The Bundesstraße 99 is a German federal highway. It originally ran from
Neusalz via
Rothenburg, Oberlausitz
Rothenburg/Oberlausitz ( Upper Sorbian ''Rózbork'') is a small Lusatian town in eastern Saxony, Germany on the Neisse river on the German-Polish border. It has a population of 4,405 (2020).
The town was first mentioned in 1268. In 1815, the tow ...
and
Görlitz
Görlitz (; pl, Zgorzelec, hsb, Zhorjelc, cz, Zhořelec, :de:Ostlausitzer Mundart, East Lusatian dialect: ''Gerlz'', ''Gerltz'', ''Gerltsch'') is a town in the Germany, German state of Saxony. It is located on the Lusatian Neisse River, and ...
to
Zittau
Zittau ( hsb, Žitawa, dsb, Žytawa, pl, Żytawa, cs, Žitava, :de:Oberlausitzer Mundart, Upper Lusatian Dialect: ''Sitte''; from Slavic languages, Slavic "''rye''" (Upper Sorbian and Czech: ''žito'', Lower Sorbian: ''žyto'', Polish: ''żyto' ...
where it ended at the
Bundesstraße 96
The Bundesstraße 96 (B 96) is a federal highway in Germany. It begins in Zittau in Saxony, close to the border triangle between Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic, heads north through Berlin and ends in Sassnitz on the island of Rügen in th ...
. After World War II, as the bridge over the
Neiße was destroyed by retreating German forces, the East German government degraded the strip from the Polish border to Görlitz, making that city the new northern terminus.
099
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