The Bundesstraße 327 is a German federal highway. It was built in 1938 and 1939 by the
Organisation Todt
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as a strategic road leading from
Koblenz over the
Hunsrück mountain range to the
Westwall
The Siegfried Line, known in German as the ''Westwall'', was a German defensive line built during the 1930s (started 1936) opposite the French Maginot Line. It stretched more than ; from Kleve on the border with the Netherlands, along the wes ...
near
Perl
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. After the war, the west part of the road after
Hermeskeil
Hermeskeil () is a city in the Trier-Saarburg district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated in the Hunsrück, approx. 25 km southeast of Trier. Its population is about 5,900.
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Hermeskeil is the seat of the ''Verbandsgemein ...
was relabeled as the
Bundesstraße 407, while the Bundesstraße 327 went south to
Riegelsberg near
Saarbrücken. This part was later demoted after the
Bundesautobahn 1
is an autobahn in Germany. It runs from Heiligenhafen in Schleswig-Holstein to Saarbrücken, a distance of , but is incomplete between Cologne and Trier. B 207 continues north from Heiligenhafen to Puttgarden, at the end of the island of Fehma ...
was built, as such the Bundesstraße 327 now ends in Hermeskeil.
There is currently a gap in the federal road due to the extension of the runway of
Frankfurt-Hahn Airport, which required demolition of one segment of road.
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