Bundesstraße 71
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State:
- Bremen
- Lower Saxony
- Saxony-Anhalt
The Federal Highway 71 ( Abbreviation: B 71 ) is a 391 km long national highway in Germany and thus one of the longest in the category of the 60's and 70 numbers. Guides you through the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, and by federal states of Lower Saxony and Saxony- Anhalt.
Course
The B 71 begins at the B 6 in Bremerhaven on the lower Weser and ends on the A 14 in Magdeburg. In its beginning it is one of the East-West cross-links of the Elbe- Weser Triangle and results in a slight curve on Bremervörde (48 km, just together with the B 74) and Zeven (71 km ) over the Hansa Line A 1 (83 km) to the city of Rotenburg ( Wümme ) (97 km). Here it crosses the B 75, and leads on to the Lüneburg Heath over to Soltau (133 km), where it crosses the B 3. Further east, it goes through heathland to Uelzen (190 km), where the road again crosses a ' big ' national road to the B 4. Now it leads through the nature park Elbe Valley and crosses at kilometer 222, the old state border and current border between Lower Saxony and Saxony- Anhalt.
In Salzwedel (233 km), the B Wendland leaves 71 are left and bends to the southeast from. In the Altmark it goes through villages and sparsely populated moorland. In Gardelegen it meets the B 188 After Gardelegen you go to the south, worth mentioning here is the 30 km route through the Colbitz - Letzlinger Heath. After 335 km the B meets 71 in Magdeburg, where they the A14 which crosses the A 2 and B 1, and passes through the old cathedral city highway-like in north-south direction as part of the Magdeburg ring. By mid- 2009, she led only 56 km further, as " Romanesque Road" by the Anhalt heartland until they met again at rounders, 26 km outside the hall on the B 6 and united with her. Due to the parallel leading A 14 it was rededicated on this part of the country road. On the outskirts of Magdeburg in the direction of Halle is with the Prussian full mile column of Magdeburg a Postmeilensäule from the 18th century.
History
Origin
The notorious in the 18th century because of its state land from Magdeburg to Leipzig Halle was developed as a first street in what is now Saxony -Anhalt a fortified synthetic road ( highway ) 1788-1796 and later referred to as the Prussian state highway No. 65.
Some fifty years later, in 1843, was also the street of Magdeburg Salzwedel to Uelzen, which was referred to as Prussian State Road No. 86, built a fortified synthetic road ( highway ).
Earlier routes and designations
Called in 1932, decorated trunk road 71 ( FVS 71) From 1934 Empire Road 71 (R 71), originally led from the Dutch border at idle via Oldenburg to Bremen and Rotenburg ( Rotenburg in Hannover, as it was then known). From here the road was continued in the path exist today. By 1936, the then National Highway 71 led across the Colbitz - Letzlinger Heath Gardelegen to Dolle and had to be relocated because of the construction of the shooting range of the Army Research Center Hillersleben on today's route on Letzlingen and Haldensleben. From Dolle R 71 led to the path of today's Federal Highway 189 on to Magdeburg, where they met again on the road today.
In Beverstedt, 20 km south of Bremerhaven, 2005 a bypass of the village center to five kilometers in length, which was released on 13 September 2005.
On 5 December 2006, a southern bypass was opened in Bremerhaven, which replaces the old urban avenue of lime trees.