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Bundesautobahn 9 (translates from German as Federal Motorway 9, short form Autobahn 9, abbreviated as BAB 9 or A 9) is an autobahn in Germany, connecting Berlin and Munich via Leipzig and Nuremberg. It is the fifth longest autobahn spanning 529 km (328.71 mi).
After the war, first the section between the cross Munich north and the cross Munich south (old designation: cross Brunnthal) was built in the 1970s. The A 8 Munich-Stuttgart was provisionally connected via the federal highway 471 to the A 9. Until then, the long-distance traffic had to drive through the urban area of Munich.
Berlin and Munich: ICE 9 (Berlin, Cologne and Bonn) ICE 10: Berlin, Hanover and Düsseldorf/Cologne: ICE 11: Berlin, Frankfurt and Munich: ICE 12: Berlin, Kassel and Basel: ICE 13: Berlin, Kassel and Frankfurt: ICE 14: Berlin, Essen and Aachen: ICE 15: Berlin, Halle and Frankfurt: ICE 16 (Berlin and Frankfurt) ICE 17 (Binz, Rostock and Berlin ...
A 24, connecting Berlin and Hamburg). The system is as follows: A 10 to A 19 are in eastern Germany (Berlin, Saxony-Anhalt, parts of Saxony and Brandenburg) A 20 to A 29 are in northern and northeastern Germany; A 30 to A 39 are in Lower Saxony (northwestern Germany) and Thuringia; A 40 to A 49 are in the Rhine-Ruhr to Frankfurt Rhine-Main
Codenamed Checkpoint Alpha, this was the first of three Allied checkpoints on the road to Berlin. [13] The others were Checkpoint Bravo, where the autobahn crossed from East Germany into West Berlin, and most famous of all, Checkpoint Charlie, the only place where non-Germans could cross by road or foot from West to East Berlin. [14]
The new line reduced travel time by train between Berlin and Munich from 6 hours to currently 3 hours and 45 minutes. [3] [4] Construction began in 1996 and cost about €10 billion ($11.8 billion), [5] making it the most expensive transport project in Germany since reunification. [6]
Berlin and Hamburg (as well as the then independent city of Schöneberg whose lone subway line is today's line 4 of the Berlin U-Bahn) began building their networks before World War I whereas Nuremberg and Munich - despite earlier attempts in the 1930s and 1940s - only opened their networks in the 1970s (in time for the 1972 Summer Olympics in ...
Speed limits in Germany. Speed limits in Germany (German: Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung) are set by the federal government.All limits are multiples of 10 km/h. There are two default speed limits: 50 km/h (31 mph) inside built-up areas and 100 km/h (62 mph) outside built-up areas.