Bundesstraße 1

The Bundesstraße 1 (abbr. B1) is a German federal highway running in an east-west direction from the Dutch border near Aachen to the Polish border at Küstrin-Kietz on the Oder River. ^[1]

B 1
Bundesstraße 1
Route information
Length	778 km (483 mi)
Major junctions
Major intersections
v t e B 1 Route Map  Netherlands N 278 Aachen region (Registration plates: AC ) (NL) Vaalserquartier border crossing Junkerstr./Vaalser Str. B 1a B 57 B 264 Jakobstr./Lütticher Str. B 264 Vereinsstr. B 57 Adalbertsteinweg B 258 Monheimsallee/Peterstr. B 1a B 57 B 264 (4) Europaplatz continues via A 544 A 44 A 61 A 46 A 57 Rhein-Kreis Neuss (Registration plates: NE ) (22) Neuss-Hafen Josef Kardinal Frings Bridge (Rhine) 762 m Düsseldorf (Registration plates: D ) Südring B 326 Rhine Tunnel 1931 m Ernst-Gnoß-Str. in tunnel () Rheinknie Bridge in tunnel interchange   () Derendorf interchange B 7 B 8 () Mörsenbroicher Ei interchange B 7 B 8 (21) Düsseldorf-Rath continues via A 52 Mettmann district (Registration plates: ME ) (25) Breitscheid Kahlenbergsweg/Lintorfer Weg Mülheim an der Ruhr (Registration plates: MH ) Straßburger Allee B 223 Menden Bridge (Ruhr) Frohnhauser Weg/Velauer Str. (19) Mülheim-Heißen continues via A 40 Dortmund (Registration plates: DO ) Motor road Kraftfahrstraße Dortmund-Hombruch, WDR-ZVS () Zentrum interchange B 54 Märkische Str. () Dortmund-Ost interchange B 236 Stadtkrone-Ost Psychiatric centre exit only Dortmund-Aplerbeck Dortmund-Sölde Unna district (Registration plates: UN ) (51) Holzwickede A 44 End of the motor road end of motor road (48) Unna A 1 Feldstr. Iserlohner Str. B 233 Unna B 233 Soest district (Registration plates: SO ) (59) Werl-Zentrum A 445 Werl Soest B 229 B 475 Bad Sassendorf Erwitte B 55 Erwitte Geseke Paderborn district (Registration plates: PB ) Salzkotten (27) Paderborn-Zentrum B 64 B 68 weiter über A 33 (26) Paderborn-Elsen Motor road Kraftfahrstraße Paderborn-Nord Paderborn-Marienloh Bad Lippspringe-Süd Bad Lippspringe Lippe district (Registration plates: LIP ) Schlangen End of the motor road end of motor road Teutoburg Forest / Eggegebirge Nature Park Strothetalbrücke 393 m Horn L954 Bad-Meinberg B 239 Reelkirchen Höntrup Blomberg B 252 Barntrup B 66 Sonneborn Hameln-Pyrmont district (Registration plates: HM ) Grießem Weser Uplands-Schaumburg-Hamelin Nature Park Aerzen Hamelin B 83 B 217 Coppenbrügge B 442 Benstorf Hildesheim district (Registration plates: HI ) Elze B 3 Burgstemmen Klein Escherde Motor road Kraftfahrstraße L460 Emmerke L460 End of the motor road end of motor road Himmelsthür L102 Hildesheim Tannenweg Motor road Kraftfahrstraße Himmelsthürer Str. Am Kupferstrange Schützenwiese B 243 Römerring (Kreisverkehr) Berliner Str. B 6 (62) Hildesheim A 7 End of built-up area Hildesheim End of the motor road end of motor road Einum L203 Hoheneggelsen B 444 Landkreis Peine (Registration plates: PE ) Groß-Lafferde B 444 Diversion Vechelde local diversion B 65 Denstorf Braunschweig (Brunswick) (Registration plates: BS ) (5) Braunschweig-Lehndorf A 391 Braunschweig (Brunswick) B 248 Wolfenbüttel district (Registration plates: WF ) L625 Sickte A 39 Diversion Cremlingen local diversion A 39 Cremlingen-Abbenrode radio transmitter site Abbenrode Helmstedt district (Registration plates: HE ) Bornum am Elm Helmstedt B 244 B 245a (63) Helmstedt-Ost A 2 Börde district (Registration plates: BK ) Helmstedt-Marienborn border crossing Erxleben Tundersleben (66) Bornstedt A 2 Irxleben (3) Magdeburg-Stadtfeld A 14 Magdeburg (Registration plates: MD ) Magdeburg B 71 B 81 B 184 B 189 Jerichower Land district (Registration plates: JL ) Heyrothsberge B 184 (73) Burg-Zentrum A 2 Burg transmission site Burg B 246a Genthin B 107 Brandenburg (Registration plates: BRB ) Brandenburg an der Havel B 102 Potsdam-Mittelmark district (Registration plates: PM ) Groß Kreutz (Havel) (22) Groß-Kreutz A 10 Werder (Havel) Geltow Potsdam (Registration plates: P ) Potsdam B 2 B 273 Glienicker Bridge End of built-up area Berlin (Registration plates: B ) Glienicker Bridge Berlin (4) Berlin-Zehlendorf A 115 (5) Berlin-Wolfensteindamm/Schloßstraße A 103 (17) Berlin-Schöneberg A 100 (1) Sachsendamm A 103 Berlin-Potsdamer Platz B 96 together with the B 5 Ri.Müncheberg Berlin-Alexanderplatz B 2 B 5 Berlin-Frankfurter Tor B 96a Berlin-Friedrichsfelde B 158 End of built-up area Märkisch-Oderland district (Registration plates: MOL ) Dahlwitz-Hoppegarten (4) Berlin-Hellersdorf A 10 Rüdersdorf bei Berlin B 5 Märkische Schweiz Nature Park together with the B 5 Ri.Berlin Diversion Müncheberg local diversion B 5 B 168 Diversion Seelow local diversion B 167 Seelower Höhen Memorial Oderbruch Manschnow B 112 Fort Gorgast Küstrin-Kietz  Poland DK22 federal road Powiat Gorzowski (Registration plates: FGW ) (PL) Küstrin border crossing
Location
Country	Germany
States	North Rhine-Westphalia, Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Brandenburg, Berlin
Highway system
Roads in Germany Autobahns List Federal List State E-roads

History

The road developed from an ancient east-western trade route connecting the shore of the North Sea at Bruges with the area of Novgorod. A trade and military road was already mentioned in Ptolemy's Geography about 150 AD, parts of it formed the medieval Westphalian Hellweg trade route, vital for the transport of salt and crops, and the course of the Via Regia, the Ottonian "royal road" through the Holy Roman Empire from Aachen to Magdeburg.

From the late 18th century onwards, parts of the route were rebuilt as a chaussee, mainly in the area between Aachen and Jülich as well as on the nearby territory of the County of Mark, promoted by the Brandenburg-Prussian administration under Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein. Stein also concluded an agreement to extend the road via the territory of Imperial Essen Abbey for the accessibility of the coal deposits in Cleves. The road from the Prussian capital Berlin to the royal castles in Potsdam was rebuilt in 1792 and extended to Brandenburg an der Havel until 1799.

After Napoleonic Wars and the Empire's dissolution in 1806, the Prussian monarchs systematically expanded the road network, completing the chaussee between Berlin and Magdeburg in 1824, and between Berlin and Königsberg in 1828, reaching the East Prussian terminus at Gumbinnen (present-day Gusev, Russia) in 1835. In 1932 the major highways of the German Reich were numbered and two years later the Fernverkehrsstraße 1 was incorporated into the Reichsstraßen system. After 1945 the former Reichstraße 1 was split into Bundesstraße 1 in West Germany and Fernverkehrsstraße 1 in East Germany until 1990. The part east of the Oder became part of different polish Droga krajowa.

Route description

The road's western terminus is in Aachen, where it connects with the N278 in the Netherlands.

The road heads eastward through the Ruhr Area in the state of North Rhine Westphalia. Here it is identical with A 40. Leaving the Ruhr Area east of Dortmund, the B1 travels the more scenic route that shadows the A 2. Here it follows the old trading route Hellweg, crossing cities like Unna, Werl, Soest, Paderborn, Hamelin, Hildesheim and Brunswick. It then continues to Magdeburg, Potsdam and Berlin.

The road reaches Berlin's city limits at Glienicke Bridge and heads towards the inner city via Potsdamer Platz, Leipziger Platz and Leipziger Straße to Alexanderplatz. It leaves Berlin to the eastern side via Karl-Marx-Allee, Frankfurter Tor and Frankfurter Allee, joined by the Bundesstraße 5 for around 20 km up to Müncheberg, before reaching the Polish border.

The road's eastern terminus in Küstrin-Kietz is with Polish national road DK22 which crosses the country in an easterly direction.

• 
  Aachen
• 
  Dortmund
• 
  near Schlangen
• 
  Hildesheim
• 
  Opening of the border on Highway B1/F1 between Helmstedt (West Germany) and Morsleben (East Germany) on November 18, 1989.
• 
  Near Erxleben
• 
  Magdeburg
• 
  Interruption by a demolished bridge in Brandenburg an der Havel
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  Glienicke Bridge, Potsdam/Berlin
• 
  Karl-Marx-Allee, Berlin
• 
  Seelow (Oderbruch)
• 
  Kostrzyn

Bypasses and upgrades

Küstrin-Kietz

Seelow

Müncheberg

Herzfelde

Dahlwitz

Freidrichsfelde

Berlin (Alexanderplatz, Mulhemdamm)

Steglitz (A103)

Potsdam

Brandenburg

Plaue

Genthin

Burg

Schermen

Magdeburg

Bornstedt

Helmstedt

Braunschweig

Vechelde

Hildesheim

Emmerke

Elze

Mehle

Coppenbrügge - Behrensen

Hameln

Aerzen

Bad Meinburg - Horn

Horn - Paderborn Expressway

Paderborn - L776 expressway section

Routed onto A44 from Erwitte to Werl

Soest (L969)

Werl (L969)

Unna - Dortmund - Bochum - Essen - Mülheim (Ruhrschnellweg)

Ratingen (A52)

Düsseldorf (Rheinufer Tunnel)

Neuss (A57)

Neuss - Aachen (A46, A44, A544)

See also

• List of federal highways in Germany

References

1. "Bundesstraßenverzeichnis, Ausgabe 2009 (BVERZ 2009)" (PDF). Bundesanstalt für Straßenwesen (in German). Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport. 30 October 2009. p. 1. Retrieved 28 November 2024.

• Clough, Patricia (2022). Aachen-Berlin-Königsberg: Eine Zeitreise entlang der alten Reichsstraße 1 [Aachen-Berlin-Königsberg: A journey through time along the old Reichsstraße 1] (in German). München: Pantheon. ISBN 9783570554685.

External links

• Media related to Bundesstraße 1 at Wikimedia Commons