Reiskirchener triangle

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Reiskirchener triangle
A5 A480 E40 E44 E451
map
Overview map Reiskirchener Dreieck
location
Country: Germany
State : Hesse
Coordinates: 50 ° 36 '34 "  N , 8 ° 49' 30"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 36 '34 "  N , 8 ° 49' 30"  E
Height: 270  m above sea level NN
Basic data
Design type: Left-hand trumpet
Bridges: 1 (motorway)

The Reiskirchener Dreieck is a motorway triangle in Hesse , which is located near Gießen . The federal motorway 480 ( Wetzlar - Reiskirchen ) ends here and merges into the federal motorway 5 ( Hattenbacher Dreieck - Frankfurt am Main - Basel ).

geography

The triangle is located in the municipality of Reiskirchen ( district of Gießen ), in the administrative district of Gießen . The surrounding towns and communities are Allendorf (Lumda) , Staufenberg and Rabenau . It is located in Central Hesse , about 10 km east of Gießen , about 90 km southwest of Kassel and about 55 km north of Frankfurt.

The Reiskirchener Dreieck is number 8 on the A 5 and number 5 on the A 480.

State of development

The A 5 has five lanes in this area, the A 480 has four lanes. All transitions are single-lane.

The triangle is designed as a left-hand trumpet.

Traffic volume

The motorway triangle is used by around 68,000 vehicles every day.

From To Average daily traffic volume Share of heavy goods traffic
AS Grünberg (A 5) Reiskirchener triangle 66,500 16.9%
Reiskirchener triangle AS Reiskirchen (A 5) 48,800 14.9%
Giessener Nordkreuz (A 480) Reiskirchener triangle 19,900 18.6%

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Reiskirchen triangle. Motorway junctions and triangles in Germany, 2011, accessed on November 25, 2012 .
  2. Manual traffic census BAB 2015. BASt Statistics, 2015, accessed on August 18, 2017 . (PDF file)