The Kreuz Meckenheim (german: Autobahnkreuz Meckenheim) is a

cloverleaf interchange A cloverleaf interchange is a two-level interchange in which all turns are handled by slip roads. To go left (in right-hand traffic; reverse directions in left-driving regions), vehicles first continue as one road passes over or under the ...

that connects the Bundesautobahn 61 (Venlo - Hockenheim) and

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(Bonn - Gelsdorf) with each other. It is located in the south of the town of Meckenheim in the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis ( North Rhine-Westphalia), a small piece on the southeast side is in the area of the neighboring municipality of Graftschaft in the Ahrweiler district ( Rhineland-Palatinate).

Design and state of development

The cross is laid out as a clover leaf with a so-called tangent solution. When those who pass the cross coming from Bonn (A 565) and want to drive on the A 61 in the direction of Koblenz, they must first drive on a direct ramp under the A 565 and then over the A 61 before continuing on the A 61 can. Both motorways have four lanes at the intersection. Near the motorway junction, the motorways are linked to the B 257 in the direction of

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- upper Ahr Valley and the former B 266 in the direction of Rheinbach and the lower Ahr valley. The A 565 goes south-west directly into the B 257, the Gelsdorf junction of the A 565 leads to the B 266 not far from the motorway junction.

Traffiic near the interchange

{, class="wikitable" ! rowspan="2", From !! rowspan="2" , To !! colspan="3" , Average
daily traffic volume !! colspan="3" , Proportion of
heavy traffic , - ! 2005 , , 2010 , , 2015 , , 2005 , , 2010 , , 2015 , - , AS Rheinbach (A 61) , AK Meckenheim , style="text-align:center", 50.500 , style="text-align:center", 46.100 , style="text-align:center", 48.800 , style="text-align:center", 22,4 % , style="text-align:center", 24,6 % , style="text-align:center", 20,5 % , - , AK Meckenheim , Dreieck Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler (A 61) , style="text-align:center", 73.400 , style="text-align:center", 70.700 , style="text-align:center", 72.900 , style="text-align:center", 19,8 % , style="text-align:center", 19,2 % , style="text-align:center", 18,9 % , - , AS Merl (A 565) , AK Meckenheim , style="text-align:center", 33.700 , style="text-align:center", 29.500 , style="text-align:center", 35.800 , style="text-align:center", 9,2 % , style="text-align:center", 11,0 % , style="text-align:center", 10,0 % , - , AK Meckenheim , AS Gelsdorf (A 565) , style="text-align:center", 13.300 , style="text-align:center", 16.200 , style="text-align:center", 12.500 , style="text-align:center", 4,7 % , style="text-align:center", 6,5 % , style="text-align:center", {{05,7 %

External links

Meckenheim Roads in North Rhine-Westphalia