A44

395.3 km of the A44 have no speed limit

Name: A44: stretches without a speed limit
Creator: Freibahn
License: https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1-0/

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West192.0 kmchecking…no answer yet

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66% of the A44 has no speed limit

395.3 km no speed limit

206.8 km fixed speed limit

78.6 km variable speed limit

Variable limits sit on electronic signs above the road and can apply to stretches with and without a fixed limit.

That is 66% of the 602.1 km of carriageway mapped for the A44. Stretches shorter than 5 km are not counted.

Where the A44 runs

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The pale band is the whole road. One line per direction marks the stretches without a speed limit.

Those kilometres come in 14 pieces, and this is the order you meet them

The longest is 76.9 km and the shortest 10.0 km.

A stretch runs from the sign that ends every restriction until a new limit follows. It counts as clear when nothing is reported on it: no roadworks, no closure, no traffic jam, no warning.

Driving east

7 stretches

towards Düsseldorfnorthbound · 2 lanes
11.7 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
towards Heinsbergnorth-eastbound · 2 to 4 lanes
38.9 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
towards Düsseldorf-Nordnorth-eastbound · 2 lanes
16.1 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
Dortmund to Kasseleastbound · 2 to 3 lanes
56.6 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
towards Kasseleastbound · 2 lanes
21.1 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
Dortmund to Hannoversouth-eastbound · 2 lanes
100at certain times80100when wet48.8 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
Unnamed stretcheastbound · 2 lanes
3.6 km variable limit10.1 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map

Driving west

7 stretches

After exit 80 Eschwegewestbound · 2 to 3 lanes
3.0 km variable limit10.0 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
Hannover to Dortmundnorth-westbound · 2 to 3 lanes
100120at certain times76.9 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
Kassel to Dortmundwestbound · 2 to 3 lanes
11.6 km variable limit41.4 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
from Düsseldorf-Nordsouth-westbound · 2 lanes
14.4 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
from Heinsbergsouth-westbound · 2 to 4 lanes
26.9 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
After exit 7 Jülich-Westsouth-westbound · 2 lanes
10.5 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map
from Düsseldorfsouthbound · 2 lanes
11.9 kmchecking…no answer yetShow this stretch on the map

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When this road is usually busy

The hours when this road was busy last year, measured at the federal counting posts. Busy means more than 900 vehicles an hour per lane. A record of what happened, not a forecast.

Busiest hours by day

Mo: 06:00 to 10:00, 11:00 to 12:00, 13:00 to 19:00
Tu: 06:00 to 10:00, 12:00 to 19:00
We: 06:00 to 10:00, 11:00 to 19:00
Th: 06:00 to 19:00
Fr: 06:00 to 19:00
Sa: 09:00 to 16:00
Su: 11:00 to 19:00

Counted on every stretch on this road.

No speed limit still comes with rules

There is no speed limit on these stretches, but there is a recommended speed. The Autobahn-Richtgeschwindigkeits-Verordnung of 1978 sets it at 130 km/h for cars and vehicles up to 3.5 t, and it applies only in favourable road, traffic, visibility and weather conditions. Driving faster than that is not an offence in itself and carries no fine and no points.

After a crash it counts. If an accident caused by someone else would have been avoided at 130 km/h, a driver who was going faster can be held liable for at least 20% of the damage. The recommendation carries no penalty, but it does carry liability.

The duty to match your speed to the conditions never lifts. § 3 Abs. 1 StVO requires speed to be adapted to the road, the traffic, the visibility and the weather, and to be low enough to stop within the stretch of road you can see. Where fog, snow or rain cut visibility below 50 m, 50 km/h is the limit whatever the signs say.

Some stretches on this road carry a limit that applies only at certain hours or in the wet. Those are posted limits rather than a recommendation, and the boards above draw them as the signs that post them, wherever the map data records one.

Sources: Autobahn-Richtgeschwindigkeits-Verordnung and § 3 StVO at gesetze-im-internet.de, ADAC on the Richtgeschwindigkeit and contributory liability. This is background, not legal advice.

Speed limit

Posts a limit. It holds until something ends it.

Zeichen 274

End of all restrictions

Ends every posted restriction. This page is about what lies after it.

Zeichen 282

Where the data comes from

Data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), © Autobahn GmbH. Traffic counts by Bundesanstalt für Straßen- und Verkehrswesen (CC BY 4.0). Weather by Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0). Place names by GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Basemap by OpenFreeMap. maxspeed=none is how OpenStreetMap writes down what Zeichen 282 means for speed.