Schönefeld Cross
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| Country: | Germany |
| State : | Brandenburg |
| Coordinates: | 52 ° 19 '9 " N , 13 ° 33' 16" E |
| Height: | 50 m above sea level NN |
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| Design type: | Shamrock with tangent solutions |
| Bridges: | 5 (motorway) / 2 (other) |
| Construction year: | 1938 |
| Last modification: | 1997-2000 |
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| The Schönefelder Kreuz from the south (A 13) | |
The Schönefelder Kreuz (also: Autobahnkreuz Schönefeld ; abbreviation: AK Schönefeld ; short form: Kreuz Schönefeld ) is a motorway junction in Brandenburg in the metropolitan region of Berlin . It connects the federal highway 113 ( airport highway ) and the federal highway 13 ( Berlin - Dresden ) with the federal highway 10 ( Berliner Ring ).
geography
The motorway junction is located on the municipal areas of Mittenwalde and Schönefeld . The surrounding towns and communities are Königs Wusterhausen , Zeuthen and Wildau . The closest districts are Kiekebusch and Diepensee as well as Brusendorf and Ragow . It was named after the town of Schönefeld, which is almost ten kilometers away. It is located about 25 km south of downtown Berlin, about 70 km west of Frankfurt (Oder) and about 80 km northwest of Cottbus .
The northward section of the A 113 was swiveled until 2008 to connect to the new Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER). This is located between the motorway junction and the old Berlin-Schönefeld Airport .
It is not far from the Dahme-Heideseen nature park .
The Schönefelder Kreuz has junction number 11 on the A 10, number 1 on the A 13 and number 10 on the A 113.
history
The building was built in 1938 as a left-hand trumpet under the name "Lausitzer Dreieck" (later "Lausitzer Abzweig") . The indirect ramp Frankfurt (Oder) −Dresden had a radius of 170 meters and, in contrast to the other triangles of the Berliner Ring, could be realized with a road bank slope of only eight degrees. Other structures erected at the same time had a road slope of over 20 degrees.
After the construction of the Berlin Wall , a motorway was to be run from the southeastern Berlin Ring to East Berlin , as the branches further west all led to West Berlin . This new motorway section, a section of the current A 113 and today's A 117 , was to branch off to the north from the Lausitz triangle. For this purpose, the triangle was converted into an adapted clover leaf . The indirect ramp Frankfurt – Dresden has largely been preserved. The semi-direct ramp Dresden – Potsdam was connected to the new motorway to the north and now established the connection between Berlin Mitte and Potsdam . The other connections were implemented with indirect ramps. By partially retaining the old trumpet design, the relatively large roundabout was created in the northwest quadrant of the motorway junction.
The renovation of the Schönefelder Cross in the 1990s brought about a hybrid form that goes in the direction of a Maltese cross and is known as a cloverstack (= clover stack) . The changes from west to north and from east to south were made more effective thanks to direct connection ramps. The change from north to east and south to west still has narrow roundabouts. The large north-western roundabout was removed, the aisles for the old carriageways can still be seen on aerial photos.
On September 26, 2010, a bus accident occurred on the A 10 at Schönefelder Kreuz. The driver of a car lost control of her car when the road was wet and sped into a Polish bus, which then hit a bridge pillar. 14 bus occupants - all Polish citizens - were killed and 38 others were injured, 19 of them seriously.
Design and state of development
The A 13 has four lanes, the A 10 has six lanes. The A 113 has seven lanes, with four lanes to the north and three to the south. The direct ramps and the tangent ramps are two-lane, the indirect ramps are single-lane.
The cross was laid out as a clover leaf with a double tangent solution. The main bridge runway is north-south across the A 10.
Traffic volume
The Schönefelder Kreuz is crossed by around 164,000 vehicles every day, making it one of the most heavily traveled motorway junctions in Brandenburg.
| From | To | Average daily traffic volume |
Share of heavy goods traffic |
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| AS Königs Wusterhausen (A 10) | Schönefeld Cross | 59,000 | 75,900 | 85,600 | 17.6% | 19.3% | 19.2% |
| Schönefeld Cross | AS Rangsdorf (A 10) | 56,600 | 66,200 | 73,100 | 19.0% | 25.7% | 20.9% |
| Schönefeld Cross | AS Ragow (A 13) | 45,100 | 45,600 | 58,300 | 12.5% | 13.3% | 16.4% |
| Waltersdorfer Dreieck (A 113) | Schönefeld Cross | 44,100 | 65,100 | 83,600 | 5.6% | 7.8% | 6.8% |
Web links
- Map with the location of the motorway junction
- Triangles and crosses of the Berlin Ring. In it: History of the Schönfeld Cross
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bus accident near Berlin: investigations into negligent homicide . diepresse.com; Retrieved September 27, 2010.
- ↑ 13 dead on the A10 - search for the cause of the accident . World online ; Retrieved September 27, 2010.
- ↑ welt.de: Only 6 out of 13 dead identified after the bus accident . World online ; Retrieved September 27, 2010.
- ↑ Bus accident in Brandenburg - Another victim dies after an accident . Spiegel Online ; Retrieved September 27, 2010.
- ↑ Manual road traffic census 2005. (PDF) Results on federal motorways. BASt Statistics, 2005, accessed on January 15, 2019 .
- ↑ Manual road traffic census 2010. (PDF) Results on federal motorways. BASt Statistics, 2010, accessed on January 15, 2019 .
- ↑ Manual road traffic census 2015. (PDF) Results on federal motorways. BASt Statistics, 2015, accessed on January 15, 2019 .
