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A 5

Bundesautobahn 5

Route information

Length

445 km (277 mi)

Major junctions

North end

A 7 at the Hattenbach triangle

v t e Route
	(1)	Hattenbacher Dreieck A 7 E45
		Wilder Stein parking area
		Raststätte / Motel Rimberg()
		parking area
		Services Berfa ()
	(2)	Alsfeld-Ost B 62
		Alsfeld-Mitte? (planned)
	(3)	Alsfeld-West B 49
		Raststätte / Motel Pfefferhöhe ()
		Rest area Dottenberg/Krachgarten
		3-way interchange Homberg? (planned) A 49
		Nieder Gemünden (planned)
		parking area
		parking area
	(6)	Homberg
		parking area
	(7)	Grünberg
		Raststätte / Motel Reinhardshain
	(8)	Reiskirchener Dreieck A 480 E40
	(9)	Reiskirchen B 49
		parking area
	(10)	Fernwald B 457
		Raststätte Limes
	(11)	Gambacher Kreuz A 45 E41
	(12)	Butzbach
		Verlegung um 1 km nach norden geplant
	(13)	Bad Nauheim
	(14)	Ober-Mörlen B 275
		Freiburg-Nord (planned)
		Usa
		Services Wetterau
	(16)	Friedberg B 455
		Erlenbach
		Rest area Friedrichsdorf
	(17)	Bad Homburger Kreuz A 661
		Urselbachtalbrücke 370 m
		Urselbach
		Services Taunusblick^[1]
	(18)	Nordwestkreuz Frankfurt A 66
		Nidda
	(19)	Westkreuz Frankfurt A 648
	(20z)	Frankfurt-Rebstock (Nur bei Bedarf)
		Frankfurt-Europaviertel (planned)
	(20)	Frankfurt-Westhafen
		Europabrücke 314 m
		Main
	(21)	Frankfurt-Niederrad
	(22a)	Frankfurt-Flughafen-Nord B 43
	(22)	Frankfurter Kreuz A 3 E42
	(23)	Zeppelinheim
		Rest area Walldorf
	(24)	Langen/Mörfelden B 486
		Bernd Rosemeyer parking area
		Services Gräfenhausen
		Rest area Weiterstadt
	(25)	Weiterstadt B 42
	(26)	Darmstadt 3-way interchange A 672
	(26)	Darmstädter Kreuz A 67 E35
	(27)	Darmstadt-Eberstadt B 3 B 426
		Rolandshöhe parking area
	(28)	Seeheim-Jugenheim
		parking area
		Services Alsbach
		Rest area
	(29)	Zwingenberg
		Scheidweg parking area
		Services Bergstraße
	(30)	Bensheim B 47
		parking area
	(31)	Heppenheim B 460
		Heppenheim-Süd (planned)
		parking area
	(32)	Hemsbach
		parking area
	(33)	Weinheim 4-way interchange A 659 B 38
		Rest area Fliegwiese/Wachenburg
		Weinheim-Süd (planned)
	(34)	Hirschberg
	(35)	Ladenburg
		parking area
	(36)	Dossenheim
		Neckarbrücke 390 m
	(37)	Heidelberg 4-way interchange A 656 B 37
	(38)	Heidelberg/Schwetzingen B 535
		Services Hardtwald
		parking area
	(39)	Walldorf/Wiesloch B 291
	(40)	Walldorf 4-way interchange A 6 E50
		Rest area Mönchberg/Lußhardt
	(41)	Kronau
		parking area
		Services Bruchsal mit Anschlussstelle
	(42)	Bruchsal B 35
		parking area
		Rest area Kreuzlach/Höfenschlag
		parking area
	(43)	Karlsruhe-Nord
	(44)	Karlsruhe-Durlach B 10
		Bahnbrücke 300 m
	(45)	Karlsruhe-Mitte
	(46)	Dreieck Karlsruhe 3-way interchange A 8 E52
	(47)	Ettlingen
	(48)	Karlsruhe-Süd B 3
		Rest area Silbergrund/Schleifweg
	(49)	Rastatt-Nord B 462
		Rastatt-Mitte (planned) ^[2]
		Murgbrücke 251 m
	(50)	Rastatt-Süd B 3
		Services Baden-Baden () Teilausfahrt
	(51)	Baden-Baden B 500
		parking area
		Baden-Airpark (planned)
		Services Bühl
		Weitenung (planned)
	(52)	Bühl
		parking area
		(planned)
	(53)	Achern
		parking area
		parking area
		Services Renchtal
	(54)	Appenweier interchange B 28 E52
		parking area
		Kinzigbrücke 130 m
		(planned)
	(55)	Offenburg B 33a
		parking area
		Offenburg-Süd (planned)
		parking area
		Rest area
		parking area
	(56)	Lahr B 36
		parking area
		Services Mahlberg
	(57a)	Ettenheim
	(57b)	Rust
	(58)	Herbolzheim
		parking area
		parking area
	(59)	Riegel
		parking area
	(60)	Teningen
		Am Glotterbach/? parking area
	(61)	Freiburg-Nord B 294
		Services Schauinsland
	(62)	Freiburg-Mitte B 31a
		parking area
	(63)	Freiburg-Süd B 31
		Services Breisgau
	(64a)	Bad Krozingen B 31
		parking area
		parking area
		Services Markgräfler Land
	(64b)	Hartheim/Heitersheim
		parking area
		Rest area Neuenburg
	(65)	Müllheim/Neuenburg am Rhein B 378
		Mautfrei bis zum Grenzübergang
		parking area
	(66)	Neuenburg 3-way interchange A 862 E54
		Services Bad Bellingen
		parking area
		Rest area Fischergrund/Rheinaue
	(67)	Efringen-Kirchen
	(68)	Weil am Rhein 3-way interchange A 98 E54
		parking area
	(69)	Weil am Rhein/Hüningen B 532
		Services Weil
	(70)	Border crossing Weil am Rhein
		To use motorways in Schweiz a Vignette is needed.
		Services Basel/Weil
A 2 / E35		Schweiz

South end

Swiss border near Basel

Location

Country

Germany

States

Hessen, Baden-Württemberg

Highway system

Roads in Germany

←

A 4

→

A 6

Bundesautobahn 5 (translates from German as Federal Motorway 5, short form Autobahn 5, abbreviated as BAB 5 or A 5) is a 445 km (277 mi) long Autobahn in Germany. Its northern end is the Hattenbach triangle intersection (with the A 7). The southern end is at the Swiss border near Basel. It runs through the German states of Hessen and Baden-Württemberg and connects on its southern ending to the Swiss A 2.

The A5 passes by the Frankfurt Airport.^[3]

History

Nazi era

Construction for the first section, between Frankfurt and Darmstadt was started on 23 September 1933 by Adolf Hitler. Propaganda falsely celebrated the project as "the Führer's Autobahn" and "Germany's first Autobahn," but the AVUS race track in Berlin was opened in September 1921. The first public Autobahn was the Cologne-Bonn highway which was inaugurated August 1932 (later called A 555). It was downgraded to a state highway (German: Bundesstrasse) in order to let the Nazi propaganda proclaim that the Reichsautobahn Frankfurt-Darmstadt was the first ever built in Germany.

Rare sight in Europe: 4 lanes in each direction of travel for 21 kilometers. The section between Zeppelinheim and Darmstadt, it is the oldest Autobahn.

In 1926, a private association proposed a highway from Hamburg via Frankfurt to Basel (HaFraBa) - these plans were stopped in the Reichstag by a coalition of Communists and Nazis. Hitler still used these plans after he came to power in 1933. Work progressed slowly, however, because Hitler favored east–west routes. The HaFraBa was renamed "Gesellschaft zur Vorbereitung der Reichsautobahnen", which translates "Company for the preparation of the Reich highways".

Post war

After the war, plans to continue the A 5 to the north were abandoned for ecological reasons. Instead, an already completed section of the proposed A 48 near Gießen was used to connect the A 5 to the A 7 from Hamburg. The HaFraBa route was finally completed in 1962, which led to the A 5 southern route Darmstadt, Heidelberg, Karlsruhe, Rastatt, Baden-Baden, Freiburg, Weil am Rhein, ending at the Swiss border near Basel, at the Bundesautobahn 98 and B3. Near Frankfurt, the highway is one of the busiest in Germany with an average of 150,000 vehicles per day.

The part between Frankfurt and Darmstadt with a length of about 25 km was the first and still is Germany's longest Autobahn section with 8 lanes. The A5 runs parallel and just west of the Bundesstraße 3 for many kilometers, crossing the B3 near Rastatt. In the city of Karlsruhe, the A5 meets the A 8.

A 10 km (6.2 mi) section of A 5 south of Frankfurt were installed with overhead lines for hybrid trucks to use starting in May 2019. Siemens built the lines with Scania AB providing the trucks.^[4]

Gallery

Bundesautobahn 5 at Frankfurt
Cross "kurz" at Frankfurt
A5 at North Karlsruhe
Autobahndreieck at Karlsruhe

References

External links

Autobahn system in Germany

Autobahn system in Germany
Major routes	A 1 A 2 A 3 A 4 A 5 A 6 A 7 A 8 A 9	German Autobahn symbol
Regional routes	A 10 A 11 A 12 A 13 A 14 A 15 A 17 A 19 A 20 A 21 A 23 A 24 A 25 A 26 A 27 A 28 A 29 A 30 A 31 A 33 A 36 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 81 A 92 A 93 A 94 A 95 A 96 A 98 A 99
Local routes	A 100 A 103 A 111 A 113 A 114 A 115 A 117 A 143 A 210 A 215 A 226 A 252 A 253 A 255 A 261 A 270 A 280 A 281 A 293 A 352 A 369 A 391 A 392 A 445 A 448 A 480 A 485 A 516 A 524 A 535 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 656 A 659 A 661 A 671 A 672 A 831 A 861 A 864 A 952 A 980 A 995
Planned or former routes	A 16 A 17* A 18 A 22 A 32 A 34 A 35 A 36 A 40* A 41 A 47 A 50 A 51 A 53 A 54 A 55 A 56 A 69 A 74 A 75 A 77 A 80 A 82 A 83 A 84 A 85 A 86 A 87 A 88 A 89 A 90 A 91 A 102 A 104 A 105 A 106 A 107 A 140 A 201 A 205 A 227 A 241 A 250 A 263 A 282 A 290 A 314 A 339 A 369 A 376 A 388 A 395 A 430 A 432 A 441 A 441* A 443 A 451 A 480* A 533 A 540 A 545 A 552 A 558 A 580 A 610 A 621 A 647 A 652 A 653 A 654 A 655 A 680 A 683 A 687 A 713 A 720 A 722 A 731 A 751 A 752 A 753 A 828 A 833 A 834 A 840 A 860 A 862 A 863 A 863* A 881 A 895 A 921 A 922 A 942 A 944 A 985 A 990 A 991 A 992 A 993 A 994 A 996 A 997 A 998 A 999
See also	Reichsautobahn (history) Autobahnpolizei
* original plan: number is used by another route now

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