Recklinghausen motorway junction
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| Country: | Germany |
| State : | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Coordinates: | 51 ° 35 ′ 1 ″ N , 7 ° 11 ′ 21 ″ E |
| Height: | 60 m above sea level NN |
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| Design type: | Shamrock |
| Bridges: | 1 (motorway) / 3 (other) |
| Construction year: | 1939 |
The motorway junction Recklinghausen (abbreviation: AK Recklinghausen ; short form: Kreuz Recklinghausen ) is a motorway junction in Recklinghausen ( North Rhine-Westphalia ) in the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region . It connects the federal highway 2 ( Oberhausen - Hanover - Berlin ; E 34 ) with the federal highway 43 ( Münster - Wuppertal ).
geography
The motorway junction is located in the urban area of Recklinghausen in the district of the same name . The closest districts are Hochlarmark, Stuckenbusch , Grullbad and Hillerheide. It is located about 55 km southwest of Münster , about 20 km northeast of Essen and about 20 km northwest of Dortmund .
The Recklinghausen motorway junction has junction number 8 on the A 2 and number 12 on the A 43.
Former Hohenhorst service area
Directly after the motorway junction on the A 2 in the direction of Oberhausen there is a motorway police station and the former service area. In 1939, the Stuckenbusch petrol station was opened on what was then the Reichsautobahn , and in 1955 a service station of the same name and later renamed Hohenhorst was added. The rest stop was then closed in mid-2005.
Design and state of development
Federal Motorway 2 has six lanes, while Federal Motorway 43 in the Herten to Hochlarmark area has six lanes in the course of bridge renewals. All connecting ramps are single-track. A rain retention basin as well as emergency stop bays and a traffic webcam was built in the motorway junction itself.
The motorway junction was laid out as a clover leaf .
Traffic volume
The cross is used by around 170,000 vehicles every day.
| From | To | Average daily traffic volume |
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| 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | ||
| AS Herten (A 2) | AK Recklinghausen | 69,900 | 81,500 | 92,000 | 16.4% | 17.7% | 18.5% |
| AK Recklinghausen | AS Recklinghausen-Süd (A 2) | 71,100 | 73,800 | 82,500 | 15.4% | 15.6% | 16.2% |
| AS Recklinghausen / Herten (A 43) | AK Recklinghausen | 88,000 | 86,800 | 86,000 | 9.7% | 6.5% | 6.2% |
| AK Recklinghausen | AS Recklinghausen-Hochlarmark (A 43) | 88,500 | 80,900 | 80,400 | 7.9% | 6.5% | 6.5% |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Old view of the page "Arbeitsgemeinschaft Autobahngeschichte zur Raststätte" ( Memento from September 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Manual road traffic census 2005. (PDF) Results on federal motorways. BASt Statistics, 2005, accessed on May 4, 2020 .
- ↑ Manual road traffic census 2010. (PDF) Results on federal motorways. BASt Statistics, 2010, accessed on May 4, 2020 .
- ↑ Manual road traffic census 2015. (PDF) Results on federal motorways. BASt Statistics, 2015, accessed on August 26, 2017 .
