen	AS Oberhausen-Holten (A 3)	105,800	114,900	no data	16.1%	15.6%	no data
AK Oberhausen	AS Oberhausen-Sterkrade (A 516)	032,900	038,800	033,600	05.2%	03.9%	04.3%

Further planning / conversion plans

Due to the already high traffic volume, which is likely to continue to increase in the future, the State Office for Road Construction NRW is planning to convert the cross. Following early public participation and approval of the draft planning , the planning approval documents are currently being prepared.

Web links

• History of the A 3 between Emmerich and Oberhausen.
• Autobahn junction Oberhausen.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ A2 / A3 / A516: Conversion and expansion of the Oberhausen motorway intersection.
2. ↑ New construction site at the Oberhausen motorway junction. At: DerWesten.de. November 18, 2010.
3. ↑ Manual road traffic census 2005. (PDF) Results on federal motorways. BASt Statistics, 2005, accessed on May 4, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Manual road traffic census 2010. (PDF) Results on federal motorways. BASt Statistics, 2010, accessed on May 4, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Manual road traffic census 2015. (PDF) Results on federal motorways. BASt Statistics, 2015, accessed on August 26, 2017 . 
6. ↑ A2 / A3 / A516: Conversion and expansion of the Oberhausen motorway intersection. Retrieved December 5, 2017.