The Federal motorway 45 (BAB 45 or A 45), also under the name Sauerland line known, is a federal trunk road that from Dortmund above Wins and Wetzlar in the room Hanau and Aschaffenburg leads and so the large rooms Cologne and Frankfurt am Main bypasses. It also forms part of the European route 41.
The total length of the motorway is 257 km.
background
The planning of the Sauerland line dates back to the 1950s. The continuation to the south as far as the Stuttgart area was never realized.
Regions
Ruhr area, Sauerland, Siegerland, Lahn-Dill-Bergland, Wetterau, Lower Franconia
traffic
There is a risk of traffic jams around Hagen and between the Langenselbolder triangle and the Hanauer Kreuz!
Route description
The route is described from north to south (direction of travel south = 
). A detailed list of junction points, parking spaces and other tourist facilities can be found here.
From the Dortmund-Nordwest intersection to the Westhofen intersection
- (2)
Dortmund-Northwest intersection 
- (3) Cross Castrop-Rauxel-Ost
- (5) Dortmund-West junction
- (7) Kreuz Dortmund /Witten
- (8)
Dortmund-South 
- (10) Westhofen Cross
From the Westhofener Kreuz to the Olpe-Süd cross
- (11) cross Hagen
- (14) Ludenscheid
- (16) Meinerzhagen
- (18) Olpe
- (19) Cross Olpe-Süd
From the Olpe-Süd junction to the Gambacher Kreuz
- (20) Freudenberg
- (21) Wins
- (24) Haiger/ Burbach
- (25) Dillenburg
- (26) Herborn-West
- (29) Wetzlar Cross
- (30) Wetzlar-East
- (33) Giessener Südkreuz
- (35) Gambach Cross
From the Gambacher Kreuz to the Seligenstädter Dreieck
- (36) Munzenberg
- (37) Wolfersheim
- (38) Flörstadt
- (39) Altenstadt
- (42) Langenselbolder triangle
- (43) Hanau Cross
- (47) Kleinostheim
- (42) Seligenstadt triangle
security
trips
- Dortmund
- Altena
- Meinerzhagen
- Freudenberg
- Wins
- Herborn
- Wetzlar
- Arnsburg Monastery
- Munzenberg
- Büdingen
- Seligenstadt
- Aschaffenburg
