East highway

A4 motorway in Austria
East highway
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Basic data
Operator:
Overall length:	66 km
State :	Vienna Lower Austria Burgenland
A4 towards Hungary at the Vienna Airport junction
Course of the road State of Vienna Transition from 227 (0)  Mud 221 (1)  Prater   (2)  Alt- Simmering 228 (only departure) Eastern Railway (2)  Simmering service station Danube Canal / cable-stayed bridge (5)  Simmeringer Haide 228 Donauländebahn Province of Lower Austria (8th)  Schwechat   Schwechat (13)  Airport Wien-Schwechat Fischa (19)  Fischamend Pressburger Bahn (22)  Rest area Maria Ellend (22)  Fischamend rest area (28)  Raststation Göttlesbrunn-Arbesthal (32)  Bruck an der Leitha -West Eastern Railway, branch line to Petronell-C. (36)  Bruck an der Leitha -Ost 211 Leitha Province of Burgenland (38)  Bruckneudorf   (39)  Bruckneudorf (40)  Parndorf Eastern Railway Pannoniabahn (43)  Neusiedl am See (44)  Neusiedl am See industrial park (46)  Parndorf (48)  Neusiedl (51)  Willows / Gols (53)  Zurndorf (55)  Golser community forest (57)  Mönchhof (60)  Nickelsdorf (60)  Karlwald (64)  Nickelsdorf (64)  Nickelsdorf rest stop (65)  border (65)  Border crossing Nickelsdorf ( AT ) - Hegyeshalom ( HU ) Continue on  → Budapest  Under construction In planning Section Control Traffic control system

The Ost Autobahn A4 is a motorway in Austria and part of the European roads 58 and 60 . It was opened in July 1986 to Fischamend and in October 1994 to the Nickelsdorf border crossing on the Hungarian border and is the most important connection from Vienna to the east to Vienna Airport, Hungary and Slovakia .

history

The Budapest Street , formerly known as Bruckerstraße to the border in Bruck an der Leitha led, was taken over in 1838 by the monarchy developed. Especially after the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989, however, it was regularly overloaded due to the extremely strong increase in traffic, which is why an expansion of the motorway that already led to Vienna-Schwechat Airport was obvious.

opening	Route section	length
05/24/1978	Junction Vienna-Prater - ASt Simmeringer Haide (left RFB )	4.055 km
12/17/1982	Junction Vienna-Prater - ASt Simmeringer Haide (right RFB)	4.055 km
12/17/1982	ASt Simmeringer Haide - Fischamend West	11.123 km
07/28/1986	Fischamend West - ASt Fischamend	3,662 km
October 19, 1990	ASt Fischamend - ASt Bruck / Leitha West	12.911 km
10/31/1991	ASt Bruck / Leitha West - ASt Neusiedl	12.015 km
December 01, 1993	ASt Nickelsdorf - Nickelsdorf state border	1.398 km
10/28/1994	ASt Neusiedl - ASt Nickelsdorf	20.609 km
2000	Vienna-Prater junction - stadium bridge	0.588 km

location

The A 4 starts in Vienna- Erdberg at the stadium bridge , west of the Prater junction with the A 23 and leads via Vienna Airport , Bruck an der Leitha and Neusiedl am See to the Nickelsdorf border crossing , where it is on the Hungarian side as M 1 to Budapest is continued. Between Erdberg and the cable-stayed bridge , the Danube Canal runs between the two directional lanes.

General

With the opening of the Vienna outer ring expressway S 1 between the Schwechat junction and the Vösendorf junction in 2006, which creates a direct connection from the A 4 to the A 2 to the south and A 21 to the west, the importance of the A 4 has grown further. In order to take account of the increased volume of traffic, the area between the Schwechat junction and Vienna-Schwechat Airport was expanded to include three lanes per lane. The expansion started on May 29, 2007. On November 20, 2007, the north-east A 6 motorway branching off the A 4 towards Bratislava at the Bruckneudorf junction was opened to traffic. From the beginning of 2014 up to and including autumn 2015, the A 4 was expanded to six lanes between the airport and Fischamend . The directional carriageway to Vienna was completed in November 2014.

In the Federal Road Act , an extension of the Danube bank motorway A 22 from the Kaisermühlen junction over the Danube to Kaiserebersdorf is planned, which is to flow into the A 4 in the form of a motorway fork. However, no planning activities are currently taking place, there is no time schedule for the implementation of this project.

The section from Vienna to Vienna-Schwechat Airport is colloquially known as the airport motorway.

The route was serviced by the two motorway maintenance depots in Schwechat and Parndorf until 2019. These were closed at the same time as the establishment of a new base in Bruck an der Leitha, which is located in the business park. This also takes care of the north-east motorway .

Notable events

Refugee tragedy in August 2015

On August 27, 2015, 71 dead refugees were discovered in a truck on the Ost Autobahn near Parndorf who had suffocated in it.

Fire in December 2015

On December 1, 2015, at 3:30 a.m., a fire was discovered in a building at the Fischamend rest area . It burned down completely, 130 firefighters were on duty. The electrical power supply to the rest areas on both sides of the motorway was initially interrupted.

literature

• Bernd Kreuzer: The construction of the autobahns and expressways in Austria. - In: ASFINAG (Ed.): The motorway network in Austria. 30 years of Asfinag. - Vienna, 2012, p. 44

Web links

Commons : East Autobahn A4  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Planning by the state of Lower Austria for the expansion of the motorways and expressways
• Ost Autobahn on motorways-exitlists.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ A4 at the airport becomes six lanes
2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated December 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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. 
3. ↑ New motorway maintenance depot opened on ORF October 28, 2019 accessed on October 28, 2019
4. ↑ Major fire at motorway rest area, orf.at, December 1, 2015, accessed December 1, 2015.