The
Bundesstraße 248 (abbreviation: B 248) is a German federal highway that runs from
Northeim
Northeim (; nds, Nuurten) is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany, seat of the district of Northeim, with, in 2011, a population of 29,000. It lies on the German Half-Timbered House Road.
History
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to
Dannenberg (Elbe) where it ends in the town at its junction with the
B 191. Shortly before, the road branches and a short section, the
B 248a, runs over B 191 as far as the
B 216 at
Streetzer roundabout. In
Wolfsburg
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the old B 248, widened to four lanes in the 1960s, has been renamed today as the
A 39 motorway (
autobahn
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).
History
Origin
The southern section of the present-day Bundesstraße 248 between Northeim and
Brunswick was referred to by the
Duchy of Brunswick as Frankfurter Straße and upgraded between 1786 and 1794 into a surfaced road (''
chaussee''). In Northeim this road merged into the
B 3, which was also upgraded to a ''chaussee'' at the same time.
The centre section between Brunswick and Wolfsburg was upgraded into a ''chaussee'' between 1805 and 1816 and called the Berliner Straße.
The northern section between Wolfsburg and Salzwedel appeared between 1853 and 1855 as a district ''chaussee'', which was built with funding from the participating districts.
Former route and description
The section between Brunswick and Seesen was elevated to the status of a
Reichsstraße in 1932 and designated as
Reichsstraße 64. Reichsstraße 248 between Northeim and Salzwedel was established in 1937.
This federal highway was cut in two places by the
division of Germany and could not be driven from end to end again until 1989, when the border crossings between
Brome and
Mellin (on 18 November) and between
Salzwedel and
Lübbow
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were re-established.
Importance for long-distance traffic
The B 248 is very important for long-distance traffic between Northeim and Seesen. When there is a traffic jam on the
A 7 motorway which runs alongside it, traffic is diverted onto Bundesstraße 248. This causes an increase in traffic through the neighbouring villages and towns.
See also
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List of federal roads in Germany
The following is a list of the German federal highways or ''Bundesstraßen''. This does not include the autobahns.
Numbering system
The ''Bundesstraßen'' do not have a numbering system like that used for German ''List of motorways in Germany, ...
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