Bundesstraße 2

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State:

• Brandenburg
• Berlin
• Saxony-Anhalt
• Saxony
• Thuringia
• Bavaria

The Federal Highway 2 ( Abbreviation: B 2) is approximately 845 kilometers, the longest and one of the oldest highways in Germany. It crosses Germany in north-south direction from the German - Polish border near Gartz (Oder) to the German- Austrian border at Mittenwald. Its historical predecessor is the medieval Via Imperii.

• 2.1 Brandenburg / Berlin 2.1.1 Rosow - Schwedt / Oder
• 2.1.2 Schwedt / Oder - Berlin
• 2.1.3 Berlin
• 2.1.4 Potsdam - Lutherstadt Wittenberg

• 2.2.1 Lutherstadt Wittenberg
• 2.2.2 Lutherstadt Wittenberg - Leipzig

• 2.3.1 Krostitz
• 2.3.2 Leipzig
• 2.3.3 Leipzig - Gera

• 2.4.1 Gera

• 2.5.1 Hof - Bayreuth
• 2.5.2 Bayreuth - Nuremberg
• 2.5.3 Nürnberg - Schwabach - Roth
• 2.5.4 Roth - Donauwörth
• 2.5.5 Donauwörth - Augsburg
• 2.5.6 Augsburg - Munich
• 2.5.7 Munich - Mittenwald 2.5.7.1 congestion relief Starnberg

History

The Federal Highway 2 runs - starting in northeastern Germany - by the German states of Brandenburg, Berlin, Saxony -Anhalt, Saxony, Thuringia and Bavaria. Between Leipzig, Gera and the Thuringian Vogtland it approximately corresponds to the course of historical " national route " Via Imperii ( corresponding street names in Leipzig, Gera ). Between Berlin and Nuremberg it is substantially almost parallel to the Federal Highway 9

Origins

1816 was the road Potsdam - Wittenberg, 1828 was the road Berlin - Schwedt - Stettin.

• State Highway 12: Augsburg - Donauwörth - Nuremberg
• State Highway 37: (Enter Bach - ) Hof - Schleiz
• State Highway 86: Munich - Weilheim - Partenkirchen
• State Road No. 100: Nürnberg - Hof - Plauen

The B 2 takes its course in modern German territory largely on the 1932 set up long-distance, later National Highway 2, which in 1945 from the present German -Polish border on Stettin, Pomerania, by the 1918 Polish Corridor and Danzig to the Vistula Dirschau (now Tczew ) further led. There they led to the former National Highway 1 ( Aachen - Berlin - Kaliningrad ). This today Polish part has no continuous road numbering. Deviating from the original route, the road since mid-thirties between Leipzig and Hof Gera, during the course was previously passed over Altenburg, Zwickau and Plauen.

Zirl - - ​​Innsbruck - After the annexation of Austria to the German Reich 1933-1945 (1938 ) Brennerstraße Scharnitz burner was also performed until 1945 as National Highway 2. It corresponded with their course by Schwaben, southern Bavaria and Tyrol part of the former Via Raetia.

Route ( detail )

In the following, the achievable of the B 2 of attractions are described along the course.

Brandenburg / Berlin

The B 2 begins at the Polish border and crosses the state of Brandenburg from northeast to southwest. Its course is thereby interrupted by sections within the city and the state of Berlin.

Rosow - Schwedt / Oder

By 1945, the current federal highway 2 began as a national route 2 in Gdansk. As a result of the Second World War, it begins in 1945 at the border town Rosow few kilometers south of the motorway border crossing the A 11 through the town Gartz and at Schwedter district Vierraden passing them through tobacco plantations to Schwedt, a city of oil and cellulose processing industries in which a road crossing in the Polish Chojna (Königsberg in the Neumark ) branches.

Schwedt / Oder - Berlin

In Schwedt B 2 is a generous bypass, at the same time the PCK refinery and the B 166 binds ( as an extension of A 20). South of the highway is expanded to Pinnow with 2 1 lanes.

Is already visible then the Marienkirche the former county town Angermuende, the north-west leaves the road through a built in the 1960s local bypass behind. Here it crosses the railway lines Angermuende bath Freiwalde (now decommissioned), Berlin- Angermuende - Szczecin and Angermuende - Schwedt without crossing. Between the Angermünder district of heart leap and the motorway junction Kreuz Barnim the B 2 is interrupted. The old course through the village Sandkrugbrücke, next to the former Cistercian monastery Chorin stands, and the course over Eberswalde and Bernau in 2003 graduated to the L 200.

Berlin

Just outside the northeastern city limits, even in the state of Brandenburg, the main road is 2 from the motorway junction Kreuz Barnim, reached in the district Malchow city of Berlin and runs through the city completely in a southwesterly direction.

It runs through the district Malchow along the village street, through Weissensee along the road Malchower and Berliner Allee and Prenzlauer Berg along the Greifswalderstraße to the historic center of Berlin. At Alexanderplatz, the B 1, B 2 and B 5 meet together. From here on the B 2 is guided with the B -5 on a route, first past the Alexanderplatz via Alexander Street and Karl -Liebknecht -Straße. Then the B results in two east-west direction on the Museum Island on the Spree, and runs Unter den Linden to the Pariser Platz. Originally the B 2 here crossed the Brandenburg Gate. After the transformation of the Pariser Platz to a pedestrian zone around the path is now guided south through Glinkastraße, Behr and Ebertstrasse around the square. On the 18th of March, she continues her past in the Tiergarten district and is called from here Straße des 17. Past the Victory Column and the Ernst- Reuter-Platz, the road on the Theodor -Heuss-Platz and the military road through the district of Charlottenburg- Wilmersdorf. In crossing the Havelniederung on the Stoessensee and Frey bridge they reached the district of Spandau. At the junction with the Wilhelmstrasse, the B 2 bends in southwestern direction (here also ends a parallel alignment with the B 5), crosses as Potsdamer Chaussee case- Glienicker and Gatower heath and leaves on the southwest outskirts of Berlin.

Potsdam - Lutherstadt Wittenberg

Again, the state of Brandenburg, is the district of Groß Glienicke achieved by the Federal Highway 2 in the city of Potsdam. The further course leads in an arc around the Krampnitzsee, comes on the Potsdam districts driving Country and New Country driving and crossing the Sacrow - Paretzer channel at the remarkable Russian colony Alexandrovka over. About the Nedlitzer road, on trays, Jägerallee and Hegelallee the branch of the federal highway 273 is achieved at the western end. The B 2 continues along the road Schopenhauer, the Luis Place, Zeppelinstraße, the width of road, which are used partly in parallel with the main road one crosses over the Long Bridge and the River Havel passes the Potsdam Main Station. Later she has two parallel guides to about one kilometer in length, once as Leipziger Straße and me Chaussee and secondly as Brauhausberg the road runs past the Telegraph Hill to the south and leaves Potsdam, by crossing the Berlin outer ring of the web. Me village is east avoided on a bypass road. South of Mich village there is a connection to the A 10 between me and Beelitz village crosses the road on a causeway built in 1804 Seddiner the lakes. Until the construction of the dam was the connection Potsdam - Beelitz east on a post road around the lake on Kähnsdorf and Saar mouth. The city Beelitz, which is a known asparagus growing region, is also avoided via an east of the city extending bypass. The road reaches Treuenbrietzen, then the flaming is crossed: Here is the watershed between the Havel and Elbe. The lying there Treuenbrietzener district Marzahna is the last place of the B 2 in the state of Brandenburg.

Saxony-Anhalt

From the border of Brandenburg, the B 2 runs through the state of Saxony- Anhalt, Saxony crosses, then runs again on a relatively short stretch through Saxony -Anhalt and Thuringia achieved.

Lutherstadt Wittenberg

After crossing the border, the first district of Wittenberg is achieved with Kropstädt. The closed settlement area of ​​the city begins with the Berliner Chaussee, a sloping avenue with old trees. The transition from flaming in the Elbaue allows one concurrent first views of the old town and the world famous Reformation sites. In the area of the old town follows the Berlin street of the former city walls, only to reach the intersection complex District Court - from there is the castle church to see. About the Harbour Bridge ( over the train track Roßlau-Falkenberg/Elster ) the southern bypass Wittenberg is achieved - the B 2 is four lanes and combines with the B 187 at the traffic lights Elbbrücke separate again both federal roads. The B 2 crosses the river Elbe in 2000 opened four-lane bridge over the Elbe.

Lutherstadt Wittenberg - Leipzig

After passing through the Elbe bridge up to the hamlet Pratau several more bridges flood happens: the diked area of the Elbe is here for two kilometers wide. In the Elbe flood 2002, the bridge over the Elbe to Pratau was closed to traffic. The highway is two lanes again before Eutzsch, it is passed through the town. The stream of traffic was bundled over the Elbe, is disentangled again: In Eutzsch the federal road B 182 100 begins to Bitterfeld and 1.5 km southeast of the town to Torgau. A transformation ( local bypass ) is part of the priority needs of the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan.

In Kemberg the B leaves 2 Elbaue and reached the Dubin Heath - a scenic and rich wildlife section. There is a monument of historical importance, the Luther stone on the track. So far, Martin Luther said to have been accompanied in 1519 by students of Wittenberg when he set out to dispute to Leipzig for disputation with Johann Eck. Then iron hammer is reached, a small settlement in complete forest location - intersected by the main road. Here, the last producing charcoal Dübener Heide is (as of 2013). Last place before the border with Saxony is Tornau. From here you can reach Söllichau and the NVA bunker museum Kossa.

Saxony

In Saxony is first passed through the spa town of Bad Duben. The first federal road follows a new alignment, but then again passed through the place: it follows the bridge over the trough. In Krensitz you cross the railway line Halle- Cottbus.

Krostitz

In the further course of the B 2 takes you through Krostitz where you are on the right side of the old - can see buildings of the former malt factory - threatened by decay. Add a new plant in the local situation is the beer " Ur - Krostitzer " brewed.

Leipzig

Several business parks are happening in front of Leipzig. After the junction with the B184, the B 2 four lanes and assumes the character of a city highway at. It follows that the intersection with the A14 ( junction Leipzig -Mitte), which also has distribution functions at the Leipzig trade fair and the airport Leipzig / Halle.

The B 2 passes through the districts Wiederitzsch, Eutritzsch, center - east, Reudnitz- Thonberg, Stötteritz and then represents the boundary between the districts of Conne wit and Suedvorstadt dar. On the southern edge of the city, the B crosses two parts of the Leipzig floodplain forest and leaves the city at the eastern splices shore. The section between the junction Schleußiger road and the motorway junction Leipzig -Süd ( with the A 38) should be developed by 2020 as part of the A72, which is rejected by the city council of Leipzig. On February 20, 2013, it was decided, therefore, not to extend the A72 to Leipzig. So it ends in the future on the cross Leipzig Süd.

Leipzig - Gera

In Pegau the B leaves 2 axes and via Zeitz to Giebelroth again through Saxony -Anhalt.

Thuringia

The state of Thuringia is crossed from the border with Saxony -Anhalt from the B 2 in the south.

Gera

Immediately at the border, the B 2 reaches the city of Gera. Takes you past the hamlets Hermsdorf and Cretzschwitz and since the completion of the ring road in an arc across the far field green corridor to the new junction cross Gera. There she is passed over the motorway to junction Gera - Leumnitz. From there, together with the B 92 at the airfield in Gera - Leumnitz over over the ring road east past Zschippern and doors until cogeneration plant height Gera -Süd. Here it separates the so-called omega of the B 92, and leads north to Debschwitz over, turn west over the bridge and Henry leaves Gera south through the district Weißig.

Subsequently, the B 2 performs Auma and Schleiz. Between 1951 and 1966, the transit traffic through the GDR from junction Schleiz of the current A because the Saale bridge was 9 on today's B 2 (then F 2) and the border crossing Juchhöh / Töpen redirected to the junction farm north of today's A 72, was destroyed in the course of the A 9 since 1945 and until 1966 was released.

South of Schleiz Gefell to the B 2 has been downgraded because of the parallel A9 to the country road L3002.

Bavaria

The last state of the B runs through 2 of Thuringia to the Austrian border Bavaria.

Hof - Bayreuth

In court, the B 2 meets at the cemetery on the B 173 Together cross the State Highways 2 and 173, the Saale and separate afterwards. The B 2 finally as Ernst- Reuter-Straße leads in the form of a four-lane urban highway back from the city after it has traversed for historical reasons, the innermost city center. An optimization of the route distance equal to B 173 fails because the city court of road cost maintenance reasons, to have preferred as many kilometers of road classified as national road from Lessingstraße over the Schützenweg and the Kulmbach road to Ernst- Reuter-Straße. However, this grade heavy-duty vehicles with navigation systems will be guided through the city center with narrow intersection radii and narrow one-way streets.

• Road in the yard Schleizer road
• Lessingstraße
• Konrad -Adenauer-Platz
• Post Road ( southbound only )
• Cross Stone Road ( southbound only )
• Marie Street ( section between Cross Stone Road and Konrad -Adenauer-Platz only northbound )
• Luitpoldstraße
• Jahn road
• Berliner Platz
• Ernst- Reuter-Straße

It extends further south to Konradsreuth. From there the route leads over Munchberg and after Gefrees.

The section of the B 2 north of Gefrees by the Lübnitz valley is known for cuts and curves that led to accidents frequently. This is most clearly noticeable in the bridge that crosses the Lübnitz. At this point, occurred mainly heavy-duty accidents. A planned construction of the B 2 in this region, which has a new bridge and a road was straightened foresaw rejected by the highway department. With regard to the ever- increasing traffic (currently approx. 2 600 vehicles per day, including the heavy traffic ) the Lübnitztalbrücke for about 10 years has been locked. During this time the B 2 resulted in a temporary bridge next to the Lübnitztalbrücke. 2012 Lübnitztalbrücke was opened to traffic after a general renovation again. In the bridge, a new Ramen reinforced concrete was incorporated behind the preserved facade of sandstone.

From Gefrees, the route leads past the castle chapel stone continued through the old town of Bad Berneck to Bayreuth. On the way to the Bayreuth B reaches 2 shortly after Benk the Bindlacher mountain and crosses Bindlach. The Bindlacher Berg was until the early 1990s, the military base of the U.S. armed forces. From Bindlach the road leads to the former Bayreuth barracks in the past Laineck district before it reaches Bayreuth.

Bayreuth - Nuremberg

Bayreuth and the district Wolfbach be run through the south before the B 2 through the area's medieval Creußen. Further south Nennslingen and Pegnitz be achieved. Between Bayreuth (Joseph Platz) and Pegnitz -Neudorf the road is the same as the federal highway 85, south of Neudorf to about 2 km in length by the federal highway 470

From the Pegnitz B 2 adds a course, tortuous in part and at relatively high levels ( 400-550 m above sea level. NN ), along the eastern edge of the Franconian Switzerland. Here she runs including through Leupoldstein, the market Hiltpoltstein with its narrow and steep -town and the castle Hiltpoltstein and past the town Graefenberg with its historic center. From Weißenohe (former Benedictine monastery brewery ) leaves the B 2 Albplateau the Franconian Switzerland and the road is again generous. In the area of ​​market Eckental it deals since the end of 2008 the district Eschenau and increases two-lane on the " Geschaidter mountain", where it separates the districts Großgeschaidt and Kleingeschaidt each other to reach the city of Nuremberg on the local bypass Herold mountain by the Nuernberg Reich Forest.

Nuremberg - Schwabach - Roth

In the city of Nuremberg, the B 2 opens in the inner-city ring, the B 4R. In the south of the city in the area of ​​telecommunications tower she leaves together with the B 14 the ring as Schweinauer main road to the southwest. At the end, south of the Südwesttangente and the Main- Danube Canal, the two highways separate again and the B 2 runs as Weißenburgerstraße two-lane in the direction of Schwabach. After passing through the town of Schwabach the B 2 runs for a short distance along the Highway 6 to finally continue between the cities of Schwabach and Roth as highway-like constructed road.

Since the mid- 1980s, the expansion of B 2 of Nuremberg - Reichelsdorf the unfinished motorway junction Schwabach -Roth A 6 is planned. This is a highly controversial topic in the population because the planned route goes through the Rednitzniederungen and would destroy unique landscapes of grasses BUND opinion. With the implementation of the expansion plan is a ( usable ) bypassing the city of Schwabach would result, which would have a considerable relief, according to urban transport. The route would then run as a federal highway 2a via the motorway junction addition to Schwabach -Limbach, Nuremberg - Katzwang and Nuremberg - Reichelsdorf on the already provided there for this connection Frankenschnellweg, from there via the motorway intersection Nürnberg port on the A 73 This route was initially planned as A77, their realization but was set aside in favor of the existing version.

Roth - Donauwörth

In the stretch between junctions Roth A 6 and Donauwörth the A 77 was intended as a four-lane replacement for the old B 2. Contrary to planning the construction of the highway has been reset and prioritized an expansion of the existing B 2.

From the end of the four-lane -developed B 2n ( between junctions Roth and Roth- Kilian village ) to Donauwörth take place further construction in the direction of a three-lane expansion. The section Plein field -south to north - Ellingen is already completed dreistreifig. Between Ellingen Center and White Castle North of the fourth lane is implemented, just past the intersection Unterdietfurt - Treuchtlingen to the southern boundary of the district of White Castle -Gunzenhausen after Langenaltheim the road is also dreistreifig done. After two years of construction, the bypass of Roettenbach in the district of Roth was completed in 2007.

Initially only planned, but set in the " urgent need " ( scheduled for completion in 2015) are the bypasses of Untersteinbach and Wern Bach ( district of Roth ) and Dettenheim ( County White Castle -Gunzenhausen ).

Projects that are in further need, as the bypass of Unterdietfurt are not currently planned. With a completion is earlier than anticipated after 2015.

Since September 2012, the section between Kaisheim and Donauwörth is a section of the Romantic Road.

Donauwörth - Augsburg

Between the Danube and the Wörth Augsburg B 2 is expanded four lanes. Here it runs on or parallel to the old Roman road Via Claudia Augusta. It thus represents a section to replace the originally planned A 91 from Füssen to wet cheeks dar.

Augsburg - Munich

Between junctions Augsburg Augsburg -West and East of the A 8, the route is broken. Then leads you in the city area of Augsburg through the neighborhoods forge, Lechhausen, downtown, Mr. Bach and Hochzoll.

Further, the federal road passes over Kissing, Mering, Merching ( Aichach- Friedberg ), Althegnenberg, Hattenhofen, Mammendorf, Fürstenfeldbruck, Puchheim, Germering ( Fürstenfeldbruck ) to Munich. The road is expanded throughout the section as a two-lane road and sometimes quite curvy. Some woods are traversed. In Munich -Pasing the B 2 continues along Landsberger Strasse up to the middle ring (B 2 R).

Munich - Mittenwald

This part of the B 2 is also known under the name " Olympic road ". It was completed in 1936 on the occasion of the two-lane Olympic Winter Games in Garmisch -Partenkirchen. On shorter sections north of Murnau and the Hirschberg is dreistreifig. Between Munich and Starnberg it was replaced by the motorways A 95 and A 952. The B 2 continues over Weilheim and Murnau while following approximately the course of the Roman road Via Raetia to Garmisch -Partenkirchen and Mittenwald and the border crossing Scharnitz that represents the border to Austria. North of Weilheim offers at Castle Pähl an exceptional panoramic views of the Alps and parts of the district Weilheim -Schongau.

Congestion relief Starnberg

In Starnberg is for relief in nearly three decades a tunnel planned, which is referred to as "B 2 " tunnel " Official tunnel " or "discharge tunnel ". This tunnel is to relieve the city from traffic and allows together with the designated as western bypass of part -pass of the B2 to St 2069 the gradation of B2 above ground, as well as the St in 2069 and the St. 2070, resulting in better control and the target and source traffic in the town is possible. In the Starnberger population action groups who work for or against the "B 2 tunnel " formed ( pros and cons of two B - Bypass ). After careful consideration of all the pros and cons to the City Council, most recently in November 2008, unanimously decided in favor of the B - 2 discharge tunnel and the Western Bypass.

Others

The filmmaker Francis Xavier Gernstl has the main road 2 devoted an entire film series and its people and towns along the main road 2 portrayed in so far seven one - and two-hour movies.