The Bundesstraße 5 (abbr. B5) is a German federal highway running in a northwesterly to southeasterly direction from the
Danish
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border near
Niebüll
Niebüll ( Mooring North Frisian: ''Naibel''; da, Nibøl) is a town in the district of Nordfriesland, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is situated near the North Sea coast and the border with Denmark, approx. 35 km northwest of Husum.
Inte ...
to
Frankfurt (Oder). It provides a direct route for motorists traveling between
Berlin
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and
Hamburg
(male), (female) en, Hamburger(s),
Hamburgian(s)
, timezone1 = Central (CET)
, utc_offset1 = +1
, timezone1_DST = Central (CEST)
, utc_offset1_DST = +2
, postal ...
. In Berlin B5 forms among others the following squares and streets
Heerstraße ''Heerstraße'' is the German word for military road, a type or road that was built to enable the rapid movement of armies.
Specific roads built for this purpose include the:
* Aachen-Frankfurter Heerstraße
* Bernauer Heerstraße
* Lüneburger ...
,
Theodor-Heuss-Platz,
Kaiserdamm,
Straße des 17. Juni
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,
Großer Stern,
Unter den Linden
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,
Karl-Liebknecht-Straße,
Alexanderplatz,
Karl-Marx-Allee
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,
Frankfurter Tor, and
Frankfurter Allee
The Frankfurter Allee is one of the oldest roads of Berlin, the capital city of Germany. It extends the Karl-Marx-Allee from Frankfurter Tor in the direction of the city of Frankfurt (Oder). It is part of Bundesstraße 1 and has a length of .
L ...
. The section north of Hamburg is partially paralleled by
Bundesautobahn 23.
History
The numbering of ''Bundesstraße 5'' follows the numbering of highways, then called in (literally in ), in the Weimar Republic, issued on 17 January 1932. The ''Fernverkehrsstraße 5'', or simply ''5'', however, continued from Frankfurt upon Oder (today as Polish
DK29) via
Crossen upon Oder, (today as Polish
DK32) via
Grünberg in Silesia, (today as Polish
S3) via
Lüben, (today as Polish
DK36) via
Parchwitz
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It lies approximately north-east of Legnica, and ...
, (today as Polish
DK94) via
Breslau,
Ohlau,
Brieg,
Oppeln in Silesia,
Peiskretscham, (today as Polish
DW901) via
Gleiwitz (today as Polish
DK88) to
Beuthen in Upper Silesia.
The route between Berlin and Frankfurt upon Oder was already completed in 1803. The route from there to Breslau was built between 1817 and 1819. In 1824 the route was extended from Breslau until Gleiwitz. The section between Berlin and Hamburg was upgraded to a highway between 1827 and 1830, with its section crossing the
Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
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representing the first structurally designed road there. The routes Northwest of Hamburg were built in the 1850s. The section from
Itzehoe
Itzehoe (; nds, Itzhoe) is a town in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein.
As the capital of the district Steinburg, Itzehoe is located on the Stör, a navigable tributary of the Elbe, 51 km (31.7 mi) northwest of Hamburg and 24  ...
until
Bredstedt was finished in 1858.
In 1934 the ''Fernverkehrsstraßen'' were renamed into ''Reichsstraßen'' (literally in ), but the numbering remained ''Reichsstraße 5'' or ''R 5''. By the
Agreement of Potsdam in August 1945 the section East of the
Oder-Neiße Line came under Polish authority and was subsequently renumbered within the Polish system of long-distance routes. After the foundation of the two new German republics in 1949 the section of ''R 5'' within the West German
Federal Republic of Germany
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and in
West Berlin
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became ''Bundesstraße 5'' (literally in ) or ''B 5''. The section in the East
German Democratic Republic
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(GDR) and
East Berlin was given back its former name ''Fernverkehrsstraße 5'' or ''F 5''.
During the division of Germany the ''F 5'' played a crucial role as ''transit route'' () between West Berlin and West German
Northern Germany. Transit passengers were not allowed to deviate from the route. In East Berlin ''F 5'' passed the
Brandenburg Gate, which became an
East Berlin checkpoint within the
Berlin Wall on August 13, 1961, but was closed the very next day until December 22, 1989.
''F 5'' gradually lost its function as ''transit route'' to new built
autobahn
The (; German plural ) is the federal controlled-access highway system in Germany. The official German term is (abbreviated ''BAB''), which translates as 'federal motorway'. The literal meaning of the word is 'Federal Auto(mobile) Track' ...
s (today's
A 19 A19, A-19, etc. may refer to:
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and
A 24) until it was rededicated for intra-GDR traffic only on 21 December 1987. After the
unification of East Berlin, the GDR and West Berlin with the Federal Republic of Germany on October 3, 1990, the ''F 5'' was named into ''Bundesstraße 5'' or ''B 5''.
Bypasses and upgrades
Frankfurt (Oder)
Müncheberg
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Geography
Prior to 2003 the area today covered by Müncheberg was organized as ...
Herzfelde
Dahlwitz
Freidrichsfelde
Berlin
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(
Alexanderplatz)
Wustermark
Wustermark is a municipality of the Havelland district, in Brandenburg, Germany.
History
It was established in 2002 through a merger of the five villages ''Buchow-Karpzow'', ''Elstal'', ''Hoppenrade'', ''Priort'' and ''Wustermark''.Hauptsatzung de ...
(Nauen -
Staaken Expressway)
Nauen
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Geography
Nauen is situated within the Havelland Luch gla ...
Friesack
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Film shot in Friesack
* 192 ...
Wusterhausen (
Dosse)
Kyritz
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Overview
The town is situated near the Ky ...
Perleberg
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Karstädt
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Demography
File:Bevölkerungsentwicklung Karstädt.pdf, Development of population since 1875 within the current Boundaries (Blue Line: Po ...
Grabow
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(L072)
Grabow (
A14)
Boizenburg
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(
Elbe
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)
Bergedorf
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History
The city of Bergedorf received town privileges in 1275, then ...
Bergedorf -
Hamm Expressway
Hamburg
(male), (female) en, Hamburger(s),
Hamburgian(s)
, timezone1 = Central (CET)
, utc_offset1 = +1
, timezone1_DST = Central (CEST)
, utc_offset1_DST = +2
, postal ...
Stellingen -
Pinneberg
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Pinneberg -
Elmshorn
Elmshorn (; nds, Elmshoorn) is a town in the district of Pinneberg in Schleswig-Holstein in Germany. It is 30 km north of Hamburg on the small river Krückau, a tributary of the Elbe, and with about 50,000 inhabitants is the sixth-largest t ...
(A23)
Elmshorn (K23)
Elmshorn -
Itzehoe
Itzehoe (; nds, Itzhoe) is a town in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein.
As the capital of the district Steinburg, Itzehoe is located on the Stör, a navigable tributary of the Elbe, 51 km (31.7 mi) northwest of Hamburg and 24  ...
(
A23)
Itzehoe (
Bekmunde) -
Wilster
Wilster () is a town in Steinburg district in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
History
Wilster was granted town rights under Lübeck law in 1282, and thereby counts itself among Schleswig-Holstein's oldest towns. Wilster forms the centre of the Wils ...
-
Brunsbüttel
Diekshörn -
Kattrepel
Marne
Helde -
Freidrichstadt (through
Tönning and
B202)
Husum
Bredstedt
References
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