East highway - Ost Autobahn

East A4 motorway

The A4 east motorway is an Austrian motorway that runs from Vienna (Vienna Belt) via the Vienna Prater node, Schwechat, the Airport Wien-Schwechat and Bruck an der Leitha to the AustrianHungarian Limit at Nickelsdorf leads and there in the Hungarian M1 motorway passes that after Budapest leads. In the European context, it forms a section of Europastraße 60 and up to the junction of Northeast Highway A6 to Bratislava also the Europastraße 58.

The length of the motorway is 66 km.

background

The motorway was built between 1978 and 1994.

Regions

• Industrial district, Parndorfer Platte, Northern Burgenland

particularities

Like (almost) all Austrian motorways, the "Ost Autobahn" is also vignette required! The mileage count (and parallel to it the counting of the connection points) begins in Vienna and increases to the Hungarian border.

traffic

The motorway is not only important for traffic to Hungary, but also as an access to Vienna / Schwechat Airport and therefore in the Schwechat and Fischamend expanded to six lanes. The branches at the Bruckneudorf junction Northeast Highway A6 to Bratislava from. A quick connection to the South highway and direction West Highway (about the Vienna outer ring motorway A21) and the Vösendorf junction is via the Vienna outer ring expressway to the Schwechat junction.

Route

Exit to the airport (photo 2011)

Bruckneudorf node (photo 2011)

The Ost Autobahn on the Austro-Hungarian border (photo 2012)

The route is described from west to east (direction of travel east = ).

From the Wien Prater junction to the Bruckneudorf junction

• 1 Vienna-Prater junction
• 5Vienna-Simmeringer Haide
• 8 node Schwechat
• 13Airport Wien-Schwechat
• 19Fischamend
• 32Bruck an der Leitha-West
• 36Bruck an der Leitha-East A211
• 38 node Bruckneudorf

From the Bruckneudorf junction to the Hungarian border

• 40Parndorf
• 43Neusiedl am See
• 51Pastures/Gols
• 57Mönchhof
• 64Nickelsdorf
• Austro-Hungarian border Nickelsdorf / Hegyeshalom, continue on

security

trips

Heidentor in Carnuntum

Tabor in Neusiedl am See

• Vienna
• Carnuntum
• The Lake Neusiedl

literature

• Bernd Kreuzer: The construction of the motorways and expressway in Austria. - In: ASFINAG (ed.): The motorway network in Austria. 30 years of Asfinag. Vienna 2012, p. 44

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