- Bundesautobahn 45
BAB intro|45 is an
autobahn inGermany , connectingDortmund in the west withHanau in the southwest. It is colloquially known by its byname "Sauerlandlinie", which derives from theSauerland , the landscape which said autobahn is running through between the cities ofHagen andSiegen . Many people think of it as the "Queen" of autobahns, for no autobahn runs over a greater number ofbridge s. The highest bridge is the "Talbrücke Sichter" betweenLüdenscheid andMeinerzhagen at 530 metresabove mean sea level .Trajectory
The A45 branches off the A 2 at the Kreuz Dortmund Nord-West, passes through the eastern
Ruhr area and enters theSauerland nearHagen . It then enters theSiegerland and the state ofHesse , where the A45 is joined by the A 66 between the interchanges "Hanau er Kreuz" and "Langenselbold er Dreieck". A short stretch of road, between junctions Alzenau and Mainhausen, is onBavaria n territory, then the A 45 merges with the A 3 at the interchange "Seligenstädter Dreieck" in the state ofHesse .History
During the 1960s and 1970s a southward extension, then called „Odenwald-Neckar-Alb-Autobahn“ (ONAA) was proposed to pass via
Groß-Umstadt ,Michelstadt ,Schwaigern ,Neckarwestheim ,Mundelsheim ,Berglen ,Remshalden ,Lichtenwald andSchlierbach , linking the ONAA to the A 8 nearKirchheim unter Teck , however the project was abandoned due to ecological reasons in 1979 by the state government ofBaden-Württemberg .Numerical listing of Exits and Junctions (Ausfahrten, Kreuzen)
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