''Reichsstraße'' is German and literally means "imperial road". It may refer to: *

Imperial road {{About, the imperial medieval roads, other uses, Reichsstraße (disambiguation){{!Reichsstraße In medieval times, imperial roads (german: Reichsstraße) were designated routes in the Holy Roman Empire that afforded protection to travellers in r ...

, or ''Reichsstraße'', a major European route in medieval times that was under the imperial or royal ban *

Reichsstraße (Austria) A ''Reichsstraße'' (literally "imperial road") was the official designation from 1804 to 1918 of trunk roads in Old Austria maintained by the (from 1867 Cisleithanian) State ( k.k. Ministry) – in contrast to the state roads (''Landesstraße'') ...

, the most important road class in the imperial and royal (k.u.k.) state of Austria until 1918 *

Reichsstraße (Deutsches Reich) The term ''Reichsstraße'' ("imperial road") was introduced in 1934 into Nazi Germany in place of the hitherto existing class of ''Fernverkehrsstraße'' ("trunk road") or FVS.Road name A street name is an identifying name given to a street or road. In toponymic terminology, names of streets and roads are referred to as hodonyms (from Greek ‘road’, and ‘name’). The street name usually forms part of the address (t ...

s in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, some of which recall historic ''Reichsstraßen''

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