General Information
| Status: | in use |
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Project Type
| Function / usage: |
Motorway / Freeway / Interstate |
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Location
| km | Name |
| 1 | |
| 4 | |
| 10 | |
| 12 | |
| 22 | |
| 27 | |
| 31 | |
| 32 | |
| 34 | |
| 42 | |
| 52 | |
| 61 | |
| 40.500 | |
| 69 | |
| 70 | |
Technical Information
Dimensions
| length | 259 km |
Excerpt from Wikipedia
Bundesautobahn 44 (translates from German as Federal Motorway 44, short form Autobahn 44, abbreviated as BAB 44 or A 44) is a German Autobahn. It consists of three main parts and a few smaller parts. It begins in Aachen at the German–Belgian border and ends near Kassel. Before the German unification it was an unimportant provincial motorway but after this event it became an integral part of the German highway system. The A 44 is a highly frequented link between the Rhine-Ruhr-Area and the new German states, especially Thuringia, and by proxy, eastern European states like Poland and Ukraine.
History of construction
The first section of this motorway which was opened was the connection between Aachen and the interchange Aachen. This was in 1963.
Auxiliary runway for military aircraft
The section Geseke-Büren was constructed as an auxiliary runway. This section is even and straight, without any constructions like bridges and the crash-barriers can be taken out. It was constructed to be a runway for US-military aircraft in a war with NATO's opponent, the Warsaw Pact. At both ends of the section there are parking lots for parking and maintenance of the aircraft.
International E-road network
The Lichtenbusch-interchange Aachen section is part of the European route E 40. Between interchange Dortmund-Unna and interchange Kassel-Süd (Kassel south) the A 44 is part of the European route E 331.
Text imported from Wikipedia article "Bundesautobahn 44" and modified on 22 July 2019 under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license.
Participants
Relevant Web Sites
Relevant Publications
- (2021): Bundesautobahn 44: il tunnel di Hirschhagen. In: Strade e Autostrade, v. 25, n. 145 (January 2021), pp. 88-90.
- (2022): Neubau der Talbrücke Lindenau auf der A 44. In: Brückenbau, v. 14, n. 3 ( 2022), pp. 28-31.
- (2007): Projects German Unity – the tunnel chain of A 44 overcomes the division of Germany. Presented at: IABSE Symposium: Improving Infrastructure Worldwide, Weimar, Germany, 19-21 September 2007, pp. 274-275.
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10000181 - Published on:
05/01/2003 - Last updated on:
19/10/2023
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