The Bundesstraße 2R is a German federal highway (''German:'' Bundesstraße) in
Bavaria
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. It runs as a ring road within the city of
Munich
Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the States of Germany, German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the List of cities in Germany by popu ...
in Bavaria, is long, and is the most traffic-prone road in Germany.
It is called the "Middle Ring" (''German:'' Mittlerer Ring) because of its concentric position between the
Altstadtring
The Altstadtring is the innermost ring road of Munich, Bavaria, Germany. With the exception of the northwestern part, it runs roughly along the path of the former second wall of Munich and surrounds Munich's Altstadt. With the exception of the p ...
and the incomplete
Outer Ring, as well as being within the
Autobahnring.
Traffic importance
The Middle Ring is the backbone of all traffic in Munich, since the ring is the fastest connection to all major traffic axes in the city. It replaced all the Bundesstraßen that ran through the center of the city, even the
Bundesstraße 2
The Bundesstraße 2 (abbr. B2) is Germany's longest federal highway, running some 1000 kilometres from the Polish border near Gartz to the Austrian border near Garmisch-Partenkirchen. From north to south; it passes through major cities such a ...
, for which it is named (the R stands for Ring). Within the Middle Ring, there are only municipal streets.
From the eight Autobahns that go to Munich, six of them have access to the Middle Ring. The
A 8 (towards Salzburg),
A 9 (towards
Nuremberg
Nuremberg ( ; german: link=no, Nürnberg ; in the local East Franconian dialect: ''Nämberch'' ) is the second-largest city of the German state of Bavaria after its capital Munich, and its 518,370 (2019) inhabitants make it the 14th-largest ...
-
Berlin
Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...
) and
A 96 (towards
Lindau
Lindau (german: Lindau (Bodensee), ''Lindau am Bodensee''; ; Low Alemannic German, Low Alemannic: ''Lindou'') is a major Town#Germany, town and Lindau (island), island on the eastern side of Lake Constance (''Bodensee'' in German) in Bavaria, Ge ...
) all have direct access to the Middle Ring. The
A 94 is connected to the Ring via a short section of the Einsteinstraße, but an exit from the A 94 goes directly into the northbound Richard-Strauss-Tunnel on the Middle Ring. The
A 95 is connected to the Middle Ring by the
B 2, and the
A 995 is connected via the
B 13. However, both Bundesstraßen are built to Autobahn standards and signed as such. Only the
A 8 towards
Stuttgart
Stuttgart (; Swabian: ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the ''Stuttgarter Kessel'' (Stuttgart Cauldron) and lies an hour from the ...
has a longer connection to the Middle Ring, a 7 km-long section of the Verdistraße and
Arnulfstraße
The Arnulfstraße is a 3.8 km long urban street in Munich. It leads from the Bahnhofplatz in the Ludwigsvorstadt through the Maxvorstadt (north of the railway) west to Romanplatz in Neuhausen. Over the Hackerbrücke, there is a connection to the ...
. The
A 92 ends at the
Autobahnring, but is connected to the Middle Ring via the A 9.
The
E54 runs along the southwest section of the Middle Ring between the A 96 and the A 995. This section of the route is also particularly affected by long-distance traffic, because neither the motorway ring of the A 99 in the south-west of Munich is closed nor the originally planned Outer Ring has been realized here, meaning the long-distance traffic has to go into the city.
References
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