The Bundesstraße 6 (abbr. B6) is a German federal highway running from

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on the

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coast in a southeasterly direction through the states of

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and

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Görlitz Görlitz (; ; ; ; ; Lusatian dialects, East Lusatian: , , ) is a town in the Germany, German state of Saxony. It is on the river Lusatian Neisse and is the largest town in Upper Lusatia, the second-largest town in the region of Lusatia after ...

on the Polish border.

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East of

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, the B6 (except of the ring roads around Meißen,

Dresden Dresden (; ; Upper Saxon German, Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; , ) is the capital city of the States of Germany, German state of Saxony and its second most populous city after Leipzig. It is the List of cities in Germany by population, 12th most p ...

and

Bischofswerda Bischofswerda (; ) is a small town in eastern Germany at the western edge of Upper Lusatia in Saxony. Geography The town is located 33 km to the east of Dresden at the edge of the Upper Lusatian mountain country. The town is known as t ...

) largely follows the historic course of the '' Via Regia Lusatiae Superioris'', part of the medieval '' Via Regia''. In 1937, the northwestern section of the former ''Reichsstraße 6'' (R6) was extended from Bremerhaven (Wesermünde) to Cuxhaven. Before

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and the implementation of the Oder–Neisse line, the R6 road continued southeastwards from Görlitz via Hirschberg (present-day Jelenia Góra, Poland) and Schweidnitz (Świdnica) to the Silesian capital Breslau (Wrocław) and from there via Oels (Oleśnica) as far as the former Polish border near Groß Wartenberg (Syców). The sections between Görlitz/ Zgorzelec and Syców then became part of the Polish National road 4 (today largely replaced by the A4 autostrada) and the National road 8. In the days of German partition, the section on East German territory was known as the F6 (''Fernverkehrsstraße 6'' or "trunk road"). In Dresden the road went past the headquarters of VEB ''Tabakkontor Dresden'', a tobacco firm formerly known as Yenidze. This led to the urban myth that the road had given its name to the cigarette brand f6. As a result of the opening of the A 27 motorway between Cuxhaven and Bremen-Nord (formerly Bremen-Burglesum) in the mid- to late-1970s the B6 was replaced by the A 27. Until that point the B6 had linked the two cities of

and

in the state of Bremen and also connected them to Cuxhaven. The old route in Cuxhaven from the start (''Poststraße/Deichstraße'' crossroads), apart from the ''Rohdestraße'' as far as the branch to the motorway slip road at Altenwalde junction was renamed the B73. The rest of the route to Bremen, with the exception of a short section in Bremerhaven, was downgraded to Landesstraße 135.

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