''Heerstraße'' is the

German German(s) may refer to: * Germany, the country of the Germans and German things **Germania (Roman era) * Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language ** For citizenship in Germany, see also Ge ...

word for

military road A military road is a type of road built by an armed force A military, also known collectively as armed forces, is a heavily Weapon, armed, highly organized force primarily intended for warfare. Militaries are typically authorized and ma ...

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

armies An army, ground force or land force is an armed force that fights primarily on land. In the broadest sense, it is the land-based military branch, service branch or armed service of a nation or country. It may also include aviation assets by ...

. Specific roads built for this purpose include the: * Aachen-Frankfurter Heerstraße *

Bernauer Heerstraße Bernauer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Agnes Bernauer (1410–1435), the commoner wife of Albert III, Duke of Bavaria * Anna Bernauer (born 1986), Luxembourgish figure skater who competed for her entire career for Luxembou ...

* Lüneburger Heerstraße *

Heerstraße (Berlin) Heerstraße, or Heerstrasse (see ß; ; literally: Army Street), runs from Theodor-Heuss-Platz in Charlottenburg, Berlin-Charlottenburg to the western city border of Berlin in the locality of Staaken in the borough of Spandau. It is part of Bun ...

''Heerstraße'' is also used in: * Berlin Heerstraße station, a railway station in Berlin * Heerstraße (Frankfurt U-Bahn), a metro station on the

Frankfurt U-Bahn The Frankfurt U-Bahn is a Stadtbahn ( premetro) system serving Frankfurt, Germany. Together with the Rhine-Main S-Bahn and the tram network, it forms the backbone of the public transport system in Frankfurt. Its name derives from the German te ...

* British War Cemetery, Heerstraße, on the

list of cemeteries in Berlin This page shows a partial list of cemeteries in Berlin. Cemeteries * Charlottenburg, Friedhof Heerstraße, Burial site of Horst Buchholz, George Grosz, Hilde Hildebrand and Grethe Weiser * Charlottenburg, * Kreuzberg, Holy Trinity Cemetery I ...

* in Bremen since 1914 the name of former

chaussee ''Chaussee'' is an historic term used in German-speaking countries for early, metalled, rural highways, designed by road engineers, as opposed to the hitherto, traditional, unpaved country roads. The term is no longer used in modern road construc ...

s (for example, the Schwachhauser Heerstraße) * a road in

Frankfurt am Main Frankfurt am Main () is the most populous city in the States of Germany, German state of Hesse. Its 773,068 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the List of cities in Germany by population, fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located in the forela ...

, once part of the historic '' Elisabethenstraße''

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