Wiesbadener Kreuz

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The Wiesbaden cross is a motorway junction in Hesse, which is located in the Rhine- Main area. Here cross the A3 ( Oberhausen - Frankfurt am Main - Passau) and the A 66 ( Wiesbaden - Fulda).

Geography

The cross is in the area of the city Hochheim, near the city of Hofheim part Wallau. The surrounding cities and towns are Hofheim, Florsheim and Wiesbaden. The cross is located about 20 km west of Frankfurt and about 10 km east of Wiesbaden. It is located on a ridge, which is the A 66 the vertex between Wiesbaden and Frankfurt, while he is only a small first ramp in the Taunus foothills on the road via the Taunus heights for the A 3.

The Wiesbaden Cross carries the A 3 point 47 on the A 66, the number 9

History

The state highway junction has the Wiesbaden Cross since 1965, when the federal highway 54 was upgraded to the highway, the current A 66 Nevertheless, this crossing structure was already of particular importance to the architectural history of the A 3 Before the war, the B 54 was associated with of B 40 than motor traffic, a relatively powerful quick connection between Wiesbaden and Frankfurt. The connection of the planned autobahn from Cologne to Frankfurt cross on this road was the starting point for the construction work in the southern section of the north. Consequently, the Wiesbaden Cross is one of the oldest buildings in the A 3 south of Cologne.

For the motorway bridge over the national route has been lowered and the level of the ridge was removed over a large area for installation of the individual connecting curves. The construction work at the junction building had to give the traveling man, a sandstone obelisk, which was brand new but built close to the state road. On September 23, 1939, the Wiesbaden junction was passed as connection point Wiesbaden traffic and was initially known for the monument also called moving man. At this point, the highway section from here was completed to the junction Limburg- Nord. As on June 15, 1940, the last section was completed to Cologne, rolled the entire long-distance transport between the Cologne area, including the Ruhr and the Rhine -Main area about this building. Since the construction work on the last part had to be stopped due to the war to the Frankfurter Kreuz, the long-distance traffic to bypass the gap was led for years about the kingdom of roads 54 and 40 to the junction north of Frankfurt- Hamburg -Frankfurt autobahn.

After the war, construction began on the highway heading south again in June 1950. With the completion of the 3.5 km section to Bach Because in 1951 the junction Wiesbaden was the first to speak as Wiesbaden junction with traffic flow in all four directions. Starting in 1954, the motorway-like ( four-lane ) expansion of B 54 to the Rhine -Main -Schnellweg began. Thus, no significant difference between the Wiesbaden junction and a motorway junction more from then on was structurally identified. With the opening of the Frankfurt Cross on 10 July 1956, the diversion of flows to and from the south traffic over the B 54 and B 40 could be canceled, which was particularly suitable for connecting the airport Frankfurt -distance transport of significance.

Planning

In April 2011, a plan approval process began for the conversion of the Wiesbaden Cross. As part of the redesign of a departure from the cloverleaf shape is provided. To the growing volume of traffic to be justified by the commuter traffic between Wiesbaden and Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt Airport to Wiesbaden for the two transitions of the A 3 on the A66 for traffic from Cologne to Frankfurt and to traffic coming from the previous abandoned right-handed 270 degree cloverleaf loops. Instead, according to a method developed by the Hessian Road and Traffic Management version two bundled in the northeast of the Cross trassierte left-handed semi-direct connection arcs cross the main roads. The proposed variant is the best solution in terms of road safety, environmental compatibility and economy. The published map for the project seems to require re- implementation of the Wanderer Memorial. However, a concrete time frame for the start of construction is not known yet (as of April 2011).

Expansion of state

The cross was built in clover leaf shape, similar to the Frankfurter Kreuz before his conversion. A3 A66 as well as have the cross on each of two lanes and a einstreifige parallel lane in each direction. All ramps are einstreifig.

Traffic

The cross is traveled daily by about 190,000 vehicles to make it one of the busiest in Hesse.