Federal motorway 544
| Federal motorway 544 in Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Overall length: | 5.4 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Development condition: | 2 × 2 lanes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The federal motorway 544 (abbreviation: BAB 544 ) - short form: Autobahn 544 (abbreviation: A 544 ) - is a motorway in North Rhine-Westphalia . The motorway was planned back in 1925 in the Weimar Republic and built as the beginning of the Aachen – Cologne motorway . The first section was opened to traffic in 1941 with the section from Eschweiler to Verlautenheide . The extension to Europaplatz was not completed until 1958. After the extension of this motorway towards the Netherlands (today's A4 ) in the 1970s, it functions as an urban motorway for the city center of Aachen .
The A 544 begins at Europaplatz in Aachen and runs for around five kilometers to the Aachen motorway junction , where it joins the A 4. It is expanded to four lanes throughout. There is a speed limit of 100 km / h on the entire motorway. The Aachen- Rothe Erde exit can only be used in the direction of Europaplatz, the driveway only in the direction of the Aachen motorway junction.
The A 544 was originally called A 75, temporarily also A 580.
- Federal motorway 544
Start of the A 544 at the Aachen motorway junction
Bridge over the Autobahn near Würselen
Junction Würselen
Europaplatz, western terminus of Autobahn 544
