Real thing egg
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| Country: | Germany |
| State : | Baden-Württemberg |
| Official name: | Junction Stuttgart-Degerloch |
| Coordinates: | 48 ° 42 '22 " N , 9 ° 10' 0" E |
| Height: | 405 m above sea level NN |
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| Design type: | Hybrid windmill / turbine |
| Bridges: | 8 (motorway) |
| Last modification: | 2003 |
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| View of the Echterdinger egg from the north (May 2007) | |
Echterdinger egg (officially junction Stuttgart-Degerloch ) is called the intersection of A 8 Karlsruhe - Stuttgart - Munich with the highway-like-developed B 27 Tübingen -Stuttgart- Heilbronn .
The motorway junction is not far from Stuttgart Airport and the new Stuttgart Exhibition Center on the border between Stuttgart-Möhringen in the north and the large district town of Leinfelden-Echterdingen with its Echterdingen district in the south.
The name comes from the fact that it was originally built as a motorway junction in the form of an elongated roundabout .
It is one of the busiest crossings in Baden-Württemberg , it is used by around 170,000–180,000 vehicles per day. Because of this heavy traffic load and the associated increased number of accidents, the “Egg” was rebuilt from March 2002 to December 2003 for € 52 million; since then its shape has been a mixture of turbine and windmill shape . Although the eponymous design is a thing of the past, the colloquial name has kept.
Until December 2000 there was a motorway service station on the southwest side , which could be reached from all directions via the roundabout.
On the A 8 the motorway junction bears the junction number 52b.
Web links
- Map with the location of the motorway junction ( memento from February 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- Aerial photo before the renovation