''Heerstraße'' is the

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word for military road, a type or road that was built to enable the rapid movement of

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. Specific roads built for this purpose include the: * Aachen-Frankfurter Heerstraße * Bernauer Heerstraße * Lüneburger Heerstraße * Heerstraße (Berlin) ''Heerstraße'' is also used in: * Berlin Heerstraße station, a railway station in Berlin * Heerstraße (Frankfurt U-Bahn), a metro station on the

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* British War Cemetery, Heerstraße, on the list of cemeteries in Berlin * in Bremen since 1914 the name of former chaussees (for example, the Schwachhauser Heerstraße) * a road in

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, once part of the historic '' Elisabethenstraße''

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