Opened: 1937/1963 | Lanes: 2x2/2x3 | |
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Type: Basketweave interchange with 2 direct links | ||
Zeitraffer fahrt ber das kreuz hamburg ost 28 10 2014
The Kreuz Hamburg-Ost (German: Kreuz Hamburg-Ost) is a Basketweave interchange with two semi-direct links in the German states Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg.
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- Zeitraffer fahrt ber das kreuz hamburg ost 28 10 2014
- Geography
- History
- Buildingform and Roadlayout
- Traffic near the interchange
- References
The motorway interchange forms the connection between the A1 Heiligenhafen-Saarbrücken and the A24 Hamburg-Dreieck Havelland.
Geography
The motorway interchnge lays in the municipal area of Barsbüttel in the Kreis Stormarn near the border with the state Hamburg. Nearby villages are Oststeinbek and Glinde. Nearby city districts of Hamburg are Billstedt, Jenfeld, Rahlstedt and Tonndorf. The motorway interchange lays approximately 10 km east of the city centre of Hamburg.
The border between Schleswig-Holstein and hamburg runs through the southwestern part of the motorway interchange, but the biggest part of it lays in Schleswig-Holstein.
History
The A24 to the west (Hamburg) as well as the A 1 to the north (Lübeck) were opened to traffic in 1937.
The tunnel in the interchange already existed during the war, but back then it was not in use for traffic. It was in use as a bomshelter for the airplaepart fabrication. For this purpose the exits were blocked by brick walls ant the inner space was divided in three. Der in den Kriegsjahren schon existierende, aber noch nicht in Betrieb genommene Tunnel im Autobahnkreuz diente als vor Bombenangriffen sicheres Ausweichquartier für die Herstellung von Flugzeugteilen. Zu diesem Zweck wurden die Einfahrten zugemauert sowie der Innenraum in drei Räume unterteilt. Laterr it was used by British pioneers.
Im 1963 the tunnel opened to traffic together with the A1 to the south (Bremen / Hannover). The motorway interchange was completed when the A 24 to the east GDR opened to traffic.
Between 2001 and 2007 the interchange as well as the tunnel were completely remediated so they could better handle the heavier traffic. Due to the remediation of the tunnel they had to close the A1 for three months.
Buildingform and Roadlayout
Near the interchange the A 1 is having a 2x3 lane layout, die A 24 vierstreifig. The relations between A 24 west—A 1 south are having one lane, al the other connections are having two lanes. At the interchange they miss the connections Berlin—Lübeck vice versa, these can be taken via the B 404 at Kreuz Bargteheide.
The motorway interchsnge is build as a Basketweave interchange with two semi-direct iinks.
Traffic near the interchange
Approximately 140.000 vehicles use the interchange on a daily basis.