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A71
335.0 km of the A71 have no speed limit
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South-west167.7 kmchecking…no answer yet
North-east167.3 kmchecking…no answer yet
Counted in both directions, south-west and north-east.
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76% of the A71 has no speed limit
335.0 km no speed limit
104.8 km fixed speed limit
41.5 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 76% of the 439.8 km of carriageway mapped for the A71. Stretches shorter than 5 km are not counted.
Where the A71 runs
clear not clear no answer yet
Those kilometres come in 17 pieces, and this is the order you meet them
The longest is 65.0 km and the shortest 5.9 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 south-west
8 stretches- Südharz to Heldrungen
- Unnamed stretch
- Sömmerda-Ost to Erfurt-Nord
- from Sangerhausen
- Erfurt to Schweinfurt
- Erfurt to Schweinfurt
- After Dreieck Suhl
- Mellrichstadt to Bad Kissingen/Oerlenbach
Driving north-east
9 stretches- Bad Kissingen/Oerlenbach to Mellrichstadt
- After exit 22 Meiningen-Süd
- After exit 21 Meiningen-Nord
- Schweinfurt to Erfurt
- Schweinfurt to Erfurt
- towards Sangerhausen
- Erfurt-Nord to Sömmerda-Ost
- towards Artern
- Heldrungen to Südharz
What is reported on the A71 right now
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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.
No hour of the week passed the threshold on the stretches with a counting station.
Counted on 16 of 17 stretches. The rest have no counting station close enough and are not represented here.
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.