Walldorf motorway junction

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Walldorf motorway junction
A5 A6 E35 E50
location
Country: Germany
State : Baden-Württemberg
Coordinates: 49 ° 16 '52 "  N , 8 ° 37' 14"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 16 '52 "  N , 8 ° 37' 14"  E
Height: 100  m above sea level NN
Basic data
Design type: Classic shamrock
Bridges: 1 (motorway) / 2 (other)
From the air
From the air

The motorway junction Walldorf (abbreviation: AK Walldorf ; short form: Kreuz Walldorf or Walldorfer Kreuz ) is a motorway junction in the southern Rhine-Neckar area in Baden-Württemberg .

At the motorway junction Walldorf from the Hessian meet Hattenbacher triangle to the Swiss Basel leading National Highway 5 and extending in the east-west direction Bundesautobahn 6 . The most heavily used connecting railways in the cross are the connections from the A 6 in the direction of Saarbrücken to the A 5 from / to Basel and vice versa.

geography

The cross is located both in the area of Walldorf and in the area of St. Leon-Rot . It is located about 15 km south of Heidelberg , about 25 km southeast of Mannheim and about 35 km northeast of Karlsruhe . The federal highways 3 , 36 and 39 run in the immediate vicinity .

It is an important traffic junction , as the A 5 ( Scandinavia - Switzerland / southern France ) and the A 6 (northern France - Czech Republic ) intersect here. The Walldorf interchange is number 40 on the A 5 and number 31 on the A 6.

State of development

Walldorf motorway junction, view from a state road bridge

There are four lanes on the A5 near the intersection and four lanes to the north and six lanes to the south. The A 6 has six lanes. All transitions are single-lane.

It is laid out in the shape of a shamrock .

Traffic volume

It is one of the busiest road junctions in Baden-Württemberg with around 185,000 vehicles per day.

From To Average
daily traffic volume
Share of heavy goods traffic
AS Walldorf / Wiesloch (A 5) AK Walldorf 73,500 11.7%
AK Walldorf AS Kronau (A 5) 109,300 15.4%
AD Hockenheim (A 6) AK Walldorf 96,100 16.4%
AK Walldorf AS Wiesloch / Rauenberg (A 6) 91,700 18.7%

Individual evidence

  1. Manual traffic census BAB 2015. BASt Statistics, 2015, accessed on August 18, 2017 . (PDF file)