N3 road (Belgium)
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Provinces:
- Brussels -Capital Region Brussels-Capital Region
- Province of Flemish Brabant Flemish Brabant
- Limburg Limburg
- Province of Liège Province of Liège
The N3 is a Belgian national road and leads from the Belgian capital Brussels Leuven, Tienen, Sint- Truiden and Liège to the German border near Aachen. Here the federal highway 264 starts it runs over long distances parallel to the motorway A 3 Brussels - Aachen and crosses this three times in total. This road passes through all three Belgian regions (Brussels, Flanders and Wallonia) and all three language areas of Belgium ( German, French and Dutch).
History
In the 18th century, when Flanders was still part of the Austrian Netherlands, began with the installation of a well- developed network of paved highways. (In Flanders and the Rhineland, these roads were then called " Steenweg " or " Steinweg " in Northern Germany they were referred to, however, as " road ". )
In the Duchy of Brabant the road began in 1709 with the construction of the road between Brussels and Leuven. 1715-1716 followed the stretch of Leuven to Tienen, 1719 and the section between Tienen and Sint -Truiden was completed.
On November 21, 1715 Liège Prince Bishop Joseph Clemens of Bavaria approved the construction of a road from Liege to Sint- Truiden. She was the first paved street in the Prince-Bishopric of Liège art. A year later, on September 24, 1716, the Prince-Bishop decides to build a road from Liege to Verviers about Herve.
Course
The National Road 3 begins at the Little Square in Brussels at the intersection Arts-Loi / Kunst-Wet. In the city center it via the Rue de la Loi / Rue de la Loi, in the direction of Aachen them via the Rue Belliard / Belliardstraat. It passes under the Jubilee Park / Parque du Cinquantenaire using the Belliardtunnels and then Avenue de Tervueren / Tervurenlaan after it has passed the Tervurentor in Etterbeek. The Avenue de Tervueren / Tervurenlaan crosses from the Montgomeryplatz the community Woluwe-Saint-Pierre/Sint-Pieters-Woluwe, leads past the Woluwepark and on Parmentierpark before it joins Auderghem / Oudergem in the Tervuursesteenweg / Chaussée de Tervuren. After this crossing the N 3 returns to Woluwe-Saint-Pierre/Sint-Pieters-Woluwe and crosses there the Brussels ring after they crossed the border between Flemish Brabant and the Brussels Capital Region in Tervuren. Shortly before the lions she runs together with the National Road 2 on the Leuven ring road and then crosses the motorways A 3 in Bertem and A 2 in Leuven Heverlee suburb. Between Lions and Tienen N 3 runs parallel to the highway and railway line. In Sint- Truiden it reaches the Belgian province of Limburg, in Oreye they crossed the border into the Walloon province of Liège. In Loncin it crosses again the A3 motorway and then crosses the city center of Liege. In the north-east highway A is crossed for a third time in Soumagne 3. The N 3 finally crosses two German -speaking communities ( Lontzen and Calamine ), before going on to the German -Belgian border in the federal highway 264.