Wetzlar motorway junction
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| Country: | Germany |
| State : | Hesse |
| Coordinates: | 50 ° 35 '46 " N , 8 ° 29' 16" E |
| Height: | 230 m above sea level NN |
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| Design type: | Complete Maltese cross |
| Bridges: | 7 (motorway) / 2 (other) |
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| The cross as seen from the A 480 | |
The Wetzlarer Kreuz is a motorway junction in Hessen near Wetzlar . It connects the federal highway 45 ( Sauerland line ; E 40 , E 41 ) with the federal highway 480 ( Gießener Ring ). It is the only motorway junction in Germany that is completely built in the elaborate " Maltese shape ".
geography
The motorway junction is located in the urban area of Wetzlar in the Lahn-Dill district , on the city limits to Aßlar . The closest districts are Blasbach , Hermannstein and Naunheim , part of Wetzlar, as well as the Aßlar city center. It is located about 5 km north of Wetzlar city center, about 13 km west of Gießen and about 45 km southeast of Siegen .
The Wetzlarer Kreuz has junction number 29 on the A 45 and number 2 on the A 480.
history
The Wetzlarer Kreuz was built in the early 1980s with the construction of the 3.7 km long section of the interrupted A 480, which is part of the planned eastern extension of the A 48 . This section begins at the federal highway 277 ( junction Aßlar ) and ends around 1.2 km north of the motorway junction at the provisional junction in Blasbach .
Design and state of development
The A 45 has four lanes, with the Dortmund carriageway running in three lanes only on a 3.7 km long section between the Wetzlar car park and the intersection. The A 480 has four lanes south of the junction. To the north, the preliminary work for the A 480 is laid out in four lanes, but the lane swings to the north at the cross on the opposite lane and is led in two lanes without separate lanes to the end of the motorway and meets the L 3053 in a right curve 520 m further to the northeast.
As the only " Maltese Cross " in Germany, the Wetzlar Cross is of particular importance. It is also noteworthy that the A 45, which runs over the 370 m long Engelsbachtal bridge, crosses all connecting ramps without exception , which is topologically determined. Although the structure with its total of seven bridges and the ramps designed for high speeds was built with great effort, it is of little importance in terms of traffic. The connecting ramps are rarely used, as the majority of the traffic (> 90%) is on the A 45.
Traffic volume
The cross is used by around 65,000 vehicles every day.
| From | To | Average daily traffic volume |
Share of heavy goods traffic |
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| AS Ehringshausen (A 45) | Wetzlar Cross | 61,500 | 17.5% |
| Wetzlar Cross | AS Wetzlar-Ost (A 45) | 54,100 | 18.2% |
| AS Aßlar (A 480) | Wetzlar Cross | 11,600 | 9.4% |
| Wetzlar Cross | End of motorway (A 480) | 2,400 | 11.2% |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wetzlar Cross. (No longer available online.) Autobahn intersections & Autobahn triangles in Germany, 2011, archived from the original on January 3, 2014 ; Retrieved January 3, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Manual traffic census BAB 2015. (PDF) BASt Statistics, 2015, accessed on September 16, 2017 .
