Bundesstraße 8

Template:Short description [[Category:Infobox road instances Template:Infobox road/meta/mask/category]] The Bundesstraße 8 (abbr. B8) is a German federal highway in southwestern Germany of great historical importance. It has existed since the 9th century, known then as Via Publica, and until recent times was a key trade route linking the towns of Brussels, Duisburg, Cologne, Frankfurt, Würzburg, Nuremberg, Regensburg and Passau. Today it has been replaced as a main route by the A3 motorway, which runs parallel to it.

History

The Via Publica (later known as the Poststraße or Handelsstraße) was first mentioned in 839 in a diploma of Louis the Pious. In the Middle Ages it joined the commercial cities of Cologne, Frankfurt, Nuremberg and Regensburg. The Steinerne Brücke bridge in Regensburg (1135–46), the Innbrücke bridge in Passau (1143), the Lahnbrücke bridge in Limburg (completed 1341) and the main bridges in Würzburg (1133), Frankfurt (before 1222) and Kitzingen (before 1300) are among the oldest stone bridges in central Europe and testify to the historical importance of this road.

In 1615, the general postmaster Lamoral von Taxis was tasked by emperor Matthias with setting up a postal route between Brussels and Prague, via Frankfurt and Nuremberg. To achieve this the Via Publica was expanded to a Poststraße. The present day Bundesstraße 8 is largely identical to the Via Publica. The medieval trade route largely used dry level roads rather than the valleys, which were swampy and impassible after rain. Part of the Via Publcia was referred to as the Mauspfad.

Route / Junctions

		from Zevenaar
File:EU-Icon.svg	(NL)	border crossing
North Rhine-Westphalia
File:Zeichen 310.svg		Elten
File:Zeichen 310.svg		Emmerich am Rhein
File:Zeichen 310.svg		Rees
File:Zeichen 310.svg		Wesel
File:AB-AS-blau.svg	(1)	Dinslaken-West
replaced by
File:Zeichen 310.svg		Duisburg-Huckingen
File:Zeichen 310.svg		Düsseldorf-Wittlaer
File:AB-AS-gelb.svg		Düsseldorf-Kaiserswerth
File:AB-AS-gelb.svg		Düsseldorf-Lohausen
File:AB-AS-blau.svg	(30)	Düsseldorf-Stockum
File:AB-AS-gelb.svg		Düsseldorf-Derendorf /
File:AB-AS-blau.svg	(23)	Düsseldorf-Bilk
replaced by
File:Zeichen 310.svg		Düsseldorf-Benrath
File:AB-AS-blau.svg	(23)	Düsseldorf-Garath
File:Zeichen 310.svg		Langenfeld
File:AB-AS-blau.svg	(2)	Langenfeld-Reusrath
File:Zeichen 310.svg		Opladen
File:AB-AS-blau.svg	(22)	Opladen
File:AB-AS-gelb.svg		Leverkusen-Wiesdorf
File:Zeichen 310.svg		Leverkusen
File:Zeichen 310.svg		Cologne
File:AB-AS-blau.svg	(31)	Gremberghoven
File:AB-AS-blau.svg	(36)	Lind
File:Zeichen 310.svg		Siegburg
replaced by
replaced by
File:AB-AS-blau.svg	(7)	Hennef (Sieg)-Ost
Rheinland-Pfalz
File:Zeichen 310.svg		Altenkirchen (Westerwald)
File:Zeichen 310.svg		Höchstenbach
File:Zeichen 310.svg		Hahn am See
File:Zeichen 310.svg		Wallmerod
Hesse
File:Zeichen 310.svg		Limburg an der Lahn /
File:AB-Fluss.svg		Lahn
File:AB-Tunnel.svg		Tunnel Schiede Tunnel 240 m
File:AB-AS-blau.svg	(43)	Limburg-Süd
File:Zeichen 310.svg		Bad Camberg
File:Zeichen 310.svg		Waldems-Esch
File:Zeichen 310.svg		Königstein
Motor road Motor road		Kraftfahrstraße
File:AB-AS-gelb.svg		Kelkheim
File:AB-AS-gelb.svg		Bad Soden
File:AB-AS-gelb.svg		Sulzbach
End of the motor road End of the motor road		end of motor road
File:AB-AS-blau.svg	(16)	Frankfurt-Höchst
replaced by
File:AB-Kreuz-blau.svg	(18)	Eschborner 3-way interchange
replaced by
File:AB-Kreuz-blau.svg	(3)	Westkreuz Frankfurt
File:AB-AS-blau.svg	(5)	Katharinenkreisel (formerly Opelrondell)
File:AB-AS-blau.svg	(-)	Frankfurt-Messe
File:AB-AS-blau.svg	(21)	Frankfurt-Miquelallee
File:Zeichen 310.svg		Frankfurt am Main
File:AB-AS-blau.svg	(14)	Frankfurt-Ost
File:AB-AS-blau.svg	(33)	Maintal-Bischofsheim
replaced by
Kreuz	(36)	Hanau-Nord
Kreuz	(37)	Erlensee interchange
File:AB-AS-gelb.svg		Hanau-Lamboy
File:AB-AS-gelb.svg		Hanau
File:Zeichen 310.svg		Hanau
File:AB-AS-gelb.svg		Hanau-Wolfgang
Bayern
File:Zeichen 310.svg		Kahl
File:Zeichen 310.svg		Karlstein
File:AB-AS-blau.svg	(45b)	Kleinostheim
File:Zeichen 310.svg		Kleinostheim
File:AB-AS-blau.svg	(58)	Aschaffenburg-West
File:AB-AS-gelb.svg		Mainaschaff
Motor road Motor road		Kraftfahrstraße
File:AB-AS-gelb.svg		Mainaschaff-Ost/Aschaffenburg-Strietwald
End of the motor road End of the motor road		end of motor road
File:Zeichen 310.svg		Aschaffenburg
replaced by
File:AB-AS-blau.svg	(65)	Marktheidenfeld
File:AB-Fluss.svg		Main
File:Zeichen 310.svg		Marktheidenfeld
File:AB-AS-blau.svg	(67)	Helmstadt
File:Zeichen 310.svg		Würzburg
File:AB-Fluss.svg		Main
Intersection		bei Rottendorf 3-way interchange
Kreuz	(72)	Rottendorf
File:AB-AS-gelb.svg		Biebelried-West
File:AB-AS-blau.svg	(103)	Kitzingen
File:Zeichen 310.svg		Kitzingen
File:AB-Fluss.svg		Main
File:Zeichen 310.svg		Enzlar
no lorries no lorries		Barred to lorry traffic
End of lorry-free section End of lorry-free section		Open to lorry traffic
Diversion Diversion		Neustadt/Aisch local diversion
Motor road Motor road		Kraftfahrstraße
File:AB-AS-gelb.svg		Langenzenn/Wilhermsdorf
File:AB-AS-gelb.svg		Langenzenn-Burggrafenhof
File:AB-AS-gelb.svg		Langenzenn-Horbach (entry File:Pfeil unten.svg / exit File:Pfeil oben.svg)
File:AB-AS-gelb.svg		Seukendorf
Intersection		with southwest tangent, 3-way interchange branches off
Diversion Diversion		Fürth–Burgfarrnbach local diversion
File:AB-AS-gelb.svg		Fürth West
End of the motor road End of the motor road		end of motor road
File:Zeichen 310.svg		Fürth
File:AB-AS-blau.svg	(38)	Nuremberg/Fürth
Crossing		Maximilianstraße
replaced by
File:Zeichen 310.svg		Nürnberg
Crossing		Münchener Straße
File:AB-AS-blau.svg	(45)	Nuremberg-Zollhaus
replaced by
File:AB-AS-blau.svg	(48)	Nuremberg/Feucht
Diversion Diversion		Feucht local diversion
File:Zeichen 310.svg		Schwarzenbruck
File:Zeichen 310.svg		Pfeifferhütte
Diversion Diversion		Oberferrieden local diversion
File:Zeichen 310.svg		Postbauer-Heng
Diversion Diversion		Neumarkt-Pölling local diversion
Diversion Diversion		Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz local diversion
File:Zeichen 310.svg		Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz
File:Zeichen 310.svg		Deining
Diversion Diversion		Batzhausen local diversion
File:Zeichen 310.svg		Seubersdorf
File:Zeichen 310.svg		Daßwang
Diversion Diversion		Hemau local diversion
File:Zeichen 310.svg		Nittendorf
File:AB-AS-blau.svg	(97)	Nittendorf
File:AB-AS-blau.svg	(39)	Regensburg-Pfaffenstein
File:Zeichen 310.svg		Regensburg
File:AB-Brücke.svg		Nibelungen Bridge Regensburg
File:AB-AS-blau.svg	(103)	Rosenhof
Diversion Diversion		Pfatter local diversion
Diversion Diversion		Rain local diversion
Diversion Diversion		Straubing local diversion
Diversion Diversion		Aiterhofen local diversion
Diversion Diversion		Straßkirchen local diversion
File:AB-AS-blau.svg	(22)	Plattling-West
no lorries no lorries		Barred to lorry traffic
File:Zeichen 310.svg		Plattling
End of lorry-free section End of lorry-free section		Open to lorry traffic
Diversion Diversion		Osterhofen local diversion
File:Zeichen 310.svg		Vilshofen an der Donau
File:Zeichen 310.svg		Passau
File:EU-Icon.svg	(A)	border crossing
		continues towards Linz

See also

• Transport in Germany
• List of federal highways in Germany (in English)
• List of federal highways in Germany (in German)

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