Federal motorway 3

base data
overall length	778 km
of Lands of the Federal Republic	North Rhine-Westphalia Rhineland-Palatinate Hessen Bayern Baden-Wuerttemberg
connection points
A 12 E of the 35 Netherlands (1) border crossing Elten restaurant Elten (2) Elten (3) Emmerich B 220 (4) Rees B 67 (5) Hamminkeln B 473 (6) Wesel B 58 Lippebrücke/Wesel Datteln channel bridge (7) Hünxe restaurant / Motel Hünxe (8) DIN sheets - north (9) DIN sheet south (10) cross upper living a2 E 34, A 516 (11) upperlive-got cross upper living west A 42 Rhine Herne channel bridge ( 13) to Emscherbrücke (12) Oberhausen Lirich Ruhr bridge (14) cross emperor mountain A 40 E 34 (15) Duisburg - Wedau (16) cross broad-separate A 52, A 524 (17) cross Ratingen - east A 44 (18) Metz man B 7 (19) cross Hilden A 46 restaurant Ohligser heath (20) Solingen B 229 (21) cross length field A 542 Wupperbrücke (22) Opladen (23) cross Leverkusen (Cologne ring) A 1 E 37 (24) Leverkusen (25) Cologne Mülheim B 51 (26) Cologne-Dell-bridge B 506 (27) cross Cologne east A 4 E 40 (28) Heumarer triangle (Cologne ring) A 4 E 40, A 59 (29) king forest (30) Rösrath (30b) Lohmar - north B 507 (31) Lohmar B 484 restaurant victory castle Victory bridge 500 m (32) cross Bonn / victory castle A 560 (33) filter mountains Plaisbachbrücke 200 m (34) bath Honnef / Linz Wiedtalbrücke 450 m (35) new city (Wied) (36) Neuwied B 256 (37) Dierdorf (38) Ransbach Baumbach (39) triangle the brook A 48 (40) Montabaur B 49 B 255 (41) Diez (42) Limburg - north B 49 restaurant Limburg Lahn valley bridge 500 m (43) Limburg south B 8 (44) bath Camberg (45) Idstein B 275 Theisstalbrücke 500 m (46) Wiesbaden / Niedernhausen B 455 restaurant Medenbach (47) Wiesbadener cross A 66 Main bridge 500 m (48) Raunheim B 43 (48) Moenchhof triangle A 67 E 35 E 42 (49) Kelsterbach B of 43 tunnels Unterschweinstiege 127 m (49a) Frankfurt airport B 43 (50) Frankfurt cross A 5, B 43 (51) Frankfurt - south B 43 B 44 (52) Offenbacher cross A 661 (52) open brook - south B 3 (53) Obertshausen (54) Hanau B 45 B 43a restaurant Rodgau - pointing churches (55) blessed city (56) Seligenstädter triangle A 45 E 41 (57) stick city B 469 (58) Aschaffenburg - west B 8 Main bridge stick city 370 m (59) Aschaffenburg east B 26 (60) gold brook tunnel a living Hösbach west 1,380 m tunnel a living Hösbach east 720/380 m (61) Hösbach (62) Bessenbach / Waldaschaff Kauppenbrücke 440 m (63) Weibersbrunn (64) Rohrbrunn restaurant Spessart tubing book bridge 290 m Haseltalbrücke 720 m (65) market heath field B 8 Main bridge Bettingen 378 m (66) value home / Lengfurt (67) helmet city B 468 (68) Triangle peppering castle - west A 81 E 41 (69) Würzburg Kist B 27 (70) Würzburg Heidingsfeld B 19 valley bridge Heidingsfeld 723 m restaurant peppering castle Main bridge edge field 570 m (71) field of edge of peppering castle B 13 valley bridge Theilheim 190 m (72) gang village B 8 (73) cross Biebelried A 7 E 43 E 45 Main bridge Dettelbach 400 m (74) Kitzingen / blackoh restaurant Haidt (75) Wiesentheid B 286 (76) hostage wind (77) key field restaurant riser forest (78) high city - north (79) Pommersfelden B 505 Aischtalbrücke 125 m (80) high city - east B 470 (81) attaining - west restaurant Aurach (82) attain Frauenaurach Aurachtalbrücke 301 m Main Danube channel bridge 100 m Regnitzbrücke 200 m (83) cross Fürth /attaining A 73 (84) attain Tennenlohe B 4 (85) Nuremberg - north B 2 (86) Nürnberg Behringersdorf B 14 Pegnitzbrücke 100 m (87) Nürnberg Mögeldorf (88) cross Nuremberg A 9 E 45 E 51 (89) cross old village A 6 E 50 (90) old village/ Burgthann Pfaff valley bridge 234 m (91) upper oil brook (92) new market (Upper Palatinate) B 299a Pilsachtalbrücke 640 m restaurant law valley bridge crowning village 475 m (93) Velburg valley bridge Schallermühle 240 m valley bridge Geigerhaid 208 m (94) Parsberg (95) Beratzhausen (96) Laaber (97) Nittendorf B 8 (98) Sinzing Sinzinger motorway bridge 930 m (99) cross Regensburg A 93 (100a) Regensburg university (100b) Regensburg Burgweinting (101) Regensburg east B 15 (102) Neutraubling (103) rose yard B 8 Danube bridge Wörth 404 m (104a) Wörth at the Danube / Wiesent (104b) Wörth at the Danube east (105) Kirchroth (106) Straubing B 20 restaurant Straubing (107) elbow (108) blackoh (109) Metten Danube bridge Metten 622 m (110) cross Deggendorf A 92 E 53 Danube bridge Deggenau 847 m Hengersberger Ohebrücke 152 m (111) Hengersberg B 533 (112) Iggensbach Schöllnachtalbrücke 422 m (113) Garham / many yards (114) Aicha vorm forest (115) Passau - north Danube bridge scarf thing 1,052 m restaurant Danube valley (116) passport outer center B 12 (117) passport outer south rotting bridge 201 m (118) Pocking B 512 triangle Pocking (planned) A 94 (119) border crossing Suben Innbrücke Suben 674 m A 8 E 56 Austria knot Ried inInnkreis

the federal motorway 3 (abbreviation: BAB 3) - short form: Motorway 3 (abbreviation: A 3) - runs from the Netherlands border with Emmerich on the Rhine - Elten in continuation of A 12 (NL) parallel to the Rhine over the right Niederrhein, the western Ruhr district (, Mülheim at the Ruhr upperlive to Duisburg), Duesseldorf, Cologne area, the Rhine Main area, Franconia, the Upper Palatinate at Regensburg past and by Lower Bavaria after Passau and over the Innkreisautobahn A 8 (A) further to upper Austria. A 3 is Part the European routes E34, E35, E41, E42, E45 and E56. It is one of the most important European traffic ways.

To a large extent parallel to A 3 the ICE Neubaustrecke Cologne Rhine/Main runs between Cologne and Frankfurt. Starting from Regensburg runs A 3 parallel to the Danube.

history

the motorway section of upper living (following the a2) over Cologne until Wiesbaden developed in the time of 1936 to 1940. The connection of upper living into the Netherlands(“Holland line”) from 1939 to 1942 and from 1958 to 1965 one built. Into the 1950er years the part of Wiesbaden was provided into the peppering citizen area. Only 1984 were finished the way by Bavaria up to the Austrian border.

On the occasion of the 1992 took place general revision thatMotorway sign-posting in Germany was accomplished the numbering of all connection points , triangles and crosses in the motorway net of the German Federal Republic. At the same time also sign posts were revised and the number of goals was reduced on the signpost/guide boards, which partly accompanied with an information loss.

In the course of this re-organization developed A 40by a linkage of the section Straelen - Duisburg of the a2 with earlier A 430 Duisburg emperor mountain - Dortmund. The name A2/A 3 for the common motorway section of the cross Duisburg emperor mountain up to the cross upper living could be reduced to „A 3 “. Became simultaneousthe connection points this along the city boundary Duisburg/upper living of running motorway part renamed. The connection point Duisburg avoiding Erich received the new designation „to Oberhausen Lirich “, the cross Duisburg/upper living, which is completely on Duisburger city, received strange to say to the new names „cross upper living west “and the connection point Duisburg Hamborn the new designation „upperlive-got “. The designationfor the cross Duisburg emperor mountain was corrected in „cross emperor mountain “.

development condition

from upper living to Hösbach is developed the motorway 6-streifig, from Frankfurt to open brook and on parts Cologne ring of the 8-streifig. Also of the cross Fürth/attaining with the A73 up to the A9 at the crossNuremberg as well as within the range Regensburg are to six driving strips at the disposal.

characteristics

between Aschaffenburg east and Hösbach, in order to keep the noise limit values with the extension to 6 driving strips, built an a living.

By the unfavorableBuilding method of the windows often came it during sun exposure to epileptischen accumulations, since drivers did not stand the stakkatoartig arising light. After a closed window an open followed. This was reached later by an automation of the window opening plants. These do not open now any longer in a certain order,separate indiscriminately one behind the other. This has the consequence that there is no more stakkatoartiges light.

At the cross Nuremberg bends the motorway A 9 direction the south (Munich) on the left side in driving direction direction the east (Regensburg).

Supraregional is also the Elzer admits mountain at the salientGeländestufe of under westerwald down there into the Limburger basins. This long downgrade on A 3 with kilometer 100 toward Frankfurt is a notorious point of most frequent accidents. The speed limit of 100 kilometers per hour for passenger car and 40 kilometer per hour for truck becomes from twostationary speed measuring systems supervises. These are installed in the second and third describing bridge and became occasionally secured with guards because of Vandalismus. Behind the third describing bridge again with radar or light barrier one controls rarely.

Between the cross Cologne - east and the triangle Heumar divides A3 the roadway with A 4, so that these kilometers are out-described as A 3/A 4.

planning

in the future, the motorway of Aschaffenburg, by the Spessart and Main Franconia is planned to develop to Würzurg 6-streifig. This planning is as urgent needclassified.

Also the distance from peppering castle to attaining is to be removed 6-streifig.

see also

• list of the European routes
• list of the motorways in Germany

Web on the left of

• history of A 3 between Emmerich and upper living
• history of the Spessartautobahn
• history of A 3 betweenNuremberg and Regensburg
• history of A 3 between Regensburg and Passau

federal motorways

A 1 · A2 · A 3 · A 4 · A 5 · A 6 · A 7 · A 8 · A 9 · A 10 · A 11 · A 12 · A 13 · A 14 · A 15 · A 17 · A 19 · A 20 · A 21 · A 22 · A 23 · A 24 · A 25 · A 26 · A 27 · A 28 · A 29 · A 30 · A 31 · A 33 · A 37 · A 38 · A 39 · A 40 · A 42 · A 43 · A 44 · A 45 · A 46 · A 48 · A 49 · A 52 · A 57 · A 59 · A 60 · A 61 · A 62 · A 63 · A 64 · A 65 · A 66 · A 67 · A 70 · A 71 · A 72 · A 73 · A 77 · A 80 · A 81 · A 85 · A 86 · A 89 · A 91 · A 92 · A 93 · A 94 · A 95 · A 96 · A 98 · A 99 · A 99a · A 100 · A 102 · A 103 · A 104 · A 105 · A 111 · A 113 · A 114 · A 115 · A 143 · A 210 · A 215 · A 226 · A 241 · A 250 · A 252 · A 253 · A 255 · A 261 · A 270 · A 280 · A 281 · A 293 · A 352 · A 388 · A 391 · A 392 · A 395 · A 443 · A 445 · A 480 · A 485 · A 516 · A 524 · A 535 · A 540 · A 542 · A 544 · A 553 · A 555 · A 559 · A 560 · A 562 · A 565 · A 571 · A 573 · A 602 · A 620 · A 623 · A 643 · A 648 · A 650 · A 652 · A 656 · A 659 · A 661 · A 671 · A 672 · A 680 · A 683 · A 687 · A 831 · A 861 · A 862 · A 864 · A 952 · A 980 · A 995 · A 999