The Federal motorway 46 (BAB 46 or A 46), is a federal trunk road that is only opened to traffic in individual sections. She leads from Selfkant with the westernmost municipality in Germany Erkelenz and Grevenbroich over after Neuss, there for around 7 km together with the Federal motorway 57 and further about the Rhine south at Dusseldorf over, cross at Hilden the Federal motorway 3, branches off the BAB 535 at Sonnborner Kreuz and leads through Wuppertal to the cross Wuppertal-Nord, where they are at the Federal motorway 1 and the one branching off from this one Federal motorway 43 temporarily ends. It begins again at Kreuz Hagen on the Federal motorway 45 and leads over Iserlohn to Hemer; the further construction until Menden is planned. The further construction from Menden to Neheim-Hüsten on the upper Ruhr is unclear. At connection 62 Neheim the goes from Werl and in the future from Hamm Coming BAB 445 immediately into BAB 46, which is at Arnsberg past the northern one Sauerland With Meschede taps and before Olsberg ends at the connection Olsberg.
The total length of the motorway, if in operation, is 149.2 km.
background
An east branch was originally planned for today's motorway, but this was never realized. The connection to the Netherlands was also only built as a federal road.
Regions
Lower Rhine, Düsseldorf area, Bergisches Land, Sauerland
traffic
The Cross Wuppertal-Nord has a complicated, not completely plan-free traffic management. There is a risk of traffic jams around Düsseldorf and Wuppertal!
Route description
The route is described from west to east (direction of travel east = 
). A detailed list of junction points, parking spaces and other tourist facilities can be found here.
From the Heinsberg junction to the Neuss-West junction
- (4)
Heinsberg
- (8) Erkelenz
- (10)
triangle Mönchengladbach-Wanlo 
- interrupted to the south by the Garzweiler II opencast mine - (11) Cross wood
- (12) Juchen
until 2020 
, since then graduated - (15) Neuss-Holzheim
- (16) cross Neuss-West
From the Neuss-Süd triangle to the Hilden junction
- (21) Neuss-Süd triangle
- (22) Neuss-Uedesheim
- (24) Dusseldorf-Wersten
- (26) cross Dusseldorf-South
- (28) cross Hilden
From the Hilden junction to the Wuppertal-Nord junction
From the Hagen junction to the Hemer junction
From the Neheim exit to the Olsberg exit
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