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A46 Germany: traffic jams, roadworks, map

The A46 runs from Heinsberg junction to Olsberg junction, about 151 km long (schematic), through North Rhine-Westphalia, with 59 junctions and interchanges (9 of them interchanges); its course is broken between Ausbauende A46 and Ausbauende A46 and between Hemer junction and Neheim junction. Reported on the A46 now: 4 closures, 0 jams, 28 roadworks (as of 18:57).

Traffic light for the A46

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Green — Nothing reported by our sources (as of 18:57) — no guarantee of a clear road.

For your choice on the A46.

How the traffic light is set
  • Red for a full closure of the carriageway, a wrong-way driver, objects, people or animals on the road, an accident with a closure, a weather warning of level 3–4 or a jam with a delay of 30 minutes or more.
  • Yellow for a shorter jam, roadworks narrowing the road, another traffic warning, a weather warning of level 1–2, slippery roads in the road-weather forecast, a closed entry or exit — or when a source is missing or out of date.
  • Green only when none of this is reported and the Autobahn GmbH reports, the Deutscher Wetterdienst warnings and, for every state in the area, a police source of its own are current. Green is no guarantee of a clear road.
  • With your position, everything within the chosen radius along the motorway that lies ahead of you in the chosen direction counts; what lies behind you or on the other carriageway does not. More than 2.0 km away from the motorway, it is counted from the nearest junction.
  • Read: the Autobahn GmbH (closures, jams, traffic warnings, roadworks), police and state traffic messages (for the states we hold a source of their own for), the bridge states in Schleswig-Holstein and the Deutscher Wetterdienst (warnings, road weather).
  • No colour from: detours, border crossings, lorry networks, parking and charging. A state with no current police source of its own keeps the light at yellow.

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    Reported now

    4 closures · 0 jams · 28 roadworks live ·

    By direction

    • Arnsberg-Neheim → Brilon: 0 closures · 0 jams · 2 roadworks
    • Brilon → Arnsberg-Neheim: 0 closures · 0 jams · 2 roadworks
    • Düsseldorf → Heinsberg: 0 closures · 0 jams · 1 roadworks
    • Düsseldorf → Wuppertal: 0 closures · 0 jams · 13 roadworks
    • Hagen → Hemer: 0 closures · 0 jams · 1 roadworks
    • Hemer → Hagen: 0 closures · 0 jams · 2 roadworks
    • Wuppertal → Düsseldorf: 2 closures · 0 jams · 11 roadworks
    • no direction given: 5 closures · 0 jams · 10 roadworks

    Traffic state at 65 measuring sites (NRW, as of 18:59): 3 slow, 62 free-flowing; standstill or slow near Leckerhorst, Wuppertal-Oberbarmen.

    Stretch and direction

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    Map

    Schematic map of the A46The A46 from Heinsberg to Olsberg, drawn schematically through its junctions, with the reported closures, roadworks and jams.Nordrhein-WestfalenKölnDüsseldorfEssenDuisburgBonnGelsenkirchenMönchengladbachAachenKrefeldHagenHammLeverkusenSolingenHerneRecklinghausenSiegenMoers
    • Junction or interchange

    Schematic: the line joins the points of the Location Code List in their order – not to scale, not a navigation map. Where the list has a gap, the line breaks too.

    • Broken between Ausbauende A46 and Ausbauende A46: the Location Code List gives no course in between, so we draw no line there.
    • Broken between Hemer junction and Neheim junction: the Location Code List gives no course in between, so we draw no line there.

    Map sources

    Kartengrundlage: © BKG (2026) dl-de/by-2-0, Datenquellen: https://sgx.geodatenzentrum.de/web_public/gdz/datenquellen/datenquellen_vg_nuts.pdf (Daten verändert)

    TMC Location Code List (LCL 22.0): Bundesanstalt für Straßenwesen (BASt), CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), bearbeitet · licence text

    Verwaltungseinheiten: © BKG (2026) dl-de/by-2-0, Datenquellen: https://sgx.geodatenzentrum.de/web_public/gdz/datenquellen/datenquellen_gn250.pdf (Daten verändert)

    Closures, jams and roadworks on the A46

    Lorry networks

    reference data ·

    What the Länder's lorry databases record on or right at this motorway, each publisher on its own.

    • NRW.Mobidrom (SEVAS): lorry priority network on 899 sections of this motorway (15 routes)
    • at Heinsberg junction (4) · near Heinsberg · North Rhine-Westphalia (placed by ViaFrei)a route the publisher recommends for lorries – not an obligation and not a permission; the signs on site applyreported by NRW.Mobidrom (SEVAS) · Map · Google Maps
    • at Dremmen junction (5) · near Hückelhoven · North Rhine-Westphalia (placed by ViaFrei)a route the publisher recommends for lorries – not an obligation and not a permission; the signs on site applyreported by NRW.Mobidrom (SEVAS) · Map · Google Maps
    • at Hückelhoven-West junction (6) · near Hückelhoven · North Rhine-Westphalia (placed by ViaFrei)a route the publisher recommends for lorries – not an obligation and not a permission; the signs on site applyreported by NRW.Mobidrom (SEVAS) · Map · Google Maps
    • at Hückelhoven-Ost junction (7) · near Hückelhoven · North Rhine-Westphalia (placed by ViaFrei)a route the publisher recommends for lorries – not an obligation and not a permission; the signs on site applyreported by NRW.Mobidrom (SEVAS) · Map · Google Maps
    • at Erkelenz-Süd junction (8) · near Erkelenz · North Rhine-Westphalia (placed by ViaFrei)a route the publisher recommends for lorries – not an obligation and not a permission; the signs on site applyreported by NRW.Mobidrom (SEVAS) · Map · Google Maps
    • between Erkelenz-Ost junction (9) and Mönchengladbach-Wanlo interchange (10) · near Erkelenz · North Rhine-Westphalia (placed by ViaFrei)a route the publisher recommends for lorries – not an obligation and not a permission; the signs on site applyreported by NRW.Mobidrom (SEVAS) · Map · Google Maps
    • at Holz interchange (11) · near Jüchen · North Rhine-Westphalia (placed by ViaFrei)a route the publisher recommends for lorries – not an obligation and not a permission; the signs on site applyreported by NRW.Mobidrom (SEVAS) · Map · Google Maps
    • at Jüchen junction (12) · near Jüchen · North Rhine-Westphalia (placed by ViaFrei)a route the publisher recommends for lorries – not an obligation and not a permission; the signs on site applyreported by NRW.Mobidrom (SEVAS) · Map · Google Maps
    • between Grevenbroich junction (13) and Kapellen junction (14) · near Grevenbroich · North Rhine-Westphalia (placed by ViaFrei)a route the publisher recommends for lorries – not an obligation and not a permission; the signs on site applyreported by NRW.Mobidrom (SEVAS) · Map · Google Maps
    • at Neuss-Holzheim junction (15) · near Neuss · North Rhine-Westphalia (placed by ViaFrei)a route the publisher recommends for lorries – not an obligation and not a permission; the signs on site applyreported by NRW.Mobidrom (SEVAS) · Map · Google Maps
    • at Neuss-West interchange (16) · near Neuss · North Rhine-Westphalia (placed by ViaFrei)a route the publisher recommends for lorries – not an obligation and not a permission; the signs on site applyreported by NRW.Mobidrom (SEVAS) · Map · Google Maps
    • at Neuss-Reuschenberg junction · near Neuss · North Rhine-Westphalia (placed by ViaFrei)a route the publisher recommends for lorries – not an obligation and not a permission; the signs on site applyreported by NRW.Mobidrom (SEVAS) · Map · Google Maps
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    Fuel

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    Towns along the route

    29 entriesreference data ·
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    Municipalities within 15 km (large city), 8.0 km (medium-sized town) or 3.0 km (others) in a straight line of an exit, each listed once at its nearest exit.

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    Interchanges and connected motorways
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    Route

    reference data · data as of LCL 22.0

    From Heinsberg junction to Olsberg junction · 59 junctions and interchanges

    about 151 km along the points of the Location Code List (schematic)

    Through North Rhine-Westphalia (state by the nearest municipality of each junction)

    Junction strip

    The junctions in their order, with what is reported at each.

    1. from here North Rhine-Westphalia 72 Olsberg junction · Map · Google Maps

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    Lorry driving ban

    On Sundays and public holidays, lorries over 7.5 t and lorries with trailers may not drive between 00:00 and 22:00. (§ 30 Abs. 3 StVO)

    Next ban day: Sunday 1 November (All Saints' Day).

    The motorway's states by the nearest municipality of each junction. Holidays per § 30 Abs. 4 StVO, reviewed 8 October 2026 · Informational, not legal advice.

    • On the Autobahn there is no general speed limit where no sign says otherwise; the advisory speed is 130 km/h. Drive faster and you can share liability in a crash. (Autobahn-Richtgeschwindigkeits-V)
    • Rescue lane: as soon as traffic slows on a motorway or rural road with at least two lanes per direction, keep a lane free between the leftmost lane and the one beside it — immediately, not once the blue lights arrive. (§ 11 Abs. 2 StVO)
    • 112 reaches ambulance and fire service (Europe-wide), 110 the police — free from any network, credit or not. (Notrufverordnung (NotrufV))

    Reviewed 19 September 2026 · Informational, not legal advice.

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