Bundesstraße 3

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Data
Length:	812 km
Bundesländer:	Lower Saxony Hesse Baden-Württemberg
Direction:	North-South
Map
Route
Lower Saxony Buxtehude-Ovelgönne B 73 Rosengarten-Elstorf Rosengarten-Rade Rosengarten-Mienenbüttel (44) Rade A 1 E 22 Buchholz in der Nordheide B 75 Buchholz-Sprötze Welle-Höckel Welle (Mitte) Welle-Wintermoor an der Chaussee Schneverdingen-Heber Soltau-Huckenrieth Soltau-Ahlften Soltau (Zentrum) B 71 (45) Soltau-Süd A 7 E 45 Wietzendorf Bergen-Wardböhmen Bergen-Bleckmar Bergen (Zentrum) Bergen-Belsen Bergen-Offen Winsen-Wolthausen Celle-Groß Hehlen Celle (Zentrum) B 191 B 214 Adelheidsdorf Burgdorf-Otze Burgdorf-Schillerslage B 443 (2) Burgdorf A 37 B 188 replaced by A 37 (3) Kreuz Hannover/Kirchhorst A 7 (4) Kreuz Hannover-Buchholz A 2 (5) Misburg A 37 Hannover-List Hannover-Kleefeld Hannover-Kirchrode-West Seelhorst B 6 B 65 Hannover-Döhren Hannover-RicklingenB 6B 65 Hemmingen-Westerfeld Hemmingen-Arnum Pattensen B 443 Nordstemmen-Thiedenwiese Nordstemmen-Nord Elze-Wülfingen Elze (Zentrum) B 1 Gronau (Leine) B 240 Alfeld-Limmer Alfeld (Zentrum) Freden-Ammensen Einbeck B 64 Northeim-Hohnstedt (69) Northeim-Nord A 7 E 45 Northeim (Zentrum) B 241 Nörten-Hardenberg A 7 B 446 Bovenden Göttingen (Zentrum) B 27 A 7 (73) Göttingen A 7 E 45 Göttingen-Groß Ellershausen Dransfeld Scheden-Niederscheden Hannoversch Münden-Volkmarshausen Hannoversch Münden (Zentrum) B 80 B 496 Hesse Fuldatal-Wilhelmshausen Fuldatal-Wahnhausen Fuldatal-Ihringshausen Kassel B 7 B 83 B 251 B 520 (5) Kassel-Auestadion A 49 replaced by A 49 (7) Südkreuz Kassel A 44 (14) Fritzlar B 450 (15) Wabern B 253 (16) Borken (Hesse) (Zentrum) A 49 Borken-Kerstenhausen Bad Zwesten B 485 Jesberg Gilserberg-Sebbeterode Gilserberg (Mitte) Gilserberg-Lischeid Rauschenberg-Josbach Rauschenberg-Schöne Aussicht Schönstadt Cölbe-Nord B 62 B 255 Cölbe-Süd Marburg-Nord Marburg-Zentrum Marburg-Cappel B 255 Weimar-Niederweimar Fronhausen-Roth Fronhausen-Mitte Staufenberg-Nord Staufenberg-Süd (1) Gießener Nordkreuz A 480 , A 485 replaced by A 485 Gießen B 49 B 457 (9) Gießener Südkreuz A 45 (10) Langgöns A 485 Butzbach A 5 B 488 Bad Nauheim Friedberg, Hesse B 275 B 455 Wöllstadt-Ober-Wöllstadt Wöllstadt-Nieder-Wöllstadt B 45 Karben Bad Vilbel (8) Preungesheim A 661 replaced by A 661 (9) FFM - Friedberger Landstraße A 661 B 521 Frankfurt am Main B 8 B 40 Obermainbrücke/Flößerbrücke Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen B 43 (17) Offenbacher Kreuz A 3 , A 661 B 46 replaced by A 661 (19) Dreieich B 46 (20) Langen B 486 (21) Egelsbach (Mitte) A 661 Egelsbach-Bayerseich Darmstadt-Wixhausen Darmstadt (Zentrum) B 42 B 26 (27) Pfungstadt A 5 E 35 B 426 From here on, B3 runs parallel to A 5 Bickenbach Zwingenberg Bensheim B 47 Heppenheim (Bergstraße) B 460 Baden-Württemberg Laudenbach Hemsbach Weinheim (Zentrum) B 38 Weinheim-Lützelsachsen Hirschberg an der Bergstraße Schriesheim Dossenheim Theodor-Heuss-Brücke Heidelberg B 37 Leimen-Nord Schwetzingen Leimen-West Leimen-Sankt Ilgen Nußloch Wiesloch-Nord Wiesloch B 39 A 6 Bad Schönborn (Mitte) B 292 Bad Schönborn-Langenbrücken Ubstadt-Weiher-Stettfeld Ubstadt Bruchsal B 35 Stutensee-Untergrombach Weingarten Karlsruhe B 10 A 8 A 5 Ettlingen-Nordwest Rastatt B 36 B 462 Baden-Baden-Sandweier Baden-Baden-Oos Baden-Baden (Zentrum) A 5 B 500 Sinzheim Bühl Sasbach Achern (Zentrum) Achern-Fautenbach Appenweier-Urloffen Appenweier (Mitte) B 28 Offenburg B 33 Hohberg-Hofweier Hohberg-Niederschopfheim Friesenheim Lahr/Schwarzwald (Zentrum) B 36 B 415 Lahr-Mietersheim Kippenheim Mahlberg Ettenheim-Altdorf Kappel-Grafenhausen Ringsheim Herbolzheim Kenzingen Teningen-Köndringen Emmendingen (Zentrum) Emmendingen-Wasser Gundelfingen B 294 Freiburg B 31 Schallstadt Ehrenkirchen-Norsingen Staufen im Breisgau Bad Krozingen Heitersheim Buggingen-Seefelden Buggingen (Mitte) Müllheim-Hügelheim Müllheim (Zentrum) B 378 Auggen Schliengen Kandern-Tannenkirch Efringen-Kirchen-Welmlingen Schallbach-Egringen (2) Eimeldingen A 98 E 54 Weil am Rhein-Haltingen Weil am Rhein (Zentrum) B 317 (CH) Border crossing Weil-Otterbach Continues to Basel

The Bundesstraße 3 (abbreviated B 3) is one of the longest Bundesstraßen in Germany. It begins in Buxtehude and continues through Bergen, Celle, Hannover, Alfeld, Einbeck, Göttingen, Kassel, Marburg, Frankfurt am Main, Darmstadt, Heidelberg, Karlsruhe and Freiburg in southwestern Germany and ends at Weil-Otterbach on the border with Switzerland. Between Darmstadt and Wiesloch it is referred to as Ferienstraße Bergstraße.

Contents 1 Figures 2 History 2.1 Origins 2.2 Construction of the Modern Road in the 18th Century 2.3 Earlier Sections and Designations 3 Characteristics

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• Bundesländer: Lower Saxony, Hesse, Baden-Württemberg
• Length: 812 km

[edit] History

[edit] Origins

The Bundesstraße 3 is the latest incarnation of a trade route that has been in use since the Middle Ages. The stretch between Frankfurt and Heidelberg belonged to the Archbishopric of Mainz until 1461. Thereafter it was a part of the Palatinate until 1651. In 1661 the Archbishophric of Mainz and Hesse-Darmstadt agreed to divide the toll revenue: the Archbishophric controlled the road between Frankfurt and Heppenheim when the Frankfurt Fair took place, and Hesse-Darmstadt controlled the route at all other times.

[edit] Construction of the Modern Road in the 18th Century

Because of its importance to trade, in 1759 the portions immediately north and south of Heidelberg were turned into fixed roads. As the local compulsory laborers did not have the skills necessary for the construction of a high quality road, skilled road workers and engineers were recruited from Allgäu to finish the project in 1763. By 1771 the portion around Freiburg im Breisgau was also completed.

In the northern portion between Hannover and Göttingen, the second oldest road in Northern Germany replaced the old dirt path in 1768, with today's B 217 between Hannover and Hameln being already opened as first road in Northern Germany two years ago. A decade later (1777) the stretch between Göttingen and Kassel was likewise modernized.

[edit] Earlier Sections and Designations

The road from Frankfurt to Basel was designated as Badische Staatsstraße (National Road) No 1.

In the early numbering system of 1932, the Reichsstraße 3 continued in what is today the stretch between Hamburg and Lübeck. This northern segment became a part of the extended Reichsstraße 75 in 1937.

[edit] Characteristics

While in the north the B 3 is straight and at times, namely between Celle and Hanover, built like an autobahn, south of Hanover it becomes narrower and more curvy.

Between Göttingen and Kassel the B 3 is quite curvy, but also picturesquely set again the central German landscape.

Although the stretch from Borken to Marburg is particularly irregular, it is frequently used by tractor trailers from the direction of Frankfurt that want to bypass the mountains and hills around Kassel. From Marburg to Gießen the B 3 is again built like an autobahn.