Bundesstraße 6

The Bundesstraße 6 (abbr. B 6) runs from the North Sea coast in a southeasterly direction through the states of Lower Saxony, Bremen, Saxony-Anhalt and Saxony to the Polish border.

History

The former Reichsstraße 6 ran from Görlitz via Hirschberg and Schweidnitz to Breslau and from there via Oelsas far as the old Polish border near Groß Wartenberg.

Between Leipzig and Görlitz the B 6 largely follows (apart from the ring roads around Meißen, Dresden and Bischofswerda) the historic course of the Via Regia.

In the days of East Germany the section on GDR territory was known as the F 6 (Fernverkehrsstraße 6 or "trunk road"). In this road lay inside the town area of Dresden the headquarters of VEB Tabakkontor Dresden, a tobacco firm, nowadays 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 B 6 was replaced by the A 27. Until that point the B 6 had linked the two cities of Bremen and Bremerhaven 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 ws renamed the B 73. The rest of the route to Bremen, with the exception of a short section in Bremerhaven, was downgraded to Landesstraße 135.

See also

• List of federal roads in Germany
• B 6n - new four-lane B6 road