Viernheim triangle

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Viernheim triangle
A6 A67 E50 E451
map
Overview map of the Viernheim triangle
location
Country: Germany
State : Hesse
Coordinates: 49 ° 33 '21 "  N , 8 ° 33' 22"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 33 '21 "  N , 8 ° 33' 22"  E
Basic data
Design type: Triangle (full-y)
Bridges: 3 (motorway)
Construction year: 1953
The Viernheimer Dreieck from the south (A 67)
The Viernheimer Dreieck from the south (A 67)

The Viernheimer Dreieck is a motorway triangle in Hesse , which is located in the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region . It connects the Federal Motorway 6 ( Saarbrücken - Mannheim - Nuremberg ) ( Europastraße 50 ) with the Federal Motorway 67 ( Rhein-Main -gebiet - Rhein-Neckar -gebiet) ( Europastraße 451 ).

geography

The triangle lies in the urban area of Viernheim . It is located about 10 kilometers northeast of Mannheim, about 15 kilometers southeast of Worms and about 65 kilometers south of Frankfurt am Main . It serves as a distributor of the traffic flows from and to Rhine-Main (north), Rhine-Neckar (south) and Palatinate / Saarland (west).

The motorway triangle has junction number 25 on the A 6 and number 10 on the A 67.

history

The Viernheim triangle was planned back in the 1930s. The Reichsautobahn Darmstadt-Mannheim was opened in 1935. The branch to the west in the direction of Kaiserslautern over the Viernheimer Dreieck could no longer be completed during the war, also because the Rhine bridge near Mannheim-Sandhofen collapsed during construction in 1940. After completion of the final section of the Saarbrücken - Mannheim motorway, the Viernheim triangle was opened to traffic on July 31, 1953 by Federal Transport Minister Hans-Christoph Seebohm .

State of development

The A 6, just like the A 67, has six lanes to the south. The A 6 has been expanded to four lanes to the west. All indirect connections are two-lane, all direct one-lane.

The north-south relationship is continuous, with the A 67 merging seamlessly with the A 6.

The triangle is laid out as a complete triangle (Full-Y).

Traffic volume

It is a busy traffic hub in Hesse with around 106,000 vehicles per day.

From To Average
daily traffic volume		 Share of
heavy goods traffic
2005 2010 2015 2005 2010 2015
AS Mannheim-Sandhofen (A 6) Viernheim triangle 54,000 44,500 51,900 no data 13.1% 12.7%
Viernheim triangle Viernheimer Kreuz (A 6) 69,900 71,500 86,300 12.2% 13.8% 13.2%
AS Lorsch Viernheim triangle 63,700 64,200 74,500 18.8% 13.8% 13.5%

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Viernheim triangle. Motorway junctions and triangles in Germany, 2011, accessed on December 1, 2012 .
  2. ↑ MARCHIVUM : Chronicle star . July 31, 1953. Retrieved November 26, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Manual road traffic census 2005. (PDF) Results on federal motorways. BASt Statistics, 2007, accessed on August 19, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Manual road traffic census 2010. (PDF) Results on federal motorways. BASt Statistics, 2011, accessed on August 19, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Manual road traffic census 2015. (PDF) Results on federal motorways. BASt Statistics, 2017, accessed on August 19, 2018 .