The Bundesstraße 462 (B 462) is a German ''
Bundesstraße
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Germany
Germany's ''Bundesstraßen'' network has a total length of about 40,000 km.
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'' or federal road. It runs from the
Upper Rhine Plain
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near Rastatt for about through the northern
Black Forest
The Black Forest ( ) is a large forested mountain range in the States of Germany, state of Baden-Württemberg in southwest Germany, bounded by the Rhine Valley to the west and south and close to the borders with France and Switzerland. It is th ...
to Rottweil. The section from Rastatt to Freudenstadt, which runs through the
Murg
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valley to Baiersbronn, has been known since the 1960s as the Black Forest Valleys Road (''Schwarzwald-Tälerstraße'') and, along with the
B 500 (
Black Forest High Road
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), is one of the tourist routes in the Black Forest. Both roads meet in Freudenstadt.
In 2001 the section from Rastatt to Gaggenau was widened into a
dual carriageway as far as Schloss Bad Rotenfels (Landesakademie) and a further widening to the centre of Gaggenau is planned. In 1997, the road through Gernsbach was relieved by the building of the 1,527-metre-long
Gernsbach Tunnel.
Route
The B 462 runs through the following larger settlements:
Rastatt
Rastatt () is a town with a Baroque core, District of Rastatt, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is located in the Upper Rhine Plain on the Murg river, above its junction with the Rhine and has a population of around 51,000 (2022). Rastatt was an ...
,
Kuppenheim
Kuppenheim () is a town in the Rastatt (district), district of Rastatt, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is located on the river Murg (Northern Black Forest), Murg, 5 km southeast of Rastatt, and 8 km north of Baden-Baden.
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,
Gaggenau
Gaggenau () is a town in the district of Rastatt, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is located some 8 km northeast of Baden-Baden.
History
Gaggenau was first mentioned in local records in 1243 under the name "Gaggenaw". The present distr ...
,
Gernsbach
Gernsbach () is a town in the district of Rastatt, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is located on the river Murg, east of Baden-Baden in the Black Forest. Twin towns are Baccarat in France and Pergola, Marche in Italy.
The town is the histo ...
,
Weisenbach
Weisenbach is a municipality in the district of Rastatt in Baden-Württemberg in Germany
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,
Forbach
Forbach ( , , ; ) is a commune in the French department of Moselle, northeastern French region of Grand Est.
It is located on the German border approximately 15 minutes from the center of Saarbrücken, Germany, with which it constitutes a ...
,
Baiersbronn,
Freudenstadt
Freudenstadt (, Swabian: ''Fraidestadt'') is a town in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. It is the capital of the district Freudenstadt. The closest population centres are Offenburg to the west (approx. 36 km away) and Tübingen to ...
,
Alpirsbach
Alpirsbach () is a town in the district of Freudenstadt in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated in the Black Forest on the Kinzig river, south of Freudenstadt.
Because of the local brewery “Alpirsbacher Klosterbräu“, the monaster ...
,
Schenkenzell
Schenkenzell is a village in the district of Rottweil, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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,
Schiltach
Schiltach is a town in the district of Rottweil, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated in the eastern Black Forest, on the river Kinzig, 20 km south of Freudenstadt.
Geography
Schiltach lies on the eastern side of the Black Forest ...
,
Schramberg
Schramberg is a town in the district of Rottweil, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated in the eastern Black Forest, 25 km northwest of Rottweil. With all of its districts (Talstadt, Sulgen, Waldmössingen, Heiligenbronn, Schönbron ...
,
Rottweil
Rottweil (; Alemannic: ''Rautweil'') is a town in southwest Germany in the state of Baden-Württemberg. Rottweil was a free imperial city for nearly 600 years.
Located between the Black Forest and the Swabian Alps, Rottweil has over 25,000 ...
. From there the
B 14 continues to
Tuttlingen
Tuttlingen (; Alemannic: ''Duttlinga'') is a town in Baden-Württemberg, capital of the district Tuttlingen. Nendingen, ''Möhringen'' and ''Eßlingen'' are three former municipalities that belong to Tuttlingen. Tuttlingen is located in Swabia ...
.
Electrification
In the "eWayBW" pilot project, the route 462 between Kuppenheim and
Gernsbach-Obertsrot is to serve as a test route for
trolleybus
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lorries. Three six-kilometer sections in this area will be electrified for this purpose. As of 2018, commissioning in 2020 and dismantling of the facilities is scheduled after three years of testing. After two "E-Highway" pilot projects on motorways is in Germany the first test on a public road.
See also
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List of Bundesstraßen in Germany
External links
References
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Rastatt (district)
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